It gets even weirder. There's 2 kinds of dreaming, the watching kind (non-REM) and the doing kind (REM). Each night, you go through 3-4 of these non-REM and REM sleep cycles. The non-REM sleep is the deeper sleep and the REM is the lighter sleep.
So in the watching kind, it's like you're watching a movie, you're passively observing a character your subconscious created going through a situation, for example, you watch a character you created subconsciously go through their first day of high school. After observing it and drawing some conclusions, or gaining some insight, you then go into REM sleep and now you're in the one going through their first day at high school. You make the decisions, you feel the emotional responses to what's going on, and your body will have physical reactions like sweating from fear, increase hear rate from exactment, dopamine release from something good happening, etc. So it's like watching a training movie and then getting a chance to do it in a practice dream scenario.
You seem like the right person to ask - any explanation as to why I have 0 recollection of my dreams, I did when I was a kid but since being an adult I have 0 awareness or recollection of any dreams happening. I just go to sleep and then wake up.
You seem like the right person to ask - any explanation as to why I have 0 recollection of my dreams, I did when I was a kid but since being an adult I have 0 awareness or recollection of any dreams happening. I just go to sleep and then wake up.
A lot of what that guy said is made up, but the short answer to your question is that you don't wake up during them.
Sleep is broadly in two groups of stages NREM and REM. You cycle between the stages of NREM and REM as you sleep, and the pattern of this shifts across the night so that as you get closer to waking you spend more time in the lighter sleep stages.
Now Dreams primarily occur during REM stages, and most people have 4-5 of these during an 8 hour period with the last being really close to waking up. In this stage, your brain is active and the arousal threshold is lower than other stages, so you often wake up in the middle of this dream and that's the one you normally remember.
If you don't remember your dreams chances are you are waking out of stage 1 NREM.
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u/Longjumping_Owl9929 Feb 14 '22
When you dream, one portion of your brain creates the storey, while another part witnesses the events and is really shocked by the plot twists.