why can't i remember what i dream at night?

Question

the moment i wake up i completely forget, like brainfreeze, the only thing i can remember is that it was really nice:(

Answer 1

This is not uncommon. I often experience the same thing. I have a few sleeping conditions that i figured had something to do with it so i researched what was going on. I asked a few doctors and looked it up in various medical books. This was my result.

Dreams are created in REM sleep. There are several wavelengths of REM sleep. Each of them produce a different result. Some of them however are so deep, that they no longer correspond to our memory. It is becuase of this that we are unable to remember them. It also means you slept very well.

As far as feeling down about mot remembering I would think that dreams like this are so beautiful they were not ment to be remembered. It was something so wonderful, that your mind did not want to tarnish it by placing it in memory. It is like italian opera when you only understand english. Dispite not knowing what they are saying, you still know the songs are beautiful. When I listen to them I believe they are speaking about something so beautiful and so lovely words can no longer express how beautiful and how lovely it is.

Hails to the unspoken dreams,
Silence

Answer 2

There are several different stages to a person's cycle of sleeping. Dreams happen while your mind is processing, storing and categorizing information. Once that part is done, people go into a deeper, more restful, dreamless part of the cycle where your mind can let go of everything, including the memory of dreams.
You can remember more dreams by experimenting with setting an alarm to wake you in the middle of the night. It might take a few tries to find your prime dreaming time, but you'll find it. You need to realize that doing this will interrupt your normal sleep cycle and you won't be as well-rested after the interruption. The part of the sleep cycle that lets you forget is as important as the part that lets you process. Forgetting frees up space on your "mental hard drive" and lets you think more efficiently.
All the same, it might be good to see what's going on in your dreams because that lets you know what's happening in your subconscious mind. Waking yourself up in the middle of the night now and then shouldn't cause you any long-term trouble. Just don't do it every night.

Answer 3

You are actually in a totally different state of consciousness when you dream. If you were in the same state, you would remember when you fell asleep, where you went during the night, what you dreamed of and you would know when you were about to wake up.

So a different question would be why do some people remember and others don't?

I'm working on this one cause I don't remember my dreams much either, other than those that just happen to be very important - like prophetic dreams. It's like the angels want me to remember. Boy these metaphysical states are hard to fathom!

You can actually train yourself to remember by working on being conscious.

Answer 4

Try keeping a dream diary by the bed. When you wake lie there for a few and try to recall ....they should come back to you slowly. If all you can remember is that they are nice at first then just write down how they made you feel. In doing this it should help in the recollecting of other details! Try some tea before bed that is decaffinated....with something like valerian root and chamomial inside them.

Good Luck!

Answer 5

Everybody dreams. Not only all humans, but in fact all mammals are shown to have REM sleep, which is associated with dreams. It is a normal and necessary function of the body (though the details, especially the exact reason why it is important, are unknown). So if you think you don't dream you probably just don'tremember.
People vary greatly in how much they remember of their dreams. Most dreams occur at the end of the sleeping cycle and are often interrupted, and the necessity of getting up fast and keeping up with the schedule occupies peoples' minds and prevents them from thinking about their dreams in the morning.

Answer 6

Because you were not aware that you were dreaming. The dream was so real, that it is like the waking consciousness. Who knows this waking consciousness of ours could be a dream too. We have to find out whether we are dreaming in our waking consciousness or not.

Answer 7

Your waking up in the wrong stage of sleep. If you wake up during the REM stage you'll most likely remember.

FYI
REM stands for rapid eye movement.
And that's when you dream!

Answer 8

you should be working at Wal-Mart! I dreamed approximately being a splash boy, with community little ones, driving our motorcycles. We got here across a snake dermis, and as we went to %. it up, the snake became nevertheless interior. It chased us right into a swimming pool, however the doggone ingredient ought to swim. It have been given one in all the different boys.

Answer 9

Our dreams are stored in our short-term memory which is why we cannot recall them once we get up and moving around.

Answer 10

a heavy sleeper can't remember his dreams and nightmares.