Is this a person who had a really horrible doomsday nightmare and then went to tell their psychiatrist and by the time he/she got there the dream was forgotten?
GJ said about 4 hours later
Nightmare (or perhaps action flick dream...this is a guy, after all), and he feels he must share this with his wife/gf/roomie/whatever....but the dream slips away and by the time he starts relating it, all that's left are scraps that don't even make sense to him.
Back when I used to dream (for whatever reason, I don't remember my dreams anymore and haven't for a long time) this happened all the time. I'm sure Mom and Dad have some great stories about crazy nonsense I'd spout after a nap or a dreamy night of sleep.
Some of the best I still remember today. Think I decided to stop dreaming when I had the same dang dream every night for two weeks, and I ended up getting killed in the dream again and again. Kinda freaked me out, so I decided to have someone else get killed in the dream and viola, once done I never dreamed again.
Marc said about 10 hours later
I don't even have a chance to tell anybody. I like GJ no longer dream...mostly because I don't sleep much, so I basically just pass out, go directly to REM, do not pass go. But whenever I do dream, I wake up, remember just bits and pieces for literally seconds and then it's completely gone.
GJ said about 18 hours later
I get six hours most nights, and usually eight on the weekends. I don't even get snippets--AFAIK, it just isn't happening.