Is it possible to remember a dream?

Question

Ho do I know that my mind isn't fabricating details that I've forgotten from the dream once I wake up?

Answer 1

You can remember a dream if you are woken up during it.  If you wake up just by waking up, later on, after the dream has ended, thats when your mind might fabricate things.

Answer 2

It's hard to remember everything in a dream without adding details but if you work on it over time, it's possible to remember your dreams better and sometimes even control them. I've read that if you start writing down your dreams as soon as you wake up in a dream journal, you'll start to remember them more and with more clarity. Hope this helps!

Answer 3

you're not getting graded on it are you?

Answer 4

You can remember a dream when you wake up, but only when practice. You can even know that you are in dreaming state when dreaming, through practice.

It's simple. Just urge yourself to remember the dream before you went into sleep, or urge yourself that you must know that you are in a dreaming state when dreaming. When you are dreaming, there is a difference between the picture of dreaming and real life. Just remind yourself "huh, this pic is a dream state", and suddenly realised you are actually dreaming, while dreaming.

Maybe you only need a few night of practice IF you got a high focus level.

Answer 5

Yes you can. I remember most of mine. :)

Answer 6

From your additional details, I'll add this...

It could be that you feel constrained in your life and that there is something (likely *it*) worrying you in a way that you do not yet understand.

It is a very, very precise and accurate description!

You must be a philosopher!

To be in Archemedies' box... Filled with images of yourself and to be haunted by those images...

A never ending plane of infinity...

The world is a very big and daunting place, isn't it?

Let's try and make it a bit less so...

You haven't been watching the 6th Sense have you?

Or thinking about the TARDIS from Dr. Who?

It shows that there are aspects of yourself, and things in your life, things you are learning, that you do not yet understand and that worries you - it is an internal and external influential dream; a prophetic one, as you now are getting the answer to it!

Maybe this dream is what made you ask this question so you could find out about dreams and the power they contain to enhance and improve yourself, your image of yourself and how others see you and your LIFE.

Have these things only recently been learned by you? The terms, what they are, what they mean?

How is your home-life? Is it okay or do you feel trapped?

Feel free to email me with what you remember and I'll do my best to help you.

Look up what a Saccade is too, as well as REM sleep...

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Some dreams fade quickly, others make lasting impressions...

Some are not remembered at all...

If you are interested in this, it is a very good idea to find a way of writing your dreams - words, doodles, descriptions, anything.

From what you have said above, I can see how the associations can be made, but I have studied dreams in great detail.

Your mind dreams for a very good reason when you are asleep...

It is it's way of sorting out all the information - just like defragmenting your hard drive - and meaning that all the things that've happened are in the right places.

That you can remember your dreams is good - it allows you an insight into  your own mind and life that some people can't get.

Some people never remember their dreams.

I dream everynight, several times - but they all seem like one dream upon awakening.

If you feel that your mind is fabricating things, then it may be that you have not yet gotten to know yourself in order to link the bizarre dream associations you remember with what's happening in real life.

Every dream is individual to each person - some are common to most, some aren't.

For example - when most people have a dream that their teeth are falling out, it's because they are grinding their teeth in their sleep.

They are stressed.

I used to get that one a lot.

I dream of being on missions quite a lot - the particulars of which can be quite confusing...

But when I think about it, it's just my mind's way of interpreting what it is that I am currently working on or have been thinking about a lot recently...

I never have nightmares - just dreams that have a darker aspect.

Dreams are nothing to be frightened of.

Have you ever dreamed that you suddenly hear a bell and it's your alarm clock going off?

Or fallen and jumped awake?

The first is what's known as external influences - I used to get it with foxes, having dreams that babies were being murdered, until I realised it was foxes.

Then foxes became women crying for me - asking me to come out and play.

Turns out the sound was the foxes mating, erm... noises...

I fall or trip sometimes - it's usually one of the first dreams if I have it.

It's because, when you fall asleep, your body paralyses itself so you don't act out your dreams (which is a good thing when I get into fights in my dreams - I practice Martial Art: http://www.seloundo.com ) and the jerk is your body's way of saying - I'm not quite ready to dream yet...

Let's start the sleep process again...

We all fill in the gaps in our dreams and there is no way of knowing if it is the actual dream or our interpretation of it.

What does matter is that you DO remember it. That it has some significance to your life.

Internal influence is what this is called. What you are thinking of, what you are doing, who you are, what you associate with certain emotions - how you personify them...

The last type is what's known as a "prophetic dream" and these are usually a combination of the two mentioned above.

It's the type that allows you to see where you've been, where you are - and helps you understand where you want to be...

There is such a thing as lucid dreaming - being able to take control of your REM sleep (Rapid Eye Movement), which is the state of sleep where you dream. There are several periods of these, which is why dreams can seem confusing. It's because they all blur into one...

How you make the connexions between them is your own mind filling in the gaps.

This is sub-conscious mostly, but can be done consciously too.

I can wake myself up from a dream I am not enjoying and think about what it means, to me, and then relax and sleep once more.

I can also jump, or fly, away from situations in dreams that are effectively the same thing, but allow me to stay asleep.

That's quite hard.

Remembering your dreams is a very good thing to be able to do - it gives you some insight into yourself.

Being aware of this and putting it into action helps you understand life a lot easier.

It has helped mine immensely - I am happy.

My girlfriend had night terrors for a few nights until she remembered the dream - when I helped her understand what it meant, she acted in her waking life on the subject, and now she sleeps like a baby once again.

Just very loud snoring baby...

Whether you are fabricating the links or not doesn't matter - it's still all your own mind.

And you know that better than anyone else.

Answer 7

i remember all my dreams, especially if i,am dreaming about a woman.

Answer 8

You don't know if your mind is fabricating.  Memory is not free from error at all.  In fact, studies show that memories can be conjured by people when something is described to them, but the memory is false because the researchers interviewed family members of each participant before and after the experiment.  Participants "remembered" events that were merely null suggestions made by the researchers.

In terms of dreams, if there is a strong emotional component in a dream, it will more than likely be remembered and that same emotion will occur with each recall of the dream.  The amygdala in the center of the brain is the part which is believed to attach emotion to thoughts, and only when it is activated by experiencing unusually high level of emotion during sleep will a memory be formed and stored.  

What you believe to be a memory may also be a figment of your imagination, a result of your creativity, or a memory of a dream.  If there is a strong emotional impact upon recall of the "dream" memory, then it probably was an actual dream you are recalling.  Detach the emotion from the images you are recalling and the dream will fade and become another of your millions of subconscious thoughts and memories being stored.

Answer 9

Dreams usually do not imprint on the permanent memory of people.  Most dreams, unlike the extremely shocking or interesting dreams, are forgotten within an hour.  The mind is a miraculous thing, and since a dream is only the chemical processes of a restless mind, and usually limited to the most temporary of memory processes, you can easily alter or rearrange memories.