Below are some website recommendations that propose different theories and explanations: 

There are various reasons but the three major hypotheses related to our failure to recall dreams which have been investigated by dream scientists are: repression, salience and interference.”
Source: Why is Dream Forgetting Common?

http://www.sawka.com/spiritwatch/whyis.htm

Different theories of the function of dreams is presented here: The author has the view that we forget our dreams simply because they are not important to us.

http://psych.ucsc.edu/dreams/Library/purpose.html

‘Unless we are woken up during REM sleep and asked to specifically remember our dreams, we normally tend to forget our dreams, especially the earlier REM dreams. Those that spontaneously remember dreams in the mornings only remember the most recent ones…  Dreams are normally illogical, chaotic and unmemorable, and therefore not startling enough to be retained. A frightening nightmare is a different story altogether, because we are woken up by the nightmare at that moment…’

http://www.kktanhp.com/Dream.htm

Reading suggestions:
Sleep and dreaming / Marvin Rosen.
Y English 612.821 ROS

101 things you need to know – and some you don’t! / designed and illustrated by Richard Horne ; written by Tracey Turner and Richard Horne.
English 032.02 TUR

The secret language of dreams : a visual key to dreams and their meanings / David Fontana ; with paintings by Peter Malone.
English 154.634 FON

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All websites last accessed on 7 May 09.

Answered by Ms Farah Adilla Bte Abdullah, Librarian, Adult and Young People’s Services

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