Originally Posted by
ataraxis
One very interesting component of dreams that I have found is that they stay in the long term memory much better, despite being forgotten from the short term very quickly.
I've come to this conclusion because I've looked back at my dream journal (tell if this works for you) and I can read a dream, and then recall perfectly how the actual experience felt during the dream. I can't do this in real life... real life experiences are much more fuzzy for me. The text itself of a dream journal can bring me back. For this reason I think that a good illustration is that much more powerful and would really help bring you back to the dream. The only problem with drawing dreams is you have no reference to work off of, only your memory and mind.[/b]