Thread: If you can't remember your dreams, TRY THIS!

Hey MasterMind, just finished reading all the pages of this thread. Seems like a really great idea. I cant wait to try this tomorrow.
Hopefully this will increase my LD chances, I try to go for DILD most of the time, while my 2 total LD's were from WILD by accident.
Along with the poster above, does typing this work just as well as writing on paper?
Thanks alot!

Originally Posted by LivingBeyond

Hey MasterMind, just finished reading all the pages of this thread. Seems like a really great idea. I cant wait to try this tomorrow.
Hopefully this will increase my LD chances, I try to go for DILD most of the time, while my 2 total LD's were from WILD by accident.
Along with the poster above, does typing this work just as well as writing on paper?
Thanks alot!

Yeah I type it on the computer
This works for me, one day just write down your day and fall asleep nomally
and hopefully you are aware enough to become lucid. (DILD)
Next day do the same thing but before you go to bed do a realitycheck and tell yourself that tonight you will have a lucid dream (MILD)
and on the weekend write down your day as usual and set you alarmclock to wake you up 5 hours later and try to FILD (WILD)

If you want you can perform realitychecks during the day, but I don't
The most important is to be AWARE and if you remember your day you ARE.

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Nice again yeah it has happend to me too I recorded a dream with in 3 hours of sleep , Maybe we dream more than we think o.O
It's the beauty of this way to remember dreams, you are not only remember your dreams in the late phase of REM you eventually remember 4-6 dreams and those are some dreams in the early rem sleep And for some strange reason you wake up after each dream. And that's perfect for deilding which I will try now. Good Night, Sweet dreams!

Yeah, I have been recalling up to 10 dreams per night and the key is to wake up after a few dreams. I don't use any alarm clock, I simply naturally wake up several times during the night, which allows me to write down so many dreams. And unlike the current theory that we dream more in the final stages of sleep, I realize I dream the same ammount during all night. Even lucid dreams are no longer happening just in the morning, but can occur after just 2 hours of sleep. But the first ones of the night are still harder to recall though.

I also want to add that I have not been practicing "day recollection" but I used to do it some time ago and it really helped, so I do recommend it. I needed no paper, just recalled everything in my head before going to sleep. Results not always are immediate, so don't give up.

Omg omg omg. Trying this tonight but voice recording it in my iPhone. Will post results tomorow.

Tried it tonight, wrote down my day yesterday a few hours before going to sleep. Spent maybe 10-15 minutes on it. Got the same results as most others here, woke up several times after dreams throughout the night Actually found it a bit annoying with the waking up, but I did remember more I think, especially one dream in much more detail (the latest, Hitman-dream in my DJ). So thanks for a good tip, which seems to work instantly for so many people!

Didnt work for me, will try again

Originally Posted by immaia

Yeah, I have been recalling up to 10 dreams per night and the key is to wake up after a few dreams. I don't use any alarm clock, I simply naturally wake up several times during the night, which allows me to write down so many dreams. And unlike the current theory that we dream more in the final stages of sleep, I realize I dream the same ammount during all night. Even lucid dreams are no longer happening just in the morning, but can occur after just 2 hours of sleep. But the first ones of the night are still harder to recall though.

I also want to add that I have not been practicing "day recollection" but I used to do it some time ago and it really helped, so I do recommend it. I needed no paper, just recalled everything in my head before going to sleep. Results not always are immediate, so don't give up.

I've read some of your DJ, it's incredible how much you remember. When you do wake up in the middle of night, do you write down dreams then and there? If so, how much? Keywords? I wrote down just a few keywords this night, as I can't see myself staying awake for long periods of time when I wake up like that, loosing sleep and all. But most of the dreams I wrote down keywords from (3-4), I only have small, hazy memories of. Do you spend time trying to remember as much as you can before you go back to sleep?

(Brand new member here, very impressed with this site/forum. This is my first post... looking forward to learning from / sharing with everyone with similar dream goals!)

I wanted to sincerely thank you MasterMind! I just recently heard about lucid dreaming... then I researched it in books and online... and I'm exactly 5 nights into building the Dream Recall skills I'll need to move forward.
The first 4 nights I could only remember 1 dream for my dream journal. But last night I discovered this forum, read this entire thread, took MasterMind's advice and typed my first 'waking journal' entry, very detailed as suggested. Lo and behold... this morning I remembered 3 dreams!!! That's a major improvement from 1 to 3, and all I did different was writing what I did yesterday.

Since I'm just starting out, I appreciate your very effective idea, it really encouraged me and made me more determined that I will start to have lucid dreams soon. Much respect.

Tried yesterday to only go through the day in my head, without writing things down. Didn't seem to have the same effect, or maybe it was only because I was too tired. Going out drinking tonight, but I'll try again tomorrow.

Originally Posted by WaterDreamer

(Brand new member here, very impressed with this site/forum. This is my first post... looking forward to learning from / sharing with everyone with similar dream goals!)

