Don't you have dreams when you sleep? Here's why!!

Lucknow: Almost every person dreams when the sleep and many of us even get indications of our future through it. Sometime's our dream is so lovely that we often end up wondering if this have really happened.

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However, there are many who claim that they sleep blank and wake up blank. At some point, you must have come across someone who claim that they never have dreams. They are not lying because they genuinely don’t remember any of their dreams. Depending on when you wake up during your sleep cycles, you may or may not remember what you were dreaming about.

In one study, 1,000 adult Austrians were surveyed to find out if they dreamed and how often. Nearly one third of them dreamed at least 10 times a month. Another third estimated that they dreamed less than once a month. The only real way to find out for sure if you are actually dreaming or not is to take part in a sleep study. Researchers can look for rapid eye movements that signify REM sleep to see if you are dreaming or not.

All of the research indicates that essentially every human being has REM sleep, which means that every person also dreams at night. If you don’t have dreams, then that means that you just are not remembering your dream. There are several reasons why you may not remember your dreams when you wake up.

1. You Use an Alarm Clock

Your alarm clock may be good for waking you up for work, but it does not help you remember your dreams. Normally, you would remember your dreams in the half-asleep state that you enter as you gradually wake up. If your alarm clock interrupts this sleep state, you may not be able to remember your dreams.

2. You Sleep Heavily

Studies show that people who wake up frequently during the night are more likely to remember what they are dreaming about. If you are a heavy sleeper, you may miss out on this chance to remember your dreams.

3. You Are Not Responsive to Your Environment

The people who have the best dream recall are also the people who respond best to hearing their names when they are awake. While there is no way to know why this connection exists, one hypothesis says that these individuals may be more likely to respond to their environment in general and wake up. By waking up during the night when they hear a noise, they are able to remember their dreams better.

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4. You Are Not Trying to Remember Them

Sometimes, you wake up in the middle of the dream and quickly forget about it. When you try to remember what you were dreaming about a few minutes later, you realize that you can’t even guess at what the main topic of the dream was. Your dreams tend to disappear soon after waking up, which could be the reason why you do not remember them.

If you do want to remember your dreams better, there are a few options. Some people use a voice recorder on their phone or a dream journal to immediately remember what they were dreaming about. Keep a dream journal and a pen next to your bed so that you can write down your dreams as soon as you have them. This will help with your dream recall and allow you to actually dissect what you were dreaming about.

5. You Drink or Take Sleeping Pills

If you are heavily sedated, you are going to sleep too heavily to remember your dreams. In addition, some medications like Ambien actually change how much time you spend in REM sleep. This means that you actually could be dreaming less if you take sleep medication. When you do dream, the heavy sedation makes you sleep so heavily that you do not remember them.

However, next time someone claims that they don't dream and sleep blank and wake-up the same, just show them this article!!!

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