I don't mean to be the "your information is wrong" guy but it's not necessarily true. Generally you'll have 3-5 dreams a night, and you can remember at the least bits from all of them. Rarely will you ever remember the entirety off a dream, especially because dreams are very hazy in their own. Your memory sees them as useless filler so it deletes them within 15 minutes of you waking up, usually, unless they happen to have some vivid emotional connection.

On the note of me, I don't remember much of my dreams. About a month ago, I had a dream where I had six with a friend I'm not even attracted to. Today I took a nap, though, and I dreamt that my previous ex (the only one I'd really gotten any distance with, and now have negative feeling towards) started showing up in places I visited often with his new boyfriend. It was somewhat distressing in the dream, because I felt harassed, really, so I guess you could call it a nightmare. Real nightmares, though, I had one about a month after me and him broke up, and it was obviously about me and him, I felt bad for cutting myself off from him. before that it'd probably been four to five years since I had what could be described as a nightmare.

Edit: I definitely have to agree. In one dream a ways back I recall being on a rooftop, and being knocked off and falling to my death (yay acrophobia ). When I woke up, I didn't jolt awake with a muscle jerk like you'd expect, I just woke up and stared at the ceiling for maybe 20 minutes. I can't say it was unsettling, or it made me think about my life, but it definitely wasn't something you expect to dream about.

I always dream in colour, if I was dreaming in black and white or sepia I wouldn't feel any fear in the dream since real life isn't those colours all over.
On occasion though, mainly when I'm ill, I have been dreaming and then everything fades to near black and I sort of zone out - like I see myself flying backwards and everything getting further and further away until I eventually wake up.

More often then not, I do not remember my dreams. But when I do, the people in them look normal, but any buildings resemble engine oil on concrete while it's raining in color.

had a couple of dreams last night, recap of the day, Darthvader O_o, a Hypothetical situation.

But what I really want to tell is the last one

started off with my view following down a tube lined with mechanic devices, wires etc etc, I was hearing chanting and these two devices where falling down the tube. my view paned to a screen where I saw wait for it, Megatron and Starscream in a pit. the dialog consisted of Megatron losing his position and from what I can see being put in an Arena with Star. my view flows off over the "audience" various robots tending screens and controls, apparently the Decepticons joined with the Autobots and Humans until a new leader was chosen. remember the devices flowing down the tubes? yeah apparently they were teleporters I assume would send both Mega and Star to the moon to fight. but of course Mega is a bastard, as the devices fell they were supposed to connect with wires near each of the Bots and teleport them...Star was zapped, but Megatron moved one of the "plugs" out of the way and avoided teleporting.


In their shock and awe he suddenly for reasons I don't know why he didnt do before, bursts out of containment. the decepticons suddenly jpin his side and start shooting at everyone, fire, explosions, I'm talking high budget explosions and effects here lol, dust. the autobots and were outnumbered.

AND THE SUDDENLY

A PALPATINE

gives off this maniacle laugh of his walking up and zapping bots away with his Overpowered lightning, Megatron Looks on and is like who are you. Palpatine response, so like you to not fight My apprentice eh Megatron? (I literally rofl, a Force using Transformer) Megatron is like "who? Starscream?" Palpatine smirks and says oh you'll find out. SUDDENLY HUNDREDS of his clones come streaming out bursting through windows (again High budget effects here) gathering into one group, my view pans first person as one of them, and then he starts kicking ass with the Force , so its an epic battle one decepticon tries to crush a group, they grab him and hold him up in the air movign him away like a conveyor belt off behind me, I put out my hand to shock him and dozens of others follow suit esploding the poor thing Lolol.

So to draw this to a close, Megatron grabs one of the palpies, my view goes to the palpie that was grabbed and I lighting His head off, killing Megatron, yes he even did the cinimatic strugging hand under rubble and went limp

LOL

Last nights dream had a Fringe dream.... I think the Antagonist some how mind controlled a bunch of people and transformed into a giant slug... I killed him with pellet salt from a walgreens after one of his minions cut into my skull with a gladius while I was running toward the slug thing like a crazed man afterward.



Some other part had Olivia issue some sort of contest between two people from alternate realities to make a scanner/tricorder thing that reoccurs in my dreams one version was too wierd looking made by the same person but from 2 alternate realities. The other was trying to mimick the same design even though it had problems trying to get the correct UI and it disagreed with the goal, which was to get the scanner/tricorder to make goat cheese pancakes or some type of goat pancakes..

Did he give you unlimited power?

