pilfer said:
That's not really true. I remember a lot of dreams for a really long time. Sometimes I'll revisit old dreams. There's this one where I'm at a carnival playing that game where you shoot water into the balloon to fill it up, the carnie there always gives me advice, usually relationship or life advice, and he always remember me and I remember him. Sometimes he'll bring up issues we've talked of in the past.
Well you get dreams and vivid dreams that have a lot of detail which you can remember. There will always be a dream you remember really good.
Also the revisiting thing can't be explained but again the brain is mysterious.
But most people have brains that don't store the dreams as they are classified as "useless".
Its basically short term memory which only stores small information. Its like when you go into a room and had an objective but when you get there you forget; but later you remember it again. It might be because you think of remembering what you wanted to do and then it just snaps to you .
The brain is truly remarkable.