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Why Is Everyone Having Vivid Dreams Right Now?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 มิ.ย. 2020
- Vivid dreams have gotten pretty common during the Covid-19 pandemic and there’s a good psychological reason for that.
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I am actually really surprised that this appears to be a general problem. I was having a lot of weird nightmares lately.
Same I’ve been having a lot of random violent dreams. Yesterday I dreamt that I was in a college that had a built in water obstacle course on campus which I participated in. A guy was pissed at a girl for beating him at it and started to hit her neck with a machete bloody.
Nightmares are demonic attacks. Search it up. Start praying after you wake up please
Karin Tina
Demons are not real. Neither is god. Praying will not stop nightmares lmao
@@artangel420 I have had a lot of N.D.E's in my sleep and I have to pray to wake up from them I halfway stop breathing sometimes in my sleep and I have had sleep paralysis along with my N.D.E's (also I'm using my lil bro Eli's tablet right now my account is Madison W)
I dreamt I got chased by a hare which turned into a wolf... he bit me and I ran away.
Honestly I'm kinda living for these weird dreams because last night I had a completely normal dream where I was just grocery shopping and everything was fine except this one display of cereal boxes that just showed Scooby Doo on a blue background and the name of the cereal was "DUMBASS" in big yellow block letters
ur subconscious tryna tell u ur a dumbass be like
This is amazing. They say you can't "read" in dreams, but sometimes you can if you stay relaxed and interpret the words as now if a picture, like a cereal box design generally would. But if you try to read the normal way and engage your left brain too hard, it forces you to wake up.
Iquey That’s interesting, I’ve had a dream where I’ve read stuff but that was a sleep paralysis dream so maybe that’s different? I’d have to check my dream journal to see if I’ve had any other dreams where I’ve read stuff.
@@Iquey Whoever said that didn't know what they were talking about.
I remember this March, I would sleep a lot more, as dreaming was the only way out of the nightmare that was my waking life.
A couple of days ago I had a dream where Bruce Lee was given a star of fame on the floor of the frozen food section of an old Fred Meyer that closed 20 years ago, and he was standing on it as part of the ceremony. He was very friendly, but then it turned out he was actually Michael Jackson, who was actually a velociraptor skeleton disguised as Michael Jackson, except he was actually a cardboard model of a velociraptor skeleton. The velociraptor slipped and fell and broke into pieces because he had waxed the floor around his square, in case someone challenged his Bruce Lee disguise to a fight. I have no idea what that says about the stress of the day.
This made my day.
Shayne Johnson, that is the weirdest dream I've heard yet! And kind of hilarious too actually. My dreams are just bizarre. One involved an almond tree, a Jewish folktale symbol: a stone that the last of the primordial light, solitaire the card game which for the record, I don't know how to play and a character from some game I have on my phone. What does that tell you about my day stress? Not much I expect.
Maybe it represents deception or you thought you knew or understood something or someone then found out there is more to them than you initially thought.
That, sir, is a superb dream!
"around his square"
Me: thinks of the song *no no don't touch me their this is my no square*
(also that is the funniest dream I've ever heard someone have LOL!)
(also I'm using my lil bro Eli's tablet right now my account is Madison W)
Fun fact: that REM rebound he described is also why a lot of people experience more intense dreams after getting drunk. Alcohol supresses REM sleep, so you get very little REM at the start of the night. After a few hours, your liver has removed enough alcohol from the blood for REM sleep to be possible, so your brain tries to make up for lost time with very intense REM sleep. Therefore very intense dreams.
Plus, because this occurs in the later stages of your night's sleep, it's likely that you'll wake up soon after (or during) the intense dreams. This means you're much more likely to remember them, due to the surge of noradrenaline mentioned in the video.
Except if you are still slightly drunk after waking up
So I should start drinking if I want to remember my dreams?
Ed S you’ll remember the last moments but the dreams are so realistic that you can literally feel pain. I had a dream where I got bit by a snake and I felt it
I only have nightmares when I'm drunk every time I drink. Not when I'm sober though. It's wierd
What’s weird is I was drinking very heavily for about a year. And it wasn’t until I got sober that I started to remember my dreams again...
I love this dude. I mean, the way he speaks and explains things. Very good for people like me who don't speak English as first language.
Valentina - And yet you’re better able to write a coherent sentence than about 40% of the US population. Good job! 😁👍
Your spelling is accurate and your grammar is too. Congratulations your English is better than alot of people who English is their first language.🤠🤠🤠(I’m including me... I can’t spell to save my life)
Yes if I'm not having insomnia I'm having very vivid dreams as of late.
I wasn't aware something like this was happening, but this is actually really interesting.