I dream in full color almost as if I'm actually seeing it. Another thing interesting about the dream world is that it's hard to read words. When I'm dreaming and there a spot in it that has to deal about reading (weither it's a book or sign) I can never make out the words.

Full Color dreams for me... Once one was in Black and White that involved an empty classroom with greyish snow falling outside.... I think there was also a conveyor belt with coffins on it somewhere in the basemant

I had a dream that I won't go into detail but it involves Albania and their secret army of Canadian sleeper agents.

The last dream I can remember happened almost half a year ago. It started off quite trippy and ended with me getting my throat cut. I woke up with my neck burning. Decided no more dreams for me!

I once had a dream that my Mam re-married a guy that works in the local chemist and they had triplets that looked exactly like the guy, the were even old and wrinkly with glasses and they were really slimy to touch. They went out and told me to watch the babies. They were clambering up my legs with their slimy hands, so i called my chemistry teacher to come get them. He came round on this ridiculously small moped and I put them babies in a washing basket and balanced them on his head. He drove off and my mam and the guy came back and he said "howths tha babies" in this really weird voice and I said "I gave them to Mr Chemistryteacher" and he went "Nooooooooooo!". I woke up in a panic, like sweating and everything.

Hey, my cat kinda looks like your cat!

OT: Does anyone have recurring dreams? I have a couple of dreams that I have had on a regular basis since I was a child. I find it kinda of annoying, because I can't figure out why those particular dreams repeat but not others.

I had a dream that EvilFish1, evilsqirrel and Hoermius Mora all made posts one on top of the other. Horrifying.

My dreams are constantly either sick, or depressing; or both. And weird as hell. And what makes early mornings taste bad is that I usually remember it all.

I can't recall the last time I had a pleasant dream -- or maybe those are the ones I don't remember in the mornings, less frequent anyway.

I dream every night. My dreams are a journey through the vast realm of awesomeness/randomness that is my subconciousness, it can be scary at times but overall it is a fun way to spend the night. I made a thread months ago about Lucid Dreaming, which was also very interesting.

Had a weird dream last night. I cant describe where I was, because I dont quite know myself. But I ended up having to climb down this hole for some reason, it was into a sewer I think. Only I had to wear some breathing equipment. The air down there was hot, would burn my lungs and kill me without the mask. I ended up climbing down, but felt like I was inhaling the hot air. I panicked, the feeling of inhaling that air was horrible. They said it was uncomfortable, but I was in no danger, I needed to calm down and try and ignore it.

I didnt, and I woke up. That dream creeps me out more than others I remember.

Ever breathe in the air form a quickly opened oven? It's horrible, like fire, it's air but it doesn't seem to give you any useable oxygen.

I havent, the heat usually makes me back away pretty quick. Sure as hell wouldnt want to inhale that.

Still I assume the feeling I had in that dream, was pretty close to what it would be like. I hope I never actually find out though, it was so unpleasent.
maybe thats why that dream creeped me out more, becuase thats something that I could experience irl. Its unlikely I will, but its more likely than the dream where tigers layed seige to my house.

I used to suffer from night terrors regularily as opposed to nightmares). Most I can't remember, but they usually resulted in me screaming and thrashing violently and waking up trembling and sweaty. My old roommate kept a crucifix by his bed cuz he though that I was posessed and might one night attack him. The closest thing I can compare the ones I remember to are Shepard's visions in Mass Effect after being exposed to the Prothean Beacon. Funny thing though, they stopped after my ex-wife split two tears ago. (that relationship in itself was a living, lucid, daily nightmare)

I only dream of nightmares or just something twisted. Been that way since college. Thing only get much more vivid when I have a cigarette beforehand or the patch.

The only dream I can recall that I enjoyed was me killing a ton of vampires, while being able to mutate my left arm, like the marauders of Warhammer Online.

I quite regularly shout and scream in my sleep. I have no idea what my flatmate thinks, she only ever mentioned it once. Sometimes I wake myself up doing it and lay dead still thinking I've woken up the whole neighbourhood and someone is going to come and tell me off, which is crazy.

We have to make this happen. Maybe get a full page of posts just by the three of us.

