Over the years, I have had many recurring dreams. They are always about discovering new buildings and neighborhoods in what was once a familiar city. They are exciting, hopeful adventures. I think it is a good thing. And I have discovered that if I indulge myself in 4 ounces or more of JD#7, I sleep without dreaming. This is what keeps me from becoming an alcoholic.
I can't say that #7 affects my dreaming one way or the other. I have noticed that is I drink a lot, and for me 4 oz is on the verge of a lot, I have more trouble remembering the dream, especially details, which ordinarily are sharply defined for me.
On the subject of dreams, I rarely have them. Experts say we dream every night, but that we just do not remember them. I have my doubts. Leaving that aside for the moment, if I just do not remember them, there I remember only a couple a year at most. Recently, I had had several over a much shorter period of time. I had I think 3 on 3 consecutive nights. I lifelong first! A couple others followed in the days, perhaps weeks after this episode.
I doubt I dream ever night. Since junior high, I have suffered from insomnia. This was made worse during my time in the navy and as if not cemented already, more so by working third shift at a gas station though college. Until more recent years, I have had great difficulty falling asleep but once I did, fell into a deep sleep that made waking up on time, shall we say “challenging”. When forcefully awaken, as in my time at sea for watch, I would be completely mentally unaware of my surrounds, shocked each day at finding myself standing at the throttles in the engine room for no memory of how I got there. I doubt very much that I dreamed at all during this period of my life nor much after then.
I have tried unsuccessfully for many years to correct my poor sleep. I have had successful periods but just one late night throws it all out of wack again. Other, unknown to myself, influences also keep me awake when I felt that I would be able to more easily fall asleep. Even when I do recall that I had a dream, the contents quickly dissipate unless it interested me enough to give it some thought or it struck a nerve (in a good or bad way) with me.
I do not recall when I had my last dream nor what it was. The last dream I remember was not the most recent I have had, though.
Like you, I worked a lot of graveyard shift jobs, especially during college, and for 5 years was generally working in a nightclub till 2 to 3AM.
I presume you have tried pharmaceuticals, and simple things like melatonin.
A lot of people fail to realize melatonin should be taken at sundown, not bedtime, and if traveling a significant distance to change sundown, dosage adjusted to that point.
Once and only once. I had a perverse reaction and vowed never again. Coffee during the day and beer at night as been my “medicine” for the past 20 years. 😊. Only partly in jest. I never drank coffee until in the navy where the volume I consumed was measured in pots a day, not cups a day. I drink far less now but still more than I would like.
When ill, I miss beer but can just bare being without my wretched coffee. Brain just won’t turn over without starter fluid.
My brother, an actual retired former Colonel USAF rocket scientist with a spotless record as a launch officer, and so significant in Reagan's Star Wars program that he got a Xmas card from Nancy Reagan until a few years before her death, raved about how well the starter fluid worked on his old cobbled together lawn mower.
Over the years, I have had many recurring dreams. They are always about discovering new buildings and neighborhoods in what was once a familiar city. They are exciting, hopeful adventures. I think it is a good thing. And I have discovered that if I indulge myself in 4 ounces or more of JD#7, I sleep without dreaming. This is what keeps me from becoming an alcoholic.
I can't say that #7 affects my dreaming one way or the other. I have noticed that is I drink a lot, and for me 4 oz is on the verge of a lot, I have more trouble remembering the dream, especially details, which ordinarily are sharply defined for me.
On the subject of dreams, I rarely have them. Experts say we dream every night, but that we just do not remember them. I have my doubts. Leaving that aside for the moment, if I just do not remember them, there I remember only a couple a year at most. Recently, I had had several over a much shorter period of time. I had I think 3 on 3 consecutive nights. I lifelong first! A couple others followed in the days, perhaps weeks after this episode.
I doubt I dream ever night. Since junior high, I have suffered from insomnia. This was made worse during my time in the navy and as if not cemented already, more so by working third shift at a gas station though college. Until more recent years, I have had great difficulty falling asleep but once I did, fell into a deep sleep that made waking up on time, shall we say “challenging”. When forcefully awaken, as in my time at sea for watch, I would be completely mentally unaware of my surrounds, shocked each day at finding myself standing at the throttles in the engine room for no memory of how I got there. I doubt very much that I dreamed at all during this period of my life nor much after then.
I have tried unsuccessfully for many years to correct my poor sleep. I have had successful periods but just one late night throws it all out of wack again. Other, unknown to myself, influences also keep me awake when I felt that I would be able to more easily fall asleep. Even when I do recall that I had a dream, the contents quickly dissipate unless it interested me enough to give it some thought or it struck a nerve (in a good or bad way) with me.
I do not recall when I had my last dream nor what it was. The last dream I remember was not the most recent I have had, though.
Like you, I worked a lot of graveyard shift jobs, especially during college, and for 5 years was generally working in a nightclub till 2 to 3AM.
I presume you have tried pharmaceuticals, and simple things like melatonin.
A lot of people fail to realize melatonin should be taken at sundown, not bedtime, and if traveling a significant distance to change sundown, dosage adjusted to that point.
Once and only once. I had a perverse reaction and vowed never again. Coffee during the day and beer at night as been my “medicine” for the past 20 years. 😊. Only partly in jest. I never drank coffee until in the navy where the volume I consumed was measured in pots a day, not cups a day. I drink far less now but still more than I would like.
When ill, I miss beer but can just bare being without my wretched coffee. Brain just won’t turn over without starter fluid.
That "starter fluid" is some majestic stuff!
My brother, an actual retired former Colonel USAF rocket scientist with a spotless record as a launch officer, and so significant in Reagan's Star Wars program that he got a Xmas card from Nancy Reagan until a few years before her death, raved about how well the starter fluid worked on his old cobbled together lawn mower.
I laughed, I'd been using it since the early 70s.
We are Bog is my nightmare https://youtu.be/rtEaR1JU-ps
We are being assimilated!
We just don't know it yet!