{"id":35511,"date":"2025-07-30T17:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/no-memory-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T17:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:56:53","slug":"no-memory-2","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/damwebserver.com\/dreamdoctor\/articles\/no-memory-2\/","title":{"rendered":"no memory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi Annie –<\/p>\n

Researchers tell us that, in order to remember being awake during the course of a night, we have to be awake for at least seven minutes! That\u2019s a long time isn\u2019t it? This means – if you were quick and tired – that you could get up and use the bathroom during the night and not even remember it – if you fell back asleep right away. A lot of people also tell stories of answering the phone and having conversations with people in the middle of the night – and not remembering a thing about it the next day!<\/p>\n

What happened with you at camp is totally normal. You did have a confusional arousal – in that you \u201cwoke up\u201d briefly – enough to sit up for a moment or two in bed – but then you plopped back down to sleep. Chances are that, even though you sat up in the bed, you never really were fully awake. During a confusional arousal – you never fully wake up.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll tell you one other interesting thing about confusional arousals: They occur out of non-dreaming sleep. Essentially, it\u2019s harder for us to wake up out of deep, non-dreaming sleep than it is for us to arouse from a dream. As you probably know from experience – sometimes you wake right up from a dream in the middle of the night. When you woke up at camp, I\u2019d put money on it that you \u201cwoke up\u201d out of deep, non-dreaming sleep.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n

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