You only remember the ones where the plot goes totally off the rails, dialogue makes no sense, and acting is just bizarre. Whoever is writing this trash is chronically incapable of producing anything even remotely good. It’s either forgettably mediocre or experimental chaos and pure madness.

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    11 hours 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.

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      10 hours 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?

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        8 hours 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.