When do you dream when you're sleep?

Question

I heard its right before your final awakening.

Answer 1

Sleep consists of 3 basic stages. As you fall asleep you see a few images passing your inner 'eye'. We might call this a dreamlet. If something wakes you just after you have fallen asleep, you will be able to recall such dreamlets.

After that you drop into level four of brainwaves that are slow and generate no images. This is called Delta Sleep. After 90 minutes you rise to fast brainwaves that are very similar to the brainwaves of the waking brain. Anyone watching you at this time will see your eyes moving rapidly to and fro. This is called REM, Rapid Eye Movement. It is during this time you have your dreams.

On average you may have four dream phases during the night. The first one will last about 5 minutes after which you go back to Delta Sleep where there is peace and relaxation. After ninety minutes you return to REM Sleep with the dream phase extended to about 10 to 15 minutes. The last dream you have before waking up may last up to 40 minutes. It is usually the last part of this last dream that you remember as you wake up.

Each dream phase is like an act on the stage of live theatre. Each act has several small scenes, just as in theatre. The longer dream phases towards morning are like longer acts with more scenes. All this nocturnal theatre is perfectly integrated like a drama on stage. All these acts have a main theme around which all the dreams of the night revolve.

The last dream ends like a stage play: it clearly features a climax of all the night's dreaming.

You may dream about two hours in all during the night, but most people only remember a minute or two of all this dreaming.

Science used to argue that you could not dream in colour. Those who said that may have dreamt in drab black and white mainly because they lived a drab life. If your dream wants to tell you that something exciting is coming up, it will colour your dream intensely. Just as we are more excited by a highly coloured picture, so the dream promises more excitement when it is highly coloured. The more exciting things the dream has to announce, the greater the chance is that you will remember it.

Lots of people claim that they do not dream. This has now been refuted in the dream laboratories. We all dream as I have described it, but some people just don't recall their dreams.

This may be because they live a very busy life and are more interested in the outer, material world, than in the world of their mind and soul.

But even these people will remember a dream if it is a nightmare. Nightmares wake us up at any time of the night. However the most common time for nightmares is around two a.m. At that time even non-nightmares have often a threatening feel to them.

This again is much like the theatrical plots on the dramatic stage. There too we encounter a time where everything seems to go wrong. But that is usually rectified and a balance is struck in the plots as the night goes on.

If this balance is not achieved, it means that this dreamer lives a life full of anxieties and fears. The best way to address them is to confront them and write down those disturbing dreams and draw them or act them out in the day.

I hope you have sweet and highly colourful dreams!

Answer 2

It's random for me, but I do believe it tends to happen later in the sleeping process than sooner.

Answer 3

Nope, during REM sleep, the deepest period of sleep, rem = rapid eye movement where you literally move your eyes faster. During this time short term memory is transferred to long term memory. You remember dreams when your sleep is interrupted.

Answer 4

i was told you have an average of like 10 or more dreams a night, and that they last only a few seconds, but i cant remember my dreams unless i sleep for more than 7 hours a night for a few nights in a row, i dont remember my dreams if im lacking sleep. so i always know when i need more sleep.

Answer 5

you dream many times a night.  normally you will dream 7-9 times every night.  but these dreams are wiped out from your memory by the dream after that, and the one after that, etc.  the only dream you will remember is the one you have right before you wake up, and even that will be altered, or completely erased.  for instance, if you remember a dream, you would normally remember it in color, even though people dream in black and white.  there are no voices or sounds in your dream, but you remembe them clearly.  your brain adds to your dream as you remember it from waking up, or it fades from your memory like a cobweb in the wind.

Answer 6

No, it just seems that way because when you wake up you remember your dream as being a dream.

Answer 7

I only dream when something dramatic happens in my life (weird though as i cant explain why)