You Forget 90% of Your Dreams Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten.

**whatidreamed** · 05-22-2010 06:06 AM

You Forget 90% of Your Dreams Within 5 minutes of waking half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.

Is this true??? I have seen this all over the internet. I have been trying to find a source for this fact.

**yumester** · 05-22-2010 06:37 AM

thats why you write them down right when you wake up ;D

**Loaf** · 05-22-2010 07:04 AM

So true. You guys need to learn DEILD. When you wake up, if you don't move you can fall asleep in seconds back into the dream. OR you can wake up, stay still, go over your dream in your head, then write it down. I am 99% sure moving after a dream can aid in forgetting it.

**Explode** · 05-22-2010 08:58 AM

Yeah, that sounds about right. I wouldn't say five minutes though. I'd put it more around 60 seconds unless you go over it in your head. Maybe 5 minutes if you aren't moving at all.

**Oneironaut Zero** · 05-22-2010 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Loaf

So true. You guys need to learn DEILD. When you wake up, if you don't move you can fall asleep in seconds back into the dream. OR you can wake up, stay still, go over your dream in your head, then write it down. I am 99% sure moving after a dream can aid in forgetting it.

This is a bit of a double-edged sword, though. If you wake up immediately after (or in the middle of) a dream, you can either get up and immediately jot down notes on that dream, or you can try DEILD. If you do DEILD, you raise the risk of forgetting everything that happened before you tried to re-enter the dream. I've lost plenty of lucids like this. But it often pays off, too, in that you can extend the length of the dream you were just in. Do whatever suits your needs, at the time.

**djonkoman** · 05-22-2010 02:06 PM

this isn't true for me
either I already forgot even having a dream when waking up(majority of the time, only dream about once a half year), or I wake up and know only some parts of the dream and with a bit of thinking about it it gets clearer and a few hours later I know the whole dream(could ofcourse be my mind filling in the gaps, but I don't think that's it)

**ninja9578** · 05-22-2010 02:09 PM

Actually, unless you run through it again, you forget most of it when you first move. So always try and remember your dream when you first wake up, don't move first.