What causes memories to pop into my mind while waiting to fall asleep?
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The mind holds onto issues that need resolved; subconscious memories. Keep a journal by your bed and write down your dreams, then, when you have a week's worth, read them all and, hopefully, there'll be a pattern and you should be able to see what it is you need to take care of. I hope this helps.
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It is the mind remembering a very similar situation that happened in a past life.  You know it has happened before, but you can't explain it because you can't remember when.  I like to think of it as a bit of psycic experiece.
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Well, there are probably people who can give you a "scientific" explanation, but my own take is that our brains cannot shut down completely, or we would be dead.  So they do a sort of background operation, an "idling" (idol-ing?) mode.  Now, this is an opportunity for things in the hind brain to come up and mess around together; correlate one ungainly half-thought with another and see what they produce.  In times of stress, when there are demons lurking in the dark corners, they can get together in unholy revel and produce a nightmare.  In times of sensual excitement, the dreams take a very different turn.  Lately I have not been able to remember my dreams, which suggests to me that nothing important has gone on.  When you can remember your dreams, take them as evidence that your unconscious mind is trying to tell you something, and lie quietly, thinking, for as long as you can.  The messages could be very important!
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Yeah, usually it's just from something on your mind, or just some random thing. Happens to me a lot. I'll be thinking about someone a lot and they will be in my dream but it will be in some extremely random location.
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Ability to form memories.
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I'll start by being contradictory and say the "send_felix_mail" is wrong, freud said that dreams were a wish fulfilled.  Freud thinks that in your dreams you act out things that your subconcious wants.  According to Freud, to interperet dreams you need to do what is called "free Asscociation".  This is where you think about things that occured in your dreams, and see what springs up in your mind.  Usually your dreams relate to something from the day before you had the dream.  Only you can interperet your dreams, by conjuring up what the different images in your dream relate to in your life.  For example, in a dream your best friend is sitting in a park and she offers you an apple, you refuse the apple and walk away.  When you think about the dream in the morning you start thinking about the apple, an image of ffamily picnic's pop's into your mind, because you always had family picnics in an apple orchard as a kid (this is odd, but work with me here).  Apple, therefore, represents family, and good family memories.  Then you think about your best friend, you remember that the day before you got a voice message from her asking you to stay over for the weekend, which you didn't want to do, and didn't call her back.  The dream could mean, therefore, that you feel that your best friend is trying to be part of your family, or make you aprt of her's, but you do not want to have this close a relationship with her.  This is just an example, but it's kind of how it works.  Practise free association first thing in the morngings when the dream is fresh in your mind.  Also write down every dream as soon as you wake up.  Sometimes the key is in the details which you may forget as the day wears on, or seem insignificant until you concentrate on them.  I hope this helps
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maybe you have amnesia. but probably not. maybe you have a thyroid problem. maybe you just have a short term memory. i kno i do. check it out with a doctor if  your really worried,if not i recommend a keychain if you don't already have one (=
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go to a psychologist. you are probably supressing some sort of feelings that are reavealing themselves subconciously when you are sleeping.
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If you wake up *slowly*, you can remember more dreams — prolong contact with our subconscious minds.\n\nMost of us, as soon as we awaken in the morning, allow our minds to wander off—to worrying about work, or school, or getting the kids ready—or we begin talking with our spouse or bed partner about our schedules for the day. If we do not work to recall our dreams immediately upon awakening, we will have missed a crucial opportunity. - check out the site below . . .
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Interesting question!  I am really looking forward to the answers on this one.\n\nI used to think I was having past life memories.  I was having a deja vu-type experience very often, like every few hours.  I would remember a memory that wasn't my own.  To this day I'm not sure whats happening when it occurs (still pretty much daily) but I'm sure its just some wires getting crossed in my brain somehow.
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i think its your brain somehow writing your current experiences on some previous date in its journal of memories, and then seeing that it has already gone through this before.  Then, its a really weird feeling\n\nbut i really have no clu
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well, because when we sleep we have no control of our thoughts.\nIt's just  jumbled up pieces of our memory made into an interesting story.
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Strange though it may sound, sometimes 'deja vu's' come from the present. the feeling you have seen something or been somewhere before can eminate from the short term memory tricking itself into thinking its seen it before. in reality it was only a few seconds ago you saw it but something caused a blip, possibly a flashback or thought of something else causes an interuption. the best analogy I can give is of a car CD player going over a bump in the road, it returns to the same point where the mind left off. End result, you feel like youve been here before, but it was only a few seconds ago. A loop in time for want of a better term.
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Your brain is having bouts of overactivity that overlaps into your sleep.  It could also be caused simply by the medication that you are on (Paxil is a good example).
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Happens to a lot of people, sometimes I remember things till I need it, then I go blank lol
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I've had a pschologist give me this advice.  first, before going to sleep, once you've laid down, with the lights off, remind yourself that you intend to remember your dreams.  Second, if it's practical, if you wake up in the night, after having a dream, make a  few quick notes or record some comments on a tape.  Finally, first thing in the morning, make an effort to recall as much as you can.  I mean, the moment you are fully awake, don't get up until you have replayed your dream(s) as fully as you can.  Don't wait until later in the morning because the memories are not as full or real as a real experience.  The memories fade fast.\n\nFrom my experiece, any memories can be  made to last by writing things down, either a few notes and names, or written out in long form.
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Oh, yes, this is fun one.  What is happening is that sometimes when you are falling asleep, as your heart rate lowers and your muscles relax and your breathing slows, your brain thinks, just for a split second, that you are dying (you can see the similarities).  As a "check," your brain sends a test signal to your major muscle groups, causing them to spasm and you to jolt awake.  It is more likely to happen if your brain doesn't "think" you should be sleeping- like sitting up at a desk, for example, or if your internal stress levels are high at the end of the day.  I know it sounds crazy, but it really is a defense mechanism.  If you really were in danger, your body would not react to the test signal, and your brain would go into "fight or flight" mode to try and save your life.