If dreams can give you memories can they take them away too?

**Caden** · 04-28-2011 07:26 AM

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There has been a lot written about false memories. We all know that dreams can give you memories that were not there a second ago.

I have to wonder though that if dreams, or your subconscious, can add memories can they take them away too? This "false amnesia" would not only take away your ability to recall an instance in a dream but could remove the memory that anything at all happened, who knows how many things or whole dreams we are forced to forget. It seems a simple idea that if our minds can add they can subtract. The dream world is so chaotic, strange, and so full of holes that it would be easy for people to overlook a removed memory.

I'm not saying that I know this happens but it certainly seems logical. I will be on the look out for it but I'd like to hear from other dreamers and their opinions, whether their lucid dreamers or not.

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I don't know if this ever happens, I can't remember if my memories were ever removed.

**Maria92** · 04-28-2011 07:47 AM

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**Un1corn** · 04-28-2011 08:04 AM

Is this what you're thinking: Person dreams of real event. When brain forgets dream, it also forgets real event?

There is specific brain chemistry involved in forgetting and it is an important part of the way a healthy brain functions.
I'm wondering why your brain would 'choose' to do this while you're dreaming.

**Caden** · 04-29-2011 07:06 AM

No I'm thinking that the mind while dreaming is like a crazy video or film editor, chopping out pieces and splicing in new ones, maybe that's why so much seems so crazy. Our subconscious director may love whats edited into our dreams even if we think it is all nonsense.

I also think it revolves around what you think dreams are and are for.

If you think they are nothing but subconscious ramblings then nothing much matters.

If you think dreams are your subconscious communicating through such dreams then yes adding and deleting would help a lot.

I am of the lot that feel that dreams are our nocturnal wanderings, possibly in a spiritual plane. This also has some uses for false amnesia. If you were to come across something too "heavy" to take in or if you need to know something subconsciously only, then false amnesia would would also help a lot.

And of course all of this makes a pretty big assumption that our dreams are a rationally conceived event, that our brains "would choose to do this."

Here is your subconscious cutting out the scene where you win the lottery and bringing together your typical sex scene and a whale that has Billy Crystal's face. Another nightly masterpiece

**madamhomes** · 04-29-2011 06:13 PM

Lots of articles have been written on this topic but yet today the question about the dreams are perplexed the people. Dreams are in the form of memories which are store in our subconscious mind.

**Puffin** · 04-29-2011 07:19 PM

I don't believe it's possible. Dreams create memories just like our waking life does, but in dreams we're usually not conscious. We usually can't remember our dreams as much as waking life, probably because of our lack of awareness in them; on the contrary, we remember real events because we're awake, thinking clearly, and can take in information better.

The fact that we forget some of our dreams, or parts of them, stems from this principal and not necessarily developing "amnesia". I don't think we remember dreams and forget them afterwards; I think we just don't process everything in the dream itself, although it seems like it (and then it seems like we've forgotten it when we wake up)... Something like that. It's hard to explain.