Thread: Trouble With Dream Recall

Unfortunately the same exact thing is happening to me.
I'd look at what others have to say about this but personally I've resorted to what I usually resort to for dream recall regeneration. I start a log of days and relative dream recall in order to make a deduction as to what time I have to wake up during in order to wake from or at the end of a REM period in the morning.

What this means is keeping a log (I prefer it separate from my dream journal entries) of "going to sleep" times and "waking up" times for a certain amount of time (several days, a week or perhaps even a bit more).
After the log has sufficient entries it should be possible to deduce a time frame, which allows for sufficient dream recall. The most optimal way of keeping this log of course is varying sleep and waking times especially to get as many different combinations as possible. I.e. going to sleep at 11 PM and waking up at 8 AM one day and writing down whether you remembered any dreams or not in the log, then the next day going to sleep at 11 PM and waking up at 7 AM and doing the same, then sleeping from midnight to 8 AM and so on...

I believe this is the most "technical" way to acquire dream recall. Though I of course prefer recalling dreams by willing them to be recalled, having real intent and utilizing force of will...it just doesn't always help for unknown to me reasons. Thus, perhaps this technique would be useful.

Sometimes you'll go in spurts - you may remember several dreams one night, and not remember a single one the next night. Just keep writing in your dream journal - just jot down a few. Here's a recent thread about dream recall methods. Keep on keepin' on

The more one realizes during the day while you are awake that
life is dreamlike and illusory - the deeper and deeper your understanding of the night dream becomes. Sometimes I knock on a wall or look in a mirror
and remind myself that life is just like a dream during the waking hours-
then in the dream when similar events happen it helps me remember
what I was dreaming.There are many smilarities in the dreams to waking life.
Often times you are engaged in the same activities as the waking hours as in the dream. You need to be aware of the triggers that remind you its a dream-
Like flying - or moving through objects- or traveling in foreign countries-
or teeth falling out( often due to tension and teeth grinding)-or going sideways in an elevator- or seeing people who have died.
There is a zone - a zone of vibrations- or sometimes you hear strange noises- in between lying down and then the images start to appear.If you can be very calm and alert and not tense then you can bring a continuity from one state and then back again. Sometimes you can feel like a crash when you enter
your physical body again. People call it falling asleep but actually its more like Falling Awake.If the fall is very sudden then memory lapses from one state to the other.

I'm also having trouble getting to sleep at night. I feel tired and I'm lying in bed, but then i don't feel sleepy anymore after a while. Most of the time it lasts 2 hours before i fall asleep. Any help with that?

Originally posted by Lucidity
I'm also having trouble getting to sleep at night. I feel tired and I'm lying in bed, but then i don't feel sleepy anymore after a while. Most of the time it lasts 2 hours before i fall asleep. Any help with that?

Was it like that before you started LDing? Do you use MILD?

Try drinking warm milk before going to sleep.

I can know the time I laid down, but knowing the moment of falling asleep can be a problem. I wonder if there are inexpensive brainwave monitors to track time and brainwave activity.

Originally posted by Merlock
Unfortunately the same exact thing is happening to me.
I'd look at what others have to say about this but personally I've resorted to what I usually resort to for dream recall regeneration. I start a log of days and relative dream recall in order to make a deduction as to what time I have to wake up during in order to wake from or at the end of a REM period in the morning.

What this means is keeping a log (I prefer it separate from my dream journal entries) of "going to sleep" times and "waking up" times for a certain amount of time (several days, a week or perhaps even a bit more).
After the log has sufficient entries it should be possible to deduce a time frame, which allows for sufficient dream recall. The most optimal way of keeping this log of course is varying sleep and waking times especially to get as many different combinations as possible. I.e. going to sleep at 11 PM and waking up at 8 AM one day and writing down whether you remembered any dreams or not in the log, then the next day going to sleep at 11 PM and waking up at 7 AM and doing the same, then sleeping from midnight to 8 AM and so on...

I believe this is the most "technical" way to acquire dream recall. Though I of course prefer recalling dreams by willing them to be recalled, having real intent and utilizing force of will...it just doesn't always help for unknown to me reasons. Thus, perhaps this technique would be useful.

Originally posted by Rainbow Werewolf
I can know the time I laid down, but knowing the moment of falling asleep can be a problem. *I wonder if there are inexpensive brainwave monitors to track time and brainwave activity.

I don't record the time I fall asleep. The log is of times I go to bed and then wake up.
In the manner of the following format:

Date - Hour and minutes when I went to bed - Hour and minutes when I woke up

Granted it's not the most exact method considering the different amounts of time it may take on different days to fall asleep, it can still be effective after a certain large enough amount of records are logged.

Originally posted by nightshade

Was it like that before you started LDing? Do you use MILD?

Try drinking warm milk before going to sleep.

Every once in a while, but not all the time. Right now it happens about 5 times a week or so.

I only started to use MILD 2 days ago