There is a scientific reason for this. Prepare for minor text wall.
When you fall asleep, your brain erases temporary memory and “closes” permanent memory so that nothing can be stored to it during sleep. This is also the reason you can’t remember what you did a few minutes before falling asleep. Therefore, your dreams are stored in temp memory and you can only remember them for a little bit after waking.
Don’t quote me on this, I found it somewhere, and my somewheres tend to be pretty reliable, but I’m too lazy to fact-check. Feel free to downvote if wrong.
Fun fact! You can train your brain to remember dreams by keeping a dream journal. When you brain dump your short term memory upon waking up your brain starts thinking dreams are important and you can have more vivid and lucid dreams.
I hate it when the dream is so good and lucid, but you wake up and only remember how nice the dream was rather than what you experienced.
It feels like the more you try to think about the dream, the less you remember.
Sometimes all I have is an image to work off of, but it’s hidden behind one of those magic eye posters. If I can just focus my memory in exactly the right way then the image becomes clear and everything starts to flow after that. That’s the best analogy I can come up with right now
I hate that this basically is the first step of learning to make your dreams lucid. “Write down your dreams to find patterns” - Okay sounds easy enough but every morning I’m like oop I forgor
What’s worse is if it’s a horribly bad dream I’ll remember every detail.
