Dreams you can't remember

**Orphic** · 10-19-2010 08:08 AM

This may have been covered before, and I'm sure many folks have experienced this. Have you ever woke from sleep knowing you had a dream, but for the life of you, could not remember what int he world it was about? This happens to me only once in a while - I'll have a dream that actually makes me wake up in the middle of the night (like it scares me awake) and I don't remember exactly what the dream was about...except that it made little sense. I can't recall specific details, and I never have the same dream again.

For me, it's not even a matter of keeping a dream journal - the second I wake up, I have no idea what in my dream made me wake up and it drives me nuts that I can't even write it down. Oddly enough, when I do have a dream I can recall, I often remember it in significant detail.

Thoughts?

**giogoMoget2** · 10-20-2010 05:25 AM

Exactly what i've been having recently. I know i had some great dream but i just dn't remember. I just remember that it wasn't a nightmare.
I try and try to see if i can remember what happened. but i have nothing. It's weird.

**Zephyrus** · 10-20-2010 09:52 AM

last night i woke and thought, "wow, that was awesome, i wished i remembered what happened"

**Raspberry** · 10-20-2010 05:26 PM

Yup, you wake up and it's like it's just hanging on the edge of you mind and any second you'll remember it. But... You don't lol

**Grigorios** · 11-02-2010 04:46 PM

It has happened to me many times and it's always a little bit frustrating. The dreams just seem to have been erased, the feeling is that they are there, in front of you, somewhere, but you cannot access them.

**Spiderman800** · 11-03-2010 12:11 AM

I hate when this happens! It happens to me all of the time... Every time I know I had a dream, but I can't remember it, and I know it was awesome.

**giogoMoget2** · 11-03-2010 02:36 AM

Hey yeah. I'm a newbie and that has happened to me. Although now i remember more dreams than before( when i remembered none), there are nights when i know i dreamed some awesome thing but i just don't remember anything of the dream. But at least i wake up refreshed and happy

**Spiderman800** · 11-03-2010 12:03 PM

Originally Posted by giogoMoget2

Hey yeah. I'm a newbie and that has happened to me. Although now i remember more dreams than before( when i remembered none), there are nights when i know i dreamed some awesome thing but i just don't remember anything of the dream. But at least i wake up refreshed and happy

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That's what happens with me also...

**QuietWhun** · 11-03-2010 04:40 PM

When I don't remember a dream, I write down words I may remember from the dream. Although you do not remember details, you'd be surprised how some keywords you write down will get you remembering some of the dream. May sound weird, but I remembered a dream 3 days later using this method. But everyone's experience may be different.