Young children don seem to recall many dreams. Why is that?
There’s evidence, based on over 1,000 awakenings during REM sleep in a laboratory setting, that children under age 9 just don’t dream that much. Some people claim that their young children dream a lot, based on verbalizations they make during sleep, but this may just be “sleeptalking.” We all have several little awakenings of a few seconds each night that we don’t remember in the morning, and that may be when preschool children are doing some of the mumbling that is mistaken for dreams.
