I Could Only Dream

I wonder why some people remember their dreams more frequently than others. What determines this? Is it something obvious like REM hours? Is it whether someone is a heavy or light sleeper? Or maybe it's something more abstract, like IQ?

I'm curious. I'll probably do some research and post about it later.

Here's a haiku:


I could only dream
That all night I’d see the stars
And lay beside you


It's a really old one I wrote in high school, and it's strange how much more I think it resonates with me now than it ever did in the past. Makes me wonder how much I've really changed.

When I was in high school I trained myself how to remember my dreams for a little while. I would spend the whole night having fantastic, sometimes scary, totally abstract, sometimes vividly realistic dreams that I could recall right away in the morning. I kept a journal next to my bed and wrote them down while they were fresh in my mind. It was almost as if training myself to grab a pen and paper right in the morning kept me in this semi-conscious state where I could easily remember dreams. It was neat while it lasted.