Why We Forget Our Dream When Wake Up_ Dream Science Facts To Fall Asleep
You wake up knowing you had a dream. A vivid one. Important. But within sixty seconds, it is gone. Vanished like smoke. You remember nothing. This happens every single night. And there is a biological reason.During REM sleep, the neurotransmitter norepinephrine, which is essential for memory formation, is almost completely absent. Without it, the brain struggles to encode dream experiences into long-term storage. The dreams you do remember are usually the ones you wake up during or immediately after. Interrupted REM cycles trap fragments of the dream in your working memory before they…
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