I used to remember my dreams quite vividly as a younger man. In the past decade or so, not so much. A lot of the time, I recall drifting off to sleep, then being awake the next morning (or whenever), but nothing in between. However, I have noticed one weird facet which may be just me: I typically have vivid recall of my dreams whenever I sleep in a place that is not my typical bed.
I noticed a few years back when I was floating around between apartments. For a stretch of a few years, various circumstances caused me to move around to a few different places (including moving to a new city) every six months or so. Each time I moved, I would have intense dream recollection on the first or second night in my new room, before losing it again.
I’ve noticed this same thing whenever I stay over a night in someplace different from my normal bedroom. Whenever I am out of town and stay in a hotel or at a friends’ house, I can recall great detail about what I dreamed. Once or twice, on a lazy Sunday, I would doze off on the couch on my living room and began dreaming.
Even just changing the position of my bed in my bedroom triggered it. This past weekend, I decided I did not like how I had laid out my bedroom and moved things around, so that the bed was against another wall. Guess what?
My question is/questions are – is this a normal facet of dreaming? Does anybody else notice this happening to them? And if this is a typical occurrence, any ideas as to what causes it?