I wake up and remmber them just for a second then when i get going in the morning i just forget them. And its a 50% time i remember them when i go to bed at night and all i rember that it was good or bad but not any details. any ideas on whats wrong?

Hi, to remember a dream takes time, you have to practice remembering them or you will never get it.

The first thing you should do is keep a journal, when you wake up just write what you remember down, and read it a couple times, after a while youll start remembering more. Then pretty soon you wont need to write it down anymore and it will come naturally. This is also a good technique if you are going to practice lucid dreaming.

Your brain does not always have the "record" function on. We take it for granted during the day, as we tend to try to record everything we experience. An analogy would be when you were an infant. The reason you can't remember your nascent years is not because it was so long ago (if that were the case, you'd soon forget being 6, then a year later forget being 7, then 8, and so on). The reason is a baby's brain hasn't figured out to start recording everything quite as efficiently as an older brain.

Similarly, your dream brain isn't a very good recorder. To remember something, your brain has to recall the pathway to retrieving the information. Your daytime brain has gotten good at this. Your nighttime brain, far more undisciplined, misplaces many details of your dream. This is why you sometimes remember dream details weeks or months later.

Lastly, you probably don't remember your dreams because there wasn't as much to your dreams as you originally thought. Your dreams "cheat" in certain regards, fooling you into thinking they're longer and more intense than they are. Your brain just shows you an image and orders you to be scared, or happy, or sad, and you do. This is why scary dreams seem scariest when you first wake up, sex dreams seem the most appealing when you first wake up, etc. Think about dreams a day later and they've lost most of their luster. One reason dreams seem longer than they are is because you fill in the gaps -- if you're in a house and then in a field, after you wake up you add details that weren't there, like the actual trip from the house to the field. Then later when you can't remember it, you think you've forgotten it.

In reality, dreams are short, disjointed snapshots that make little to no sense. We add details and meaning to them in our awake life.