Not everyone is interested in dream-state; Mine are few since I am familiar with it; Difficulties discussing arise due to what I call Spatial Distortions or more correctly Spatial / Temporal - so skip taking side-tracks into NDE or whatever just now while preliminary vetting dismisses some of the Crystal Ball Crowd • there is a form of this called mass-mind which does have valid studies though mass-hysteria can bring up some Balky Conditions to study where a purported thing like this becomes a social context cover for eradication of political enemies
"Intense sleep" sounds like an oxymoron.
Bruh no its not. You could be intensly sleep moving, having sleep paralysis, or waking up in a cold sweat
*Relaxation intensifies*
Is there like... a 'norepinephrine' pill I can take just before sleep? I'm a writer, and my dreams are often more interesting, complex and creative than I am, so... if I could tap into that... I'd like to try.
I've had dreams where I feel like I am gone for weeks at a time, or more; nor am I aware of the waking world anymore - or even that I was ever awake in the first place. The dream effectively 'becomes' my reality until I awake again... I literally become someone else, and seem to live through a piece of their lives in whatever fantastical setting they're from. They're always especially intricate and believable compared to dreams I hear others talk about. They always feature things and people and places and ideas I've never seen or ever even thought of before. It's all extremely fascinating and my only regret is I can't always write everything down before I forget. :(
norepinephrine is similar to adrenaline, so it would keep u wiiiiiiiide awake. this is the go to for lucid dreaming: galantamine
Keep a journal by your bed. The SECOND you wake up, write down as much as you remember. This won't work at first, but keep at it for a month, and it will get easier.
Good luck with your writing!
I read somewhere (or maybe saw on SciShow) to drink apple juice before bed to help remember your dreams better. Waking up more often to pee n will increase the norepinephrine and I think something in the apple juice helps too.
Welcome to the life of a creative! There’s a reason why there seems to be a correlation between creativity, eccentric personalities and having addictions or otherwise alternative lifestyles. And lots of people attribute psychotropic “trips” to inspiring their creativity, but I’ve never tried illegal drugs so I don’t recommend them. Meditation, however, is actually a really natural way to practice allowing your subconscious to speak to you without using any drugs.
serotonin-norepinephrine re-uptake inhibitors (SNRIs) are sometimes used to treat insomnia (my brother used one for a bit and said it gave him really crazy vivid dreams), but a drug that only increases norepinephrine would most likely make it more difficult to fall asleep. However, it may not be impossible and maybe you could remember your dreams better. You could try taking sudafed (pseudoephedrine), it is mild norepinephrine releasing agent / re-uptake inhibitor and is available over the counter (so is ephedrine but it is more stimulating). I wouldn't do it on a regular basis though because you could build a tolerance / habit and it might affect your sleep quality.
Wait - that wasn't just me? Wow.
me2
This is a really weird year with way out there challenges. We will need all the resources of our unconscious selves and dreams are a part of accessing them.
2:49 Newton’s Pendulum doesn’t look right on the table or in the dream. That is the stuff of nightmares
guhnh it makes me so nervous
Right?! That was so annoying!
Distracted me so much that the far side wasn't bouncing out. Are Psych Show doing weird brain experiments on us.
I was struggling with math and science classes a year or so ago, and the things I was struggling with presented themselves in one dream. I solved the problem in the dream easily, and then I knew the way to go about it when I woke up. It's so weird what your sub conscience hides from you.
I wish I could make my brain do that!
I also experienced this a lot of times but the problem solutions are blurred when I wake up
I started a dream journal when we started staying at home, and immediately started having really weird dreams...
I tried that years ago, but most of the times I sorta remembered the dream and sensations but couldny described it on paper so I gave up
Maybe, or maybe you literally didn’t remember them before. If I read my dream diary, about 80% of them I can’t remember at all. I have to really think about the diary entry to remember the dream I’m describing
When I started doing that and when i had a regular sleep schedule I managed to get really vivid and awesome dreams which half the time were like mini movies 😂. But then I lost all of them when my phone broke down and I hadn’t backed them up sadly. The weird thing with my dreams are that there was a point where a lot of my dreams came true in some sort of way.
@@satsujin4027 just tried again. i have same condition like you.
I've had one for months in hopes of getting better at lucid dreaming
Yes....it’s called me drinking too much and too often. Also sleep apnea. My nightmare begins when I wake up.
@@sentientfetus3894 you're not so sentient, mister fetus sir
IKR? Does this guy not know that 1% of the population is about 80 million people? It’s about 2 people that you personally know dying, and that doesn’t take into account the fact that a rapid increase in hospitalizations would exacerbate that figure. Moron.
I'm sorry that I feel that... Hope it goes how you want it to.
For me it means I'm taking Flonase. Which is why I stopped taking that stuff.
@@sentientfetus3894 in germany the fertility rate is about 4.7 %
"Replay the dream in your head"
*Cries in aphantasia*
Do you still have relatively vivid dreams?
