I’m a napper. It’s a luxury I love, but don’t get to do it often enough. Some of my most vivid dreams happen during naps, especially those long, two-hour Sunday sleeps under a fluffy blanket, sun streaming in the window warming my face. I have flown around the arctic circle in a bush plane, ridden a bike across the sky, danced with people around a fire speaking another language, and sat on a couch in the wilderness on the shore of a big lake with kittens in my lap - all during a nap.
Do you nap? Or better yet… do you dream during naps?
if NAPS are what happens between my 4-5am auto-wake and 6am... a more civilized hour, i say FOR SURE.
TODAY, for example, between 5am and 7am? i was rooting around a SPACE [my warehouse, actually] i later learned [in my dream, naturally] was once WINDSOR CASTLE in a PRIOR lifetime...
i have ZERO ROYAL FAMILY YEARNINGS [in my waking life]...
I always dream during naps and often they are my most vivid or wild/fascinating dreams. Though I also think partly that it’s simply that I remember nap dreams (or close to morning wake time dreams) more readily than ones from deep in the night that are further from waking fully up and get buried/superseded by subsequent ones.
Hi Dan! Yes, I think you're onto something. Maybe during naps we sleep just a little less deeply, allowing our memory part of the brain to stay somewhat engaged. It's good to hear that others also have vivid nap dreams. Mine sure are! Thanks for the conversation :)
Yes i think it may be something like that, and a greater likelihood of being in the liminal state of hypnogogia where so many interesting things can show up. I see that a lot too in my mom who is narcoleptic, and among the many aspects of that condition is, aside from lots of sleep and sleep-related episodes, it’s almost all in that sort of state.
if NAPS are what happens between my 4-5am auto-wake and 6am... a more civilized hour, i say FOR SURE.
TODAY, for example, between 5am and 7am? i was rooting around a SPACE [my warehouse, actually] i later learned [in my dream, naturally] was once WINDSOR CASTLE in a PRIOR lifetime...
i have ZERO ROYAL FAMILY YEARNINGS [in my waking life]...
so what the actual EFF, girlfriend?!?
hugs.
dreams RULE.
<3<3<3
Windsor Castle - how exciting! :) Dreams are such a fun trip - ha!
it's official... my neptune/pluto dream season has begun... and it's gonna be a doozy.
Looking forward to hearing more of what this brings :)
I always dream during naps and often they are my most vivid or wild/fascinating dreams. Though I also think partly that it’s simply that I remember nap dreams (or close to morning wake time dreams) more readily than ones from deep in the night that are further from waking fully up and get buried/superseded by subsequent ones.
Hi Dan! Yes, I think you're onto something. Maybe during naps we sleep just a little less deeply, allowing our memory part of the brain to stay somewhat engaged. It's good to hear that others also have vivid nap dreams. Mine sure are! Thanks for the conversation :)
Yes i think it may be something like that, and a greater likelihood of being in the liminal state of hypnogogia where so many interesting things can show up. I see that a lot too in my mom who is narcoleptic, and among the many aspects of that condition is, aside from lots of sleep and sleep-related episodes, it’s almost all in that sort of state.