Thread: my dream recall weirdness

I would say that some mornings you wake up in the middle or right after a REM period and some mornings you don't. Thus, when you wake up during or soon after a REM period the recall is clear and vivid where is when you don't it's more hazy or gone all together. This I deduce from my belief of dream recall depending upon the time of awakening (during, soon after or long after a REM period). Also, due to this I find that the possibility of recall upon awakening is higher if awakened with a start (from an alarm and such) rather than when one wakes up slowly on one's own simply because whether you try to recall them or not the memories slip away independant of that with the passing of time.

Yeah the same thing happens to me. Sometimes I remember it all other times I remember nothing. Merlock's explaination seems solid though.