Thread: Why does your brain erase dreams?

The reason you appearently do not remember your dreams is because dreams are not stored in your long term memory unless you remember them right after they happen. That is why the appear to be erased.

exactly. you forget about them unless you think about them right after you wake up, or something triggers a memory. I didn't think about my dreams at all this morning, I remember alot from the night before but nothing from last night.

For the record, we never forget anything, we only think we do...

really...I guess all those memories are in our heads somewhere..

Yes they are, it's like having an unorganized bunch of boxes of everything that ever happened in your life with no idea where to look for what...

i think the thing that is neccesarry is to train your brain by way of a dream journal...thats the best way that i've seen.

this torment inside me is growin', like a flower in the spring time rain, but all i feel is dismay.[/b]

anyway to train your brain to unlock older memories?

Originally posted by phantasy
anyway to train your brain to unlock older memories?

I've heard that there is a way. Scientifically speaking (where the hell is Serinanth?), I think that memories and dreams are experienced and stored in a different part of the brain than the one we use in day-to-day life. I could be wrong though.

this reminds me of that age old saying..."if a tree falls in a forest and no ones hears it fall, does it make a sound at all?"

but anyways, SERI where the hell are you.

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open up my eyes, flooded with day light, another sleepless night turns color black and white.[/b]

it emits vibrations...but it takes an ear to turn it into sound.

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it emits vibrations...but it takes an ear to turn it into sound.

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Argh! I had an argument with my mom about this and used that exact same point, she refused to believe it. She admitted that sound is made of vibrations but she refused to believe that it only becomes 'sound' when our brain and ears interpret those vibrations. To this day, when anyone mentions that expression with me and my mom present, you know the argument is going to kick off again.

Originally posted by Lowercase Society
this reminds me of that age old saying...\"if a tree falls in a forest and no ones hears it fall, does it make a sound at all?\"

If noone's there to observe it fall, it doesn't even fall, but then it does, but then it doesn't! God I love quantum physics

Originally posted by phantasy
anyway to train your brain to unlock older memories?

Well, I started to write my dream journal recently and now I get alot of memories from dreams I had years ago popping up, like when I see something oddly shaped I can go: "Hey, that looks just like that vehicle I flew in during a dream last spring break" and such. Dreams I completely forgot, are slowly coming back to me.

*pops into existance*

WTF?

*mutter*

Ok first, the memories, the memories that are dreams are stored in short term memory the long term memory functions alter in dream state, they are there to be drawed upon and can in fact be accesed and even have memories stored in them...

Ever have a dream so meaningful and powerful you had no need to think about it or write it down? it was already ingrained in you memories just like any other memory during the waking world.

It like the tree goes into quantum physics, and duality, quantum desisions can take however many paths, blah blah technical crap stuffity stuff

The memory does not Crystalise into the physical part of our brain, yes it is stored in our spirit, but as you all know, its hard to acces that =)

Our brain serves as a much easier way to access memories, by growing neurons into particular paths that create memories some how, it kinda works like RAM well more like a hard drive, shor term memory is like RAM well these bodies we have are damned usefull it helps us rememb er stuff we have done in this lifetime so we can reflect and such, some of it dosent make it into the hard drive though... like dreams, but is there... Our spirits... well thats all they are... memory so powerful it has become aware... hehe lucid...

ok the tree hehe I had so much fun with that in philosophy class I started out on the Science side.. Yes it makes a sound, it has to.
But as the class progressed I moved over to the other side...

It created Vibrations but if no ear is there it cannot be perceived as sound, sure the vibrations and sound are made of the same thing.. meaning if a deaf person were there they would have FELT the vibrations
but sound is sound because it is being perceived by an ear that takes those vibrations and interprets them as sound.

Elephants....they communicate using ultra low frequency sound.. we cannot hear them, they can, but we cannot, we can feel them though, so there is no sound is there... For us.. for the elephants.. they hear AND feel it.

Hmm

I walk into the forest, observe a tree, I leave and come back the next day, the tree is now fallen. Just because no one was there to observe it fall does not mean that it did not fall. If no one were to EVER observe the tree again and this goes for all life that has the power of perception. which is quite alot of it, including plant... I mean plants dont move and face the sun just because now do they? well anyways the tree does fall because there will never be a case where no one is there to perceive it.

Animals and plants perceive the world too... just not like we do..

Now here is the important question...


If a tree falls on a mime in the forest...

Does anyone care?