Do you find it hard to remember your dreams?

I don't remember my dreams, I don't even remember that I saw a dream when I was sleeping ..

Sometimes I can, sometimes I can't. It all depends on how I wake up. If I'm woken by my alarm, sometimes I wake up in a different part of the sleep cycle, I guess. When I don't get enough hours of sleep, I often have a harder time remembering my dreams. However, sometimes I can remember multiple dreams from one night, sometimes all in great detail. When I do wake up and I can remember, I need to keep thinking about it for a while, so that it can get into my LTM and this is easiest if I write my dreams down immediately. I keep a dream journal, so all the dreams I can remember are recorded. Keeping a dream journal actually has improved my dream recall. If a person's subconscious is getting the message that dreams aren't important, then they won't remember their dreams very well. If your actions and thoughts are telling it that your dreams are important, then you will have a better chance at remembering. I love my dreams and I find them very useful in understanding what I'm really thinking and also in working out my problems. Not to mention that they are really fun. :)

Sometimes. I used to keep track of them just to do it. I was told that if you keep a notebook by the bed and go to bed intent on remembering then you will. If you wake up in the nite, record what you were dreaming and also first thing in the morning before getting up. Eventually, you remember them easier.

Scientists, psychologists and other medical experts have been trying to understand the dream process for decades. While they have made significant progress in recent years the mysterious world of dreams still fascinates us. One of the driving forces behind the study of dreams is the belief that they mean something and have a definite purpose in our lives. One of the theories that has long been associated with dreams is that they help us to maintain our mental stability, perhaps by organizing our thoughts as we sleep. Others have proposed that the activity in our brains has two levels, one that occurs when we are awake and one when we are asleep. In this theory, our sleep activity is more complex and goes further toward understanding life and the world around us. Psychologist/researcher Carl Jung believed that this division was even dramatic than proposed in the theories of other scientists. Whatever the purpose of dreams, one part of this process still puzzles scientists and laymen alike. We seem to remember some dreams clearly, while others are “fuzzy” or not remembered at all. One theory suggested that we remember dreams because they help us solve problems that occur in our waking hours. In early studies, scientists tried to find out if the dreams we remember have a practical purpose while those we don’t remember are not as valuable to us. Early theories tried to find out if dreams that occur during REM sleep were remembered more often than dreams at other times. But the results didn’t make a solid connection in this area. One study showed that young people only remembered about 25 percent of dreams that occurred during REM sleep. Personality testing wasn’t able to establish a group of people who were more likely to remember dreams. Those who recall their dreams more often and more clearly don’t seem to be much different than those who don’t remember dreams as often. Research into the world of dreams has recently focused on whether we can improve our dream memory. Some individuals have begun to develop techniques that may help us remember details of dreams that we might otherwise forget. In these studies, there is some evidence that “important” dreams are more likely to be remembered. Results also show that some people are able to hold onto details of dreams because they review them immediately upon waking up. Results of one study show that people who believe their dreams are important are more likely to recall them clearly. If you believe that the details of dreams may be useful to you, it is more likely that you will remember them. Conscious effort to organize the dreams may be crucial to keeping them in our waking memory. In a similar way, dreams that involve trauma or high levels of anxiety may remain with us. Of course, it’s possible that some people are different in chemical ways that cause their brain to hold onto images and actions that occur during sleep. In other words, some people may be “wired” differently and remember dreams without special effort.

I cant remember my dreams. Sometimes I was confuse why im crying and screaming. i think it is not about the age. Maybe it seems that we dont like that dream came true thats why our brain cells automatically delete our dreams.hehehe

i sometimes i cannot remember my dream specially when i woke up after 2 hours already, sometimes, if i woke up then i had a nice dream, i tend to sleep again so my dreams will continue.

Most of the time, I don't. I saw this documentary long ago and it was said there that we have sometimes seven or more dreams in one night, but don't remember most of them. When we wake up, we remember the most recent one. So, in this documentary, the subject of the study was monitored while sleeping and every time he would get to the REM stage of sleep, he would be woken up and made to tell what the dream was about. I sometimes remember dreams that invoked a strong feeling, but sometimes in my dreams my feelings are so exaggerated and I would feel devastated over something that's so mundane in the waking world. I also heard from someone that not remembering your dreams is a sign that you slept well. It is said that those who remember dreams did not have a deep sleep.

Sometimes I remember my dreams, but most of the time I forget them. There are times when I remember them for several days in a row, but sometimes months pass and I don't remember any. What I don't like is that when I remember, it's usually a bad one, I would want to remember my nice ones too.

I'm still 18 too but I can't remember most of my dreams. There are only few dreams that I can remember but most of them I forgot. If I can still remember my dreams by the morning, I think it'll be weird. hehe.

Most of the time I can't even remember my dreams after I wake up, unless if it's something really disturbing or if it's something really out there.

I can remember my dreams although it might take me several hours to remember them. Not all the time though, just some times.