Interpretation of Dreams. Freud, (5)
Why are dreams forgotten after waking?
We always have a feeling that we can remember our dreams only in fragments. Sometimes we know we have dreamt but can't remember anything, sometimes we don't even know that we have dreamt and naturally nothing is recollected. Quite often we dream and think that we remember it fully. While sometimes we remember our dreams in the morning we tend to disremember them when day retreats. On the contrary hours after dreams in the course of day we tend to recollect parts of them. And finally some dreams have 'an extraordinary persistence in the memory.'
There are different reasons upon which we forget our dreams. Strümpell (1877) says that in the first place "all the causes that lead to to forgetting in waking life are operative for dreams as well." Sometimes dreams are forgotten because they are too weak. Still 'very vivid' dreams are forgotten whereas those which are 'shadowy and lacking in sensory force are among those retained in the memory.' Another cause is that we tend to forget events which happen only once while we learn to retain events which are repeated.
Normally upon waking we can remember a dream in fragments. Suppose if a verse line is divided into words making it, it would be harder to remember them than when they are arranged in groupings. Therefore, when thoughts, ideas, and sensations are isolated, we would find it hard to keep them in our memory. When events in a dream form nonsensical disorderliness, it would seem unusal for the memory to retain them as confused and disordered mess. Dreams can be forgotten when time shatters their components into pieces.
Strümpell further believes that dreams are like 'clouds' floating in the 'psychical space' and are scattered 'by the first breath of wind.' Just as stars are discoloured with appearance of the sun early in the morning, dreams, too, seem to give way to impressions of a new day.
Among other causes people's disregard to their dreams can be noticed, too. But important as it may seem to be is the fact that transiton from a less conscious state, if not purely unconscious, to a conscious state leaves little chance of retaining all bonds with the past ie memory of illogical rational free events in the psychic unconscious state.
Jessen (1855) writes that "when we recall dreams ... we almost always ... fill in the gaps in the dream-images... the tendency of human mind to see everything connectedly is so strong that in memory it unwittingly fills in any lack of conherence there may be in an incoherent dream," little knowing that our waking memory has partly completed a partial scenario.
We always have a feeling that we can remember our dreams only in fragments. Sometimes we know we have dreamt but can't remember anything, sometimes we don't even know that we have dreamt and naturally nothing is recollected. Quite often we dream and think that we remember it fully. While sometimes we remember our dreams in the morning we tend to disremember them when day retreats. On the contrary hours after dreams in the course of day we tend to recollect parts of them. And finally some dreams have 'an extraordinary persistence in the memory.'
There are different reasons upon which we forget our dreams. Strümpell (1877) says that in the first place "all the causes that lead to to forgetting in waking life are operative for dreams as well." Sometimes dreams are forgotten because they are too weak. Still 'very vivid' dreams are forgotten whereas those which are 'shadowy and lacking in sensory force are among those retained in the memory.' Another cause is that we tend to forget events which happen only once while we learn to retain events which are repeated.
Normally upon waking we can remember a dream in fragments. Suppose if a verse line is divided into words making it, it would be harder to remember them than when they are arranged in groupings. Therefore, when thoughts, ideas, and sensations are isolated, we would find it hard to keep them in our memory. When events in a dream form nonsensical disorderliness, it would seem unusal for the memory to retain them as confused and disordered mess. Dreams can be forgotten when time shatters their components into pieces.
Strümpell further believes that dreams are like 'clouds' floating in the 'psychical space' and are scattered 'by the first breath of wind.' Just as stars are discoloured with appearance of the sun early in the morning, dreams, too, seem to give way to impressions of a new day.
Among other causes people's disregard to their dreams can be noticed, too. But important as it may seem to be is the fact that transiton from a less conscious state, if not purely unconscious, to a conscious state leaves little chance of retaining all bonds with the past ie memory of illogical rational free events in the psychic unconscious state.
Jessen (1855) writes that "when we recall dreams ... we almost always ... fill in the gaps in the dream-images... the tendency of human mind to see everything connectedly is so strong that in memory it unwittingly fills in any lack of conherence there may be in an incoherent dream," little knowing that our waking memory has partly completed a partial scenario.
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