> ps. If anyone knows how to reduce dreaming please leave a comment! I don’t mind dreaming, but I envy falling asleep and waking up 7-8 hours in the future ready for the next day.

I had many more / worse dreams when on anti-insomnia drugs, so if you are taking those I would suggest trying to stop. Although, getting off anti-insomnia medication is a terrible, terrible experience for a couple weeks (and get medical advice etc of course).

Antidepressants certainly affect my dreams.

Prozac: Bad,annoying dreams but mildly so. Citalopram: Good dreams, sometimes epic dreams. Venlafaxine: Not sure I dream. Makes it harder to sleep too.

Does that mean you lucid dream since that realization? Or because you know that dreams are just an illusion you are bored?

I know dreams are just hallucinations but it doesn't make them any less interesting for me. I lucid dreams sometimes and I enjoy that state the most, so much that when it happens I keep waiting to go lucid every night for next few nights until I forget about it. Some lucid dreams are so cinematically beautiful I remember them for a very long time. Bad lucid dream helps waking up because I know it's a dream.

Very bored of them. Been lucid dreaming since 6-7. The novelty has worn off when you get so many chances

Thanks for your thoughts.

Have you considered lucid dreaming or astral projection? The idea that you step into your dream and control yourself; that you can direct yourself in your dream state to explore whatever-it-is. You can go to places of your choosing, as you are not bound by the body.

If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are then able to verify materially.

These ideas are highly intriguing to me. As you are someone with such a capacity for dreaming, you could certainly try these ideas out (ie explore in dreams then verify in reality), if you haven't already. If you have tried, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on the matter.

> If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are then able to verify materially.

I can do this, too, but usually while I'm awake and bored. Reality is quite redundant, and we get all sorts of information from all sorts of sources, and sometimes I can put the puzzle pieces together and deduce things I "shouldn't" have known.

This power doesn't extend to localised information, such as the value of a hidden dice roll, and it's quite mundane. A generalisation of cold-reading. What Sherlock Holmes would call deduction, though it's actually abductive reasoning.

Examples: • Entering a building, imagining design constraints, deducing the presence of exactly one lift, inferring its location, inferring the existence of an extra wing behind the building (to place the lift in the middle), extrapolating observed foot traffic, and guessing which floor and corridor a particular office was. • Listening to someone explain geopolitics for half an hour, and inferring that they're a double-jointed insomniac.

Yeah I think a lot of it is having a strong imagination and going along with it for a bit.

> If you look into these experiences, you find many people who say they learnt about parts of material reality, that they are then able to verify materially.

The opposite is true: the CIA wasted lots of money on this, and they came up entirely empty handed, obviously. It is very very thoroughly debunked.

Lucid dreaming is fun and you should try it. It’s tough to get the hang of in the beginning but a very interesting experience. If you do it well it’s whatever you imagine: done poorly, you’ll get close… but your own expectations might hold you back. When you wake up you can reflect on those and plan how to do better with your more capable conscious mind.

I have not astral projected but I’ll look into it and if I remember I’ll message you after a few months

Sleep apnoea can cause a lot of dreams, as it causes you to be half awake. So definitely get yourself tested for that.

I can induce sleep paralysis by sleeping with a pillow over my head pretty consistently. I’ll get double checked. I thought apnea caused tiredness more often but I usually feel pretty good in the morning.

> Your brain is going through scenarios with no correcting input.

But this is pretty interesting as your subconscious is bubbling up into your ego!

Regular cannabis/THC use is pretty famous for reducing REM sleep and dreaming.

I don't consume often, haven't in years, but I remember having pretty wild dreams after, so I wouldn't get a good rest. So there is a difference with regular documentation?