Do our dreams get more vivid as we abstain?

[Barkin]

I was wondering whether I would even start to remember my dreams any more than I did when I wasn't AB-ing, especially since it is rare for me to remember my dreams. Sure enough, I've found that AB has made me more conscious of my dreams or have a better memory of them.

Is it the same for you?

[Rey92]

In my case, it's the same. Though it shocked me when Zach started to write about his dreams (the most recent one about dreams) when he mentioned that his dreams are so vivid that he can smell, feel etc. Why? It's because I don't see colour in my dreams! My dreams are so vivid too, in a sense that they're detailed and I can remember them well too. I'm not really good in telling stories; I tend to tell them in incorrect sequence.

I started asking people around me if they see or if they dream in colour. Sure they do, they said. Actually it's looks like an ordinary scene right now as they describe. It's really shocking for me. If I hadn't realised and scratch my memories so deep, I wouldn't know that dreams are coloured. I read an article about that 70-80% of people, dream in colour. I was like, "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEALLLYYYYYYYYYYYY?????????????????????????????"

I'm not even joking around. I can't get over it! My recent dream was, as the best one: I dreamt about toy factory. I was in a Victorian style place ambience... There, I can picture a street, foggy. There's a house, it's where The95Percent lives. In front of it is a toy factory. First scene was, I was talking to 95. He's headless though. All I can see is his body whilst we're talking. Shifted to the inside of the toy factory was an old man with very long beard. He looks like a wizard. I was in front of him watching him crafting toys. Same frames happening but different toys for every frames that I can picture. Notable toy that he did is a horse and a truck. And that's all. For the all the scenes in my dream, it's only a silhouette or monochromatic. It's not coloured at all. Just, not sure really but it's black and white.

One notable dream though, is my very first SE dream. I was sitting on the floor together my cousin (older guy cousin). I was just watching him playing with his RED toy soldiers. My other cousin was talking and all of the sudden, I leaked. I touched it and it's sticky. It shifted to another scene as I sniff my cum. Now, I'm in a dessert place or Arabian style garden where sands are everywhere but there's a fountain in the middle. The garden is heavily walled but you can see through to it because of the architectural holes. There's a hallway. I was in a cell. My sis is outside the garden, not sure really what she's doing there. In my cell, I peed. My pee was YELLOW. After peeing, I leaked again. Wasn't sure if my sis saw it in my dream. And that's all.


As far as I can remember, this is the very first dream that has colour. RED and YELLOW, and yes this is my very first SE dream. It's interesting how I had a dream that has only two colour, recognisable for me and it's sexual too. Not exactly sexual but it has something to correlate with my reproductive.

Another thing, I haven't had a nightmare.

All the falling dreams though that I had are those the times that I'm already conscious or I know that I'm controlling my dream. Lucid dream. I haven't had those sweaty wake-ups.

My day-dreams though are coloured. As all I day-dream is about my crush and me, flying.

[cristoff]

ya know i've abstained for months at a time on various different occasions, right now i'm up to a month from the last time i unloaded and i can tell you that my brain functions a little more clearly in all aspects of my life. Not only are my dreams more vivid "WHEN" i pay attention to them and try to make a statement by telling myself to write them down in the morning, but my thoughts run a little smoother and i tend to be a little more in control of myself.

The biggest point i'm making here is that YES, you do have a better chance at your dreams becoming more vivid or increasing in intensity or having them run at an awareness that is similar to REAL life, BUT... only if you're already making it a priority to tell yourself to pay attention to your dreams at night. The natural increased awareness from abstinence just makes it a little bit easier to get in that mindset because EVERYTHING seems to be running on a bit of a higher level, atleast that's what i've noticed in my case! the last month of abstinence this time around has really kicked my dreams into high gear and it's seriously like a living memory every night i fall asleep, very interesting connection here. Does anyone else have a similar story on this one?

Oh and i noticed i don't have wet dreams very much even when abstaining, it's been a month now and not a single one, i wonder why?