Polyphasic Dreams
I briefly touched on the dreams I’ve had a few times, but nothing in any depth. I’ve found that dreaming in polyphasic sleep is much different than monophasic dreaming. It seems that the brain speeds up the processing so that the perceived passage of time is much faster than real time. I will frequently wake up from a dream and feel like I’ve been asleep for 1+ hours. Even so, the preceived length of dreams tends to be much shorter than during monophasic sleep.
The vividness of dreams has increased. While in the dream it seems very real. However, as soon as I wake up it seems much less real than it would have during monophasic sleep. I only know that it seemed more real during sleep because I’ve made observations in multiple dreams about it being real and not a dream.
The subject matter has changed a bit. I don’t want to say that they are more unique than before. That would be a lie. However, they are different. For example, the other day I woke up from a dream within a dream. I though I had actually woken up and was very disturbed because my vision was disrupted and I was having trouble moving correctly. After about 10 seconds of this I actually woke up. I never have dreams within dreams.
The memory of the dream usually fades even faster than monophasic sleep. If I don’t concentrate on remembering it right away it will be gone within minutes, unless it’s something very unique like the dream within a dream.
This just goes to show you how different polyphasic sleep can be. It brings about quite a change to your body and has a strong affect on how your brain functions while asleep.
