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Why can't I remember my dreams? Is it bad if you can't remember dreams?
I can never remember my dreams! When I wake up I can remember I had a dream and that I REALLY wanted to (for example) tell somebody about it but I cannot recall ANYTHING about it really. I know I've been dreaming but I can never remember them and it's frustrating. Is it because I don't get very many hours of sleep? Should I see a sleep specialist about it because my best friend said that her dad had to go to one of those before for something...
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No theres nothing wrong with it cause if your cant remember your dreams its because you finished them. When you finish a dream you cant remember a thing about it sometimes you dont even think you had a dream if you are woken up without finishing your dream only THEN do you remember it. No one knows why though.
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This is perfectly normal. Some people remember their dreams, some don't.
Try sleeping with a pen and paper near your bed. AS SOON AS you wake up, write down ANYTHING you remember about it. I had to do this for a week as a homework assignment, and it really did help. I do tend to remember my dreams, but if I don't think about them, I quickly lose the plot of my dream. When I was doing this assignment, however, I was able to remember MUCH MORE about what I dreamed than usual. Probably because I had to remain focused on it and write about it while it was extremely fresh in my memory.
Also, because your body cycles through sleep stages at night (there are 5 stages, the last being REM sleep), you may not be remembering your dream very well simply because you woke up in the middle of stage 1 - 4, in which you haven't been dreaming (yes, it IS possible to dream in these stages, but only REM sleep = vivid and emotionally envolving dreams). Try setting your alarm clock earlier or later. Maybe if you are jolted awake in the middle of REM sleep, you'll remember your dream. I'm not guaranteeing that trying this will happen, however. There is a high probability that you ALREADY wake up during REM sleep because, as your body passes through each sleep cycle (lasting about 100 min), you spend less and less time on nonREM sleep and more and more time on REM sleep.
But seriously, those ^ are just tips to see if you can remember any dreams. If you can't, it is perfectly normal and not a medical condition of any sort.
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I've been a lucid dreamer most of my life, From my personal point of view. I think dreams come when you don't try.
Dreaming comes with being aware of your subconsciousness, Your surroundings.
From my point of view:
Dreaming is a gift, Being aware in your dreams that you are dreaming helps dreams itself to become more powerful and easier to accomplish. You dream of things that bother you, You dream of things that you have not resolved in your waking life. Things that fear us, We dream to over come the fear. To dream comes with practice, Training and mind control. If you tell yourself "I'm going to dream tonight" the chances are you will not dream. If you are on medications, Sometimes that can also trigger dreaming because your brain is drugged. (As I've experienced the difference)
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No no no.. It's perfectly normal to not remember your dreams.
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