Thread: Memory: the Forgotten Fundamental

I think I understand. By remembering something that is real, but contradictory to the dream, you create cognitive dissonance. The mind naturally wants to resolve this dissonance, but can only do so by attaining a certain level of situational awareness. Or in short, you give the mind no choice but to question the nature of the environment it's in by drawing attention to said paradoxes (ex. being in one place yet remembering that you're actually in bed)