Anti-dreaming is achieved by making sure you don't go to sleep before your brain shuts you down itself, like watching tv, all the silly flashing stupid commercials, your brain will be working hardcore to decipher and archive this shit long after your done watching, and doing so will make you "feint" instead of "sleep", which should keep dreams away.
Anyway, no idea if it is true or not(My folkschool teachers have proven through the years to've told me all kinds of crap), I didn't dream when I did this though.
This is probably why I rarely remember dreams.
I always go to bed when I pretty much can't keep awake anymore, anyway.
Because I've always been like this. Even as a toddler, I would throw fits when my parents tried to put me to sleep. I would keep going and going, always finding something to be thoroughly absorbed in, until I would spontaneously pass out. Through my teenage years, I would go nights without sleep quite frequently, and two nights in a row without sleep wasn't too uncommon.
Since becoming a parent, I can't do this anymore. All-nighters are near impossible for me today. I've burned myself out. It really does make me sad.
I think I've had a deep awareness from a very early age that there just isn't enough time to do all the things I want to do, and I'm not just talking about big important things. I want to indulge in all the little things, too. As a kid, I could be perfectly happy just wandering through the woods all day turning over rocks to see what I would find. Today, I have an obsessive desire to read every book, play every game, etc to the point that I can't squeeze anymore worth out of them. It's actually a serious problem, because I have trouble with priorities. I get really frustrated with having all kinds of important things to do, and never getting to indulge my little explorations of the world, whether real, introspective, or fictional.
I also don't understand how people get bored. I really don't. The only times I'm ever bored are when I'm forced to act according to the demands of another... which really amounts to a lot... but most people seem the opposite -- they're bored when left to their own devices and can't figure out what to do with themselves. This is so completely alien to me.