Dream Continuity... -

[UnKillShredDur]

Does anyone else have any sort of continuity between their dreams?
I'm not necessarily asking if *all* of your dreams follow a singular story path- but do various characters, settings or plot reoccur in your dreams?

And moreover, does anyone else ever remember *previous* dreams while still in a dream?

 

[OhGoy]

sorta'

i've had lots of nightmares where i'm floating underwater with various types of sea monsters swimming around me

recently, there's been quite a few where i'm in some sort of structure underwater (submarine, underwater city, etc.) that's slowly falling apart and i'm mere moments from losing the only barrier protecting me from the monstrosities outside, though i'll almost always wake up right before it happens

...thalassophobia's a bitch

 

[Existential Crisis]

Sometimes I get the feeling that the dream I just had is the continuation of a previous one, but I have a hard time remembering whether that's true.

Other than that I just get recurring themes like drowning and falling backwards to my death.

 

[UnKillShredDur]

Oddly enough, settings seem to reoccur in my dreams more than anything else... whether it be representations of houses I grew up in as a kid, or amalgamations of various schools I've attended, or something else entirely...
The various people in my dreams typically tend to be more abstract... My dreams rarely actually feature people I know... And especially oddly, I usually remember my dreams, and my subconscious usually tries to assign them some sort of value when I wake.

 

[Xetzyr]

If your dreams don't have continuity you might wanna get checked for sleep apnea... I'm just sayin.

 

[Fiber-Rich Vegetable]

I've only had it with nightmares, especially when i was younger. When i was in high school i had stress-induced sleep paralysis for half a year, which meant nightmares basically every night. A year or so after that when i had a lot less stress going on, i had both the nightmares from my childhood, and from my high school years, sort of continued and "finished", making them feel like normal dreams!

Nowadays i never experience it.

 

[Johnny Bravo]

I've visited the same "places" in my dreams multiple times. At least I think I have.... Sometimes I'm not sure if I'm dreaming of a place I remember or just dreaming that I remember it, unless it's a place I know from real life.

I don't think my dreams have re-occurring characters. Sometimes I dream about characters from TV, video games, books, characters from my own stories, or real people, but there aren't any characters I can think of that exist exclusively in my dreams. When I was a kid I had one re-occurring nightmare character (a fusion of the villain from Clocktower and a giant pig) but that's about it as far as I can be certain.

As for continuity in general, that's rare. I think there have been a few times when I've had continuations of the same dream over multiple nights but I can't say for sure. I have had dreams with a story-like structure, though.

 

[emitter]

Definitely have a lot of recurring locations that are abstract and condensed versions of places I've lived or visited. Being a lucid dreamer most of the time, along with the general nonsensical flow of dreams, I can still navigate and figure out where I am or are going. When I purposely try to start a lucid dream, I mentally focus on being in a plain room and slowly add features like a door, table, lamp, window, etc. That room always looks pretty much the same and I can visualize it now.

As a kid I had a recurring nightmare (watched Halloween a little too young and too many times) for months and months which allowed me to recognize when I was dreaming and eventually gain dreaming lucidity. Nowadays I have very similar nightmares thematically, but the cast and plot and all that are random.

As for continuity in general, that's rare. I think there have been a few times when I've had continuations of the same dream over multiple nights but I can't say for sure. I have had dreams with a story-like structure, though.

Same here on this thought. There are times where I feel I really know what is going to happen in a dream and it feels very familiar, but don't vividly remember having that dream before.

 

[adorable bitch]

My dad keeps appearing in my dreams and I kinda wish he wouldn't, because it's getting progressively more depressing for me.

 

[IV 445]

I don’t dream

 

[ES 148]

My dreams are the only anime I've ever watched

 

[DumbDosh]

I have had dreams that have had continuity over multiple sleep sessions and I have had dreams that were random as fuck and had no continuity like running through a cult mansion with a shotgun or being eaten by a t-rex.

 

[The Shadow]

I've re-visited my grandparents' house multiple times in dreams (it was bulldozed in 2005 so that's about the only way to see it anymore). Although every time it has had different surroundings.

 

[Commander Keen]

I dunno about "continuity", but I do experience bouts of extreme deja vu. I'll do something and then be overwhelmed with the sensation and I'll believe I had a dream where this had all happened.

Turns out I have temporal lobe epilepsy and am just having a seizure. What I'll do to deal with it is take my shoes off and put them on the wrong feet for a bit or take off one sock or something minor like that to alter my appearance or how clothes feel on my body. The sensation is so strong that I panic a little bit, so that helps.

 

[BerriesArnold]

I like to believe that dreams are just manifestations of our subconscious trying to play out whatever it is we may be feeling. Like a person who is running away from their main problems in real life, suddenly having a dream of something obscure chasing them down a narrow hallway. Or someone who is tackling too much work in their lives, having a nightmare in which they are suffocating or drowning in murky waters.

Recurrence or continuity, specifically nightmares, occurs when you continually avoid that thing that you need to tackle in your real life. Continuity happens as a result of mild lucid dreaming, i.e when you gain enough control over the dream to be curious to go deeper into that rabbit hole. Maybe in this dream, instead of running from that masked stranger, you face him, pull him by the trenchcoat and ask him what's his name.

You may think that ignoring problems in life may erase it from your psyche, but it may very well exacerbate your acknowledgment of it. It also may be the very best way that your subconscious can find to make it's message clear since your dreams can't just flat-out talk to you.

 

[HazamA]

I don’t dream

All humans dream. (And as most mammals and birds experience REM sleep, it’s presumed that they do, too.)
When people say, “I don’t dream,” they’re really telling that they just don’t remember their dreams.

 

[IV 445]

All humans dream. (And as most mammals and birds experience REM sleep, it’s presumed that they do, too.)
When people say, “I don’t dream,” they’re really telling that they don’t remember their dreams.

I dream of you

 

[Xetzyr]

Dreams are just data compiling for better efficiency. Your memory works by combining like things in order to optimize space/recall. That's why a lot of people mistaken think the "Monopoly Man" has a monocle... he doesn't, it's just your brain combines the "Monopoly Man", the Planter's Peanuts mascot, Scrooge McDuck and various other similar "old rich/fancy looking" character forms all in one batch.

Dreaming is a lot like defragmenting your memory in a way, but a much more advanced form of it. If you keep dreaming the same stuff over and over... it's probably because your life is boring/monotonous and you should think about taking a vacation or watching a new TV show or... something.

It can also be emotional related though, if all you feel is STRESS then your dreams will likely all be similar. Varied emotional states and varied experiences create varied dreams.

 

[Cato]

Does it count as "continuity" by your standards if it's lucid dreaming and there are recurring people, settings and events but that's intentional and deliberate on my part because I'm controlling the dreams?

 

[Draza]

My dreams are pretty random. They don't continue.