Dementia And Dreams

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Recently, I have been having dreams that I feel relate to what is occurring in my life. My dreams include people and themes that have been going on in my life while I am awake. Due to this, I was interested in knowing how memory loss would affect our dreams. I decided to research more about dreams and dementia because memory loss disrupts daily life in people with dementia. My hypothesis was that people with dementia wouldn’t have memories based on their waking life experiences, but dreams about more bizarre images and stories that are tougher to interpret. When they do dream about their waking life experiences is it more about their past experiences or present? Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia are both common forms of dementia,