Thread: REM Dreamer and Dream Recall

First thing I suggest you do is get yourself a dream journal, if you haven't read that already, and generally make remembering dreams important to you. Try to talk about your dreams to someone, so that you have a reason to remember them. Set small goals and targets. Thinking about dreaming will increase you dream recall, you have to train your brain to think things are important. If you get the hang of that, actually really wanting something, eventually your brain will arrange it for you. The REM Cycle you want to catch will probably be around 3-5am in the morning if you want the best chances. Shy of this, just try first thing in the morning, they will be short, but very easy to recall. I set a day aside when I have time to practise as many short lucid dreams and techniques in one morning (like training up). Then when you are serious and comfortable, catch a proper REM cycle. Try not to lose your enthusiasm, it can take a while to get some progress. Its definitely worth it however!

I actually do a sort of mind map exercise in order to piece together dream fragments, just search your mind for anything, and then think of everything you can to do with that object or place or person. Think of actions, words, symbols, people you know, places. All of your faint thoughts and feelings, and eventually it will come back to you - slow at first, and then you get better. Sometimes whole sections of a dream remain forgotten until you remember one key detail. So write everything you can about those first impressions you have in the morning.

Another thing to add... I think that most people wake up after REM naturally anyway, so the best thing to do, is to just have it on your mind - A LOT - and then you will realise when you wake up briefly. Think of a lucid dream task you want to do in the dream, and keep it ready so you have a plan and something to aim for.

Originally Posted by Noodles

I do though, have faint random thoughts and memories when I wake up during the night, but I'm not sure if this is from a dream or not. Would I be able to definitely tell if it was a fragment from a dream if it really was?

Consider any random thoughts you have when you wake up as part of your dream. Even if it doesn't seem like it, those thoughts when you wake up are probably the MOST important factor to recalling your dreams, thinking about any feelings or thoughts you had as you woke up can be the key to unlocking your dream memories.

I suggest you read this excerpt,
http://www.improverse.com/ed-article...ing_dreams.htm
it has a lot of techniques for recalling and recording your dreams that you may have never thought of before.

Originally Posted by warpio

Consider any random thoughts you have when you wake up as part of your dream. Even if it doesn't seem like it, those thoughts when you wake up are probably the MOST important factor to recalling your dreams, thinking about any feelings or thoughts you had as you woke up can be the key to unlocking your dream memories.

I suggest you read this excerpt,
http://www.improverse.com/ed-article...ing_dreams.htm
it has a lot of techniques for recalling and recording your dreams that you may have never thought of before.

I did that this morning and I think what I remembered and wrote down was a dream, it was like a whole page of story out of nowhere. I know dreams can seem very realistic, but this seemed very unreal it was like I was watching a movie that I was an actor in. And there were WWII Japanese bombers and walking stone statues, shouldn't that have made me think "oh this is a dream", and made me lucid?

So is this just a story in my head that I somehow made up and visualized after I woke up, or is it a dream? I know this question might seem silly, but I have seriously forgotten what it's like to dream...

I've been taking some lucid and recall aids as well as writing in my dream journal every day and I have to say that my dream recall is already improving tremendously. Up next: Lucid Dreaming!

Good to hear your recall is improving. It's amazing how you can train your mind.

I actually had a REMdreamer in the past and am waiting for a new one in the mail.., should arrive in another week or so. You can find the threads about that device in the "Lucid Aids" section".

It is really best to become proficient in Lucid Dreaming before investing in a machine such as that but if you're interested, I'd advise reading up about it.

Sweet lucid dreams.

Originally Posted by bro

Good to hear your recall is improving. It's amazing how you can train your mind.

I actually had a REMdreamer in the past and am waiting for a new one in the mail.., should arrive in another week or so. You can find the threads about that device in the "Lucid Aids" section".

It is really best to become proficient in Lucid Dreaming before investing in a machine such as that but if you're interested, I'd advise reading up about it.

Sweet lucid dreams.

Yeah thanks.

I heard the Nova Dreamer 2 is coming out next year so thought I'd wait for that instead and while waiting I'll just keep on trying to get lucid and improve my recall even more on my own.