I found this site by googling why do I keep having dreams…it’s been like this my whole life but it’s starting to get really annoying. I remember 90% of my dreams to almost every detail. A lot of times when I wake up (to go to the bathroom, take my husband to work ect) and if I want to continue the dream I am able to fall back into the dream. When I was younger I enjoyed it but now I’m getting tired of it (no pun intended) I just want a blank nights night of sleep. No dreams just sleep and I don’t know how to do it. Some nights I think maybe if I think about “not dreaming” then it will happen, but it seems like when I do try that, not only do i have a harder time falling asleep, along with a headache, my dreams are even crazier. I’m not sure if I have “lucid dreams” I’m not even sure exactly what those are. Please excuse my laziness on not reading up on it, I just want to know how to not dream. I also tried to think about maybe choosing my dreams, or what I want to think of but there isn’t really anything I want to dream of, all I want to do is sleep! Well that is all, let me know if anyone is having the same problems. Thanks…
ALSO what’s getting annoying is I’m no longer sure what’s real life and what’s a dream and it’s starting to cause problems in my life, as far as thinking someone or myself said or did something that has or hasn’t happened…if that makes any sense. Anyways it’s annoying
Hm, if you don’t want to remember your dreams then you should probably just stop reflecting over them when you wake up.
Just get out of bed and don’t care at all about even thinking of them, and maybe your dream recall will drop to a minimum.
You can also try to track when you are in deep sleep, or NREM as it’s also called, and wake up during one of those stages, since this tends to make it much harder to remember dreams.
This chart shows you when an average person is in deep sleep, which are the higher Stages (particularly Stage 4, but that’s probably too early for you to wake up).
As for the definition of the term Lucid Dream, it’s basically a dream where you become fully aware of the fact that you are dreaming; you “wake up” inside the dream itself and start to think just as logically as in waking life.
If you have problems telling the difference between waking life and dreams, you can try Reality Checks - they are basically tests that you make to see if you are dreaming or not, and those signs could be anything: subtle, sudden inexplicable changes in your environment (maybe your house magically gets an extra room in just a few seconds), bizarre events, the ability to do impossible actions (like pushing your fingers through a wall or changing a written text just by looking away and looking at it again) etc.
Try it now, for instance - take a careful look at your surroundings right now, and look for anything that could tell you that it is a dream, and test your surroundings in several ways.
If you can’t find a single inconsistency within several minutes then I can guarantee that you are awake.
Yes I keep trying to Remember to do things like that in my dreams, “reality checks”, but I keep forgetting once I’m actually dreaming. I try not to think about what I dreamed about but it’s hard b/c sometimes things that happened in my dreams I’m not sure if it actually happened in real life. I keep having to ask my husband if I really said or did something, vise versa. I can tell hes really getting annoyed with it, no he just says I’m imagining things so I just keep it to myself now. I honestly remember things so vividly that I’m not sure about so many things, unless I have some crazy super outrageous dream, like the one I had last night/this morning. I was able to wake myself up cause I was able to acknowledge it was a dream. However when I fell back asleep I picked up right were I left off when I woke up the first time. I feel like its taking a lot of my sleep away, I wake up so exhausted, I don’t feel as if I ever get any actual sleep, I just feel like I go to another world. It sucks and is really exhausting me. A few weeks back I tried Nyquils new ZZZquil, biggest mistake ever, I couldn’t get out of my dream and it was really scary, not the actual dream, just the fact that I couldn’t wake myself up and I felt as if I was stuck in my dream. It felt like forever, and when I actually did wake up I had been sleep for almost half the day…I feel like I’ve tried everything, many times I try and sleep in my dream, like ill dream of a bed, then actually try to sleep inside my dream but it’s very hard. I’ve succeeded a few times but then it’s like I dream inside of my original dream. It’s very confusing, I don’t mean to sound crazy, all I want is a good nights sleep…the only times I really don’t dream is when I’m drunk. Although it could be I just don’t remember the dreams cause my husband has told me lots of times that I usually talk a lot in my sleep when I’m drunk
I think that learning lucid dreaming may help you with your problem. Because you have this doubt what is dream and what is not. When you know that you are in a dream it’s lucid dream and there is no confusion and if you wake up from a lucid dream then you know that you are actually in a physical reality.
Making the unknown - known you are getting rid of this doubt. It’s hard for you to tell what was a dream and what not because you are not lucid enough (would be my guess, I’m not saying it for certain 
) and that’s why is hard for you to do things inside dream, therefore becoming lucid.
You may wish to stop dreaming and who am I to tell you different, but my advice would be to learn as much as you can about lucid dreaming or things you don’t know/understand and only then you can say what’s working for you and what not…
Good luck!
My grandpa used to have terrible nightmares. Then he took out all of the curly fluorescent lightbulbs in his house and replaced them with normal bulbs and he stopped having nightmares. I think it’s because the curly bulbs contain a small amount of mercury… Not sure if this is what you have, but it might help.
Well I’m not having nightmares. I just don’t want to have dreams anymore…it’s actually been a while since I’ve had a “nightmare” usually when something outrages or “scary” is happening I can tell its a dream so it’s not very frightening at all. I do have dreams where I’m being chased or hunted but it’s more exhausting than anything. I wake up so tired and it sucks
I hate to break it to you, but we all dream every night without fail. The only times this isn’t the case is when you are sleeping under the influence of certain anaesthetics. I suspect the feeling of exhaustion is more likely caused by a poor quality of sleep. This can happen if you are sleeping at irregular times (Or sleeping regularly during the day) or even feeling tense when you are trying to sleep. It’s also possibly psychosomatic, in other words you are expecting to feel tired and your mind is creating that feeling.
I think rather than trying to suppress all memories of dreams, you would find more satisfaction in trying meditation or relaxation of some kind. It may also be something to raise with your doctor as certain conditions might cause poor quality of sleep. As could the room being a bad temperature, a bad mattress or too thicker bedding causing you to overheat. I’d look for causes which might be interrupting your sleep, or causing you to sleep too lightly/poorly rather than taking dreaming as the cause.
I do yoga often so my mind is usually at ease. I have regular sleeping patters…well that I know of, I usually fall asleep around 10-11 and wake up at 7 almost every day. I use to be a heavy weed smoker, between the age 13-22 and it actually helped my sleep better night…since I quit cold turkey maybe that’s the cause of my restlessness? I hope not, I’d hate to find out I’m a depended of a substance. I went to smoking an eighth a day, during the week, up to qp and half pounds on the weekends…but that is the only drug I’ve ever done daily. I’ve done shrooms a few times, and honestlys the thought I had during the trip made me think that my dreams were real, and real life was fake…I dunno it was weird but I’m trying my hardest to improve my sleep (naturally) from a tempurpudic mattress, to baths, even lavender enhanced pillows. The only unnatural thing I’ve tried we’re those ZZZquils…
Well I guess then it’s more psychological then physical. Like GreenDragon said, you dream every night and there is nothing you can do. Dreams shouldn’t make you feel exhausted. Lucid dreams usually makes a dreamer feel very good and excited. Why you feel completely different I don’t know. But it would be good to check that out just to be sure. Maybe your wanting to not have/remember dreams makes you frustrated and your good dream recall makes that even worse.
Like I said, best choice at least in my opinion is to embrace dreams and make the most from them! 