Do you dream...

[Sianna]

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.

Very similar here, but it's SWMBO who can recall every detail of her dreams, me, I rarely remember a single dream except the ones when I'm thinking what to do with the lottery winnings I really should start playing it

 

[Bouba]

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.

Most people go to bed to relax...you go to bed to worry??

 

[Wansworth]

I read for a while then fall asleep although of late wake up about 4 I suppose If I hada boat I could worry about that in the winter gales ,boats are an endless supply of worries……..do I want a boat?

 

[Blueboatman]

I read for a while then fall asleep although of late wake up about 4 I suppose If I hada boat I could worry about that in the winter gales ,boats are an endless supply of worries……..do I want a boat?

Er no probably not for you
Because a n other person would get up , drive to the boat to check it and then ah well I’m here , all is good , bung the coffee on and I will have a lovely potter and bit of fettling before going home to a well earned … afternoon nap??
Watcha think ?

 

[Wansworth]

Er no probably not for you
Because a n other person would get up , drive to the boat to check it and then ah well I’m here , all is good , bung the coffee on and I will have a lovely potter and bit of fettling before going home to a well earned … afternoon nap??
Watcha think ?

?

 

[Resolution]

I think I read that one only remembers dreams that you were dreaming as you were woken up - eg by the alarm. Given that when sailing on a watch system one is always being woken up by alarm / other crew, it is likely that you were in a dream and can still remember it.
There may also be correlation between intense dreams and one’s position in the sleep cycle, From REM studies the first two hours is often deep sleep with no dreams, followed by lighter sleep and intense dreams. Check with your watch schedules!
Any experts to comment on the above dodgy theory?

 

[Bouba]

Any experts to comment on the above dodgy theory?

Let me sleep on it

 

[Spirit (of Glenans)]

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.

"...revious night..." what an apt typo, best appreciated by those who speak French?

 

[benjenbav]

Imho the late, great Michael Flanders had the last word on dreams or, at least, on sharing their content:

“I had taken furnished lodgings down at Rustington-on-Sea,
Whence I travelled on to Ashton-under-Lyne, it was actually.
And the second night I stayed there, I was wakened from a dream,
Which I'll tell you all about... some other time.”

 

[weaver_fish]

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.

I do the the exact same dream - what does it mean?

 

[RunAgroundHard]

I think I read that one only remembers dreams that you were dreaming as you were woken up - eg by the alarm. Given that when sailing on a watch system one is always being woken up by alarm / other crew, it is likely that you were in a dream and can still remember it.
There may also be correlation between intense dreams and one’s position in the sleep cycle, From REM studies the first two hours is often deep sleep with no dreams, followed by lighter sleep and intense dreams. Check with your watch schedules!
Any experts to comment on the above dodgy theory?

REM sleep is when you may dream the most. REM sleep puts the user in a state where muscle antonia or sleep paralysis happens, muscle antonia also happens when falling asleep and waking up. During REM your brain goes into overdrive, heartbeat and breath rate can increase and generally brain signals are firing off, which is why muscle antonia is needed as REM could start you moving and thrashing about in bed. The areas of the brain associated with learning apparently get activated the most during REM sleep, which is where the theory that sleeping and learning through some form of external simulation comes from, but apparently is bullshit. REM is considered to be similar to defragmenting a hard drive, your brain gets sorted and redundant memories get dumped. Apparently our brains remember only key facts with the rest being filled in by stimuli such as as smell, sight and thought, hence déjà vu. It is also why memory of time is very unreliable as a record of facts. All this is according to Google.

l tend to dream more when I am experience stress, such as heavy workload to meet tight deadlines or family relationship problems. Sailing, navigating and watch keeping doesn't stress me, quite the opposite, so tend to sleep well when sailing, plus the fresh air and strenuous activity.

 

[johnalison]

REM sleep is when you may dream the most. REM sleep puts the user in a state where muscle antonia or sleep paralysis happens, muscle antonia also happens when falling asleep and waking up. During REM your brain goes into overdrive, heartbeat and breath rate can increase and generally brain signals are firing off, which is why muscle antonia is needed as REM could start you moving and thrashing about in bed. The areas of the brain associated with learning apparently get activated the most during REM sleep, which is where the theory that sleeping and learning through some form of external simulation comes from, but apparently is bullshit. REM is considered to be similar to defragmenting a hard drive, your brain gets sorted and redundant memories get dumped. Apparently our brains remember only key facts with the rest being filled in by stimuli such as as smell, sight and thought, hence déjà vu. It is also why memory of time is very unreliable as a record of facts. All this is according to Google.

l tend to dream more when I am experience stress, such as heavy workload to meet tight deadlines or family relationship problems.

In that case I think Google needs a spellchecker. It's atonia, with antonias usually sporting capitals. I have always thought of dreams as a way for the brain to sort out its rubbish, but dealing with hypothetical situations may also have benefits. I don't think that deja vu is closely related, being caused by a short cut developing between the short and long-term memories leading the subject to mistake a current experience with something from long ago.

 

[RunAgroundHard]

... It's atonia, ... I don't think that deja vu is closely related, being caused by a short cut developing between the short and long-term memories leading the subject to mistake a current experience with something from long ago.

Thanks for the corrections.

 

[Blueboatman]

REM sleep is when you may dream the most. REM sleep puts the user in a state where muscle antonia or sleep paralysis happens, muscle antonia also happens when falling asleep and waking up. During REM your brain goes into overdrive, heartbeat and breath rate can increase and generally brain signals are firing off, which is why muscle antonia is needed as REM could start you moving and thrashing about in bed. The areas of the brain associated with learning apparently get activated the most during REM sleep, which is where the theory that sleeping and learning through some form of external simulation comes from, but apparently is bullshit. REM is considered to be similar to defragmenting a hard drive, your brain gets sorted and redundant memories get dumped. Apparently our brains remember only key facts with the rest being filled in by stimuli such as as smell, sight and thought, hence déjà vu. It is also why memory of time is very unreliable as a record of facts. All this is according to Google.

l tend to dream more when I am experience stress, such as heavy workload to meet tight deadlines or family relationship problems. Sailing, navigating and watch keeping doesn't stress me, quite the opposite, so tend to sleep well when sailing, plus the fresh air and strenuous activity.

Yup
Ergo
Sailing is good for you
Sailing adds years to one’s life
You can’t put a price on healthy added years ??