Thread: remember dreams without waking in the middle of night??

I replied to this questions here.

I think that you will be able to remember your dreams with practice. But it will take practice, time and dedication. Keep doing the DJ for as long as you can though.

well I think you can just work on it
for me I don't wake up in the middle of the night and can remember

When I actively want to remember my dreams, I usually wake up in the middle of the night multiple times. There's no other way to remember the dreams from the different REM phases. I just stay in bed 1-2 hours longer per night to make up for this. That way I usually remember 5-10 dreams per night.

If you don't wake up, you will drift right into deeper sleep stages... It's unlikely that you will remember anything from the previous REM period when you wake up some hours later in the morning.

Obviously, if you don't wake up in the middle of the night you will only remember the stuff from the REM phases in the early morning. That's about an hour worth of footage at the very most, usually fragmented. Also, by simply waking up and remembering your stuff, your LD chances will increase slightly. You activate your consciousness, some active thinking and so on.

Since you wake up directly drom REM, the sleep interruption is not that harmful. Waking up from deep sleep is something different though.

I used to wake up multiple times per night, after dreams. But now, if I recall more than one, there is no full waking between them. I kind of partially wake, put the dream into my conscious memory, then go back to sleep, all in just a few seconds. I write down three or four dreams when I wake up properly.