How come you are able to remember some dreams but not others?
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Look up Rapid Eye Movement on Wikipedia, it'll tell ya all ya want to know.
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People like to think that dreams are more than what they actually are... but the truth is... is that dreams are an occurrence when the brain seeks organization. what I mean by this is... while your dreaming... your brain is organizing itself like a file cabinet, that arranges things in alphabetical order. It's a natural phenomenon that takes place and is necessary for restoration during the sleeping faze. Dreams are bits-es and pieces of fragmented episodes that are pieced together in an unordered fashion... and the reason for this is.... is that our brains are in an unordered state.... so the dreams is like meditation for the mind when it needs to be organized the most. So... people will profit from dreams because dreams help place things in order.
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Great question! I used to think that I didn't dream very often. The truth is that we all dream quite often, but sometimes we just don't remember it. I've heard the mind is a powerful tool, and now I firmly believe it. When I asked someone who had studied dream therapy (Not sure if this is what it was called), she suggested that before I go to bed at night, every night for a week, to tell myself that I want to remember my dream in the morning. OK, laugh now - I did when I heard it too, but in all seriousness, I am absolutely amazed at how well it worked!
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i think its because were on another level of consciousness when we are sleeping so it gets foggy to us when we wake up. one trick i have read is to write down the details of your dreams in a notebook or journal first thing when you wake up because thats when its fresh in your mind.
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I remember a great many of my dreams. Actually, I keep a dream journal b/c I agree w/ U.... dreams speak from your subconscious mind. I don't believe that dreams are answers necessarily. Sometimes dreams may simply be a reenactment of the day's events. Sometimes they're predictions. Personally, dreams are typically my subconscious mind making assessments of my life.
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7yrs?! i thought you would have been familiar with it by now?..lol\n\ni cant really answer yout question as i was once told that dreams are the one factor of the human brain's activity that hasn't produced any concrete scientific explanation.\nbut for most, dreams seems to strike a slight resemblance to our own life's proceedings and a person can usually make sense of their dreams by applying it to their real life's situation..\nfor example, a person dreaming about funerals or graveyards may have experienced a loss of loved one and this plays on their mind...\n\nin your case, the dream seems unclear, even after you've had it for several years.\nfrom my point of view, it seems like your dream is your subconcious state of mind and your true feelings in regards to your life..\nmaybe you feel stiffled?...trapped in job? or a situation that has been unresolved for a while?\ni really wish there were scientific explanation for why we dream...all we ever seem to conclude is supernatural mumbo jumbo from dream interpretation books..\nat the end of the day, i think you may have chosen to forget about an issue? bottled it up maybe?\nwhat you need to do is try and log when you have the dream and what is different in it?\nthere may be that you may actually be in a different house, but the fact that it has no doors and rooms means that u think it is the same one again..\nnext time you have it, write it down, describe it vividly and then if you have it again...you can see how similar it is...\nyou may find that there's something slightly different which may reflect a position in your life?\n\nhope it sorts out and you attain closure on these dreams\nmaybe one day we'l know what our dreams REALLY mean\nall the best
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Yes, when my mind ponders & ruminates quizzical, puzzling, enigmatic thoughts, sometimes my dreams will roll it over & over until there's an answer. Occasionally I am fortunate enough to awaken to understand the encoded answer.  I had the answer all along, I just couldn't "see" it in waking life with various distractions.
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90% more likely do we forget our dreams. it's the domain of the subconscious. try dreams central, its a website on dreams and its meaning.
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It is interesting that there are so many different answers to this question. In fact, they are all right...or all wrong.  Even the most cutting-edge research into dreams has turned-up very contradictory answers. Some scientists support the notion that a dream is an artifact of random brain activity, but anyone who has had a dream about an upcoming test or a person who they think is attractive, knows that there is something very non-random about dreams.    Generally, researches separate material that clearly comes from the day versus stuff that seems to be generated from a deeper level - these two categories are called "day residue" and "dream work."  The bottom line: We still don't know what dreams are!
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I dream in color 99% of the time.  I really can't recall dreaming in black and white.  I'm sure everyone is different, however, to some extent.
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I certainly seem to.  I have heard that people dream in black and white but remember the dreams in color, but that doesn't make sense to me.\n\nI had a dream just a few nights ago with very distinctive colors... a choppy brown ocean, a stormy blue sky, and a woman in a white dress wading in the water.
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I will not change my plans based on a dream, but I may change some of my long term habits. I do think that dreams can be useful, and we can learn so much by paying attention to them.  I don't think we get messages from other people or spirits in our dreams, but I do believe it is our brain's way of working things out and pointing some things out that we may have over looked. I kept having a dream where my college professor became ill and asked me to take over the class. I would always say yes in the dream but I became all stressed because I did not know anything about the subject matter.  After keeping track of this for a while, I discovered it was my job that was stressing me out because people kept piling stuff on top of me.  I finally started to tell people that I was at my limit and could not do anymore. We hired another person, and the dreams stopped after that.
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Yes. I've done that alot... But it's usually where i dream about it and then it happens the next day. I have a lot of Deja Vu moments and i also have insomnia sometimes. It really kinda freaks me out when i have Deja Vu twice..
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dreams are a way for your brain to let go of things it say while you were awake.\ndreaming is sometimes your subconscious letting you know what you really would like to do..\nlike people flying..maybe you either wish you could fly an airplane or maybe you wish you could transform yourself into a bird..\ndreams are very important to a healthy mind even if some of the dreams are not what you would consider healthy..
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dreams do not always mean what they are about. they are more of subconcious memorys. \nwhat do you do?  what can you do?
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I think you mean "inheritable".\n\nDreams are the sum of many things:\n- Mental state\n- Memories\n- Desires\n- Physical state\n- Food recently eaten\n- Chemicals in the body\n- The sleep environment\n- and many others\n\nThe only way genetics can influence dreams is only as far as genetics affects the things on the list above.
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We have dreams possibely since our brains are constantly busy and when we sleep our brains need to do something so it might looked around for events in your life( like flash backs (you know when you remenber something and is played like a video in your head))or somethings you really like and playes it like a movie to make time past so think of it as a movie theater but it's free.