Lowell, MA
I have a recurring nightmare each night and that is what I usually remember. Unless I have another dream that is particularly vivid or strange. Then I might remember that one.
Kathy, 26
Garden City, MI
I generally remember the dreams I have just before I wake up in the morning.
Jill, 59
Saylorsburg, PA
I remember many of my dreams. Almost every night. It's always been easy for it. They are a source of insperation for me as well.
Aurora, 17
Montreal, Quebec CANADA
There are too many to tell.
Karen, 20
Marshelltown/Ames, IA
Most of the dreams I remember are dream of my own death, which are quite frequent.
Ernest, 29
Washington, DC
My dreams are usually very vivid and I remember all the little details when I wake up. Unfortunately, more of my nightmares stay in my long-term memory and the happy dreams fade away.
Amber, 21
Hammond, LA
Hardly any of them, although I can remember this one scary dream I used to have every month.
Jeremy, 13
Highlands Ranch, CO
Ocean City, NJ Dream:
The most prominent dream I remember is a floating dream, probably because it was the most uplifting and refreshing. It was a feeling of complete freedom, no constraints, no inhibitions, no gravity really. My velocity was the only thing I had to balance, the faster I sped, the less control I had. The first one was when I floated straight off the top of a waterfall and gradually floated forward and down to the river beneath, and continued along its path for a while, turning and diving in and around its curves in the splendour of the sun, not too hot, simply warming and smooth. This is not to be mistaken for a flying dream where a certain amount of effort is required, but floating is allowed by a complete freedom form the constraints of gravity, Her all encompassing grasp dissolved into a effervescent stream of consciousness. Thought for this day: Dreams can show one how to live, what to want and what to fear, the translation of these misshapen images into reality is the probable challenge to most of us. Our dreams are as much our reality as our reality shapes ourdreams, but the difference is that there is no conscious prejudice in a dream, the subject is raw, the beauty and darkness are in their purest forms and the answers abstract due the formalities that we have been moulded to and shaped in our own right. The actors performance of the day in this world is sent to the innate you, and that judgement clear to the innate, but the conscious having struggled with this for so long becomes misshapen. Don't let fear guide your actions, or the ones that you surround will Cal, 24
IRELAND The most insane dream I ever had was when I was in high school. I dreamt a satanic box of macaroni and cheese was flying around the kitchen trying to kill me. Very weird. Amy, 23
New Orleans, LA Very few. Usually only if I am dreaming when my alarm goes off, and that rarely happens, as I normally wake up before then. Jane, 60
West Linn, OR the dreams I seem to remember the most distinctly are the ones that scare me or make me cry or feel the full desperation and futility of my little pathetic life. . . . . .and then there are the happy ones. . . mothmc, 35
Los Angeles, LA the most beautiful ones thart could never be real. Jaden, 21
Brampton, Ontario CANADA Only the most nonsensical, randomized, subconscious pot-luck dinner brain shuffles. Anything that I remember as having a plot disintegrates by the time i make it to the bathroom. Anthony, 25
Baton Rouge, LA I always have dreams about famous people like Carmeron Diaz, Gillian Anderson, Whitney Houston, Madonna, Mariah Carey etc Jami, 27
Lowell, MA any dreams involving sex, i remember. Angela, 16
SC The ones I just woke up from. They usually fade before my first coffee. Alias Irrelevante Well there is this one dream that really is quite strange. My husband and I pull up to this dark blue house because I have to go to the bathroom. I go and knock on the door and this old woman lets me come in. I explain the situation and she tells me to go upstairs and it's the fourth door on the left. She says that whatever I do, don't close the bathroom door, because something bad will happen to me. So I go upstairs, and you guessed it, begin to close the door and just as I remember what the old woman said, this midget busts in and tries to kill me, well I begin screaming bloody murder and my husband comes in and him and the midget fight to the death. I am crying by this time and the old woman tells me not to worry because the will take care of it.She strips them to their boxers and wraps them up in a giant floor rug. But then she turns on me and begins chasing me with her cane and she tries to bludgeon me to death. Just as I think there is no hope, my husband jumps out of no where and kills the old woman. We run out of the house and then make it back to the car, but just as we're pulling off the old woman and her midget run out of the house. That's when I woke up. I guess that is a dream that I tend not to forget, because it's pretty odd. But I have lots of dreams. I think it has somthing to do with my sleeping pattern. Kate, 19
Bellingham, WA I have such vivid, imaginative dreams! I won't bore you by pulling out my dream journal that I keep by me bed...I could go on and on forever. Unfortunately I tend to keep my dreams in my head all day long, so if I had a really crappy, depressing dream, I'm usually a bitch for the day - and vice versa. Last night I dreamed that I stole a rack of dresses from a department store so I could try them all on for a wedding I have to go to in a few weeks. I looked fat and ugly in every single dress. Then I had to worry about getting the whole rack, with all the dresses on it, back to the store without getting caught. Now what the hell does that mean? Do I have guilt about stealing something long ago? (I don't think so!) Do I think I'm fat and ugly? (only when I'm PMSing) I have no idea what this dream means! I can usually make a connnection between 'dream world' and real life, but not Susan, 31
Chicago, IL I remember almost all my dreams and dream every night. One very vivid dream was that I was sitting in a living room with my father as we watched the earth in flames on TV. The end of the world brought to you by such and such corporation. I watched with the same sort of passive nature that I would have viewing prime time slop. When it occured to me what was happening, we made an escape into a labyrinth of undergound pipes flooded in fast flowing water. In order to survive and reach a point of saftey, we had to swim across. I woke up before I found out what my fate would be. Tina, 31
Medford, MA I have one very vivid recurring dream that I remember well. I'm sitting in my bedroom and I decide to look out of the window, and I see a Chinese-style dragon flying across the sky. Then my parents tell me to go outside, and when I do I realise that we're in the Bahamas except it's cold. Then I'm in a group of about 20 people, one of whom is Margaret Thatcher, and everyone is running through this hedge which is in a street near me into an enormous beach, with warm sand and rolling waves. And then I wake up. I wonder what it means? Shanna, 15
Cardiff ENGLAND Only the weird ones that don't mean anything and don't make sense, yet tend to be tied to something I caught a glimpse of during the day. Firelady, 22
Dallas, TX usually the reocurring ones that ive had since i was a child and the really cool imaginative ones. Emma, 20
Perth AUSTRALIA
I remember dreams I've had about people dying (I'm not sure why), certain nightmares that have really shaken me up...I remember one dream I had that my grandmother died, and I cried in my sleep. My dreams are, more often than not, really weird and not very pleasant, which is unfortunate.
Nicole
Elk Grove, CA
Fortunately, I never remember my dreams...with one exception. Back in the 50s I had a dream that was so vivid, I've never forgotten it. I was about 8 and at that time, fear of the Russians was at an all-time high. One of the main topics of conversation on TV and in school was bomb shelters. We had drills quite regularly in school where we pretended we were being bombed and learned to hide under our desks. It was stressed over and over to us that it was just a matter of time until the Russians bombed us and the only thing that would save us was a fallout shelter. My family couldn't afford a fallout shelter and one night I had a dream where the Russians had bombed us and I was left all alone in the bottom of a hole where our house had been.
Reba, 50
Rockville, MD