Do you enjoy dreaming?

I rarely sleep deep enough to dream and when I do dream my dreams are mostly stressful. I prefer not to dream.

In general I enjoy my dreaming. Especially when I manage to be aware that I am. Being aware opens lots of opportunities to enjoy my nice dreams and control those that are not so nice.

Regardless of being aware during my dreams, though, I always forget them very quickly. The only thing I could do there, would be to write them down when I wake up.

Well… that isn’t gone happen, given that when I wake up I am too busy just doing that.

Yes and no. I enjoy some of my funny/good dreams. I do not like my nightmares one bit. I remember most of my dreams very vividly. I still remember some of my best/worst dreams from over the years. Many times I can wake myself up, or even change my dream, if it is too upsetting (or simply not going the way I want). The ones I can’t usually control at all, are ones based on real life experiences from childhood (some of my worst nightmares).

I think the ability to dream is one of the most mystifying aspects of life.

Yes, I most certainly do.
I can remember a lot of dreams, I’m almost always being chased and everyone’s always trying to murder me in them but for some reason I just enjoy those sorts of dreams, they are exciting after all. I could also fly in just about all my dreams which is pretty awesome. It’s also pretty fun to write them down in my dream journal and enjoy the absurdness of my dreams. I actually look forward to dreaming when I go to bed to see what bizarre scenarios my brain conjures up.

The only dreams I don’t really like are the ones that make some horrible loud sound that awakens me. Those are usually the most terrifying ones, too.

I love dreaming. My dreams are like adventures. I have wild and crazy dreams. Sometimes I just know there is the basis of a great story in them. My husband just looks at me like I’m a bit mad when I tell him about some of my dreams. Unless they’re scary (they are sometimes) I love dreaming. I dreamed about @mama_cakes the other day. I was standing by the Great Lakes and watching a ferry traveling away into the distance and suddenly I thought ‘this is near to where @mama_cakes lives. I told her this. So, I got to visit Canada in my dreams!

I like dreaming and usually enjoy the stories. I can often figure out where the pieces and details originate. “Oh… the orange shoes were from the orange crocs Kitty’s daughter was wearing.”

I have noticed that if I eat a piece of cheese about 30 minutes before bed. I will have awful dreams. The correlation is 100%. If want to experience a nightmare, 30g (1 oz) of cheddar before my bedtime shower will do it. Sometimes that is fun.

GQ! I too enjoy dreaming. My dreams are like my own private TV (sometimes color, sometimes black and white). They make can make me laugh, weep, ponder. Some are humdrum, some incredibly weird, some so real I’m not sure next morning whether they were dreams or really happened. Most I forget within minutes or hours, others are so exciting or illuminating that I’ve never forgotten them. When I’ve had a particularly interesting dream or a really bad one (I’ve had nightmares and stress dreams all my life) I try to decode it before I forget it – not so much the symbolism of it, but rather, the emotions being generated such as joy, sadness, regret, fear, or simply the realization sometime’s on my mind or in my subconscious that i need to deal with.

I love dreaming. Its like a whole different world… Its awesome. I sometimes feel like I’m an actor in a film, or I’m visiting places and people I would never do in real life. And lucid dreaming’s quite an experience as well. At times I wake up and I could swear that I was physically present in my dreams as well. :D

I enjoy it nowadays, as most of my dreams are not stressful. Just as I woke up a few minutes ago, I was expecting the arrival of a rebel fighter in his personal aircraft to come liberate me, but my bladder roused me before I had a chance to see if he’d made it safely.

I rarely remember specifics from my dreams unless they’re happening just as I awake. I do remember that I had dreams, but they evaporate into the subconscious as the conscious creeps in.

When I was younger, I had dreams of being chased and being afraid and being raging mad. I didn’t like those dreams, and they made me aware that I was repressing emotions from having been molested as a child. While working to resolve those problems, I tried various psychiatric medications for depression. One – I forget which now – gave me strange dreams, not frightening or emotional, but just bizarre and disquieting so I didn’t feel rested in the morning. I stopped taking that after a week.

Big Fun ! I like the whacky story lines and vivid imagery. Occasionally there seems to be something to learn, but mostly they seem fun.

Sometimes. Sometimes not so much.

Never thought about it, I don’t think we have any control over our dreams anyway, so not really a case of enjoying them or not.

@ucme – Some people are capable of lucid dreaming and I’ve done it a few times. Regardless, one can still enjoy something they are passively observing, like watching a movie or listening to a music recording, so one can enjoy or dislike dreaming.

@hearkat It’s not like people go to bed & look forward to “tuning in” to a particular dream of their choosing, that would be complete madness & is, I think, my point.

