Has this ever happened to you? Last night, I had 5 fully featured dreams, one taking place right after another. The thing is, as far as I could tell, each of the dreams were not connected to each other.

When I woke up, I thought of it like this. Each of the dreams I had last night were very symbolic and important. So it felt like once one aspect I needed to know was taught, it would move on to another topic of importance? Do you understand what I mean? It was like I had 5 different classes at school one after the other. Learning different topics and ideas in each one. Make sense?

Comments and input on this would be greatly appreciated.

That's how I dream all the time, it makes it hard to keep a journal sometimes because there is far too much to write about.

Get's even more strenuous when time itself stretches so I can experience what seems like weeks instead of hours of sleep in dream-time.

Needless to say, that's awesome that you are having enough perception during sleep to remember more then one of your many many dreams.

They in fact could span into hundreds or thousands; I have had fractal dream states where I was able to perceive myself on several dreams at once in a very organized matrix of views. Dreams are so multi-dimensional that our limited linear mind has trouble fully realizing the shear scope and volume of actual dreaming that is going on behind closed eyes.

It's astronomical, what we usually remember is just a fraction of the whole dreaming composite.

I think humans have somewhere around 8 dreams a night. It is just uncommon most of the time to remember more then two of them any given night.

Can confirm that this has happened to me as well. Sometimes the content of the dreams are so different that it seems hard to separate dream from reality. (Kind of like waking up in a dream and thinking you have awoken, but you are in another dream.)

I've always been fascinated by dreams and what they mean. I have come to the conclusion that they are a combination of the following : desire, regret, fear, randomness and obsession. I do not personally believe they hold any prophetic properties - although they do sometimes bring forth feelings of Déjà vu.

I wouldn't worry about it. The weird/freaky ones usually involve a lot of randomness that make them very difficult to recall and make sense of.

Howdy, Solar

You may want to check out sleep cycle (searchable).

Over the course of the night, you slip from consciousness, descend into a very deep (hard to be roused from) state, "bottom out," and reascend until you almost reach wakefulness again. Then you do that all over again, descend, bottom out, and reascend.

One complete cycle takes about 90 minutes to 120 minutes. Generally, each repetition has a "higher" low point and a "higher" high point than the preceding one. After 4 or 5 of these cycles, the high point is wakefulness itself, and we get up.

Narrative dreams that are remembered upon waking typically occur during the "almost awake" part of the cycle. So, you are in that state maybe 4-6 times a night, if you sleep for about 8 hours, or so.

So, bottom line, to have five dreams a night sounds about right. To remember all of them is unusual, that is, if I understand your post, unusual for you. How many dreams people remember varies from zero to all of them, and that can differ from one night to the next, as well.

This morning, I remembered parts of three dreams, for example. At least I think I do; "counting" is complicated because I can't really remember the "dream boundaries." To be candid, then, what I remember is three dream fragments which don't seem to me to belong in one dream. But I could be wrong about that, of course.

I never dream a single dream. It's always around 5 or so every night so it's as normal as they come. My best guess is that the more dreams you have per night, the more things happened during the day.

Hm, interesting thoughts everyone.

But yes, after a night full of intense dreams, I do in fact feel tired when I wake up.

I don't dream a lot and I do not have a lot of opinions about dreams.

However , about 20 years ago I had three consecutive dreams as I took an afternoon nap, waking up slightly between each one.

These 3 dreams and their imagery are still clear as day to me , like I had them last night. 3 short , vivid and distinct dreams dealing with 3 totally different things. I'm still waiting for their meaning to reveal itself as I'm convinced that they mean something .....to me.