Why do we forget our dreams?

>>40781580 (OP)
I don't

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>>40781580 (OP)
It's probably the same reason we forget our past lives. The powers that control the world wouldn't benefit from us actually remembering and learning.

>>40783058
Yes they do

PTSD

>>40781580 (OP)
I think because whoever is running this planet has got some kind of hypnosis field going, that not only dulls the senses of people (especially normies), but it causes memory loss too. Weirdly enough, post time-skip boruto manga (two blue vortex, a manga that flies over /a/ and most of normie anime viewers, because they can't draw the parallels) drops some interesting clues regarding this and other conspiracy topics (future sight, navigating timelines to get best outcome, demon possession, maybe some kind of battle of ayys/archetypes/minds kind of thing too, similar to how in one piece strong willed "minds" reincarnate and fight one another constantly in different eras, probably happens in first yugioh anime too dunno) .

>>40781580 (OP)
Why do we forget anything? And how do we remember? Memory involves a community, even Platonic memory of the geometric forms or what have you. "Remember when x?" If there is no community of people that dreamt with you then there is no reason to remember.

>>40783125
>hypnosis field
I plead the fifth


Your post would have done more harm than my manipulations if you hadn't warded it using heavy anime references

>>40783125
damn, I forgot to post the picture.. obviously some spoilers lol

>>40781580 (OP)
I sometimes envy people who actually have dreams.
I have to do all my integration work during the day while awake and aware.

>>40783157
If /x/ topcis are too much for you, you're free to go back to reddït or /a/, idiot.

>>40783161
fine I will binge boruto I assumed it was trash, but like Oda's messaging post timeskip I think mangaka are signalling interesting commentary/ideas I know exactly what you mean anon

>>40781580 (OP)
Memory wipe.

>>40783161
man i got told it all but i was i believe tricked into forgetting
ive picked up the pieces though or atleast thats what i think i could just think i am

>>40781580 (OP)
If you didn’t forget your dreams then you would eventually only be able to lucid dream, which would get tiring quickly. The forgetfulness essentially increases “replayability”.

>>40785317
this
and also it becomes really confusing when you remember alot of them...you start mentioning things that happened in dreams and people stare at you funny like "dude that never happened...."

Yeah, if your dreams had long term continuity then you’d essentially live two separate lives (“waking world” and “dream world”), and you would probably lose the ability to tell the difference between either worlds over time. You’d also have to remember twice as much stuff.

>>40785387
You underestimate the brain and mind

>>40785387
>Yeah, if your dreams had long term continuity then you’d essentially live two separate lives (“waking world” and “dream world”)
I can actually answer that. When I used to lucid dream and have OBE events regularly, I had full conscious control even in a sleeping state. You do maintain continuity over both sets of states of awareness.

Dream states do not have a concrete sense of time like the waking state does. It can compress, stretch, loop, and split at any point and any combination, which is closer to a continuum of state-of-being instead of the momentary point-state-of-being that being in instantaneous timespace inherently progresses at.
>and you would probably lose the ability to tell the difference between either worlds over time.
Dream and waking life were so different that there was no mistaking where I was.
>You’d also have to remember twice as much stuff.
It's not as big of a loss as you'd think. You don't remember much of your past in the waking life beyond the highlights.

>>40781580 (OP)
It depends, many things happen at night while we sleep. The type of dream that you recognize as a dream is only one sort of experience, and the most memorable. There are other types of communications and experiences that you don't really recognize as a dream, and aren't all that similar to things you experience in daily life either. These events are recognized as a 'something happened', but can't really be recalled as a dream per se, because they aren't really normal dreams. They are something like flashes of insight and telepathic communication across vast boundaries of space and time between souls, too quick to normally detect.

>>40781580 (OP)
I forget them immediately after I open my eyes slightly or look at my phone. The trick is to treat real life like one so you can skip to the good parts

>>40785514
>Dream states do not have a concrete sense of time like the waking state does. It can compress, stretch, loop, and split at any point and any combination, which is closer to a continuum of state-of-being instead of the momentary point-state-of-being that being in instantaneous timespace inherently progresses at.
Everyone thinks dream time should be 1:1 with waking time but that isn't necessarily the case. It's an entirely separate system so it should have its own time that can decouple from the waking world.
This is how it works in video games or simulations or even movies. If you increase the clock speed relative to the virtual world outside time slows down, and if you decrease the speed outside time speeds up.
In other words if you put a video game on 2x speed inside the game you would feel no change, but outside time would slow down by half.
In the waking world time is a global parameter of this world we find ourselves in. In the dream time is a parameter set by the mind.
Even from a materialist perspective this makes sense. If dreams are only hallucinations computed by the brain like a simulation then there's no reason they should be logically consistent with the outside waking world. Do games follow reality 1:1? No.

>>40783162
Try amanita muscaria tea. I can tell you how to prepare it if you'd like. Just remember, about 3.25 grams is a decent dose, and use pieces from different caps, not full caps.

I think dream memory is a bit like a muscle that must be trained. Yeah, just like regular memory. keeping a dream notebook would probably help.

>>40785908
>keeping a dream notebook would probably help.
That really is the key. You tie a task from a highly aware waking life to one where it's less aware from the start. It's a type of bootstrapping where you use a competent skillset to prop up one that is weak, until it's no longer weak.

Notebook is cheap. Back to school season is in effect stateside so they can buy notebooks cheap. Haven't been in school for a while but I do remember spiral bound notebooks selling for $0.10 each.

>>40783058
You guys forgot?

>>40785927
>surge of strange thoughts that feel like memories
It's usually a feeling of a heightened awareness that I'd liken to how an AI has the reserve compute of entire server farms and the bandwidth to surge through the internet for the right sources to read from.