My dreams had always been totally crazy. Immagine LSD mixed with cocaine and DMT but since I started to really get into lucid dreaming (a bit before the lucid lockdown) my dreams became more ´´normal´´ and only maybe 2/3 or 5/10 dreams are still that bonkers.
A lot of people from the telegram chat also experienced this phenomenon and now I am making a forum post about this with the question did this happen to you the reader as well or did your dreams change in a different way and if so what changed (dreaming about lucid dreaming doesn´t count, almost everyone experiences that nor does remembering more dreams or getting more vivid ones count) or did nothing really change at all?
So please share your experiences and if nothing changed at all it would also be greatly appreciated if you said so, so that we/I can see how many people's dreams are being affected by lucid dreaming or if it is just a few people that experience a ´´sudden´´ change in dreams and for the majority nothing really changes apart from vividness, dream recollection, etc. .
Update: I had a dream that transformers invaded the African Savana and Wakandan warriors were fighting them. In tons of detail. This is with me omitting lots of stuff. So make of that what you will haha
I like what @Andy G said above, how possibly people are only accustom to remember their crazier dreams as opposed to the more normal one, thus giving the impression that they have them more. But as one begins to record their dreams, the remember more or and write more of the normal ones, giving the illusion the wacky ones are decreasing in proportion.
That being said, I saw your response to his comment and know this isn't true for everyone. I guess it also depends on what our definition of crazy is. Some people may perceive the same thing in a very different light. For me personally, they have relatively stayed the same, with maybe a slight increase of more "less-memorable" scenarios. But this could just be because I notice them more. Your day-to-day life could play a role as well. During the beginning of the lockdown, I had nothing but free time, spent a lot of it consuming various forms of entertainment media, games, books etc. That definitely influenced some of my dream contents. Getting back to some normalcy may have re-instituted some "normal" dreams. So overall they have remained relatively constant with some slight variations depending on my waking life, a bit trending toward the more normal side. So I think lucid dreaming as you are speculating could potentially lead to some more "normal" non-lucids occasionally.
Most interestingly, I am taking a very time-consuming anatomy class at the moment. 10 hours per day of studying or more. A good portion of my dreams (or pre-dreams if you know about those) involve me studying in my dreams! Or at least talking to classmates, seeing images from my textbook, talking through some concepts....I hope my mind is absorbing and processing everything!
Yes, we would need people who already got a good dream memory before they even started to really get into lucid dreaming.
It is hard for me to say. I have been practicing lucid dreaming 7 years. It is possible, since I hardly ever remembered dreams in adulthood prior to starting my lucid dreaming practice. The ones I remember from childhood were, let's say, memorable, so more wild of course. The non lucid dreams I have been able to recall are fairly normal most of the time. People with good recall prior to starting LD practices would be key to answering this question.
My dreams have always been a bit "normal", even as Dan says, a bit weird at times. With Daniel's lock-down series of livestreams I've re-invigorated my LD practice, but I can't say my dreams are any more or less "normal" than before.
It could be if you are used to remembering really wacky dreams, and then become more aware of your dreams, that you were remembering only the wacky ones before, and are now remembering more dreams that are less wacky? Just a thought.
I remember this coming up in the chat! I must admit, I've thought my dreams on the whole are family pedestrian these days, yes there's weirdness and stuff that makes no sense both in timeline, personal history etc but as far as say, riding armoured dinosaurs into space battles with deadly lollipop monsters from a distant galaxy...I very rarely ever get these kind of dreams unfortunately.
I've been writing down my dreams for about 4 years so potentially they used to be more bizarre in subject but I can't remember! Also, I've not achieved lucidity in a long while although my lucid practice has been much more intense in the past few months.