When I was young, to help me fall asleep I made up stories in my imagination and it still helps me. It sometimes influences my dreams. For me, I've always remembered my dreams pretty vividly. I've gotten into dream journaling too.
that's how I would avoid nightmares when I was little. It's harder to do that now though, my mind is to fast paced to control.
I'm dream journalling too!
I still do this it's like I'm trying to plan out my dream. Unfortunately my adhd causes it to get carried away and I don't actually end up falling asleep.
i do that as well! its an easy way to fall asleep and its fun
i’ve been dreaming about people i knew a long time ago and i wake up heartbroken :( that’s a cute mouse by the way
Same!! It's like, "Fianally, I get to see you again!"
And then you wake up and you feel really sad. I feel that.
Yeah, me too :(
I've been having dreams like this for a while. It's like these old relationships I had are now lost forever.
I don't want to alarm you but a lot of people report dreaming of people they knew a long time ago, before they die.
It’s weird...I have dreams about people I knew for less time a long time ago, and never dream about people I’ve known for 20 years or more, besides my parents. Never my best friend. Very strange...
I have narcolepsy and cataplexy, literally since the age of 14 every dream of mine has been vivid and (at times) nightmarish. Little did I know my body must have been preparing me for 2020! Arise my sleepy brethren! It falls upon us to teach the rest of society how to cope with abnormal sleeping patterns!
I haven't had a nightmare since I was like 10, even though I have lots of dreams
I'm definitely having more vivid dreams, and more dreams in general.
Clicked here to say it’s probably drugs . Then I seen sb praying bout the world ending . Nah definitely drugs.
That one-sided newton's cradle is gonna give me nightmares more than anything
This was one of best videos yet. This applies to me so much. I want to try the changing the ending thing.
Man you read my mind, I had a dream where I went on a trip inside a three wheeled car made by some really old company, there was something about a pet turtle in a small cage, so I brought a fish tank with me. I was wearing a white long sleeved shirt, and my friend put oil in a sprinkler and got it all over me, I got mad and fought him. Later I found oil stains all over my shirt. Probably the weirdest dream I’ve ever had.
I didn’t know everyone else was also dreaming more often
Anthony!!!! I love you lots and lots! Obviously I miss you but I’m so glad you’re making helpful videos like this. (I’ve sent this to so many people during quarantine...)
I can't be the only person who enjoys having nightmares. It's like living a movie.
Karina I only enjoy them once I wake up and know I’m safe again 😅
@@loverrlee Yes, it's definitely retrospective enjoyment :)
I'm pretty small (a little short and pretty slim), and I can't tell you how good it feels to be even capable of fighting against the alien invasion in my dreams.
@@audreyandremington5265 I am big; I cannot fight them;
I don't ever have nightmares
I haven't had a vivid dream in years. I was in some sort of prison, had two friends, somehow learned how to fly and taught it to my companions. We attempted to escape but I lost my ability to fly and had to stay behind. Woke up right as I was recaptured with the memory of my friends calling for me. I have never met them in real life, but I still remember them a decade later.
I just wanna thank you for putting everything so clearly in this video and the effort you put in making the video. I was so tensed thinking about what's happening to me. Thanks for explaining as to why this is happening. I am experiencing a great deal of stress and anxiety.
This is the first of the SciShow's where I have seen Anthony.
Nice presentation. I hope to see you more! :)
I had a dream where I walked out onto my porch and saw 2 mushroom clouds in the distance one farther away from the other
Oh man
Scary.
If you actually saw that IRL than you would have mere seconds to live.
i had a similar dream, i was walking with a friend at night and helicopters and jetfigthers were flying on the city and ppl didnt know what was going on and suddenly a lot of light and an atomic explosion with a white cloud like in evangelion
Yikes
I get sleep paralysis more often during this stretch of time. About twice a month. Used to be a lot more rare. 😞
Yikes! That can _not_ be fun... 😐 I hope they at least go back to being rare for you, if not gone entirely!! 🤞🏽
I get it almost every day. If I sleep in a certain position its almost a guarantee
I'm actually surprised my sister isn't having sleep paralisis now, she used to have that a lot. Although she is isolating herself from whats happening, she doesnt watch or read any news, she leaves the room if we start talking about it and she's been just playing games and talking to her friends online almost everyday. She's stressee not being able to get out of the house, but she is very sensible so its no surprise she prefers to stay ignorant to everything. I mean I had to stop a bit because reading the news everyday got me so stressed I had at least 3 panic attacks every week
Twice a month, lucky you. I can't nap between the hours of 3 and 5, otherwise I almost always spend 20 minutes in limbo feeling like I'm choking.
I'm not a doctor, but I used to have sleep paralysis 5-7 times per night, so I'll give you peeps some advice.
