It’s weird how I’ll see a dream and really ponder over it right after waking only for it to be completely out of my memory shortly after.

  • SadSadSatellite @lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    272·
    11 months ago

    Dreams don’t really make any sense. When you wake up, you’re remembering the emotions and linking them with images, but as the feelings fade, unless you were actively making them into a narrative, the random stimulus soup doesn’t have any staying power worth remembering. Trying to remember just corrupts your working memory and will make you change and add details that weren’t there. Same reason eye witness testimony is very often wrong.

    • DarkenLM@kbin.social
      71·
      11 months ago

      I don’t know about you, but I can recall and recount perfectly a dream I had almost 15 years ago about a battle in a warzone.

      Weirdly enough, two years later I was caught in an irl war. I still think that’s interesting, even though it is most likely coincidence.