I have heard that everyone does actually dream every time they are asleep but I have never been able to influence the type of dream that I have. When I was younger I would go to bed purposefully thinking about meeting girls in my dreams and trying to score but it only seemed to happen a couple of times.
Lately the only dreams I can remember seem to be where I am in a location that I am not familiar with and spend the whole time trying to figure out how to get out of that place my dream is occurring. There are also the dreams of being chased but I never seem to know who it is that is chasing me.
Some people swear that it's what you eat or drink shortly before you go to sleep that influences the type of dream you will have. Again I can't establish any patterns based on consumption either.
One thing that I seem to remember though is that any time the dream involves hooking up that I ALWAYS wake up right before it happens...
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