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Why Do We Forget So Many of Our Dreams? - Coggle Diagram
Why Do We Forget So Many of Our Dreams?
Neurological reasons for forgetting
Areas long-term storage deactivated
Short-term memory active
Holds memory for 30s
Need waking up in REM
Next stage = memory loss
Factors influencing dream recall
Gender
Woman more
Age
Young people more
Decline starts in 20s
Introverted more than extroverted
Linked to susceptibility to hypnosis
Last dream more likely
Linked to imaginativeness
Improving recall
Immediately after waking
Think about dream before moving
Dream to long-term memory
Dreams slip unless recorded
Write down immediately
More focus dreams daytime
Thinking/talking about dreams often
Pappas, S. (2023, September 30).
Why do we forget so many of our dreams?
. Scientific American.