Dreamtime
by Cheki Boggus

Here's a possibility regarding remembering dreams:

Could it be that we are the result of an evolutionary process which selected for poor recall of dreams? Whatever dreams are, clear, detailed recall of dreams would surely have gotten in the way of waking survival behavior. If we had remembered dreams in detail 100,000 years ago, we would've had a much greater tendency to sit around thinking about them all day instead of fending off sabre-tooth tigers or whatever.

Still, it is also possibly significant that the selection against dream recall was not even close to total. As many people have found, with practice you can learn to remember dreams in rather extraordinary depth and with regularity.

Could it then also be that we are evolutionarily now at a place where it would be to our advantage to remember--and explore--the dream world?

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