Thread: The difference between a dream event and memory of a dream?

For a long time psychologists including my father have been telling me that there are different types of memory, and more often than not we will experiance one more than others. The types of memory are things like Visual, Emotional and Aural.

My dreams are always, without exception, very vivid in a visual manner. That is, I can recall exact scenes from my dream down to the last detail. Very rarely can I remember specific sounds or physical sensations. Ocassionally I can retain an emotional impressing from the dream. With conversations, I cannot remmeber how they sounded, just what was said.

I know my memory and learning type is highly visual, and my dreams reflect that. What I was wondering is there anyone on DV who knows that they learn things and remember things using aural or kinesthetic techniques? Is this reflected in your dreams? Do you remember a sound better than an image, or an emotion or a sensation?

Are these characteristics just related to how we remember our dreams, or do our dreams themselves show bias in what qualities we experiance? Does the style of our actual dreams vary according to our brain's best qualities?

Does my dream actually lack sound or do I just remember it that way?

It would definitely have to do with what type of person you are. If you are highly visual, you are more apt to recall things in a visual manner. Just like when trying to remember a conversation with someone, perhaps you make visual connections of what was going on at the time to remember what was said. Or if you are an auditory learner you may remember what a place looks like by remembering what you heard there. So certain things jump out in one's mind more than others, depending on what type of person you are.

I remember things in my dreams visually much more than auditorily as well, and I think that is normal for highly visual people. I am not very auditory, so I don't seem to remember the sounds.

Train yourself during the normal day to be aware of more than what you are just seeing, pay attention to your hearing and your sense of touch, not just in your hands either, how hot or cold you are, the winds, the humidity, pay attention to it all, the subtle backround noises the rustling of trees or the drone of the traffic. And dont forget how you feel, how your experience makes your emotions change.

If you train to be more aware of yourslef and your surroundings during your waking hours you will begin to percieve your dreams in the same manner.

I'm very audiative, and I also remember event chains well. And In my dreams I remember excactly what happened, what things sounded (not always as well as the events) but I don't remember every picture I got. Some pictures are there though.

Emotions are there but merely. I'm very logical in my way of thinking.

Yeah, because I KNOW I'm a very visual person. And the lack of sound doesn't bother me, I just want to know whether I dream without sound or I simply don't remember sound....

Originally posted by LittleVisible
Yeah, because I KNOW I'm a very visual person. And the lack of sound doesn't bother me, I just want to know whether I dream without sound or I simply don't remember sound....

Intresting question. Maybe you have more sounds that you remember, but still less sounds than you have visuals? Because I doubt your dreams are totally quite.