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Originally Posted by Edward64
I know people dream all the time but know I don't normally remember my dreams. Nothing unusually stressful and am sleeping normally.
Need to google on why some remember their dreams more than others. I would like to remember them more, bet there are some interesting ones in my subconscious.
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I thought people remembered dreams because the dream process uses our brains in a way that does not utilize the mechanism that transfers short-term memory to long-term memory.
So we remember pieces of dreams if they were occurring when we woke up, but not otherwise. Brain scans of sleeping people seem to indicate that the process of dreaming is likely something we all do. It's possible, if we gradually go from deep sleep to awake, that those of us who think we remember more real pieces of dreams are much more likely to be those who use alarm clocks.
My own theory is that as we gradually become semi-awake after sleeping, we sometimes "continue" the dream in active consciousness. And since we then would be using our brains differently, that continuation is a major part of what we remember when we talk about a dream.
The dream itself is more likely to be scattered pieces or concepts that can get our imaginations going when we transition to awake. And so we then construct a real story around whatever dream piece was ongoing when we became aware. That becomes what we tell others we dreamed about, and what we actually think we remember dreaming because that's all that can ever get into long-term memory.
In other words, during the process of becoming awake, the active recollection of the dream piece that was ongoing when we awakened is the only possible thing that could physically make it into our memories.
More concisely, the genius of Freud is in the recognition that what we do to tell a story around those fragments is far more revealing (and far less interesting, I guess) than the fragments themselves. He writes about the subconscious. I think that's exactly what he means, though his writings were long before brain scans revealed more about the functions involved.
So, the bugs and Star Trek stuff... that seems like guilt of some sort to me.