Why Can't We Remember Our Dreams?

Pedro_P

This would be a nice dream to remember.
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▼ You spend a third of your life asleep, a good chunk of which involves dreaming. But most often, you don't remember any of your dreams. And even on those lucky days when you wake up with a memory of the dream still floating in your mind, there's a good chance that in just a minute the memory will vanish into thin air and back to dreamland.
In waking life, such a case of quickly forgetting recent experiences would surely land you in a doctor's office. With dreams, however, forgetting is normal. Why?
"We have a tendency to immediately forget dreams, and it's likely that people who rarely report dreams are just forgetting them more easily," said Thomas Andrillon, a neuroscientist at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. It might be hard to believe that you had a dream if you don't remember anything, but studies consistently show that even people who haven't recalled a single dream in decades or even their entire lifetime, do, in fact, recall them if they are awakened at the right moment, Andrillon said.
While the exact reason is not fully known, scientists have gained some insight into memory processes during sleep, leading to several ideas that may explain our peculiar forgetfulness.
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Buddha480

Could it not be that our dreams are real and it is 'life' that is unreal ? And we wake up in ur dreams ? Something to think about !

divey

or it could be that we live as a different person when we dream and then wake up to be what we are

venkat532

dreams are forgotten after you are awake.Few things only you remember and not cogently

venkat532

Dreams come when you are in rem sleep or not fully sleep. If your sleep is complete, you will not have dreams

venkat532

Dreams are just like passing clouds only.

venkat532

Dreams never come in deep sleep. It occurs in REM(Rapid Eye Movement)sleep only.

metac

It's said in Hindu philosophy - paraphrasing here - that we are all nothing but dreams of the cosmic being, the Virat, Vishnu. Interesting thought there.

metac

fascinating article, thanks for sharing