I keep one and I have read it but I don't appear to have any luck, how does it work? |
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I keep one and I have read it but I don't appear to have any luck, how does it work? |
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Keeping a dream journal is an important step in building very good dream recall, and an overall awareness of your dreams. Dream recall is not just about finding dream signs (although that can be an important byproduct), more importantly it is you exercising your access to memory. In the dream state, access to memory is impaired, so in order to be able to occasionally overcome this extra dullness, building very good access to memory when awake helps in eventually getting lucid in a dream. When you become very familiar with your dreams, you will build up a "feeling" of what a dream feels like to you, compared to how waking life feels. When you remember to notice this different feeling in dreams, lucidity results (often without ever needing to perform an RC, you just know you're dreaming). |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
so I should read it in detail |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I believe that simply writing down your dreams in as much detail as possible can trigger lucid dreams. |
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Indeed it is important, mainly for dream recall, which also allows you to recall a lucid. Once I had a lucid and I remembered moments after I woke up. Also, in my case I think that writing the journal is what allowed me to wake up almost after every sleep cycle, with dream memories. |
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HAHA, I know right? |
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Last edited by Yuusha; 11-28-2014 at 04:46 PM.
As others have pointed out, writing down your dreams is highly important if you want to remember them in great detail. If you wake up one morning and only have one or two dull dreams to write down, you may think to yourself, "they are not important; I don't have to write them." Do not fall into this trap! You will notice that after just one day of skipping your dream journaling, your dream recall will be significantly lower the next morning. Even if the dreams are boring, you should always record them. If you wake up in the early morning with an awesome dream still in your mind, you do stand a great chance of losing it if it is not recorded in your journal. However, I have heard of people not being able to sleep after writing down entire dreams at early hours. This is due to the fact that they had to get up, turn on the lights, and spend several minutes thinking hard about what just happened. I have a simple solution to this problem. Have a pen and scrap piece of paper in reaching distance from where you sleep. When you wake up after a dream, just write a few key words from the dream. Later on when you are up to journaling, these key words will allow you to remember most if not all of the dream in surprising detail. Remember not to use a bright light when you wake up to write your key words because it will greatly disrupt your sleep cycle. You will notice that this technique will also lead to greater recall and a higher number of lucid dreams. So in short, dream journaling is essential to anyone who wants to have lucid dreams. Looking back at your dreams and noting common themes will lead you straight to lucidity! |
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Keeping a dream journal is mainly to help with recall. However it should be used to figure out what techs you need to use as well. Most people mindlessly dream journal and it helps a little. This might be of use to you: |
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Two words: voice journal. You can do it in the dark with eyes closed, no fumbling for a pen/pencil which fell down somewhere in the night, you don't have to move much to do it, you can talk much faster than you can write, and it's (generally) much easier to understand sleepy voice notes than sleepy chicken scribbles the next morning. Then later in the day (or as soon as you get out of bed) transcribe to a file on the computer. If you can't touch type, learn how, it makes it bearably fast to do. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
This. |
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