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Why do we vividly remember our dreams ~5 minutes after waking up then promptly forget every detail? (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by echoplex21@lemmy.world to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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It’s weird how I’ll see a dream and really ponder over it right after waking only for it to be completely out of my memory shortly after.

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[-] faintwhenfree@lemmus.org 18 points 10 months ago

Basically when you sleep only RAM works and no ROM storage is active, when you wake up ROM comes online, if you don't pull data from RAM fast, it will be overwritten by other things and you lose it forever.

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