Thread: The theater has gone dark

HelloBabylon74

I am watching this message because I don't dream much as well. Hope someone answers your message.

Babalon74

MasterMind posted a dream journal just now. It is a video. I asked him how he meditates to remember his dreams. Here is Masterminds dream journal post.
Accountability - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Hi there,

I'm not going to write a lot about what you can do to improve your dream recall, because there's so much available already. Go to the forum - sub Attaining lucidity - sub Dream signs and recall. Or Google dream recall (find video's on youtube). Follow the advise given; read, talk and think about it a lot, write down whatever there is. Good luck! (struggling myself to improve dream recall)

I had that same problem (barely remembering a dream or two each year), and one day my wife bought me a nice looking little book as a dream diary - before I even knew about all this stuff presented here. The mere presence of that little book beside my bed was enough to spark the dreams again. I placed it at the small table just besides my bed, hoped sincerely to dream that night and it happened. I wrote down every detail I could remember directly after waking up. I only have a few seconds where I remember the dream, If I turn over and sleep more, it is gone. I need to write it down as soon as I wake up.

Hirondelle has already recommended it: think a lot about your dreams, read about the matter. Your mind will think it is important to you to remember your dreams and will eventually help you remember them easier. It has so much to do with setting intentions and making dreams important again. Try to have a positive mindset when going to sleep, formulate the thought or even say it out loud: "I will be dreaming this night, and I will remember the dream" some people even advice a present tense "mantra", like "I am dreaming, and I remember every detail".

How you wake up is pretty important for dream recall. If you get jolted out of sleep by an alarm clock two things might happen: if you wake up from a dream, you have a few short moments, like seconds, before it washes away. Stay inside your bed, don't move after turning the alarm off, and ask yourself: what did I just dream? Really try to remember, even if there is only blackness at first.
If you were'nt dreaming while the alarm went off, most likely you won't remember a dream you had earlier in the night.

You can condition yourself using mantras - spoken out loud, thought, or even written down - to wake up after every dream. That can spoil your rest for the night a bit, but works very nice. I found the best time for vivid dreams is if I have the time and luxury to sleep as long as I want. If I go to pee in the morning and then go to sleep again, thats the best time to dream for me. I usually lie down again and set my mind to dream, lucid or not... and then mantry myself back into sleep. I think about the situation I'd like to be in while keeping calm. I never end up in the situation I think of before, but it usually works.

Thanks everyone for the replies to my post.I will actually try having a dream journal right next to me so I can write down not just anything I can recall but I think also my thoughts and feelings on the matter to get my mind thinking on the subject.Actually just as I was writing this my wife handed me a notebook and pen to keep on the table next to the bed for that very purpose.I will also try meditating since it's something I have been meaning to try for sometime anyway.I am very excited about this ,so instead of saying "why can I not recall" I will try repeating "I will dream and remember it all!".