For the past few weeks I've been working on improving memory recall by keeping a dream journal. It has helped quite a bit, but it also made me realize that all of my dreams are set in the past. Specifically, in the hometown where I lived until I was 20. Everyone in my dreams--family, classmates--looks and acts like they did when I was a teenager.

It's somewhat distressing. I moved to a different city for undergraduate school for four years, then a different country for graduate school, where I've been for six years. I've been in a long-term relationship for several years. The last decade has been fairly eventful. So why does my most recent one-third of my life never enter my dreams? If anyone can provide some insight into why, it'd help put my mind at ease.