Friday, 13 November 2009

Sleep Amnesia: Why Do We Forget Our Dreams?

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Do you ever have nights so filled with dreams that you wake up feeling like you haven't slept at all? Or a night when your head hits the pillow and it seems like one minute later, the alarm's going off and you have no idea where your mind has been for the past eight hours.

Everyone experiences dreamless nights at least once in a while, so unless we're all terrible at remembering dreams, something else must be going on. Does it mean the dreams were too intense for our minds to handle? Is it possible we didn't dream at all?

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