I've heard that when you don't eat before bed your dreams are more vivid, has anyone found this to be true?
i've been having really strange eating patterns lately and i've been sooo hungry when i went to bed. my dreams have been REALLY vivid. i remember every part of them perfectly and i often confuse whether they're real or not throughout the day. i sound mental lol.
I have heard a lot of things about dreams that are false. Like "no one dreams in colour" and "you can't read in dreams". I have heard that if you eat cheese before you go to sleep you have dreams of a vivid sexual nature. My opinion is if you are focused on some idea before you go to sleep that perpetuates into your dream. So you can sort of guide what you will dream about. Hence its not the cheese that triggers the dream, more so the belief that because you have eaten cheese you will have a sexual dream. My opinion is the same on this. If you are thinking you haven't eaten so you will have a vivid dream, you have a vivid dream, not because you haven't eaten, but because this is what you are focusing on / thinking about as you go to sleep.
What do you mean by no one dreams in color? Do we just think we do? If we do, that's crazy!! Because I can specifically remember dreams I've had completely based on color. Weird how our minds work.
I've found, as many have, that vitamin B6 helps bring on vivid dreams. Scientists have also found that a B6 shortage can be the reason one does not recall one's dreams.
Wildchild, I meant that I know from previous experience that colours are in dreams. In fact colour can have a big impact on the meaning. Just because someone says something, does make it true. I am open to ideas but to me it only becomes fact when I experience it for myself.
I think that has something to do with your sleep patterns being semi-conscious where the two realms merge. My wife could be asleep when the phone rang. She'd answer it and carry on a coherent conversation and not remember any of it the next day. I had to take note to whom she had talked. Also, she would dream of having sex with me. Then when I would be pestering her for a little nooky, she would say we just had sex last night. To which I would say the otherwise cliche, "In your dreams." Flip side of that was one night when I was seducing her and she was responding passionately. Then she said something like "If you don't stop (doing that) I'm going to wake up." I realized then she wasn't awake. Sorta creeps a guy out having sex with an asleep partner. Well, me anyway. (But it didn't stop me - she was having fun and woulda dreamed it anyway) I just discovered this forum. I'll soon be posting a couple of my own dreams that to me appeared to be visits from deceased partners.
I honestly did not know that. I'm trying to start a dream journal and it's hard to remember my dreams. I just remember that they are really vivid and crazy, cause I wake up and just know that something crazy happened in my dreams. I'm going to try upping the B6 for a few days and see what happens.
Make sure and read up on it. Google something like "vitamin B6 and vivid dreams" to get more information. There's an upper limit on how much B6 you should be taking.
