For you, Marie, and all those who do not dream (in sleep)
Medications such as: antipsychotics, antidepressants, hallucinogens, etc.
hinder the proper functioning of sleep in these phases.
Medications of this type prevent the memorization of dreams because they alter sleep stages. Dreams occur primarily during REM sleep, and we more easily remember those that form in the hours before waking. If you alter your sleep rhythms, you deprive yourself of the memory of nocturnal images.
Since you don't take any medication at night, you are prone to having dreams.
Premonitory dreams
As soon as it is unsettling or depicts an event, it predisposes one to prophetic experiences. But one should not worry unduly! One must first admit that one can never say in advance whether a dream is prophetic or not. Only the fulfillment of the event after the dream confirms that one was indeed in the presence of a premonition.
Several criteria allow one to distinguish a premonitory dream from an anxiety dream:
The dream narrative must include precise details that align with the details of reality (colors, facial features, unexpected situations, geographical locations, numbers, names, etc.).
The dreamer must not have been aware of the event; it must be entirely unpredictable. Dreaming that one's grandfather is going to die when one knows he is ill is not premonitory. But dreaming that grandfather, who is in the hospital, has placed another pale green pillow on his bed next to her… may indeed foreshadow the death of another family member. Simply because that second pillow has no reason to be there. The hypothesis of chance or coincidence must be manifestly ruled out.
The event must also not correspond to a hidden wish of the dreamer.
Finally, the dream must have been told to a third party who serves as a witness, and this, of course, before the event took place. Saying, after the event, “I had dreamed it,” cannot constitute proof of premonition.
Kind regards
LadySally
