Urban Myth

i was thinking about the way we record dreams, essentially based on our waking memories of these dreams, can’t always or entirely be truthful. i learnt that as our mind wakes up, the chemical composition in the brain changes quickly, thereby causing our memory of the dream to slip quickly away. if one is to wake up in the nrem stages, it’ll be less likely to remember the dream. doctor emmanuel mignot pointed out that the biggest difference between the state of rem sleep and wakefulness lies in our memory during these periods. hence more often than not, our memory of dreams includes some imaginary input on our part. the idea of trying to capture and memorialize the fleeting and intangible through a mixture of memory and fantasy seems in some ways similar to urban myths, based on ancient beliefs and personal experiences. for someone who hardly dreams or remembers her dreams, this is somewhat intriguing.

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