Thread: Need Help Falling Asleep

Other tips:

1. Take a normal dosage of melatonin. It promotes sleep.
2. Get excercize throughout the day, so that you will be tired later on.
3. Do not sleep more than 7-8 hours in a night, and take no naps.
4. Decaf tea of some sort. (It always helps me..)

Hope these might help!

I have a couple of questions:

Originally Posted by tyrantt23

Welcome to DV!!! :yumdumdoodledum:
As for the dream journal, of course you can remember your LD from last week... I still remember my first lucid dream from over 2 years ago. Keeping a dream journal is not just about remembering your dreams, it does much more than that. On the long run, your recall gets a lot better, it helps with vividness, and best of all, it helps you find a few patterns in your dream that can make it easier for you to lucid dream. Also, its really fun to look back on your journal and read some of the dreams from months ago... when you read it, all the little details pop right back in your head as if you just had the dream yesterday. But yeah, keeping a dream journal requires a lot of dedication.

Good luck on falling asleep...
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Does that mean that I won't be able to have a lucid dream without doing the dream recall first?

Originally Posted by tyrantt23

1. Take a normal dosage of melatonin. It promotes sleep.
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How can I take it? Is it some type of drug?

Thanks for everyone's help.

Melatonin is a hormone produced by the body. It has many uses, but here it applies to falling asleep and REM sleep. You can buy it at the drug store as a sleeping aid, but don't rely on it every night. If you use it too often your body will rely on the drug and not properly produce its own. It should definatly help you fall asleep though, its possible your lack of sleep may even be due to lack of melatonin in your body.

Originally Posted by Tarek

Does that mean that I won't be able to have a lucid dream without doing the dream recall first?
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I don't understand if you mean dream recall, or dream journal...

As far as dream recall, for having lucid dreams, its best if you are able to remember at least a couple of dreams every night. If your dream recall isn't that good yet, then its very possible that you may have a lucid dream, but completely forget about the dream by the time you open your eyes.... if this happens, you won't even know you had a lucid dream. Because of this, its best to have a good dream recall when attempting to lucid dream.

As far as keeping a dream journal, it helps with dream recall on the long run, A LOT. If you already have a really good dream recall, then you don't need to keep a dream journal, but its still very nice to at least keep a few short notes about each dream.Like I said before, it can make it easier for you to find some patterns in your dreams that you otherwise wouldn't notice.

Yesterday night I was reading by a post by spiritofthewolf about meeting his Dream Guide on Fall of 2006. At the time, she told him she already knew him and had tried talking to him "a year ago." He went back to his journals and found an entry on the previous year, Fall of 2005, where the same girl had whispered on his ear "I already know who you are, I just dont want them to know, that I know you...."

Its really mazing when you read back on your journals and find some things like that, or when you can see very explicit the way that dreams were and how it related to your lifestyle at the time. You can only do that if you keep a dream journal or some sort, or at least a few notes...

Hope this helps.