remdrifters
Remdrifters is a term used primarily in speculative fiction and discussions of dream exploration to describe individuals who deliberately seek and move through extended episodes of REM sleep, treating dreamtime as a navigable landscape. The name blends REM, rapid eye movement sleep, with drifter, indicating movement across dreamscapes rather than wakeful geography. In most documented uses, remdrifters are fictional or theoretical archetypes rather than established scientific categories.
In fiction, remdrifters may enter shared or individual dream networks, collect information from dreams, or experiment
Real-world context explains REM and lucid dreaming as real phenomena studied in sleep science. Researchers investigate
Origin and usage of the term appear in science fiction literature and online communities dating to the