Originally Posted by
Jakob
I actually believe there are two categories, at least in my experience it has always been so.
The first category is the false remembrance you speak of, where the brain literally creates memories which are complete bogus. For example, I remember a couple of false awakenings where I saw pictures on the wall in my bedroom that have never been there in reality, yet I recognized them as being there always. In the dream, I was completely familiar with the pictures, and absolutely positive that they have always been there, but when I wake up, I go: "Wow, how could I have thought something like that? I have never seen those pictures in my life."
The other category is what I call dream-state memories. Whenever I am in a lucid dream, I can recall certain dreams that I find very hard to recall when awake. For some reason, there are certain dreams (perhaps 10%) that I only remember tiny bits when awake, but when in a lucid dream, I am able to recall them much much better. There is a certain dream I had once, involving an X-Files episode. It was a non-LD which was about an X-Files episode that never aired, but I saw on TV in a dream. When awake, I was never able to recall this dream very well, but when in the dream state, I'm able to recall this dream in much better detail.
So yeah, I think there is false remembrance, and also dream-state memories, which are memories only accessible (or *better* accessible) when in the dream state.
The reasons for all this, I really don't know.
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