5 Nights in a Row -- No Recall... =(

[Bot88]

Sup Guys,
I found this website about a week ago and fell in love with it. I even ordered Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and read the first 50 pages, including the section about dream recall. I have tried to set my alarm clock every night at intervals (including 4.5, 6, hours after I fall asleep and, 90 minute intervals that are close to waking up ) I thought would awaken me during a dream. At these awakenings, I quickly remember to lay still and try to remember my dreams.. No luck. Actually, now that I think of it.. I think I dreamt that I was dreaming, and I woke up, and turned over and wrote it on my dream journal. Well, that sucks cause when I woke up this morning, I was going to read what my dream was about, but the damn pad was empty =(. So here I am, after 4 nights with that one small dream, of all I remember is "waking up to right it down on my pad".

Is this normal for beginners?

[urFAVcookie]

i couldnt remember most of my dreams when i started. but 5 days seems kinda long. have u ever tried waking up after 6 hours of sleep then going back to sleep?

[Seeker]

Don't give up yet. Just give it a little more time. It'll happen.

[Silver Sphere]

I had a bad run of dream amnesia for a while there, but it seems to have cleared up. Last night I dreamed I had a class where the assignment was just to play Zelda, and I still procrastinated at it.

[redneck]

I go for periods of time with no dream recall...then all of a sudden, I will go a long period of time remembering at least one dream or more every night.

[Bot88]

Well, I think I might slowly be starting to have some dreams. Last night, I had a dream, and it was close to the morning. I can't remember much of it though. I think I am realizing that what I thought was day dreaming is actually dreaming in a way.. I dunno, I am not going to give up, so I will just keep trying. It's gotta come soon =)

[Seeker]

Way to go, it'll come!!!

You just posted #11, and you joined on december 11.

That's got to be worth something!

[dougdrums]

Originally posted by Silver Sphere
I had a bad run of dream amnesia for a while there, but it seems to have cleared up. Last night I dreamed I had a class where the assignment was just to play Zelda, and I still procrastinated at it.

lmao

I feel bad for you guys, I can almost always remember at least 3 dreams a night. Keep writing in that pad, and use some mild!

[Bot88]

Are you more likely to remember a lucid dream more than a "regular" dream, because chances are they will excite you more and be more vivid, leading to having a higher chance of a lasting impression on you?

[42]

Yeah I'd say that's about right, Bot88. I find it pretty likely that I'll remember any of my lucid dreams really clearly. I always note to myself within the lucid dream to specifically remember the dream. I am not really conscious enough to make this mental note when I'm not lucid. And yet I do still remember most of my non-lucid dreams in pretty great detail. Does anyone else get that feeling that you must've been paying better attention in dreamland than in waking life? Maybe that's a balance problem. Subconsciously I may prefer dreaming to waking existence. Hmm. :hrm:

[LightSearcher]

I'm just beginning at the moment too. I'm recalling dreams at about 3-4 times a week.

Just setting my alarm an 1hr earlier then I normally awake.(Should be a bit earlier than that.)

If your too lazy like me and do not wish to get out a bed and write a novels in the early hours of the morning.

Just keep a bit of paper and Pen beside your bed and Write down a few Keywords from your dream.It will all come back later on.

I've found that u can even do it without opening your eyes!

[adroid28]

Here is a good way to improve your memmory:

Before you sleep, as you lay on yor bed try to remember your day backwards. Begin from this momment and finsh with the time you woke up. Try to remember as much details as you can. Do it every day.
I find interesting that when i look backword to my day it seems to me the same way as looking back into a dream. After all its all just memmories. Who knows? Maybe we are dreaming of our lives and living our dreams.......

[Bot88]

That sounds like a really good idea.. It seems like it would improve memory recall, which would include dream recall... Last night I had a weird dream.. it was fascinating.. I gotta think about it and try to come up with more of it but it was in a setting of like Mt. Everest, but in a distant land.. I had some kind of other race of a person, like in Lord of the Rings.. with me, and we had to go ontop of the mountain to stop some kind of evil.. The sky was electrifying.. It was amazing from what I can recall. Imagine the worst thunderstorm, electromagnetic storm, lightning storm , fire storm.. all in one.. with tornados and hurricans larger than imaginable.. built into one giant storm above the mountain peak... Now the scary thought is.. " What was on top of that mountain? " .. I dunno, never made it before I woke =(

[adroid28]

Well you are on the richt truck :)
:cheers:

[Jallen]

I've been coming here avidly now since the 9th of December and it wasn't for about a week until i started trying to recall my dreams. The first 3 nights went off without a hitch and i got them written down, but now i can't remember anything except trivial details, like being in a car, or seeing a face. It almost feels like im trying too hard.

Its so frustrating, just thoguht i would share my thoughts.

[adroid28]

I am also new in lucid dreaming and althought i had three lucid dreams, for the last two days i didn't even manage to recall anything. I' m sure this is because after my success i tried too hard for a lucid dream. The trick is that you should not be obsesed or try too hard, you have to let it come to you. You have to let it be a habit, an every day routine. Don't think about it too much and you'll be surprized.... :)

[Bot88]

Well, recently I feel that I am starting to have them more. For the past 5 nights, I have had dreams whenever I wished to recall before falling asleep and setting my alarm clock for the right times. I think also that as these nights go on, my recollection of the dreams is increasing. It is still hard to recall the details and I get the order of actions mixed up.. as if I was heavily intoxicated the night before =), but I think it's slowly coming around with more details...

[Redrabit69]

I find I remember dreams better if I just lie there for a minute after waking up and thinking about what happened, then write down keywords like Lightsearcher said, then in the morning it helps to jog your memory. Also telling yourself before sleeping that your gonna wake up and remember all your dreams helps

[Berserk Exodus]

I have the same problem. I can hardly if ever remember my dreams. I had a dream a couple of days ago (The details of which are too graphic to tell to anyone.) but ever since then, nothing.

But for me, it's even worse, I have a dream about every 2 weeks or so. It sucks, big time because I love to dream.

[Lowercase Society]

i think dream recall can be considered an 'intangible' muscle and it needs to be worked out and it needs to get in shape...you'll get it, if your dedicated enough.
:cheers:

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[Berserk Exodus]

Crap, I did it again, fell asleep at 12, woke up at 5. And I told myself "I will awaken and completely remember and record my dreams." I think I found the problem, I'm starting to get sick so it's hard to fall asleep.

[Bot88]

I am now having dreams whenever i tell myself to remember one. Last night was a pretty cool one.. Not lucid or anything, but somehow me and a bunch of friends were in a giant maze of rivers between canyon cliffs and There was a civilization that lived within these canyons on banks of the cliffs.. The funny part is that this civilization was just as up to date as we are in this world. What made it even funner was that we all got to get boats of whatever we desired. I got around a 47 foot offshore racing boat.. It was sweet.. Nice and Vivid, Going 120 MPH on the Water..... BTW, I live in Mobile, ALabama, on the Gulf Coast, so I get alot of beach in my life, which is why my dreams mainly include the beach...