Thread: Remembering Dream from the Past

You're simply taking your dreams more seriously which leads to rememberance.

Why should your age be a barrier to learning meditation? In buddhist cultures people start when they are young children, and it's one of the best things you can do for lucid dreaming.

Sounds like you're becoming more in tune with your dreams. The more aware you are, the more you remember and the higher the quality of dreams you will have. It's a natural progression. I'm not exactly sure what triggered it but I'd imagine you've just been paying more attention to your dreams. Also, it's understandable that you don't remember dreams until a lot later. Sometimes I have a dream and then realise I've been there before, and if I've been there before then I've had the dream before and most of the time I remember that dream as well. I'm actually really studying this at the moment.

When we sleep we produce a chemicals that simultaneously create our dreams and gloss over them. Basically we forget them. As with a lot of things we forget though, we haven't actually lost. They're still there sometimes but it just takes something to trigger the memory. I'd compare it to when you're trying to remember the name of a song or singer. The knowledge is there but you can't access it until someone says "Wasn't that x y and z?" then you say "Oohhh yeah that's right." There's a distinct knowing but lack of recollection. I think this how dreams work too so it's not a crazy idea for you to randomly remember dreams even from when you were a kid.