I agree with both of you, Therome and Sageous, I think it can only be pleasant, to have those memories, and perhaps, from a removed perspective (that of being much older than when I had those dreams), I might even be able to interpret them better, as you say Therome.
I talk to elderly people, some with Alzheimer's every week, and they tell me stories every time, most often than not, they are the same stories they tell me. It's fun, because it's like a puzzle. Those stories, out of context, are almost as likely as dreams, and with time, I can put them together. The way these elderly people talk, talking over and over about those same events, with as much passion and story telling skills as the last time, it seems to me that they must be spending a lot of time with these events in their heads, as if they were stuck in those few schema. It just always feels dreamy, when I'm with them, so I wonder what it would be if the schemas they kept repeating were those of dreams. It wouldn't be bad, both are important.
I do have a journal in which I develop my life philosophy, and goals, and some waking events do flow into it, but I wouldn't put as much detail in a waking journal as in a dream journal, because waking events are that much easier to remember (I did write everything when I traveled though), and we won't all suffer from dementia. Hopefully, lucid dreaming is another of those dementia prevention techniques.
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