Does anyone else have problems remembering dreams?

[Anonymous]

I’ve has issues the past 6 months or so remembering dreams like I’ll get confused if something happened in my dream or real life , i used to be able to remember dreams in great detail but not recently cuz I get confused and don’t know what dream happened when and if the stuff happened irl or in the dream , I have some issues with conversation recall irl too I don't know if it’s connected or not , but I’m concerned cuz I don't know if this could be a sign of short term memory issues cuz I never had this issue before , I might bring this up at the doctor next time I go. Can medicine cause this or has anyone else had this happen abruptly?

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9 mo

I know that I’ve had dreams but I can’t remember what happened in them much or get confused about if I was dreaming or if I was remembering things I watched before bed

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9 mo

I finally remembered one two this morning , hopefully I’ll continue to remember even if they are weird. I remember something about being chased by two spiders in my basement and something about Micheal myers , I think I was watching him instead of being in the movie

[InknKink]

When I young, I had a nightmare where I was laying a bed in the middle of an empty room. The room around me was on fire and there was smoke everywhere. Out of the smoke prowled a giant wolf made of that smoke. The wolf began to prowl around my bed. The blanket was holding me down and I couldn't move.

Then something clicked. I knew if there was fire I would feel heat. If there was smoke I couldn't breath. I knew that you don't find wolves in houses, nor are they made of smoke.

I realized I was dreaming and woke up.

I never thought much of it at the time and continued on with life normally.

In my mid-twenties all this came out in a conversation. As a result of that conversation I was gifted a book called "exploring the world of lucid dreaming".

A decade or so later and I find myself dreaming multiple times a night in vivid detail. Often I can recognize a dream and on the occasion I don't awake, then can begin to manipulate my dreams.

I have near perfect dream recall.

I've come to realize that none of this is normal. Most people rarely remember their dreams. Many people think they don't dream at all.

[Asker]

Yeah but I don't know why I could remember them for years and now it’s stopped and I’m getting confused a lot

[InknKink]

I attempted to answer this in a long response only to hit a mouse hotkey and back-page my browser erasing everything.

long story shot, memory recall is a habitual thing. There are practices that need to be done in order to facilitate dream recall and things which you likely were doing subconsciously in the past that you're not doing today. Dream recall is like a muscle. If you work on it it improves and if you ignore it it fades away.

My suspicion is that you're being woken from stage 4 sleep (REM) and going back to sleep into stages 1 or 2 without committing your dream to active memories.

[Asker]

Maybe

[Sonorous]

This usually happens to me if I had the dreams early on in the night.

[RavVid]

I'd just be concerned about recall of recent conversations. It is OK if you forget you talked about X with Y but if Y prompts you about X and you can't remember about what was said that is possibly a cause for concern.

Women seem to have more dreams or remember than men do. We do fine without remembering dreams so I don't think that is a prob.

[Asker]

Yeah but some dreams can be interesting

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

Start keeping a dream journal. First thing when you wake up, write down anything you can remember, even if it’s just the way you feel after waking up. The attempt to remember will help trigger the memory centers in your head to hold onto the images. If you keep it up for a week or two, you should be able to remember your dreams quite vividly.

[es20490446e]

That means you are sleeping better.

[Wise4myage]

I sure do.