Dreams

There may actually be something to the scientific findings of sleep cycles. That is, there is a point in time between the cycles where the brain is dreaming. If awoken during a dream cycle, the hypothesis was that the sleeper was more likely to recall a dream. Of course, this implies that the dream would not be completed as a result, and that the recollection would probably be more powerful if interrupted in the middle of a dream cycle.

I note that I do appear to recall dreams more often when working and schooling, presumably because I wind up using the alarm clock to wake me. Given that work tends to get me staying up late, the alarm has actually a pretty good chance of cutting sleep off in the middle of a dream cycle. They really do appear to be around 3 hours apiece, since I tend to get just slightly less than 6 hours of sleep on average. If I sleep earlier and get precisely 6, I do not recall dreams. Hmm...