Thread: A Dream Memory?

I'm sure some will disagree with my explanation, but I doubt anyone will offer a better one. If you got one I'd like to hear it.

When you dream, you shift into a different type of awareness. The larger the shift, the stranger the dream.

THink of different types of awareness as different encryption codes. When you form a memory, it's encrypted by your particular state of awareness. In order to retreive that data, you have to enter into the same state of awareness in which it was written.

So when you remember your dreams, you're actually shifting your awareness back to where it was when you were dreaming.

Anyone ever try to remember details from the waking world while dreaming? It's like trying to remember a dream while awake.

Interesting theory The Cusp. Although, if I think about a dream I had the other day, I don't notice any shift in my awareness. To me it seems the same as thinking about what I did while awake the other day.

I think krookedking remembers really old dreams because they're associated with his recent dreams in some way. They're whacky, or kinky, or whatever idiosyncrasies his particular dreams have. Thinking about one dream reminds him of another, which reminds him of another, and so on.

The more you remember your dreams, the more your subconscious realizes how important dreams are becoming to you. So it helps you by bringing up some of your older dreams. That's my guess.

I've experienced the same phenomenon.

Thanks for the replies.
Like The Cusp I think there's a difference between dream memory and waking life memory...and his explanation seems to be quite logical.

In a LD recently, I was in my house and it was night time, I wanted to be somewhere nicer so I tried to apparate to a beach I remembered going to a few years ago, It didn't work but later after I had woken up, I realised that the beach was from a dream that I had forgotten.

Vortex.