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    10 months ago

    Memories are attached to where you are.

    You have a bucket of memories attached to home, school, work, waking, dreaming, etc.

    Change where you are and you change the bucket of memories that you have access to.

    The granularity of this effect depends on how rattled you are.

    The effect can be extreme. To the point that you lose consciousness between locations.

    It explains why we forgot our dreams when we wake up in the morning.

    • That last point is kind of bogus. The reason why we forget our dreams when we wake up is because the long term memory sectors of the brain are inactive during REM sleep.

      Thats why you can only remember them if you put immediate effort into remembering after you woke up. Once you are awake you have access to long term memory and your dreams are still in your short term memory.