Question: why do we only sometimes remember our dreams

Lowri Evans answered on 17 Mar 2016:

Hello Grace,

Studies of dreams have found that many of the dreams people have deal with everyday situations that are not particularly memorable. Since most people have multiple dreams every night, the commonplace ones may simply not be distinct enough to stand out. Most people don’t remember every single detail of every moment of their lives; usually, only those experiences that are actively remembered and/or which elicit an emotional response really stick in the memory. The same may be true with dreams: people seem much more likely to remember very strange, distinctive, frightening, or otherwise emotionally charged dreams, just as they would with real life experiences.

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