Thread: Why we dream?/Recalling

Originally posted by STsung
That's me once again.

I read many articles about dreaming and I started thinking what actually happens during my dream. Well, my body is usually regenerating.....I came to one observation concerning memory.

If I sleep every day normally about 6 hours a day. I don't remember exactly what happened the day before. But if I don't sleep enough one day. I remember exactly what happened the day before. When I finally got my 6 or more sleep I kind of write all what happened the days before into my memory and I wake up and I don't remember clearly what happened.

this is were the recalling comes. I usually recall my dreams in the morning and I can tell you what I dreamed about that day (if you ask me the same day). The day after I usually don't recall it, but weeks, months later the dream comes to my memory.

Anyone has this?

It might have to do with the way your memories are reorganized or reencoded during sleep. It seems that I may have read something related to it, but I don't remember it clearly.

Also wanted to ask about this. When I wake up after lucid dreaming I'm pretty disoriented and it can take me half an hour to fully awake to the real world. When someone speaks to me in that period I'm unable to give a normal response. Is that normal? (I feel confused about what is real and what not)[/b]

I'm almost always fairly awake after waking up from a dream (lucid or not). On rare occasions, I might wake up from a dream in a confused state. It seems more likely that I'll wake up confused if I'm woken up by an external source (like an alarm) instead of simply waking up naturally, possibly because external sources may wake me up during deep sleep, whereas I probably only wake up naturally in light sleep. I don't recall taking more than about 60 seconds to recover.

I remember one incident where I had an alarm wake me up. I heard the alarm and knew I was supposed to do whatever it was that I planned to do when it went off, but it took me a minute to figure out what the sound was, what I was supposed to do, and how to turn it off. Then I spent probably 10-20 more seconds groping for the alarm to stop it, where if I had been fully awake I would have known exactly where to reach for it. The cool thing is that I recognized this and knew my mind was in a strange state while it was happening. It was fascinating.

Hm...maybe it's just my case about being that confused in the morning. I will try to pay more attention to how I will be woken up when this happens to me.

And I know that feeling you described. That happens to me when someone wakes me up during the night...(like fire alarm....)