- Have a strict sleeping schedule (sleep at the same time, every day). This means NO naps.
- Wake up at the same time every day, if you can. Don't oversleep.
- Try to sleep on the same bed.
- Fall asleep in the position that makes you feel the safest. For me, its on my side.
- Don't fall asleep right after having a sleep paralysis episode. You are 99% likely to instantly "relapse" into sleep paralysis (I know I do). Give yourself about 5 minutes to fall asleep after an episode to eliminate "relapse".
- Don't be me.
I haven't seen Anthony before; I love him and his narration was really great! Thanks SciShow AND Anthony for this enlightening episode!! 💕
Thanks Anthony! I really enjoyed this explanation, your pacing, and your voice :)
I’ve always had really horrible nightmares for as long as I can remember (family members and friends dying and coming back from the dead to blame me for their death, my cat showing up dead and covered in blood in random places, me being eaten alive by spiders, ventriloquist dummies stabbing me repeatedly, etc.). Right now, I’ve mostly been having dreams about bugs crawling inside me, which, believe me, is better than usual. So, I’m doing alright. I also had the first good dream in I don’t even know how long last night (I ate like fifty donuts).
Semi Lucid dreaming for the win. As a child I developed this thing. I have a chalk board in my dreams. And if I don't like the way a dream is going I can erase the part I don't like on the chalkboard and have it start again where it left off. I have a lot of really strange and pretty dreams though!
That sounds a little bit like lucid dreaming with the changing things.
@@agelessorca It's semi lucid. I can't actually control the whole dream. I can just stop it at the part I don't like. Rewind and restart the dream from there!
@@KitarraChaosWeaver Okay but don;t drag the chalk across the board
The imagery rehearsal that you mentioned really helped me. After I awoke from a nightmare, I would immediately reimagine it going my way. It calmed me quickly to help me get back to sleep quickly and lowered the intensity and frequency of future nightmares.
Been dreaming of people I havent seen since high school.
Even those I know have passed.
Actually feels hollow waking up knowing they’re not here anymore.
US I’ve had those dreams too. Especially about my grandfather who raised me. I wake up feeling sad he is gone but happy I dreamed of him because in my dream he was “really there” like he never left. I don’t see him in the dream and think “you’re dead.” For all we really know, they are still with us. I like to think so anyway.
loverrlee Sometimes I wish I could record dreams like that. Best anyone can do is struggle to write it down before theybgo
Sometimes I dream the same. Its weird
Does anyone else have moments in their dreams and imagination when you just can't do something, like some force pulled you and your line of sight away from whatever it is, like some sort of mind barrier? Just remembering that feeling and trying to explain that makes me annoyed, frustrated and just utterly demotivated
When trying to run faster in dreams, suddenly I have forgotten how to move my legs and arms properly and I end up running slower and slower like I'm in 3 feet of sand or snow. Wonder if it's connected to the detachment of our brain from our bodies and limbs.
I got bit by a rattlesnake and needed to go to a hospital. My arm was swelled to twice the size. Parents took me somewhere but not the hospital. I asked again and a guy started throwing needles at me so I ran down the street, flagged someone down on a motorcycle. I asked them then they started rambling. No one would take me to the hospital and then I woke up.
Hmm depends on what it is specifically. Based on my dream experience when I cant move when or what I want it's usually meaning that I think I'm not in control of my own life (in the real world). That good ol nagging subconscious at work. Like being stuck in place, unable to walk across a street toward something, or not being able to speak.
But I make a point of taunting my dreams when I wake up, like "Ha! I'm awake now and I can talk and move whenever I want, stupid dream." Idk if it helps but it gives me a chuckle. 😅
Anyone ever have a reacquiring dream scape? Like I’ll have a different dream in the same place every few nights
My damn tornado dreams are always in my house. Can my mind think of a less terrifying place to experience a tornado...
I also keep having this reoccurring plane crash dream where im looking out of my house and running toward it, it'll be a different backyard or different times of day, or even different storylines. Usually I go to help rescue the ppl, but another there was a bomb and it destroyed everything (then I woke up), and another one it crashed and aliens attacked out of it.
I've had deja vu moments inside dreams too, like I've been in almost the same place before while doing/saying something similar. But they're usually not memorable dreams, only that off-putting deja vu feeling is what sticks out.
i think it’s normal bc our dream settings are usually in places we visit often
KillerTurnip I’ve had crazy, realistic tornado dreams for as long as I can remember! It’s been a little while since I’ve had one, but I definitely get you on that one.
Regardless of my dream content, I’ve had repeated locations-most of which I’ve never been to in real life.
Same here. Lately mine has been a more steampunk urban area or a dystopian utopia that looks beautiful as we drive around. Either that or a less defined and more wonky version of my house.
