

issues that cause a lack of sleep, such as insomnia.significant events (getting married or buying a house).Vivid dreams are associated with anything that disturbs sleep such as: In contrast to our usual dreams, a bizarre or outlandish dream will stand out and this serves to intensify the impact of the dream, causing us to feel that it was particularly vivid. It’s probable that dreams which arouse strong emotions, either positive or negative, are more memorable and more vivid. When it comes to the vividness of dreams, there’s a link to emotional content and/or the bizarreness of the dream 2. For dreams, what we experience during the day will inform the content of our dreams during the night.

The more random movies you go and see, the more likely you are to experience different genres from rom-coms to horrors. In this regard, dreaming is like going to a cinema multiplex. This poses the question: ‘What do the dreams which you don’t remember mean?’. You can only remember a dream if you wake during, or very soon after, the dream 1. This means that we don’t necessarily need to experience traumatic or stressful events to have stressful or traumatic dreams. The content of our dreams, whether good or bad, consists of anything we know or can imagine. This means that the more disturbed your sleep, the more likely you are to wake during a dream and remember that dream. Our long, narrative dreams occur during a very specific stage of sleep - Rapid Eye Movement (REM). We have dream-like events throughout our sleep. While many people report experiencing ‘vivid’ dreams, there is no accepted scientific definition for what constitutes a vivid dream.

Whether you remember them or not, we all dream around four to five times a night.
