LOL….

It might be somewhat related to hypnogogic hallucinations… but I’m not sure. I get those just as I’m falling asleep and tend to have muscle spasms so strong that I knock stuff off the walls.

At least it’s not like my wife, who attacks me with flailing fists in an effort to fend off the evil (insert random animal here).

Okay, so now that we are talking about dreams. Why is it I seem to remember feeling like I am falling on thin air when I wake up from one?

Alrighty… my next suggest is to try sleeping in odd places or in an odd way. Often just sleeping with your head at the foot of the bed can trigger dreams. I find that I am not only more likely to dream when I sleep in an odd place but also that the dreams are more vivid… perhaps because I don’t sleep as well I am more conscious of the dreams.

Now… I wouldn’t suggest being uncomfortable… certainly wouldn’t want to sleep on the little sofa and end up with a crick in your neck. I hate those. >.<

That being said, you and dreams may be a lost cause. My little bro practically never dreams. On the rare occasions that he does, they’re usually fairly trippy and drenched with symbolism. His dreams tend to be more meaningful and he takes more meaning from them. Not like me, I think my dreams are mostly random and I tend to ignore any message they might be trying to get across… So I suppose there are advantages and disadvantages to dreaming often/rarely.

So, waking about at odd times is not going to work for me :)

Try waking yourself up at odd times. Set an alarm to jolt you into being awake. Try not to freak out too much… movement tends to make you forget. The idea is to wake up during a dream, then try to remember it while it’s fresh in your mind.

I’m sure my sleep is not full of void and emptiness, I most likely just can’t remember it.

However, I do have a lot of moments of De Ja Vu. Which I account for something, I probably have dreamt before.

The thing is, I would say that almost, if not, everyone dreams. If you enter REM sleep, then you dream. However, many cannot remember their dreams, leading them to believe that they never actually dreamed. My little bro is the same way. He insists that for him sleep is closing his eyes, opening them a moment later, and nothing inbetween.

I personally don’t understand those who do not dream or remember their dreams. I dream several times a night and I usually remember a great deal in great detail. It’s just second nature to me.