I wanted to sincerely thank you MasterMind! I just recently heard about lucid dreaming... then I researched it in books and online... and I'm exactly 5 nights into building the Dream Recall skills I'll need to move forward.
The first 4 nights I could only remember 1 dream for my dream journal. But last night I discovered this forum, read this entire thread, took MasterMind's advice and typed my first 'waking journal' entry, very detailed as suggested. Lo and behold... this morning I remembered 3 dreams!!! That's a major improvement from 1 to 3, and all I did different was writing what I did yesterday.

Since I'm just starting out, I appreciate your very effective idea, it really encouraged me and made me more determined that I will start to have lucid dreams soon. Much respect.

Glad that this helped you too
Another advice If you want to try WILD later on, read about it in the tutorial section and try it out. And when you want to have lucid dream at will and when you understand the WILD try this out:
Want to start having lucids now? I can help.

Wow, the second time worked like a charm for me. Recalled 3 dreams!!

Hey
Sounds like a brilliant technique,MasterMind
I'll definitely try this tonight...I'll post the results...
Thanks,
-Sam

Great ! Good luck Sam

Hey everyone,

I've been lurking around here for a couple of weeks but this is my first post.
I have experienced one lucid dream before but i didnt know what it was at that time so i didnt do anything cool but the feeling was just awesome!
I started my dream journal 1-2 weeks ago and still working on my dream recall. Normally i can only remember one dream per sleep and sometimes none,
but i used this technique and poof i remembered three dreams last night (2 were related but i believe they were seperate).

So hats off for you mastermind, for this wonderful technique and i hope i can improve on LD'ing alot faster this way,

THANKS!

Thanks again MasterMind! I'm definitely interested in trying WILD, I will give it a look. Now that I can remember more than one dream per night, thanks to your idea, I'm looking back through my dream journal to see if I can find any dream signs. I'm also trying to question reality & perform RCs during the day, so hopefully I'll start doing it in dreams soon. WILD could be a good one for me because my work shift starts in the afternoon, and I only have class 2 days a week... so most days it doesn't matter if I need to sleep in a little.

Thanks for this advice too, you're awesome!

Of course I can't be sure enough that I can owe it "all" to this technique, but it does seem like the more I write about my day before I go to sleep, the more I'm able to write in my DJ when I wake up. Also, to me it seems important to really think of feelings and details from the day. I've also realised that my wake memory seems to have improved, as I'm able to write a lot more now than in the beginning

So this morning I woke up a couple of times, and could remember a record total of 5 dreams, where two were really long, vivid and detailed, three were shorter, and I also remembered some more shorter scenes, so we're probably talking 7-8 dreams all in all It's come to the point where I can't write it all down anymore, cause I would be writing for over an hour. So again thanks, MasterMind, I recommend everyone to try this and post their results here.

edit: Btw, the more dreams I remember, the more twisted details I remember too. Some highlights of tonight was Rihanna having a new video where she morphed her shoulders into a cow's ass and back (really disturbing image), a bad guy walking out of the TV and wants to take pictures of us so he can make the stereotypical "psycho wall-of-pictures-altar" you always see in films, me laughing hysterically and making silly jokes while at gunpoint, walking around with my family with nun-chuks in between us etc etc forever...

This is a great idea, usually works for me even if I don't write it down but just think to myself.

And if I do it in bed, I usually fall asleep very quickly (less than halfway through remembering my day), which can be good or bad. No need for counting sheep...

thankyou for this idea, I am definitely going to try it.

Very clever. I've heard of something like this before.
Can't remember where I read it though.

The idea was that in bed, before falling asleep, you memorise your day by running through it backwards. Try to remember every single experience from the Now to the start of your day.
Having thought over your day is believed to take concern about those experiences away, creating new space for new memories of new experiences.

I should try that tonight. Right after some Yoga. =)

Originally Posted by SKA

Very clever. I've heard of something like this before.
Can't remember where I read it though.

The tibetan yogas of dream and sleep?

Thanks for this!

I did this last night and had 2 dreams, 2 WILDS, and 1 FA

YES!!! YES! YESS! I tried this yesterday and i remembered 2 dreams! One was mildly vivid and the other was vague. this is an extreme improvement for me because 2 days ago i had ZERO DREAM RECALL. This really works, i have never remembered more than one dream in a night before. whoa.
BTW- i am new to this

Woah! I've been away from this site a long time now, and I am amazed that this thread still is one of the top threads in the Dream Sign and Recall section! I am glad to see that this still helping people who struggling with their dream recall.
Btw I just bought the pillow that has built in speakers and I am pracctising Yoga Nidra for the moment and I had my first WILD without WBTB last night, just a short one, but enough to make me happy But tonight I am gonna try the new pillow yay!

Looks like dreamviews even have made a new section to walking journals which is good because now everyone can do it while visiting dreamviews.
Good Night and Sweet Dreams!

Originally Posted by GlaringDream

Well, I'll try, try again I guess.

I've also been drinking apple juice before bed because I read it gives you vivid dreams but that doesn't work either.

You have to drink it later in the night , like sleep 6 hours, wake up , drink , sleep 2 hours
this works for me anyway