Dream recall frequency is associated with attention rather than with working memory abilities.
Journal of Sleep Research October 1, 2022 Salomé Blain, Aurélien De la Chapelle, Anne Caclin et al.
Several factors influencing dream recall frequency (DRF) have been identified, but some remain poorly understood. One way to study DRF is to compare cognitive processes in low and high dream recallers (LR and HR). According to the arousal-retrieval model, long-term memory encoding of a dream requires wakefulness while its multisensory short-term memory is still alive. Previous studies showed...
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Dream recall
Dreaming
Attentional filter
Audition
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