I've been on a new medication and it made me aware that the CBD I've been taking for years to get to sleep at night blocks your brain's ability to have REM sleep, instead putting you into a deep sleep.

I had my first dream in 8 years the other day, and it was so vivid and terrifying that I remembered every aspect of it and it made me write it down immediately, as I was wholly convinced that I was still dreaming.

In it, my Spotify account got hacked and I'd be listening to my own favorite music but then something came on that I couldn't stop. There was a group of people staring from outside my apartment window as I try to stop the music, laughing at my attempts and mocking me. I call the police but one of the people outside picks up and tells me that my phone is compromised. I get my girlfriend to drive and we go for hours, as similar torment continues. I try going to my grandparents but everybody in the neighborhood was acting strange and wouldn't let us through to their street. One of them stopped the car and said "You've been compromised" and explain that due to my Google data they knew I would try to go there and that there was no way out of the neighborhood. We try driving away from them but one of them was waiting near the exit with a terrifying grimace and a really big gun. They shoot out the tires and grab us. I feel something get injected in my neck. Actually feel. The man grabs me by the armpits and notices the pain and digs deeper and deeper into them laughing. I actually feel this as it happens and hope that I'm in a dream. I wake up in my apartment and hear a voice come from my phone telling me that I'm not actually awake yet, and that I'm in a pod with weights on my legs, headed for an incinerator. They say as soon as I turn on my computer I will be woken up for real and burned alive. I force myself out of the dream and wake up, feeling immense pain in my armpits and a massive weight on my legs, not sure if I was actually, truly awake. Woke up screaming and she tried to reassure me that I was awake, but I jolted out of bed when she touched my shoulder demanding not to be touched and was shaking for like an hour and find out it's only been 2 hours since I went to sleep, feeling all of the pain inflicted on me in the dream for hours later.

As a writer and someone who has a lot of imagination, I have a lot of trouble remembering dreams because I'll usually have a dream about something and then throughout the day I would be turning it into a whole story.

Then by the end of the day or the next day, I don't even remember what was from the dream or what was the part that I created.

I do, but it's a bit of a rare case sometimes that I actually fully remember what was happening during it. One of the most vivid dreams I remember happening recently was for some odd reason my Mom really hated me and basically wanted nothing to do with me, I would look to her and ask her why and the answer is "You're the worst thing to happen in my life" and it really struck a cord in me. While I do have other dreams that I remember pretty vividly they just aren't usually all that SFW so I rather not explain lmao

There are some days in which I do remember them fully, sometimes I only remember fragments of several dreams I have in one night, and other times I don't even remember falling asleep xD

I even remember dreams in which I was fully conscious, that is, in control of my actions, living the dream and almost feeling what was happening there, experiencing it in first-person. I could modify the dream as I wished, like if I had a super mind or something, and I could consciously awake myself from that dream. It's been a while since I've had any of those, but they've come in varied ways over the years and I find it fascinating.

I've come to believe that the dreams we remember is because they have a special meaning. Either the dream itself shows us situations we fear or expect to happen, or maybe it shows us something we normally hide even from ourselves which in turn leads to self-development. That's at least from the experience I have in this matter, but I could be wrong.

And well, who hasn't dreamt about waking up or being awake, just to ultimately awake for real and discover it was all a ruse. I hate having these dreams because they either involve me severely oversleeping (waking up extremely late in the dream when in reality it's early or in time) or make me believe I've actually awaken and I'm being productive already when in reality I'm still slumbering, which kind of ruins the pleasure of resting.

Sometimes I get tortured by dreams where I am at the ultimate store that has everything I want only to find out that I don't have enough money, like if there's candy everywhere if I'm at a thrift store


I especially hate when I find something that I'm looking for, only to find out that it's just a dream

I do not really dream that much. I guess I'm a light sleeper. Now sometimes if I am sick I have dreams.

Sometimes I can remember my dreams even if they are silly and outrageous. I often ask myself why did I dream that or that was really strange.

I used to have nightmares. When I was younger I had a traumatic event in my life. I used to have nightmares of this event. Thankfully, I haven't had any in a long time.

I do remember some of my dreams, especially some very weird or surreal ones. Their are are some dreams i've had years ago that can still remember today and even have had them again not too long ago.

I tend to remember a lot of my dreams of me being back in high school. Maybe i miss those days.

I actually do remember a dream that I had last night remember when Cabbage Patch Kids put out a couple of VHS's in the late 90s? I had a dream that they did a sequel to do The New Kid and they were doing a talent show again for their school reunion and we still didn't get an explanation as to why Melody or Justin weren't in the follow up VHS's, then it hit me....they weren't in Miss Norris's class, they went to the same school but they weren't in the same class which is why they weren't in the screen test either (so why wasn't Mitchiko either? she was in the Clubhouse)