2007-09-07 06:38:18 · 5 answers · asked by ? 3 in Social Science ➔ Dream Interpretation
Didn't read the others answers so don't know if it was stated before. We do most of our dreaming while in REM sleep and the dreams we remember are likely to be a dream you are having as you exit REM sleep. So they are dreams we have either while we are waking or right before we awake.
2007-09-08 12:30:33 · answer #1 · answered by Alias82 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's difficult to give a sound explanation for this since science only knows about 1-2% of what's actually happening in the brain. Lots of info on the brain are therefor assumptions instead of facts.
Personally.... I Guess it has to do with the way our memory works.
All info we get, including dreams, first enters short term memory which can hold only a few items for a short period of time.
When the info given is considered important enough it travels from short term to long term memory, which can store enormously more info for a much longer time. The more info impresses us, the better it's better stored in and... retrieved from long term memory.
Dreams that don't really impress us won't be remembered.
In the same way... most people can't exactly tell what they've eaten for dinner in the last month (or even week). However, they do remember what they've eaten during that certain special evening in that special restaurant, sometimes even 20-30 years later.
By presenting the short term memory with the same info again and again, the info is also better stored in longterm memory.
A re-occurring dream that didn't impress us at first can become more important after it's been dreamed for a few times, just... like we all (well most) know 6x7=42 without having to calculate it first.
2007-09-07 14:50:29 · answer #2 · answered by Bart D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ther are many stages of sleeping accordingly dreams in diffrent stages in earliar sleeping you can remember the dream when you sleep so long the dream in the botton you can not remember easily now thy make electronic circuit connected with brain of sleeping man and record reactions in diffrent stage of sleeping
2007-09-12 07:39:36 · answer #3 · answered by samy n 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Remembering dreams is the same as anything else you need to remember, you need to train yourself how, the same as you need to train yourself how to study in school.....
2007-09-07 18:52:00 · answer #4 · answered by beatlefan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause those are the ones that are important
2007-09-09 01:12:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