[jraph]

> it's like not being able to remember your dreams

That's just aggressive garbage collection happening when you wake up, arguably so you don't risk confusing dreams and reality :-)

But you can somewhat partially work around it by taking notes right after waking up, before doing anything else.

[momento]

You know you're on HN when people refer to neurology in terms of pointers and garbage collection.

[jraph]

Yep. Of course, one needs to adapt the speech to the audience :-)