Do you dream...

[Gsailor]

...about nautical / maritime affairs?

I do ... and it is always a disaster that I am coping with... eith passengers aboard.

I have mostly sailed (for many years) solo in peaceful harmony ?

Wondering if my dreams mean I should quit.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

Disaster dreams where you manage are stress related dreams where your rational self is capable of coping. Commonly associated with problem solvers who can manage situations. Likely it is not boat related.

No, don’t quit sailing because your brain is dumping thoughts that it doesn’t need to keep.

 

[Sandy]

Nope, I don't recall dreams. I time travel - close my eyes and, what feels like milliseconds, open them six hours later.

 

[Bouba]

Nope, I don't recall dreams. I time travel - close my eyes and, what feels like milliseconds, open them six hours later.

You are so lucky, I’ve been an insomniac for fifty years...this past two years I have been taking a melatonin supplements that I buy from the States...and it has been the best two years of sleeping ever...but I still don’t get a solid eight hours (especially as the dog likes to wake us up a few times a night?)...more like a very deep couple of hours just before morning with intense dreams

 

[LONG_KEELER]

My dreams are dependent on how much mature cheddar I consume and how close to bedtime. I often sail down my local high street which seems quite normal.

 

[Blueboatman]

...about nautical / maritime affairs?

I do ... and it is always a disaster that I am coping with... eith passengers aboard.

I have mostly sailed (for many years) solo in peaceful harmony ?

Wondering if my dreams mean I should quit.

You are a competent sailor and ‘can do’ chap in a world that has got itself all a bit messed up -and there are a lot of people out there who simply haven’t a clew to pull on(!) … Passengers if you like.

I sail a longkeeler into all manner of unlikely places on land and it doesn’t seem to fall over either.

 

[LONG_KEELER]

I sail a longkeeler into all manner of unlikely places on land and it doesn’t seem to fall over either.

 

[Praxinoscope]

I occasionally remember a few bits of a dream, but on average I know I have been dreaming but don’t really remember what about.
A work colleague from years ago could recall the whole of a dream from the revious night.
SWMBO can often remember most of a dream but not in the fine detail of this colleague.
Of course I do have a regular daydream (unfortunately yet to be realised) that I might just win the Lottery.

 

[capnsensible]

I think dreaming off watch on longer passages is quite normal. Perhaps not quite getting into deep sleep is the cause?

Dreaming on watch is a bigger hazard!

 

[Bouba]

I occasionally remember a few bits of a dream, but on average I know I have been dreaming but don’t really remember what about.
A work colleague from years ago could recall the whole of a dream from the revious night.
SWMBO can often remember most of a dream but not in the fine detail of this colleague.
Of course I do have a regular daydream (unfortunately yet to be realised) that I might just win the Lottery.

You better not be talking about the Euromillions....I’m having that?

 

[Praxinoscope]

You better not be talking about the Euromillions....I’m having that?

No Problemo, you can have next weeks and I ‘ll have the week after.

 

[johnalison]

My boat dreams tend to ignore the laws of physics. They often involve my getting the boat up shallow muddy gutways at the beginning or end of tide, and sometimes I am involved with pushing my boat along on dry land while it sits upright on its fin keel.

 

[Blueboatman]

Yours is better - shoppers give way to sail! ??

 

[Neeves]

My dreams are dependent on how much mature cheddar I consume and how close to bedtime. I often sail down my local high street which seems quite normal.

After a long sleep deprived time I entered a sea way and thought I was sailing up hill. My rational brain told me this was impossible - so I ignored the thought and carried on motoring up the hill.

Note Capnsensible's comment.

Jonathan

 

[Clancy Moped]

You are so lucky, I’ve been an insomniac for fifty years...this past two years I have been taking a melatonin supplements that I buy from the States...and it has been the best two years of sleeping ever...but I still don’t get a solid eight hours (especially as the dog likes to wake us up a few times a night?)...more like a very deep couple of hours just before morning with intense dreams

Melatonin is available in France, have a look on Amazon, if you look into it there is some discussion about it giving certain people nightmares.

 

[Bouba]

Melatonin is available in France, have a look on Amazon, if you look into it there is some discussion about it giving certain people nightmares.

It’s not just about the active ingredient...it’s the whole recipe that determines how your body absorbs and reacts...besides I just received my years supply ?

 

[Bouba]

Melatonin is available in France, have a look on Amazon, if you look into it there is some discussion about it giving certain people nightmares.

I certainly have intense dreams...occasionally nightmares....also the pattern of the dream changes...for example before a dream (if I actually got to sleep) might be a whole story...now, sometimes I can relive a scene of two seconds nonstop for eight hours.
So yes it’s mind altering...but I wake up refreshed and don’t need an afternoon nap (and if I take one it only lasts a few minutes leaving me refreshed and it doesn’t interfere with my night time sleep)

 

[Wansworth]

An afternoon nap should only last a few minutes to be effective ,probably not to be confused with a siesta brought on with overindulgence of vino tinto

 

[Buck Turgidson]

Hmm.. kind of related. Back in my RAF days we used to fly the airbridge from the UK to the Falklands via Ascension Island. I had the same recurring dream for 4 years every night before the Ascension - Falklands leg. It involved ditching into the South Atlantic and surviving afterwards. It was a very vivid dream where we carried out all the drills correctly and then organised all the passengers into the Slide rafts after the ditching. Over the years it evolved into some ridiculous scenarios, one was where we kept the tail engine running and sailed to the Brazilian coast like a jet powered boat!
That dream was great practice and whenever faced with ditching drills in the simulator I was always so far ahead of the game that the instructors/checkers assumed I had been tipped off!

 

[Shaddickp]

I only have sailing related dreams after I return home from aboard my boat for a couple of months. I dream that I don't know where I've moored the boat, or if its safe, or I am on the boat sailing into shallower and shallower water., nothing too disastrous. Occasionally when I awake for a few moments I think I'm on the boat but don't know where we are.
These type of dreams disappear after a couple of weeks home., to be replaced by stuff like 'Have I renewed the car insurance' and other land based bollocks.