I wasn't sure whether or not to put this in the Sleeping Forest, but it's not really a debate; just a conversation topic.
This question arose out of a simple conversation topic. Last night, my S.O. inquired as to why I seem to have problems focusing on specific things. (He put it rather politely, IMO). In other words, ‘why don’t you pay attention?’
I’ll give you some insight on how my mind works, and I’d like to know if other people have this…er…’problem’.
Continuing along…he made a note that I seem to employ more of my mental awareness at night than I do in the daytime when I’m awake. I’m sort of a ‘habitual dreamer’. Every morning when I wake up and start talking to my S.O., I relay to him all of my dreams that I had in the night.
I wake up after every dream and find myself checking the clock and becoming irritated that I’m not getting enough sleep. I find that I wake up something like every 1 ½ to 2 hours.
I usually remember at least 3 of my dreams by the time I wake up and the rest become sort of ‘washed out’ by the more recent ones.
I can usually recall my dreams with an eerie, almost-exact depiction of everything that I saw in every one of my dreams from the night before. Colors, sounds, smells, feelings; it’s alarmingly realistic sometimes. I can describe the way something looked and felt while I was holding it, why I was holding it, what I wanted to do with it, why it was there, etc…
Now on the other hand, if you ask me to recall something that I recently saw in the middle of the day while I’m fully awake and conscious, odds are, I won’t even remember something that I saw outside of a 30 minute window. This isn’t always the case, but here’s a good example:
Last night, I was watching Jimmy Kimmel. I was watching the show for a good 20+ minutes, with my eyes focused on the t.v., when my S.O. asked me a question. He said “so, what do you think about that?” I had no idea what he was referring to because despite the fact that I’d been focusing my eyes towards the television for almost half an hour, I didn’t absorb any information from it. My mind was elsewhere and I hadn’t even realized it. When he asked me to recall what I was thinking about, since I wasn’t paying attention to the t.v., I couldn’t recall that information either. D:
My S.O. on the other hand is the type of person who sleeps under 3 hours each night. He very seldom dreams; only nightmares sometimes when he’s sick. However, he’s the type of person who can listen to the t.v., the radio, hold a conversation on the phone, and talk to another person who’s standing right in front of him and not lose track of each individual task. And I hold imaginary conversations with myself and wonder off into some unknown dreamland even while I’m fully awake.
So we began talking about this last night, and I asked him (maybe to make myself feel better about being ignorant on a frequent basis)…
“Do you think that because I spend so much time dreaming at night, my mental awareness is sort of ‘divided’ between the time that I’m awake and the time that I’m asleep?” It just seems like I can’t stop dreaming even when I’m awake. It’s very hard to focus on one thing without wondering off into some irrelevant thought.
I’m curious if anyone else has this crazy mental state of unawareness. D:
This question arose out of a simple conversation topic. Last night, my S.O. inquired as to why I seem to have problems focusing on specific things. (He put it rather politely, IMO). In other words, ‘why don’t you pay attention?’
I’ll give you some insight on how my mind works, and I’d like to know if other people have this…er…’problem’.
Continuing along…he made a note that I seem to employ more of my mental awareness at night than I do in the daytime when I’m awake. I’m sort of a ‘habitual dreamer’. Every morning when I wake up and start talking to my S.O., I relay to him all of my dreams that I had in the night.
I wake up after every dream and find myself checking the clock and becoming irritated that I’m not getting enough sleep. I find that I wake up something like every 1 ½ to 2 hours.
I usually remember at least 3 of my dreams by the time I wake up and the rest become sort of ‘washed out’ by the more recent ones.
I can usually recall my dreams with an eerie, almost-exact depiction of everything that I saw in every one of my dreams from the night before. Colors, sounds, smells, feelings; it’s alarmingly realistic sometimes. I can describe the way something looked and felt while I was holding it, why I was holding it, what I wanted to do with it, why it was there, etc…
Now on the other hand, if you ask me to recall something that I recently saw in the middle of the day while I’m fully awake and conscious, odds are, I won’t even remember something that I saw outside of a 30 minute window. This isn’t always the case, but here’s a good example:
Last night, I was watching Jimmy Kimmel. I was watching the show for a good 20+ minutes, with my eyes focused on the t.v., when my S.O. asked me a question. He said “so, what do you think about that?” I had no idea what he was referring to because despite the fact that I’d been focusing my eyes towards the television for almost half an hour, I didn’t absorb any information from it. My mind was elsewhere and I hadn’t even realized it. When he asked me to recall what I was thinking about, since I wasn’t paying attention to the t.v., I couldn’t recall that information either. D:
My S.O. on the other hand is the type of person who sleeps under 3 hours each night. He very seldom dreams; only nightmares sometimes when he’s sick. However, he’s the type of person who can listen to the t.v., the radio, hold a conversation on the phone, and talk to another person who’s standing right in front of him and not lose track of each individual task. And I hold imaginary conversations with myself and wonder off into some unknown dreamland even while I’m fully awake.
So we began talking about this last night, and I asked him (maybe to make myself feel better about being ignorant on a frequent basis)…
“Do you think that because I spend so much time dreaming at night, my mental awareness is sort of ‘divided’ between the time that I’m awake and the time that I’m asleep?” It just seems like I can’t stop dreaming even when I’m awake. It’s very hard to focus on one thing without wondering off into some irrelevant thought.
I’m curious if anyone else has this crazy mental state of unawareness. D:
