If dreams are so important to reality why do we often forget them when we wake up?

Question

Are they still hiding out in our unconscious mind and surface only when needed? How long has this been going on?

Answer 1

our brain is of two parts subconsious and consious mind.what we do regularly is consiousness.our memory recalls things done by the consious minds only.when we dream we dream from our sum. mind so we cannot recall anything.whats more...the sub concious mind consists of 90% of our brain making dreams very powerfull.that is why some times we dream of things happening in reality or which will happen in future.when we our awake....sometimes we get a sence not to go out today coz it might be a strom or something like that..it is our sub concious mind who is thinking this..

sometimes we dream about weird things...acctually it is weird because the concious mind is trying to guess what happened in the sub. mind.thats why we feel that we were dreaming abt rubbish.the one who can recalls his or her dreams properly has chances to have more iq than other people.

got it...?i know itll help.

Answer 2

My personal feeling on that is that we forget our dreams when the material they were designed to address has been dealt with by the end of the dream, and just remember the ones that point to things we need to look at more deeply. We don't really need to remember every dream we have every night, some dreams are just a recap of the day, and filing away that information, in some dreams we just blow off alot of steam in a bunch of creative nonsense, then as we approach the morning, that is when we have dreams where we probe deeper issues that need our attention, and those are the ones we are most likely to remember, as they take place right before waking, so they are most fresh in the mind. If we actually did remember every dream we had every night, it would be way too distracting in our waking lives, too much information to cope with, so we file away the issues we dealt with during sleep, and keep an open file out to address issues that need our attention...

Answer 3

If there is any dream of significance you will always remember it. There are some dreams which I remember like yesterday. All those dreams were of great significance and pointed to things which would come to pass down the road. Any that's not of important you will not remember. Because important dreams are given by God and He always make sure you remember them, so you can seek out the meaning.

Answer 4

i researched it a while ago and theres fancier ways to explain it but basically dreams are stored in a part of the brain thats memory that fades upon waking. this means that if you dont replay your dream in you mind upon waking (thus transfering it to your normal memory centers) you will forget it within a very short time.
i also think that if we don't value the messages our dreams hold we will miss most of them.

Answer 5

According to the activation-synthesis theory of dreams, the dream probably has no meaning at all. (Sorry, that may not be what you wanted to hear.)

Although dreams are influenced by our thoughts throughout the course of the day, this does not mean they are special messages to us that we should carefully consider.

Here's one perspective:

"Activation Synthesis Theory is a neurobiological theory of dreams, put forward by James Allan Hobson and Robert McCarley in 1977, which states that dreams are a random event caused by firing of neurons in the brain. This random firing sends signals to the body's motor systems, but because of a paralysis that occurs during REM sleep, the brain is faced with a paradox. It synthesizes a narrative by drawing on memory systems in an attempt to make sense of what it has experienced."

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activation_synthesis_theory