Has anyone noticed dreams don't seem that long anymore?

[ChestEruptingWormhol (ChestEruptingWormholes)]

Has anyone felt that there dreams don’t seem that long any more or in depth?
Why would this be happening?

[OlesiaTheDreamer]

It could be that you’re either not getting enough sleep, so you have less time to dream, or your dream recall has just gotten worse over time, so you don’t remember the dreams in as much detail.

It could also have to do with the way you wake up… if you’re stressed the moment you wake up, you might lose the dream even before you start remembering it.

[ChestEruptingWormhol (ChestEruptingWormholes)]

yeah, yeah ok, I guess that could be a good valid reason, I am pretty stressed lately…very in fact…and also have been going to bed late…can’t be good, can it?
I’d say on average I have been getting about 5 hours sleep a night, on school nights and on weekends even less then that…just seem to not feel tired much lately for the past 2 months or so…

[krakatoa]

5 hours sleep is not very much. you know you dream more the longer you sleep. I suppsoe there is a limit but…
the ratio of the increase in REM sleep is that you dream twice as much in the second half of the night as you did in the first. or so i heard.

[Duck]

5 hours is defineatly too small time to get long dream. You should sleep at leat 7-8 hours to have long dreams. I also had experience like that, I was afraid that something happened to my DR, but luckly- no. Just sleep longer, and everything will be back to normal.

@rem

About REM and deep sleep. You sleep in cycles of about 90 mins.
The first cycle is almost all deep sleep, with a little REM at the end.
The last cycle is almost all REM with a little deep sleep at the beginning.
That means a normal night with 7.5 hours of sleep could look like this:
80min deep sleep, 10 min REM sleep,
70min deep sleep, 20 min REM,
60 min deep, 30 min REM,
40 min deep, 50 min REM,
30 min deep, 60 min REM.
This differs from person to person, and from night to night.
If you are very tired, you may have more deep sleep, and less REM.
If you take sleeping meds. you may have little or no REM, that depends on the type of medication.
After a period of little or no REM sleep, you can have a REM rebound with lots of REM sleep.
The dreams that happen early in the night tend to be vague and recall tends to be poor.
Most people who sleep through the night only remember dreams from the last REM cycle.
That all means that your idea could work very well.
You might wake up a few times without remembering any dreams when you wake up during a deep sleep cycle,
but you should wake up during REM often in the last hours of sleep.
NOTE: Some people do dream during deep sleep, and some of them also say that they have good recall, and vivid dreams.
There are people who say that they dream all night, and are lucid whenever they dream.
This is not the norm. ( Some people can run a mile in less then four mins. )

[ChestEruptingWormhol (ChestEruptingWormholes)]

Thanks.