Why would you want to remember your dreams

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This is indeed a very good question. Why wold one bother and try to remember dreams? Most people do not remember their dreams at all and they are perfectly happy with this. So why would one want to remember ones dreams?

It’s fun

Really, it is really fun doing. The life we lead at night is both strange and wonderful. But mostly, remembering dreams gives you a feeling of not having wasted your complete night doing nothing. Actually, one never does nothing. The activity of the brain is always high. Even in deep sleep, the full brain is powered and consuming sugars.

You get to know an other side of yourself

The adventures we have in dreams are for their majority inspired on our daily life. We than can see how we would behave in the absence of social ties. In this way we can learn a lot about ourselves.
What also happens is that we see ourselves behave in some strange irate way during a dream. But when looking at our lives, we might find that we behave just the same. We were just blind to this. Dreams can be a real eye opener.

Lucid dreaming

If you want to become lucid in your dreams, the first thing is to remember them. We can have loads of lucid dreams, but if we keep forgetting them, it is as if we never had them. In lucid dreams, one can actively control the dream and thus perform wonders, or just visit the moon

Prediction

Very rarely, we get premonitions in our dreams. We are warned beforehand of what is going to happen. This gives us the opportunity to try to avoid it, or to mentally prepare us for the event (in the case of something negative) or to start rejoicing (in the case of a positive event).
But beware, the meaning of dreams is not easy to decipher. Dreams are always symbolic, and money can be dirty in dreams, and dead can signify the end of some unhappy condition in our present life.
Nothing is what it seems, and dreams are highly personal.

These are the various reasons why I try to remember dreams. Do you have any special reasons that I omitted? Please feel free to share them in the comments.

To the astral!

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