why do you forget what you dream as soon as you wake up?

Question

I dream almost every night and when i wake up i can never remember what i dream about. Does this has anything to do with my memory??

Answer 1

Do you wake to an alarm clock?

When you wake, lay in bed and relax, you know, half awake and half asleep. And try to remember what you were dreaming about. Then, try to remember more details.

Do this everyday, and you'll get better at it. I always remember my dreams.

Answer 2

keep a dream journal underneath your pillow. When you wake up try not to move and focus on your dream. When you are able to remember it, write it down. During the day if you remember anything write it down. This trains your brain to remember dreams easier, but I warn you, I've been doing this for a while now and I wake up every time I have a dream. It's stops being fun when you remember 7 dreams per night and you wake up after each one, and you force yourself to write them down which causes you to waste valuable sleep.

Answer 3

Yes, stay in the exact same position when you wake up. Write down what you dreamed about right away. As a side note I have a weird thing for you to try. If you wake up from a dream you really like, stay in the same position as you woke up in. When you fall a sleep again in that exact same position, you will continue your dream. I know it sounds weird but it really works. Don't ask me why, I don't know, it just works.

Answer 4

when you dream neurons are firing in order to consolidate and sort memories. they do this by way of stimulating similar connection networks, which have been temporarily set up during the day as you take in all the stimuli around you (including daytime processing of these stimuli). this explains why your dreams have weird mergings of concepts, items, people, etc -- any and all representations for things collide as their similarities and differences are sorted out through the mechanisms mentioned above. you may have had a moment during the day when you referred to your boss as a monster. then later you catch 2 minutes of a cartoon and there is a character in there who says "you're not the boss of me". that night you may merge these two and you suddenly become the mouse in the cartoon and you are fighting some morphed character who you acknowledge as both a boss and an evil being that is after you. people often refer to this as symbolic, but a more neuro-psychological explanation of this is that your brain is simply matching these two temporary memories and sorting out the differences and solidifying them into long-term memory. think of memory as a group of brain cells all interconnected. the group works somewhat as one "thing", yet it is also connected outside the group to other memories -- other representations of things, events, etc.

now, at this point it should be easier to see why when you wake you cannot remember what you dreamt. when you are awake, there is no sorting out of these networks. the bizarre firings of these groups of neurons -- signals sent between representations -- are no longer occuring. so this means you are essentially living a different reality. the associations that seem to make sense when asleep ONLY make sense when your brain is in this mode. when you wake, bosses are well defined as people who you work for, monsters don't really exist, and you are the "baseline" representation of yourself. only a slight difference in the definitions of each of these things has occured and remains in your mind.

pretty trippy, huh?

Answer 5

That happens because you're too busy doing other things when you wake up. Try thinking about your dreams right when you get out of bed, and you won't forget them.

Answer 6

Omg, whoever said to go see a doctor for that, you're just completly dumb. Don't go see a doctor for that LOL.
Anyway, to your question it is normal. It happens to me and also to most people. I think it's annoying I'd like to remember my dreams.

Answer 7

I don't I remember all my dreams very well.

Answer 8

if you forget your dreams it's a good sign your subconscious has worked out problems in your mind

Answer 9

i almost always do.i write em down the sec i wake up, so i can rember them.

Answer 10

no because sometimes you remember and other times not