Someone I know dreamed of some weird green hills they never seen before and they were able to fly over these by “spastically vibrating their entire body”.
When in “flying mode” they were even able to pass through solid objects.
Also there were these weird rope clothe fences that were impenetrable and indestructible by anything.
The air around everything was “alive” and the wind was the air breathing.
... I guess it’s very interesting how stuff works in other worlds.
I'm loving these nightmares I'm having, because I'm writing them down and expanding them into actual stories. Thanks brain!
I can relate to almost all of these points made, especially the part about having anxiety and being worried about a specific situation or thing and then having a dream relating to it.
I’m having more dreams because I generally wake up at a reasonable time but more often now I can just go back to sleep for a short time
Jokes on you, I've been social distancing most of my life. EZ sleep.
this is fascinating, thank you for sharing this!
Thank you. I really needed this.
Oh I thought it was the LSD, thanks
I dreamt of my university burning and last night about the whole neighborhood burning ... I wonder what my subconscious is saying
FIRE BENDER!
Hell surrounds you
Have you been watching a lot of news? Your brain likes to sort through experiences while you sleep.
@@eds1942 haha that would explain a random dream I had back in March while looking up stuff about covid.
I was a scientist, found a cure for something, had to deliver it somewhere while escaping ppl so I could save the world (very action movie style), I delivered it, then a bomb went off and I woke up.
As a person with severe anxiety among other conditions this explains the disruptive sleep I have over the past several years. My dreams usually are a mixture of events from throughout my life (mostly unrelated traumas) it has been a wild set of dreams. I wish I had started a dream journal years ago.
My dreams have been especially vivid and complex lately, but I had no idea it has become more common for other people as well! Great video! I have been doing the imagery rehearsal, but not before going to bed, but right as I wake up. One issue I've been having are dreams where I'm trying to go somewhere, or do something, but I can never get the task completed. I feel like the dream goes on for hours, with me TRYING to finish a test, or find a bathroom, or get to an appointment. I wake up grumpy and frustrated. If I wake up slowly, with a few minutes of half sleep, I try to "fix" the dream. This doesn't always work, but it helps sometimes.
How’s it now? Mine are daily since 2.5 years :(
I JUST HAD A WILD ASS DREAM TWO NIGHTS IN A ROW DONT DO THIS TO ME
Eh... I've always had pretty wild and memorable dreams alongside a life of anxiety and stress. So I'm not remotely surprised.
Valaquesse Same!!! Where are my “I had anxiety and stress before it was cool” gang? 😂
Same. Dreams have gotten crazier with all this though, I've had some pretty weird nightmares lately.
@@Killer_Turnipstill getting them? 2.5 years here, awful
@@James-lu4en not nightmares all the time at least, but I still have weird dreams every night that are exhausting experiences. I rarely have a dreamless sleep like I used too, id rather not dream at all tbh.
@@Killer_Turnip interesting. I’ve had weird vivid dreams each night for 2.5 years leaving me wrecked each day, it’s ruined my life. Lifelike, and so numerous that it’s like several weeks worth in one night. Correlates with Covid vaccine/a 9 hr jaw surgery I had for sleep apnea
That hoodie is AMAZING! I need that design in my life.
After my mom, who is an essential employee, found out she transported a train crew who all tested positive for COVID-19, I started having dreams where I would find her passed away at home. I can remember every one of them. She had to have two tests done 2 weeks apart and when the second one came back negative, the dreams finally stopped. The same thing happened to me in 2010 when 4 EF4 tornadoes destroyed the township I live in. I was having long bouts of insomnia, and then I'd crash, and each time I got sleep I relived that night all over in my dreams. After a couple of months of this, my husband dragged me to the doctor and she wasn't too happy with me because I didn't make an appointment right away after that event. I still have nightmares about it every summer.
Last night I had a dream that siren head was chasing me because he wanted to take my rock candy. That’s the most tame dream I’ve had this month
Didn't know this was a thing right now and thought it was just me lol. I'm someone who never remembers their dreams, but lately I've been having some really weird dreams. Wish I could remember them for longer than a couple hours though. 😂😂
I feel you
But weirdly enough, sometimes really certain and singular images or scenes from a random dream really stay inside my brain and I can still remember the exact image I saw today, like some abstruse cyberpunk-esque scene or a room looking like the super mario pipe levels except there are giant crab-spider-things walking around and I'm picking one up by its body shell... idk man, wild stuff
Same; I rarely remember my dreams but I've been remembering them a lot lately. They're always bad ones of course. :(
@@olfmombach260
Same
You can! You just have to get in the habit of writing them down in a dream journal. I type mine into a Google Doc app on my phone because I can type faster than I can write.
Um, I was just as isolated, and stayed in home just as much before the whole lockdown and social distancing thing happened- so can someone explain how this is happening to me too then??? 🤔
Love this video and the host is great!
