I've never really understood dreaming and will admit my reason to joining this website was to learn more...

For at least the past few years (mostly because I can't remember before then) I have almost always dreamed in third person--dreams where I'm basically watching people. I always seem to be in control of what happens and dreaming is my mind just making pictures of it (as someone who loves drawing, my mind does this throughout the day obviously, but these dreams always have the concept of being random sometimes, where I really won't know what is happening because I'm "not in total control of the dream".)

I go to bed, fall asleep, and the brain works. I usually dream about my own characters (like, as of late, have been designing for a story I want to write, so the characters and the scenarios always appear in my dreams lately). I'll dream up a setting with those characters and control most of what will happen throughout the dream but there are parts, like I said, where things will happen randomly like in daily life due to the actions of others.

I'm still baffled as to how this works--and I don't really understand it, despite what I try looking up.

Back to the third person. I am basically a spectator creating the environment and characters, aware of what is going on. Well, maybe it is a bird eye's view of the dream occurring, but that is somewhat besides the point...

And I always find it strange that I almost always remember what I dream throughout the night (dreams per night usually only being two that run pretty long), which is useful to me since I "watch my characters" and use the dreams for stories-that-are-to-be-created. Is it really hard for some people to remember dreams since not remembering them is a foreign concept to me...

Or is that just the varieties of human brains out there at work? Dreams are still kind of a foreign concept to me and any information on how third person dreams, how some people remember them, and controlling them work (without the dream being lucid as I have never gone through a lucid dream to my knowledge)...