Thread: Ready to give up. Again.

I can't speak on LD as much as recall. I found understanding your sleep cycles is super important in recall. In order to find my patterns, I have video taped my sleeping habits and timed my cycles. Also, I would shout out words related to dream sequences (rather than a written journal). What I found is that times when I thought I wasn't sleeping, I was actually snoring, lmao. And that only 2 hours into sleeping I had some very important dreams.

I know roughly when my cycles end, which helps to determine WBTB. Also, if you use alarms to aid you in waking. Eventually you wake automatically between cycles.

It's hard to have recall because sleep is naturally a non-alert state. It's a bit like trying to remember the night out on the town after being very drunk. Until someone reminds you, you can't remember.

I agree with waking up at intervals between cycles. Taking notes or do a video journal. It does amazing things for recall. But you have to know your sleep patterns very well.

I can guarantee recall if I make an effort to wake up and journal. What's funny about the video journal is that you'll forget about dreams, but suddenly remember them after reviewing the video. And dreams are like a thread on a cheap sweater, once you get a hold of a thread, you pull and pull and it all unravels.

I'll say things while I'm sleeping like "lamp post". And a simple word like that will remind me of being on a campus at night with lamps and fog, and some long story that follows.

It's a lazy man's journal but very effective, if you have a video camera. I have a surveillance camera with night vision.