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.
Hello I liked this post. Did you tell anything about your adventures in lucid dreams?
Hi Rainer,
Not yet. The site is still building up. But I intend to do this in a few weeks (5-6 weeks that is
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Thanks for your nice comment. I’m making the blog dofollow when I have time, so you will have a new link to your blog
Olivier.
Hi Olivier,
Luckily I don’t have too many of those (lucid dreams). I actually remember my dreams not often which indicates that I don’t dream much these days. I used to dream a lot more and remember them every morning. But, I also didn’t sleep well back then.
Hi, everybody dreams 7 to 9 times a night, but one seldomly remembers them. Look at my post on hindrances to dream recall : http://astral-projection.gettingrichthecertainway.net/2008/05/hindrances-dream-recall/ to see what could be the cause of you remembering less dreams.
Howdy…
I am not a regular dreamer…but everytime I dream, it must be something weird and out of logic.I can recall 70% of dreams. I heard from a friend whether one can remember his dreams is depend on the time you wake up.Though I am not sure it is right or wrong.
Wow, 70% of your dreams, that means 4 or 5 dreams every night. That is pretty impressive.
I’m roughly at 70% of all the days I remember 1 dream or more. I think that for me that is already a good achievement.
Let’s keep up the good work.
I dont rememeber my dreams as well. But, I have heard that morning dreams come true.
I really dont want to remember my dream as it can make me unhappy if the dream is not good.
I can reassure you, morning dreams do not always come true. 99% of the cases, dreams are symbolic. And they can tell you something about your past, present or future.
But mostly, they tell you something about who you are: your fears, angers, wants, etc. You can use them to change your life. That is why remembering is so crucial.
I’ve never paid much attention to my dreams but coming across this website has made me ask quetions about the types of dreams i’ve been having and what they mean! thanks
Dreams are interesting indeed. You post inspired me to compare my current dreams with the picture of my youth visions. Thank you for the wonderful fiesta in mental realm. The changes gave me a real shake. The changes looked the obvious. While my dreams were my supporters then , they teach me the humbleness now . However, the roots remain the same and the taste of the mystery didn’t change too. Yet have I the right to call that a mystery. I never looked at my dreams like at a fantasy. What touches me while dreaming looks more real than what I encounter at awakening. Therefore I heartily thank you for the help to remind my homeland - dreams support the resistance to the worldly logic and the hearty “thank you” comes out of itself while approaching other - even the prior unknown passerby becomes the precious fellow. Wow, you are welcomed to my blogs (to my art galleries on line) My dreams are my pictures and I dare to hope that they will talk more plainly than this text that was written with the vocabulary in hand. You are heartily welcomed to
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I had quite a strange dream last night, I was in the hospital… and the nurse’s were about to give me a lethal injection, and she told me she was going to do it as soon as she was almost ready to do it. When the injection went into my body, it was weird, because I actually felt a very weird warm sensation on my body, and I immediately woke up from the dream. It is… weird how what I was experiencing in the dream, was felt threw my body in the real world. I don’t know if I did a good job to explain myself… I still don’t know what to make of the dream…