Thread: What dream feature do you find hardest to recall?

Locations, people, conversations, something else?

For me it's recalling people that were in my dream.
Usually I can't recall who I dreamt of specifically so I refer to them as "one of my friends" or "man/woman" in my DJ.
The only exception are the members of my family.

Last night I dreamt my girlfriend died and upon waking I wasn't sure if it was my current gf, a previous one or my imaginary/dream gf.

I can't remember


Nah, I never have problems with people or places, but specific conversations are something else. I usually have large vague points in my dreams which I can't recall, but I always remember people and locations.

People, for sure.

There's almost ALWAYS a friend my own age who accompanies me on my dream adventures. It's always someone who I don't know IRL, and it's someone different every time. But I can never remember for the life of me what their name was or who they looked like. I can remember conversations with the people, how many there are, their gender, even hair color, but faces, names, and personalities remain mysteries to me. However, I have noticed that most of my dream friends are girls.

Dialogue, for me.

It seems like there's always a lot more conversation that occurs throughout the dream, but I can only remember small bits and pieces when I go to write about it. Usually the parts I remember are plot-related, but I'd like to be able to remember all the other conversations that go on.

Dialogue.

I can remember well what my conversations generally consisted of(what we were talking about), but I can never recall exactly what the dream characters and I say

Names... I recall the words, the letters and these things, but always forget names, just like in WL <.<

Events/feelings are the easiest to remember for me as I think is the case for most people.

I can recall places very well. They may be distorted versions of the places, but I know where they were supposed to be.

People I can recall decently. Either I'll recall the people specifically or they will be a member of a group of people I know (high school friends, college friends, family, etc).

With dialogue/things I've read/songs I've heard I'll usually only recall what it was about in general, but not the specifics.

The dream feature I find hardest to recall is dream transitions. Sometimes after I wake up I'll notice that I transitioned from one part of the dream to another by maybe looking at a picture and then there is a narrator talking about the picture, and then I'm in the situation that the narrator was describing, but most of the time I just treat those situations at separate dreams because I can't recall the transition.

Originally Posted by John11

Events/feelings are the easiest to remember for me as I think is the case for most people.

I can recall places very well. They may be distorted versions of the places, but I know where they were supposed to me.

People I can recall decently. Either I'll recall the people specifically or they will be a member of a group of people I know (high school friends, college friends, family, etc).

With dialogue/things I've read/songs I've heard I'll usually only recall what it was about in general, but not the specifics.

The dream feature I find hardest to recall is dream transitions. Sometimes after I wake up I'll notice that I transitioned from one part of the dream to another by maybe looking at a picture and then there is a narrator talking about the picture, and then I'm in the situation that the narrator was describing, but most of the time I just treat those situations at separate dreams because I can't recall the transition.

This happens to almost everyone. The new place makes sense in the story line, (ex: You go from your car to your house) but there are blanks in actually getting there. (ex: Pulling up in the driveway and opening the door) I believe it's probably seperate, yet related dreams. You have one dream about the car ride to your house, and a dream where you're actually in your house, so there IS no transition...

I generally remember anything visual very well, except for forgetting exactly who the occasional person is. But anything audio, like sound and dialogue, I find very hard to remember. The couple times I remember what people say is when it's either right before I wake up, or in a lucid and I repeat it over and over in the lucid, then also when I wake up. I can't remember when anyone says something funny!

People and dialogue.

With people, it's more that I remember the idea of someone being there. Unless those people have some profound affect on me (like if they are a close friend of mine, or a love interest), their faces are pretty much a blur by the time I wake up.

The same with dialogue. I can usually remember the gist of a conversation or statement, but unless it just really stands out, I can't remember what I feel is exactly what was said.

I usually remember environments and events pretty vividly, though, especially if they are exciting and/or wondrous.

I also have trouble remembering specific people or dialogue. However, I always know what group of people a DC represents, and what the dialogue was about. For instance, last night, I had a fight with my wife (I am not married) over working with attractive women. I don't remember a single line of dialogue, or my wife's face.

I also seem to 'cut' to different parts of dreams.

By the way, first post, learned about lucid dreaming yesterday, tried to work on dream recall w/mantras, and remembered 4 dreams last night. I only remember three dreams other than those.

Great site, glad to be a part of it.

I'm sure I don't have ears, a nose, fingers and a mouth in dreams. Every memory's visual.

Originally Posted by TheWeirdnessSymposium

I'm sure I don't have ears, a nose, fingers and a mouth in dreams. Every memory's visual.

I don't think I have any smell or taste in dreams. Smell/taste is my weakest sense so it makes sense, hehe.

I had one dream with a special smell it was great. I have problems recalling the places where I was, I have good memory when it comes to who was there.

Dialogue, Plot, and the beginning of dreams. I can never tell where one dream starts and another begins. Also, I mostly remember my dreams as tones of dream fragments, rather than a whole...

Peoples faces and what I am wearing.

I'm having trouble with dialoge. When I'm about to write in my DJ what he/she said I think: (last night as example) OK my French teacher said... HEY WAIT! WHAT DID SHE SAY???

People for me, too. I have two sisters and will have a dream about "my sister," but it's not clear which one. (I also currently have a black cat, and my prior cat was also black, so I have many, many dreams about black cats, but rarely can tell if it's Thelonious or Hammett.)

I'm going to have to give another vote for dialog. With dreams I remember, I know that there was a conversation, but I only remember the emotional contentedn of it. Not the specifics.

Specific dialogue is always difficult, scratch that, impossible for me to remember. I can recall having conversations, and I can recall what they were about, the specific direction the conversation went, basically everything except the words themselves.

I also have some trouble remembering who was with me in my dreams. I'm often with a group of my friends, but I'll only remember one or two of them, and I'll know that there were a few others, but I don't remember who.

The thing I can remember most easily is setting. I can recall specific physical locations in my dreams, even if they're made up. When I first awake from the a dream, usually the only thing I remember is the environment, usually in fairly good detail. After that, the rest of the dream comes to me slowly.

A few times, in fact, I've woken up and recalled a specific physical setting from my dream, but absolutely nothing else.

I have trouble with dialogue. I'm a visual learner, so it would make sense that I'd have a pretty good visual memory. I had a dream a few days ago and there's parts that I can imagine almost exatcly how it was in my dream (specifics like clothing may be foggy or aproximate, but the major things I can recall)

Sometimes dialogue sticks with me, or I have a general idea of what was said, but sometimes, I can't remember at all. I know something was said, but I don't know what

Anything to do with sound, including conversations, I can never remember.

Dialogue,plot and sometimes the beginning as I get a feeling it started differently than what I remember.

Places I remember well though I find it slightly difficult to recall ones that are fading out of memory.

I'm exceptionally good at remembering location and anything visual. I even remember what clothes I or DCs am wearing, sometimes. However, I'm horrible at dialogue. I can recall the subject matter of the conversation(s), but can't account for it word for word.

Originally Posted by Immortal Penguin

Specific dialogue is always difficult, scratch that, impossible for me to remember. I can recall having conversations, and I can recall what they were about, the specific direction the conversation went, basically everything except the words themselves.

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