Night after night I keep dreaming that I'm about to head home from a vacation place, but I have tons of stuff that needs packed like I'm moving an entire house and no matter how much I pack there are still rooms and rooms full of my clutter. It's getting dark, people are getting angry, and I still have days of work left. Ugh.
Nope. None at all.
Sleeping like a rock.
World is on fire. My brain: cant do anything about it. Lets go to sleep.
Protest
Accurate. I wish I had dreams I actually remember more often though...
Got It protest what?
same here, i used to have really vivid dreams/nightmares but now it's just... blank. nothing at all.
Sometimes I get made fun of in my dream and I hate it
Since corona i have been having such weird dreams.I had dreams about having kids and giving birth, death and much more
Still getting them? I am
What started to do is if I wake from a very vivid, and interesting dream, I will write it down when I wake up. Some dreams I have are so detailed while others aren’t as much. But I can go back and read from a dream I had a year ago and still picture it exactly.
The thing is... I don't get to have nightmares, but there are dreams that are like connected everytime I sleep
I just have dreams about going to crowded grocery stores and realizing i forgot my mask...
Stop letting fear control your life. Understand that The Masks don't do anything to protect you.
I've heard this from multiple people lately
Um, I was just as isolated, and stayed in home just as much before the whole lockdown and social distancing thing happened- so can someone explain how this is happening to me too then??? 🤔
@@FastNCurious88
Are you an Empath?
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference then reverie ( dreaming ) fits things to images we are familiar with but just does not "do as good" as day-awake
Dunno which channel this is - a concept known as Mass Mind: A group experience takes place on a lower level of consciousness than the experience of an individual → formally Collective something or other • much written works in psyche exist for reading; Choose the one that is easiest for you
I’m still getting them 2.5 years later, it’s awful
My dreams have always been extremely weird and vivid. So much to the point where sometimes I'll wake up disturbed by some of my creepy or emotionally draining dreams 😐
I’ve had vivid dreams for as long as I can remember, even back when I was a kid. I’m a creative person, so that’s common for me, but I can attest to sleeping less comfortably during the past few weeks for both reasons with the world right now and because I hear almost everything during the night, such as my roommate getting up early for work, the dog licking himself, someone driving a stupid race car down the street, etc.
SciShow: _"Anyone else been having vivid dreams lately?_
Meanwhile, I'm here not remembering having any dreams since April...
스테파니 Stephanie 조셉 Same, I almost never dream
@@GammaProtogolin You dream every night, you simply don't remember.
Magister R'yleth When I have a dream I remember it, but it’s just blank most of the time.
I dream of dabbing up the Bois
I need some too mind letting me into some of your dreams?
@@hungrymusicwolf chill bro you gonna make me blush
Thanks! For the last 5 nights I’ve been having dreams about marching and dying. The pro tip at the end of the video will definitely help. Welp, back to marching.
I wasn't thinking about whether or not I've been having weird dreams. But now I will. Thanks, Scishow.
Frequency of alien abductions are up, thats why. I’m not even kidding
I only had sleep paralysis once in my life. Within weeks of the dream, I got a coworker pregnant after being single for 4 years. It was so bizarre. The dream during the paralysis was of me jumping above my cubicle towards the direction of the girls cubicle. That girl is my wife of 12 years. Im not joking. She might be an alien 😆
I wish they'd just take me with them.
Last dream I had that I remembered had guns in it. I've been watching a lot of news about police brutality. Hmmmm 🤔
I have had war and murders in past 8 months every dream, most likely because of learning a lot of history, so yeah you watching news affected ur dreams.
3:15 Duh.
The last 6 months has been pure Inception for me, this video explains everything. Thank you for making this video 👍🏽✨
Sometimes I feel like my dreams are videogames I take place in personally.
Literally today I woke up in the morning from my phone ringing and inside the dream I was like "Alright I'll just pause", literally pressed the pause button within the dream as I woke up, got up to answer the phone and resumed the dream right at that moment when I went back to bed.
Also I rarely ever have bad dreams or nightmares. Sometimes I do have stressful dreams but they don't bother me. To me dreams are manifestations of what's going through my head when I'm having them and that understanding helps me cope even with the scariest ones.
Most of the time I have supernatural powers in my dreams. Though sometimes I have full control of them and sometimes not at all.
I've been having these weird thoughts lately. Like is any of this real or not?
Like if you get the reference
I'm not.
I smoke **ahem** "herbal cigarettes", it suppresses dreams. ; D
The only sane one left.
Ahh so that's y I haven't been having vivid dreams for yrs 🤔
ive been having these vivid dreams lately and always wake up feeling very exhausted than ever in the morning till noon, but now ive got my answer- its due to stress and unfulfilled worries in life. thanks for explaining so clearly. its definitely interesting to know im not the only one having this problem.
