Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 week ago
Good thought…
But no, dreams are forgettable because they are built that way: the stuff the brain uses to create memories is disabled during dreams.
This is because, otherwise, you would just keep hallucinating without being able to discern between reality and dreams.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Does that mean that people who lose their ability to reliably form new memories (like anterograde amnesia or Alzheimer’s) experience reality like a dream?
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Probably not. When awake, your brain is processing real input from your sensory systems (sight, sound, smell, etc). When dreaming, your brain fabricates those inputs, essentially replaying the neural circuitry from the dark and quiet comfort of your bed. Even without forming long-term memories, reality will still obey the laws of physics and causality but dreams don’t have to.