So I have this tiny thing I made up. I still want to hear what you think about it, of course.
OK, when we are awake, we put memories into either long or short. The short, in short, does not get deleted, but simply lost. Then we have the third, which is the buffering (as young baby you would probab use this most) it temporaly stores the data, but eventually it will be gone. Dreams are then mostly put into that part. We quickly have to copy the data to the other areas, preferably the long ones. We can do that by writing it down. Your dream is now saved.
So I thought, what if we could control this memory storage to our benefit? That we could put things directly into the permanent partition? or… yeah… but you get my point. what do you actually think about it?
could work. Yesterday I was to lazy to write my dream down so i thought about it alot and I can still remember it (I’m just wondering when it will fade away)
Hm… I got off topic with this one with the first post. :o What I really meant to do was to ask on people’s beliefs on how memory works. Not create fiction myself! Sorry for that, sloppy on my part.
It’s just that dreams, no matter how solid on one time, can disappear all on the other time, while awake moments are simply transcribed into our mind for alot of time.
I think another reason why dreams can be hard to recall is their randomness and them being non-chronological.
If you want to remember something that happened during day, you can simply move through the day step by step until you get to the point that you wanted to recall or do the reverse by starting at your current location.
To remember a dream it’s much harder, because dreams start at random place and change randomly. Since the dream environment is random, you can’t recall it by stepping forward/backwards from the moment you fell asleep/woke up. Even if you do remember a fragment of the dream (usually by a random thought), you can only recall it back and forward in time until the point that the dream started,ended or randomly changed.
That’s also why you never immediately recall the beginning of a dream when you wake up…there’s simply no trigger to recall that memory other then playing the dream backwards in your mind.
