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Yes, it's like not being able to remember your dreams, or things when you're too drunk.

> it's like not being able to remember your dreams

That's just aggressive garbage collection happening when you wake up, arguably so you don't risk confusing dreams and reality :-)

But you can somewhat partially work around it by taking notes right after waking up, before doing anything else.

You know you're on HN when people refer to neurology in terms of pointers and garbage collection.

Yep. Of course, one needs to adapt the speech to the audience :-)