• Question: Why can't you remember your dreams when you wake up??

    Asked by adelexox to Davie, Gemma, James P, James V, Nuala on 27 Jun 2012.
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      James Pope answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Hi adelexox,

      I don’t that much about dreams, especially why you can’t remember all your dreams when you wake up. Dreams are something a lot of research is being done into as we don’t know a lot about them and they may hold lots of answers as to how our brains work!

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      Gemma Purser answered on 27 Jun 2012:

      Not sure on this one, I guess it has something to do with the change between unconciuos thought when you are dreaming and concious thoughts when you start to wake up! When i have a weird dream and just wake up, i think about it and replay it in my head. If I do that it seems to stay in their for the rest of the day and longer. So it could have something to do with transferring it to my short term memory but this is just my theory. Brains are pretty amazing really!

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      Nuala Carson answered on 28 Jun 2012:

      Hey adelexox,

      Again like the other guys i am not sure on this one. I would assume it has something to do with the dream being stored in some sort of short term memory related to sleep that is wiped pretty regularly. Famous writers always say that they have to keep a pen and note book beside their beds as they have amazing ideas during the night but then cant remember them in the morning.

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