Why do often we forget what we dreamt after waking up?
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Because your brain wasn’t writing it to memory. We don’t really know what dreams are, but last I checked the prevailing theory was that they’re a result of the “conscious” part of our brain trying to translate all the signals running through it into some kind of sensible image. Dreams are a side effect of brain activity, so to speak, and our memory isn’t particularly interested in recording that. In order to record it, the brain would have to acknowledge that it’s constructing a perceived reality and then record what that is, but most of the time the brain doesn’t know that, so it can only write down a few snippets that are particularly strong when you first awaken.
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