dreams... why can't i remember them?

Question

i've been having alot of dreams lately but i can't really remember them. right when i wake up i can remember but then it just leaves me. i can't think of a thing. i sort of know who was in it and where we were but thats it. my friends tell me all the time what their dreams were but i can't even remember mine. I've heard that sometimes means that ur really stressed and i am but is that true or is there something else to it?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I've heard you have over a hundred dreams every night. To remember them all would be pretty impressive. The same thing happens to me too, and probably many others; you remember fragments of all the dreams you had the night before. Right when you wake up you realize "wow, what a dream". You think there is meaning behind these dreams, in truth maybe there is maybe there isn't. Your dreams related to your life-whether it be past, present, or future-and because you are stressed you may dream about stressful and emotional dreams thinking they have important meanings. You also may be dreaming about past occurences and maybe future wants and hopes. You can never know why you dream a dream or why you remember only certain ones. It might be because it reminds you of something close to you. Try being less stressed, and maybe you will remember and dream better? Hope that helps! 8)

Answer 3

What usually occurs with dreams is outgoing people tend to forget their dreams while inverted people will usually remember.

Other things could be too many other things to do. The brain has like a sort of "thought limit" where you can only think of so many things at once. The number is really huge but it is a number and their is a limit.

Try writing down the things you remember in the morning it could lead to you remembering more of your dream and not only that when something is written down it tends to go into short term memory so you might be more likely to remember it later on.

Answer 4

It's normal. Most of us do not remember dreams we've had saved for a few. Keep a small tape recorder by your bedside and the next time, if you like, you cam say a few sentences describing the dream you've just experienced as soon as you wake up so you won't forget it later.

Answer 5

i have that happen alot also,,,,, often if i think about the dream, kind of go over it, right after i wake up, before i get out of bed,, then it stays with me longer,,,,, do remember that most dreams are just that,, dreams, the ramblings of the mind,,,,,, so i am not sure i really see a point in remembering many of them,,,,,,

Answer 6

dreams are just dreams.. try not to remember it to remember it..