Magazine article
Why do some of us vividly remember dreams and others say they ‘don’t dream’?
The Conversation, Vol.3 March 2026
2026
Appears in Thompson Institute Research Collection
Abstract
Some mornings, you wake up and the dream is right there. Clear and vivid. You might still feel the emotion in your chest, and it can take a few minutes to remember where you are and what was real.
Other mornings, you open your eyes and there is nothing. Just a quiet sense of having slept.
You might know people who think they do not dream. However, the reality is we all do. Sometimes we have many in one night.
What varies is whether people remember their dreams and how often they remember them.
Details
- Title
- Why do some of us vividly remember dreams and others say they ‘don’t dream’?
- Authors
- Yaqoot Fatima - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Thompson InstituteDanielle Wilson - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Thompson InstituteNisreen Aouira - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Thompson Institute
- Publication details
- The Conversation, Vol.3 March 2026
- Publisher
- Conversation Media Group
- Date published
- 2026
- DOI
- 10.64628/AA.7d3hy5fux
- ISSN
- 2201-5639
- Copyright note
- © The Conversation Media Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Organisation Unit
- Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Thompson Institute
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 991216247802621
- Output Type
- Magazine article
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