Do you always remember your dreams? Researchers may know why

How often do you remember dreams? Have you ever woke up to know that you dreamed, but haven’t been able to recall the details? It turns out that the ability to remember sleep can be influenced by a combination of factors.

Researchers in Italy have spent the last four years studying Morning Dream Recall as it is called by posting their findings On Monday in the magazine Psychology of communication. Their work explores how different features and behavior at first glance affect our ability to remember our dreams when we wake up. Understanding the dynamics of the morning recall of dreams is significant to studying dreaming as a whole – a mysterious brain function that continues to avoid precise scientific understanding.

“Our discoveries suggest that a dream reminder is not only a matter of chance, but a reflection of how personal attitudes, cognitive features and the dynamics of their dream interact,” says lead author Giulio Bernardi, a psychologist at the IMT’s advanced research school, Luke , at a university statementS “These insights not only deepen our understanding of the mechanisms behind dreaming, but also have a reflection on the study of the role of dreams in mental health and in the study of human consciousness.”

Bernardi and his colleagues studied over 200 participants between the ages of 18 and 70. The researchers asked participants to record their dreams and carry a dream to monitor sleep for a 15-day period. Before and after this period, the participants completed tests and questionnaires on various personal topics, including their interest in dreams, the tendency to distract and levels of anxiety.

Researchers are watching a wide range of dream recall capabilities among participants, along with several potential influencing factors. For example, people with self-respecting a positive view of dreams and the tendency to dream of more often remember their dreams. The seasons also seemed to play a role, as in the spring there was a total higher percentage of recalling dreams, unlike that in winter.

People who spent more time in a light dream, as well as young people in general, were also more likely to remember their dreams. The older people, on the other hand, were more awakened by the feeling of being dreamed, but failed to remember the dream -a phenomenon that researchers called “white dreams”. Interestingly, their “observations support the idea that white dreams represent real sleep experiences, with the memories of their content fading upon awakening,” they wrote in the study.

“The data collected under this project will serve as a reference for future comparisons with clinical populations,” says Valentina Elce, the first author of the study and a doctoral degree in cognitive, computational and social neuronuts, also at the IMT -advanced school. “This will allow us to move on to the studies on pathological changes in dreaming and their potential prognostic and diagnostic value.”

It is worth emphasizing that dreams are self -reported, which makes the study vulnerable to bias. However, Bernardi, Else and identifying their colleagues for potential influences on the recall of Morning Dream, nevertheless sheds light on a mysterious brain function that has conquered humanity for millennia.