Why do often we forget what we dreamt after waking up?

Question

Why do often we forget what we dreamt after waking up?

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Answer 1

It has to do with the way memories are stored.

In the case of dreams, they’re not. There’s very little purpose to storing dreams–so all we get is the little bit of short-term memory for most dreams, with the occasional dream being encoded into mid-term or long-term memory.