dreams are nothing more than wishes, and a wish is just a dream wished to come true.

what is the science behind dreams?

why is it that the ones that stick out the most in our heads or are the easiest to remember are the bad ones?

if dreams really are our brains going kinda haywire in unconscious state of our own minds, why can't we ever remember them once we've woken up?

for example, i'm pretty sure the dreams i had the past couple of nights were pretty decent. not great, but definitely not nightmares. but i can't remember a single thing about any of them. however, i can remember pretty much every vivid detail about a nightmare i had almost a year ago. actually, probably over a year ago. it was terrifying. i was running all over what looked like a hybrid of the dana hall and cmu campuses, trying to escape from a ridiculous hoard of murderous spiders. [think harry and ron escaping from aragog and children in the chamber of secrets.] and then a certain someone can to try and save my ass, and consequently got shot in the chest. [by spiders?...y'know. them and their opposable thumbs...or any finger, for that matter.] i woke up before i got to find out if that person died or not. or if i finally got abducted and murdered by the swarm of ravenous spiders. dude. i don't even know what i did to them to piss them off. seriously. we should've killed that damn spider we found in the car. i swear that's what caused that stupid nightmare.

i can effortlessly recall moments of that nightmare. but i, for the life of me, can't remember a single good dream. not even scraps of one. lame as.

how do dreams work?

do we dream every night?

are nightmares the ones that stick just because we're scared of them? it's like ingraining a subconscious fear into our brains, whereas dreams are just there to be enjoyable, but not something that people typically carry with them forever? does that make sense?

or maybe its the way they end. a dream dissipates off gradually as you wake up, but a nightmare can be aggressive enough to just jolt you awake halfway through so it doesn't have a chance to just wear off before you regain consciousness.

whatever the reasoning, this is a shit deal.