Or it could be a sign of being frequently woken up during the REM stage of sleep during which people tend to remember their dreams with more ease. It may also be a sign of good sleep People go through REM sleep about 4 to 5 times during a good nights rest and each period of REM sleep is longer than the last with the first ones being quite short meaning the last ones tend to be long and those tend to be in the mornings when you've had your good nights rest. Which is also why people who tend to only get 6 or less hours of sleep on average tend not to remember their dreams nearly as often as people who get a full 8 hours or even get to nap in further.
Only had it happen to me once but I think the way I experienced it was probably the most horrifying way I could experience it. As someone who has very deeply rooted believes that nothing supernatural like a dementor can exist I've been able to brush it off those few times my mind has played such tricks on me for whatever reason. However I found myself with my legs in bed and my torso hanging out from the bed with my neck bent as my head was resting on the floor, and there were no monsters to be seen anywhere! I didn't even know what sleep paralysis was at the time but if I had seen something strange I might have been able to quickly brush it off as a dream I was stuck in, but in that situation my thoughts were more along the lines of "Oh no, I'm paralyzed! I fell out of bed, landed on my head twisting my neck and now I can think but I can't move my body!" seriously I've probably never been as scared about my own well being before. Was certain I'd end up in a wheelchair or something for the rest of my life unable to move having people take care of me. But then again it could probably be said that I've seldom experienced as much joy as I first started to be able to move my body again.

Now as for dreams I tend to have those really strange dreams. I can only remember a few but I guess I'll write about one of them.

One dream I had was something like a Japanese game show. There was this huge, square room that I was in which was half filled with water and a huge plate of glass was fastened horizontally in the room just above the water so if you were under the glass you could not breathe. However this was a game show and the game was that in the middle of the room there was a hole in the glass and a tiger was swimming there trying its best to keep its head through the hole so it could breathe, and the game was that the game participants were supposed to swim under the glass and try to pull the tiger down so it couldn't breathe through the hole, and if you managed to drown it you would win. My good self was one of the participants and I watched the games through a perspective that was almost like if I had someone following me with a camera and I saw through the perspective of the camera. All the participants before me somehow failed in the games and it was my turn when after struggling with the tiger for a little while a large air horn sound was heard and the two of us stopped fighting and swam underwater to the edges of the room at one of the walls. There we found a hole into a tiny corridor that somehow did not get filled with water since it was like there was a barrier between the water and the corridor but people (and tigers) could get through it. At the end of the corridor was a kitchen that sort of reminds me of classical school cafeterias where you can see the chefs and there are large tables to sit at. What was being served was http://blog.wowgoldpig.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/kfc_bucket.jpg and me and the tiger sat down like good buds at the table during this supposed break time in the game show and we were in the middle of eating our buckets of KFC when I woke up.

One of the weirder dreams I've had. I also remember some others but I don't have time to write them down right now.

I had a dream last night. I was on the public bus for some reason.
I was sitting in the seat close to the window enjoying my trip to the mall? I suppose.
A minute later this girl sits next to me and she doesn't look like she's from here,
so I asked her if she were from around this area, and she replied "Nope, I'm from L.A."
So then I get super excited because I found someone else from California, so I tell her that I from there too, and conversation happens. We both got off the same stop at the mall, and kept talking for hours.
The rest is six. And a lot of vomiting. And divorce.
Super c00l.

the first nightmare I can remember, I was probably five:

I woke up in a thickly fogged forest. I'm walking through this forest, calling out for somebody, but no one comes. I keep walking through as the trees go by, the fog bever lets up. Throughout this whole time there is an eerie silence that occasionally breaks with this eerie ringing noise.

The dream then skips to me standing in front a collapsed shack. in the front is a woman sitting on a rocking chair. I go up to talk to her and ask her if one of my friends can come out to play.

"oh no, I'm sorry, she's going to get shot today, try tomorrow," she told me very casually, "are you going to get shot too," she asked me.

suddenly the ground stated to shake violently, everything started to turn black until I'm completely engulfed in darkness. In the dark I see a pair of eyes coming towards me. Scared as hell I start running and I find myself running through the hallway of our house. I run into my parent's bedroom and start pounding on their bed. When the covers lift there's this ominous spectral image coming out of the covers. That same intense ringing I heard in the forest begins to overwhelm my sense of hearing.

the spectral image moves towards me, now paralyzing me. The dream then skips to me being stuck in a strange, fleshly sphere. In the inside of the sphere I can see multiple cuts and blood seeping through them. There's a blinding light on the back of the sphere and I can see shadows cast on the fleshy sphere.

these shadows start to bounce around and frolick and laugh. they sounded like little children playing.

then I heard the shadows begin to sing "row row your boat" and the sphere started to spin around with me inside of it. the Cuts started to become more pronounced and blood would occasionally stat spurting out from them.

I was scared [censored]-less at this point, but I woke up before it could continue.

to this day I hate "row row row your boat." it still gives me the willies.

that was a weird dream.