The Science Behind Why We Forget 90% of Dreams in Minutes

Within five minutes of waking… most humans forget nearly 90% of their dreams. Neuroscience suggests the reason lies in the strange chemistry of sleep. During REM sleep, the stage when dreams are most vivid, the brain’s hippocampus—responsible for forming long-term memories—works differently than when we are awake. At the same time, levels of norepinephrine, a neurotransmitter crucial for memory encoding, drop to almost zero. #DreamScience #SleepMystery #HumanBrain