Short term momory

[Pebbilita]

Hi I'm not sure if this happens to anyone else but as I go to bed and i'm half asleep I start to have the beginnings of a dream� But if I then shift my body position say from lying on my left side to lying on my right side my thoughts completely change and I can't remember what I was thinking about when I was lying on my other side just moments ago� does that happen to anyone else and if so does anyone know why? Thank you

[Bazile]

Dont know the answer to your question

Something not too dis- similar hapens to me sometimes , in that I can be having a vivid dream - then I wake up and cant remember what the dream was about

[nucleardream]

Yes, I too at time have similar experiences...my mind will be experiencing random thoughts of subconsciousness just prior to drifting into sleep. One that happens every now and then is my mind will perceive a voice of someone saying my name. I won't actually "hear" my name being said, but will perceive the sound somehow in my mind.

That being said, I also have fleeting moments of profound brevity in which I will have a thought of something (the start of a dream, perhaps) and then as you mention quickly, but indefinitely, will forget what I had been thinking about. This tends to happen more with thoughts of people, or relationships with people. I have never pondered whether these fleeting thoughts are a product of changing bodily position...I always assumed they just happen.

[Bob A Job]

Dreams are the expressions of your subconcoius mind, very often if we are worried about things we will have very vivid dreams losely connected to that worry, and wake up feeling much better about the thing we were worring about (hence the phrase 'sleep on it'). The reason we dream is argued continously, and deprived of dreams we quickly become psycotic, depressed and violent. I think dreams are the only way we have to deal with the chaos of the crazy world we live in.
Because dreams are the subconcious mind, our concoius mind only interprets them in unusual, unconnecting ways, much like reflex images flashing away in our minds which we have no control of, and our brains learn very early on not to remember them as the would confuse our waking minds. occasionally we repeat the same dreams (normally because of a repeating problem in our lives) and these dreams become easier to remember.

The part im facinated about is the instant where we actually fall asleep and detach our minds from our bodies and give way to the subconcoius mind. During this time our bodies are paralysed and the only two things that we control is our breathing and eye movement (dreams a catagorised by R.E.M. sleep - Rapid Eye Movement). At the point where the concoius mind switched off there can often be a spark where it doesnt quite switch off cleanly and our bodies jerk, often as if recieving an electrical shock. and we all know what that feels like.

[Peter Pedant]

Thnags happening as you go off or wake up from sleep are called

hypnopompic

and hypnogogic phenomena.

try googling and seeing what happens (do this whist awake!)