I do because if I know I’ve been dreaming (whether I remember them clearly or not), then I feel like I’ve had a good night’s sleep.

For me, waking up naturally (without an alarm) + dreams = good night’s sleep.

Short answer – yes.

I hate dreaming; mine are always disturbing and full of anxiety. They’re usually set in dark, brooding houses with endless rooms to be pursued through. I have very, very few good dreams, and I’ve never experienced the coolest stuff people talk about like flying. I smoke lots of weed just before bed and it helps to keep me from remembering them.

I don’t usually remember my dreams but when I do they’re never happy. Usually my dreams involve myself either being isolated from groups/crowds or being chased by someone or a combination of the two. So no, I don’t really like sleep dreams.

No, because I mostly have angst riddled nightmares.

I thoroughly enjoy my dreams. I almost always recognize what they were_really_ about when I wake up, but they rarely are distressing in the dream. Once I had a series of common anxiety dreams, you know, where you have to take an exam and haven’t read the book. The last one in the series was of me standing at the back of a crowd waiting to see the grades that were posted. Someone at the front turned and called back to me, “Johnson, you flunked.” Dreams tend to be about hopes, fears and rehashes of what’s going on in your life. This was about fear of failure. It wasn’t true, so I just took it in stride.

I love my dreams. They are mostly pretty uneventful but they take me to some strange and beautiful places. Last night I dreamed I looked up and saw two bright blue balloons tied to an overhead line that ran into my flat. I know it doesn’t sound much but the image was accompanied by half forgotten emotions and memories that I can’t begin to describe.

Next I was in an unfamiliar city and trying to get back to where I was staying. I went through a dark tunnel which bent right and then emerged into sunlight. Wide steps ran down with a view over to the city centre and I recognised a tall building which was near where I had to get to. It was a clean bright city that seemed not to have another soul in it. I would have liked to have stayed there a little longer and seen a bit more of it.

I love having dreams especially when they have great imagery. I love how they use clever metaphors that I sometimes don’t understand until I am telling someone the dream and realize that the image is a play on words. That has happened so many times to me! I don’t understand people who say dreams mean nothing, that they are just your minds way of crapping out the detritus of daily life. I profoundly disagree. I think we try to process our experience while we are sleeping. Yeah, sometimes it’s just stupid bullshit, but sometimes the weird images represent things we are relating to the rest of our known experience. It’s like our brain is saying, where should I file that?

A couple nights ago I had a really cool dream. i dreamt that my neighbors (in the dream they weren’t like my neighbors in real life) put up a new fence. I thought, oh, so it will be more secure, ok, good. But then I noticed that although ¾ of their properties was surrounded with a fence and a gate, one entire corner was all open to the elements. I walked around that corner and down to the sea beyond. It was rocky and steep. I was wearing a white sheet all wrapped around me with nothing underneath. There was a stone stairway with huge sculpted faces carved into the rock face. I descended, looking to the sea. A group of rowdy young men came up behind me and I felt like I could be attacked. But they passed by me uneventfully. Although relieved I decided it might be best to return to safety. As I walked up the stairs all manner of mythical creatures, gryphons, dragons, and unnamed fantastical beings scurried underfoot. I was terrified, but again, they did not harm me. That’s all I remember. The mood of the dream was incredible. Unlike you @Symbeline I don’t like nightmares! This dream was sort of exciting without being a nightmare.

I love dreaming. The first times I used brain entrainment to sleep I slept so well I felt like there was nothing going on in my mind. That I stopped communicating with myself I was so completely shut down.

So now I rarely use it unless I really want to. I found that my dreams do sneak through when I use it more frequently but that fear keeps my use in check.

Saying that I rarely have “nice, dreams. You know happy or whatever. Sometimes they are so disturbing they wake me up. But they don’t haunt me once I am awake, I realize they can’t really hurt me and go back to sleep.

But every now again I have an amazing dream and even the one’s that aren’t great are rewarding in another sense. So it is definitely worth it.

I enjoy dreaming. It just depends. I have strange dreams some nights and I wake up saying what was I dreaming about. It happens a lot.. Well you never know if that dream could take place in the future. I am glad that dreams are not like mysteries. I know how you must be feeling since you probably all dream at night. I also dream about my future and my life ahead of me!

I dreamed I was helping people make choices about color, fabrics and redecorating. Thine results were unexpectedly pleasing to me. I woke up and realized MY brain was creating all those results. I didn’t know I had that in me. It made me happy. (I guess that was a wish dream, but it was my brain that created those combinations.)