Lack of sleep yields more dreams

I've always thought that you only remember the dreams that you wake up while dreaming them, so it would stand to reason that if you wake up several times, you would remember more dreams, and they would be more vivid. I learned that we dream about 6 or 7 dreams a night, but only remember those we wake up while dreaming it.

I don't know if I have more dreams when I'm too tired, maybe I just wasn't able to remember them. For me, I belive it's the other way around, my dreams are vivid when I have enough sleep and when I sleep seven to eight hours a day. Anyone has an explanation for this?

i hardly have a dream when i am sleeping and when i am dream, i will forget it as soon as i wake up... i find out that even when i have enough and a good sleep, sometimes i also can have a dream... so i don't really know how to answer your question because i can dream anytime but it is very seldom... take care and have a nice day...

yes, definitely i get this a lot, I can't sleep very long time and when I do, The next thing I know is that I'm already waking up. This happens to me in very short naps you know, dreams are very clear and it sometimes feel true, And there were times that I even tell myself that this is just a dream, because I felt like I was very awake although i am really sleeping.

I noticed that I tend to dream more often than not when I am extremely tired. Strange how i've never noticed this before. I could take advantage of this and try a little lucid dreaming if I were willing to stay up at all hours of the night.

hmmm i have dreams at all times... but i've noticed that i dreamed more when i sleep longer... when i slept late or doesn't have enough sleep... i dream less... is this abnormal..it seems that mine is the exact opposite as yours... =)

they say that we dream 4-7 times a day or per sleep. Just that we don't remember all of them.. So i think it's normal that you have lots of dreams. or maybe it's true that lack of sleep yields more dreams. :)

I remember I read a book several years ago. It said that after we fell asleep, we have dream period and non-dream period. Each period lasted about 90 minutes. They appeared alternately. If we woke up in the dream period, we could remember what we dreamed, if not, we woke up in the non-dream period, we would not remember anything, that would be a night without dream. It seems what you said doesn't fit this theory at all. But for me, I only find dreams can cause a low sleep quality, I haven't observed low sleep quality or short sleep time can cause many dreams.

actually can't remember any distinctive dreams. The frightening ones are those in which I am being chased around. The more pleasant ones although pleasant I kinda forgotten.

I have problems with sleep too, i fall asleep when i got to bed, and i sleep 5-6 hours, and then i wake up, without beeing disturbed. And i have so many nightmares, because of this restless sleep, i don`t understand why.

Yes I have noticed this too. If I sleep for long like 8-10 hours I don't seem to dream at all but if I take a nap or something I seem to have a dream that even lasts longer and feel more intense I am almost aware that I'm dreaming. You'd think if you slept longer dreams would also last longer :P Seems the opposite way. Also I don't know if this happens to others but sometimes when I'm dreaming and I wake up for a few minutes (maybe to go to the bathroom to do my business) and go straight back to sleep, sometimes (usually actually, this happened to me yesterday too) my dream will continue either where it left off or it had a similar context to the dream before I woke up. I love dreaming... :D Everybody should dream. Sometimes in my dream, I am working very hard to save my life, when I wake up from it 'oh so it was just a dream what a waste of energy' rofl :D I seem to have weirder dreams when I sleep shortest probably because all sorts of junk is going through my conscious and subscious brain.

Most often i have dreamless sleep.