Dream Recall Question

[Madbagel]

I've been asking myself this lately, I've always wondered how dreams/lucid dreams worked. When you wake up, do you remember it right off the bat that it just happened, or do you have to experience it as a memory only? I'm sorry if you don't understand, this is difficult to word right.

[youssarian]

Actually, both. When you wake up and you just had a dream, you'll remember it because it's fresh in your mind. And sometimes you'll remember a dream because a sight or sound or something in real life (IRL for short) reminds you of it.

[apocalypse]

sometimes we suffer amnesia if one does not quickly make the memory connection when we cross over from sleep to awake states. Many people will have trouble remembering our dreams the longer they wait after awakening. (I could make up a statistic here) - I would guess that many people forget their dreams if not remembered with-in a few minutes of waking up. In a lucid dream you are aware & you are consciously dreaming and the experience can be quite vivid. Sometimes the experience will lead to waking up suddenly - and will remember it right off the bat that it just happened. Mostly in normal dreaming you can be watching bizarre & outlandish things but still remain unaware that you are dreaming. Much of these dreams are left forgotten, unless someone tries to remember them on a regular basis.