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I used to think dream physics was just random, but my sleep tracker changed my mind
For about six months, I tracked my sleep with a Fitbit and wrote down any dreams I remembered. At first, the rules in my dreams seemed completely wild and made no sense, like being able to breathe underwater or my car turning into a horse. But after looking back at 90 days of notes, I saw a clear pattern. The really weird, rule-breaking dreams only happened on nights where my tracker showed I got less than an hour of deep sleep. On nights with more deep sleep, my dreams were way more normal, like just talking to people or being at work. It makes me think maybe our brains need that deep rest to run the normal world simulation, and when we don't get it, the dream logic just glitches out. Has anyone else noticed their dream weirdness link to how well they actually slept?
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evan_green5222d ago
@the_harper nailed it with the leftover fridge metaphor. Here's what I wanna ask though - did you try swapping nights where you forced yourself to get more deep sleep, like cutting out alcohol or keeping the room colder, to see if the dreams got less weird? @spencer_coleman mentioned the scrambled screensaver thing, and that makes me wonder if sleep quality is basically the dimmer switch on how wild the dream movie gets. Just seems like there's a direct volume control there that we could actually mess with.
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the_harper2mo ago
That tracks for me. I once had a dream my toaster was giving me life advice, and I bet my sleep data that night would look like a flat line. My brain on low sleep just throws whatever's left in the fridge at the wall and calls it a dream.
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