My ideas about memories:
I dont really think dreams get erased at all, I think they get sorted by the same process as when we're awake.
In order for me to remember something later, it has to be something personally important, or I have to make a conscious effort and decision to remember it. I have to tell myself to remember it later. Because we're not usually making any of these desicions when we're asleep, dreams would naturally lack these willpower based memories. If you were lucid, you could employ this 'method.' I still think that its quite hard to remember something just by wilpower without using the 'method' in the next paragraph.
To remember something that happened in the past, you have to associate it with something else... so you could trace your steps back in time and remember things in that order. When we wake up, logically the thing that we did last was fall asleep, skipping over our dreams. If we can still remember something that just happened in our dream through short term memory, then we can trace back through the dream. The problem is dreams are directly influenced by thoughts so they end up almost random, so its harder to logically associate through the past, which means that in dreams its easier to forget what happened, its easier to forget them when you wake up, and almost impossible to remember them later in the day without directly associating them with something by accident.
Something else i feel like mentioning is learning something by rote and remembering it indefintely, like your times tables or the alphabet. I think i can safely say that doesn't apply to this situation.
Basically, memories aren't erased, they're forgotten naturally..
Originally posted by cynical_bob+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(cynical_bob)</div>
In short, your first dream (if remembered) should influence your next dream which would influence your next dream[/b]
I think this is correct, its just that you forget things while you're in the dream because you can't associate what you're doing now with what happened before as well as you can in real life, because the dreams are effected by your thoughts and naturally end up almost random. (observation: its like a word association thread...)
I'd say that keeping a dream journal could help by making remembering part of the routine for that time of the day, or perhaps remembering is simply skill to be practiced like anything else.
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Originally posted by Leo Volont+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Leo Volont)</div>
Just because a scientist somewhere makes a hypothesis, doesn't mean that he isn't a complete idiot who has no idea what he is talking about.[/b]
agreed.
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n fact, being a scientist it is more likely he has no idea what he is talking about.
Im my experience, scientists usually have a higher level of understanding than the average person. But your opinion is still valid, for the same reasons that a scientist might say an astrologer has no idea what they're talking about. Each to their own way of explaining the world. Try to stay open minded?
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So all of their explanations for Dreams automatically dismiss MEANING, PURPOSE, LIFE, LOVE, BEAUTY, GOODNESS and even EVIL.
A scientist would describe these things as emotions, not as physical attributes. They could quantify them as functions of the brain, not the universe... (in a philosophical sense)
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