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This is only tangentially related, but when I was a teenager I practiced remembering my dreams. And now I cannot forget them.

This is actually negativity impacting me. I often get reality confused with something I have dreamed. I cannot always remember if a conversation I had occurred in my dreams or in reality.

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I've had this somewhat while taking prozac. My dreams are so vividly remembered, and the contents of those dreams often so mundane, that its not always obvious to me which is which (e.g. dreaming that I bought eggs and milk). I think this is why we're actually supposed to forget memories; they are counterfactuals used to train the brain to avoid overfitting, but not supposed to interfere with our actual recollection of what has and has not occurred.

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