I dont understand one thing ... I can remember 4 dreams at night

[adraw]

You know. Recall is essential. But from my experience, i can only write a dream down, when i wake up just after it happens. It means, that if i want to remember 4 dreams per night, I have to wake up at least three times at night which is pretty tiring. I can remember so many dreams, but is it also your case? Do you have to stand up multiple times to have such a good recall, or will it come with practice, that i will remember more dreams even if i lets say awaken only one time? Thanx for your valuable responses. Personal experiences preferred... Adraw

[Azarus]

Some thing with me. But I'm wrighting my dreams down right in my bed with the candle light. Pretty easy for me.

[Spoof]

Usually if I tell myself to wake up in the night after my dreams I can remember about 4 also. Without waking up, I can only remember about 2, and only because I wake from one and remember the other from something that I see or think about that triggers the recall.

[Sticktator]

Before my inactive streak, I used to wake up twice a night. For some reason, getting up at those times seemed to really help, and I was more alert and found it easier to get up in the morning.

[adraw]

Some thing with me. But I'm wrighting my dreams down right in my bed with the candle light. Pretty easy for me. Yeah. In that state, you feel pretty motivated about it. You want to write them all down. And your journal fills in nicely. Usually if I tell myself to wake up in the night after my dreams I can remember about 4 also. Without waking up, I can only remember about 2, and only because I wake from one and remember the other from something that I see or think about that triggers the recall. Yes. Sometimes it happenned to me too. Thats pretty common here. We all share the same experience. Is there something you did for your recall from the start? I am searching for some interesting techinques, or maybe for some observations about how does the recall behave under some circumstances. I know this was pretty difficult to understand. But I think, you know what i am talking about. Before my inactive streak, I used to wake up twice a night. For some reason, getting up at those times seemed to really help, and I was more alert and found it easier to get up in the morning. Yess. That helps. And how. But sometimes it happens, that we have problems with remembering dreams although we feel motivated and although we stay 2 times at night. Why is that? What do you think?

[DreamChaser]

Waking up each time to fill the dream journal is a new chance to VILD or MILD. Yay!

[Vixie]

Don't give up, adraw, just keep trying. I do think that, like all good things, good recall comes with time. It varies for different people, but it is *definitely* possible to remember more than one dream when you wake up. Needless to say, still gotta write it down right away.

[adraw]

Don't give up, adraw, just keep trying. I do think that, like all good things, good recall comes with time. It varies for different people, but it is *definitely* possible to remember more than one dream when you wake up. Needless to say, still gotta write it down right away. Thanx for encouragement. I dont plan to give up. That would be too easy

[harrystamper]

I have'nt been very good at filling out my dream journal lately, but the little I have done have helped me alot. Just yesterday I woke up and started to write the first dream that came to my mind. While writing this, two more dreams emerged. The fact that I now am aware of lucid dreaming and focused on remembering dreams, have made it alot easier to remember dreams when I wake up in the morning. So I think that with time and effort, you will be able to remember more than just the last dream. Something that helps me alot when I want to remember a dream, is that I go through activities that I might have done.: Did I drive a car, ride a bike, was I on the water, did I meet any friends (here you could name your friends by name). All you need to remember a dream is one word to connect you, and the rest of the dream will unfold as you write it. This works fine for me, since I never write my journal in the night. (much do to a girlfriend which I dont want to wake)

[iadr]

I usually remember between 5 to 8 dreams a night, but last night was exceptional as I remembered 10 dreams, most of which were quite vivid. I just couldn't get lucid in any of them no matter how hard I tried. I do it by waking up several times a night, almost every hour some nights. I feel more rested on the nights that I wake up all night long than if I would sleep through the whole night, because I have had several short naps instead of just one long sleep. I have a small Olympus digital voice recorder that I paid $40 for that I record my dreams on when I wake up, so many times just record my dreams on the recorder and then go right back to sleep, although I still usually get up at least 2 or 3 times and record my dreams in an Excel spreadsheet. Otherwise I would not have time to record them all when I woke up in the morning. That was a good point that Dream Chaser made, as getting up gives a person another opportunity to try a WILD or to reinforce ones suggestions of having a lucid dream.

[adraw]

I usually remember between 5 to 8 dreams a night, but last night was exceptional as I remembered 10 dreams, most of which were quite vivid. I just couldn't get lucid in any of them no matter how hard I tried. I do it by waking up several times a night, almost every hour some nights. I feel more rested on the nights that I wake up all night long than if I would sleep through the whole night, because I have had several short naps instead of just one long sleep. I have a small Olympus digital voice recorder that I paid $40 for that I record my dreams on when I wake up, so many times just record my dreams on the recorder and then go right back to sleep, although I still usually get up at least 2 or 3 times and record my dreams in an Excel spreadsheet. Otherwise I would not have time to record them all when I woke up in the morning. That was a good point that Dream Chaser made, as getting up gives a person another opportunity to try a WILD or to reinforce ones suggestions of having a lucid dream. That seems to be a lot of fun. You must have pretty good information about how your dreamworld looks like. Some questions? When do you get asleep? When do you awake first? Did you experiment with length of time periods between "naps" ? Thanx in advance.

[mylucidworld]

[quote=iadr;587132] I have a small Olympus digital voice recorder that I paid $40 for that I record my dreams on when I wake up I have a digital Olympus voice recorder and i never thought of using it to record dreams. I will use this to record my lucids from now on, that will be so much easier than having to get up, put my light on and write a story. Am i glad i read this thread.