Are you still having them? I am as of 2.5 years. They’re beyond weird
I had a stress dream last night. These videos are helping me understand my everyday life so freaking much
I wouldn't say my dreams are any more vivid than usual, but I seem to be remembering them less well than usual. I think it's because I've been getting partially woke near the end of my sleep period, or wake up and be expected to carry out a conversation or answer questions immediately. My sleep schedule's weird, so my parents keep waking me up...
That said, my dreams tend to be unusually vivid to begin with, and I normally remember them more often than not (though I don't bother trying to commit uninteresting dreams to long term memory.) Normally I wake up and either sit quietly trying to memorize the dream, or if I'm pressed for time, go through my morning routine while trying to memorize the dream. Most of my writing is based on my dreams, so I try very hard to remember the interesting ones. Since quarantine started, I've only had two dreams that seemed to have potential, which is pretty normal for the amount of time elapsed. I found the link between stress and nightmares interesting though, because two of the worst nightmares I've ever had did actual take place when I was under a lot of stress (one occurred when I went to sleep while having a really bad migraine; the other occurred when my dad prevented me from doing one of the things my OCD makes me do before going to sleep, so I was feeling really anxious because of that.)
I never get reoccurring nightmares, the closest I've gotten to those has been nightmares in which I failed to feed or look after a tank of fish. In these dreams, the fish are either somehow still alive, despite their environment being filthy and not having food; there's a few fish left that had to kill and eat the others to survive; all the fish are dead; or, something's in the tank that shouldn't be there such as a frog, a turtle, a snake, a really big fish, a small shark, a crab, or on one occasion a small sea serpent/dragon thing, and the thing has been eating the fish, usually with a few still alive. Sometimes the fish are totally random fish, other times it's the fish I had that were all wiped out by a severe outbreak of cotton disease that wiped the entire tank out within a month; occasionally pet fish I had that weren't involved in that incident appear as well. In all the variants, the focus is on me feeling immense guilt for forgetting to take care of the fish, or for not being able to stop the situation from happening, with the fish or ghosts of the fish blaming me for their deaths/suffering or asking why I didn't save them in some versions. I only started having these about two or two and a half years ago, and they aren't very frequent, but I don't think I've had any of them since quarantine started.
My vivid dreams are really vivid because I believe that Kuvira from the legend of Korra is trying to capture me and experiment on my magic. And now my dreams are super vivid because of one reason is that Kuvira was trying to capture me and the other reason for that she is trying to take my magic abilities
Not a good time to have BPD and chronic anxiety... I keep having dreams of someone shadowy figure following me. Freaks me out every night, I feel like I haven't had a good night's sleep in months.
Marc Shanahan Have you asked them what they want?
You should pray, I recommend watching vaticancatholic's videos on youtube for more info.
ive been having soooo vivid dreams in the past last 4-5 months I felt like ive done so much a sleep i'm not sure i feel like i even slept - no idea why and then your awesome channel just post this video and i just had to write this down before watching
Still getting them? 2.5 years here
For my recent memories and experiences, my dreams and nightmares are just as vivid, as weird, and sometimes as terrifying as my dreams and nightmares for the last five years of still being into depression, anxiety, broken sleep patterns and cycles, insomnias, mood swings, sociophobia, and other mental, psycho-emotional, and physical health issues. Nothing has changed and is new that much. It even got lesser in frequency in this pandemic time than before, maybe because I am not alone, scared, and fully isolated anymore in the house like before, for my family spent more time with me during this time of the pandemic unlike before when they need to go to work and school. I also didn't get dream loops or dreams within dreams, sleep paralysis experiences, and I also recently didn't have lucid dreaming experiences unlike before. Somehow a little, this pandemic and staying at home more with my family situation thing that we had, kind of helped me and minimized my frequent and sometimes recurring weird, vivid, and terrifying nightmares. For the past years, I also learned to interpret my subconscious mind through my dreams, and I also learned not to have nightmares and bad dreams even without praying before sleep, as long as you are relaxed, happy, and feeling personally safe, in order, clean, secured, and thinking positive before sleeping, and as long as you trust yourself and your brain that you will have no dreams to remember or that you will have happy dreams instead of bad and nightmare ones. I think it is more with the assurance of or the feeling and state of safety, security, positivity, relaxation, calmness, peace of mind, sound mind, serenity, and the feeling of being guarded by angels or watched by a loving God or deity, that makes a prayer before sleep really work to have a good night sleep. I also personally know that traditional/religious prayers or prayer time before sleep is more than just for having a good night sleep though.
I lived without work through my 20's. It's upsetting to see the world finally experiencing the benefits of being free. The most upsetting is how so many of these changes are making people more intelligent and emotionally stable. For the first and only time in their lives, they have time to think and reflect. The more months and the more years they have the better they will be as people and the more "themselves" they will be.. as long as they don't lose themselves again when the world opens back up and enslaves them again.
