Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-32802129-20190802094520/@comment-9041013-20190804234915

DrBobSmith wrote: Bloody Spaghetti,

Normally I have to agree with you, but I am not sure here. Poor dream recall is extremely common. I remember more than most people, so I can tell you exactly happened in my last dream. Lack of REM sleep is associated with a number of health risks and psychological side effects.

[//www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dream-factory/201708/dream-deprived-modern-epidemic https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dream-factory/201708/dream-deprived-modern-epidemic]

The lack of dreams can also be a literary metaphor for many things. Mental illness, depression, lack of religious inspiration, and oppression come to mind. Yeah, I did state that poor dream recall is extremely common, but in a sense that it's not a big deal, in the majority healthy cases poor dream recall is also common.

While a lot of issues do cause a lack of or poor REM sleep, REM sleep is not always closest to our natural alarm, therefore we don't remember dreams from the middle of the night (unless it was right before waking up for a cup of water at 3am).

Also, I'm not the biggest fan of overall philosphies the metaphycs for the sakes of metaphysics, maybe that's why I don't seem to mesh with this particular piece.