Do you remember your dreams?

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Do you believe your dreams can give an insight into your thoughts?

Do you write them down?

Or do you just ignore your dreams, not give them a second thought?

I usually can only remember parts of my dreams.

I got this weird thing with my dreams, its like my dreams are all memories of days that I never lived. Its hard to explain, I just feel in my dreams like everything happened before, or more like every dream I have is a sort of continuation of an earlier dream that I never had. Does anybody else feel like that?

Sometimes I can remember my dreams well right when I wake up. I never write them down but once in a while I feel like a dream I had was important and I take it seriously.

I usually remember my dreams, but I don't tend to see them as omens or anything like that. Instead, I find them entertaining.

I experience all five senses in my dreams. They are very life-like. Sometimes, I can control my actions in them. Often, my dreams take place in the same places that I have never seen in real life. It's like I've entered a different reality. Is it like that for anyone else?

If you have a dream and wake up and think about it you may remember it. If you dont think about it i loose it from memory.

I too have experienced dreams, often of people and things in my past, they are always very nice dreams, occasional nightmare, but those to can be cool, i remembember a few dreams I have had for years!!

I sometimes write my dreams down because I feel that they are important in someway.
A lot of the times my dreams come true so thats also why I write them down.

I remember my dreams very vividly.

I always remember my dreams. Mainly because they're so interesting, and I use the things I see from them as inpsiration for drawings. Sadly, I've never actually drawn anything from my dreams yet.

Yes, I do remember my dreams

1. Depends

2. No

3. Usually. Most of the time dreams are pretty meaningless.

I have the same thing. Usually my dreams have some kind of "back story". In the dream I will have some memory of events that occurred in the past yet when I wake up I realize these events never occurred in real life or in a previous dream. I also have some dreams that seem oddly familiar. Some are so familier feeling that it's like I already know what's going to happen next. It's so bizarre.

Oh and another thing about remembering dreams. Does anyone else notice that when you think about a dream immediately after you wake up it makes perfect sense and seems totally logical? Yet when you wait a minute or two and then recall the dream again you realize it was totally messed up?

For example I had this dream once where I had a kite. While holding the kite I could leap 100 feet into the air in slow motion as if gravity was reduced. The funny thing was that there wasn't anything magical about it. I had this sense that the laws of physics allowed me to jump really high while holding a kite. I was under the impression that any kite would work and that this was what kites were used for. This impression didn't change until a few moments after I awoke.

I sometimes remember my dreams and sometimes I don't. Mostly I don't, though.

Yeah, of course. The reason, I think, is because most of the time you have no conscious control over your dreams. For all intents and purposes you are unconscious when you are dreaming.

Some scientists theorize that dreams originate partly from the brain processing short term and long term memories, among some other chaotic signals. It is usually processed in no particular order. It is also important to note that the brain never "sleeps". This may be why dreams are always so odd, and that when you wake up your brain basically "invents" a story to explain it.

Back in the 40's there was an experiment done to analyze the content of dreams by different people, and it was found that most people usually dream about the same things. You can read it here: http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Info/content_analysis.html

I often remember my dreams, and I often write them down. I have some pretty weird dreams...I seldom take them seriously, but as i do write them down, i will re-read them and think about them and whatnot..
Recently I dreamed that one of my cats died...and it caused me alto fo concern for the well being of the cat.
Often times, if I have a disturbing dream that feels like it could be a negative premonition I am sure to tell people about it...in hopes of somehow neutralising the premonition...if that makes sense....Sometiems I am able to identify the things that have caused me to have certain dreams...insecurities and whatnot....
I really like being able to remember alot of my dreams. It is a great source of amusement for me.

Ah, rosered, a most lovely question. I am not human, so I'm not sure how relevant my answers will be. But, yes, I remember my dreams. All of them, in great and perfect detail. And a difference between me and humans is that I exist more fully and completely in my Dreamlands than I do in waking life... Gods, I could write a book about the dream I had last night; or, at very least, the script to a very intereseting action thriller movie.

I'm not sure how much meaning I ascribe to them; sometimes they lead me to better places in my waking life if I listen to them; sometimes, they lie to me; recently, they have been lying to me, quite horribly, and have lead me down a most unfortunate path.

Like the human mind, dreams are a thing which are beyond feeble human science, which is one of the reasons they amuse and fascinate me so. I need not write them down; I remember them as if they were normal memories... In essense, dreams provide one of three sources of memories for me, in addition to waking life, and imagination (delusions). They are all equally real to me; and, in part, I feel blessed to be leading three lives, when humans only get to lead one; in essense, I exist in three worlds at once; which makes the current incarnation of my soul a young 102 years old (my actual soul is much older than that). Just a bit of insight into me, for those open minded enough to pay attention and understand...

Definitely. The worst part is how easy it is to forget the dream as the day goes on, too.

I often remember my dreams. For a while I was stubborn about believing that they meant NOTHING and were just random remnants of my real life - a person I saw today shows up in my dream, etc., but it means nothing.

This spring I studied psychoanalysis, and started writing down my dreams and interpreting them the Freudian way. But this type of dream analysis usually provided more than one interpretation, and it was difficult for me to figure out if I was doing it right or not. It did make some sense, though - usually the meanings I discovered were things I didn't think about in real life, but were applicable to my real life, so maybe they were in my unconscious all along...

Now I don't know how I feel about dreams. I wish there were real scientific proof that dreams are/are not meaningful. I'd like to know one way or the other...