You're getting something called enough sleep. Something called enough time. You're getting enough energy to think. Solitude and isolation work wonders on the human animal.
As some form of divine justice, I've been working more than ever through the pandemic. I get to experience the work everyone was doing when I was in my 20's while everyone else gets to experience the solitude I had. I miss my 20's every day. No work is all I ever wanted in life. I'm a slave essential to the economic system of the modern world. The world needs slaves and if you give them some distance and the bare minimum money to make choices then they won't even notice that they're slaves. How far we've come from the forest. So intelligent that we put ourselves in beautifully expensive chains.
Fascinating! Thanks.
I chalked it up to getting more sleep bc I have a pretty open schedule now. Allowing me to stay up until 3am and wake up anywhere from 10-noon. I'm about as stressed as usual, and didn't normally "remember" my dreams before COVID.
I have a whole post apocalyptic world in my dreams and it keeps going on like a Netflix show or a series I can usually pick what happens in my community to survive which is pretty fun as hell
Anyone else notice his hoodie has the Pioneer 10 diagram for the location of our sun and the Google Maps pin symbol? Super clever and nerdy, I just love it.
Excellent presentation !
I was just wondering this, I have been having really surreal dreams
I've always had very vivid and often quite weird dreams. Several years ago I was diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder, which was gradually getting worse since childhood. Dreams are the one symptom that I absolutely love about this illness
The Newton’s cradle that only bounces on one side will haunt my dreams now, THX. (Also I’ve been remembering my dreams for the first time in like a year)
I live in Minneapolis. This is my home. I'm watching my city tear itself apart as neighborhoods burn and newscasters and protesters are shot by cops. And theres a bad pandemic and I have asthma. Of course I'm having trouble sleeping.
This there are two dreams I had twice growing up so far:
1) Me driving a car and it's moving hella slow but I have to save my parents.
2) Me riding a steg-ah-saw-russ (forgot how to spell) but the reason why was different each time even though the scenery was the same
First one. A lot.
I still remember this (it was decades ago), my very first vivid dream as a kid was me getting chased around the neighborhood by a velociraptor. My friends and family ignored me when I asked them for help. So I hid in a dark empty room near the public pool, and when I saw it's silhouette in the doorway (bc as stated in Jurassic Park, they can open doors) I shut my eye wanting it to disappear, then I woke up.
Dreams are a tool for intuition and awareness in my religion, Eckankar. I and many ECKists record our dreams because, as you say, they often mirror what goes on during the day.
Sometimes when I forget most of a dream, I'll write short phrases of what I do remember: putting on a shoe, taking out garbage, attending a class, navigating bureaucracy, etc. Or even "I dreamed. I don't remember." The very act of writing even small details can bring out all of a dream so you can write it down.
It can seem a Jumble to begin with. But with practice, symbols emerge, associations are made, and simple but powerful concepts come through and guide me into a better way of doing things.
I want that "I am Here" hoodie!
Yeah, that is a really cool design!
Once every few years or so i have a dream where im anxiously and quickly running down a flight of dimly lit stairs, in front of me is complete darkness and behind me is light. When im facing the darkness downstairs im running at breakneck speeds, but when im facing the lit part im struggling to get up the stairs. Ive only experienced the light of the upstairs once in my dreams. I feel like it could represent how life is real shitty for me and there are things hindering me from achieving my goals of being the woman that i know i am, such as school and family. Me struggling up the stairs could represent the fear pf reaching my goals being excruciatingly difficult. Who knows?
During fasting last month I wasn't getting any decent amount of sleep but my dreams were so much more interesting then anything I have experienced in my life these last 5 years
As a person who loves and admires stories and writers, and as a person who also loves to write and wants to be a professional creative writer/author/novelist someday, I wish I could control to remember every detail of my best vivid and or lucid dream adventures, 'cause they are more interesting and fun than the stories I could think and create when I am awake. Sometimes it is even harder to show through writing all of the complex emotions, moods, awe, sense of adventure, discovery, and fantasy I have in my best vivid and or lucid dreams if I could remember some for a longer time, and that's just how fun, emotionally complex, visually pleasing and vivid, colorful, and detailed a part of my best vivid and lucid dreams I had.
I’ve experienced really bad stress nightmares for years. They really suck. Sometimes it’s enough to make me dread bedtime and falling asleep. I’ll wake up from one, feeling like I’m dying, and then be so nervous to fall back asleep and have it happen again. It’s an awful feeling. :(
Vivid dreams are terrifyng and exhausting. But it felt nice after you wake up, the relief and serenity feeling
I was just thinking about this .thanks
I really thought it was just me! Thank you!