Dream Recall gone bad!

**Barry** · 05-31-2012 03:44 PM

Not sure why but I lost motivation and didn't write in my dream journal for a while, now my recall's gone back to normal which is basically never remembering anything. Any advice on how to get my dream recall good again?

Thanks in advance

**Barry** · 05-31-2012 05:50 PM

anyone?

**Spyyko** · 05-31-2012 06:37 PM

Drink lots of water, make sure you keep a dream journal, and eat fruit! I had horrible dream recall a couple months ago, but I found that updating my dream journal frequently helped drastically.

Stress is indigent to dream recall. If you're stressed out, recalling your dreams will be quite difficult.

What I found most helpful however was consistently writing in my dream journal, jotting down small details. Even if I didn't remember anything, I wrote down what I felt. I went from having near zero dreams a night to at least three each time I hit the sheets.

Good luck with your recall!

**Chicken** · 05-31-2012 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by Spyyko

Stress is indigent to dream recall. If you're stressed out, recalling your dreams will be quite difficult.

I don't agree on that, the weeks before my exams I had good recall and the week I had 7 exams even gave me 2 DILDs, I never had a DILD before and wasn't even trying.
However after the exams the trouble began, my recall went really bad and I lost my motivation in LDing. After a couple of weeks it is getting beter and my motivation and recall is starting to come back.

**Spyyko** · 05-31-2012 07:36 PM

Originally Posted by Chicken

I don't agree on that, the weeks before my exams I had good recall and the week I had 7 exams even gave me 2 DILDs, I never had a DILD before and wasn't even trying.
However after the exams the trouble began, my recall went really bad and I lost my motivation in LDing. After a couple of weeks it is getting beter and my motivation and recall is starting to come back.

I guess it depends on the person. Personally, when I'm stressed the last thing I think about is dream recall.

**Caenis** · 05-31-2012 11:23 PM

It might also help if you write down some old dreams you remember. I saw that angie746 suggested that to someone with low dream recall, and I thought that was a very interesting idea. Try it out, do some mantras. When you wake up in the morning, don't move out of bed until you remember even a tiny detail from your dream. If that doesn't work, wander around your house and see if anything triggers your memory. My dreams happen in my house regularly, so sometimes standing in a room will trigger my memory.

**gab** · 06-01-2012 06:21 AM

Write in your DJ every small detail, even if it's just a feeling. Feel grateful for your dreams, write it in DJ and say it out loud to your higher self and ask for more dreams.

Write in your DJ "I have good memory and my recall is getting better every day". Happy dreams

**SomeKindOfPony** · 06-01-2012 06:29 AM

Would a computer work for a dream journal? and if you only have fragments of a dream, should you jolt those down? Because I haven't bothered with those

**Darkmatters** · 06-01-2012 06:37 AM

It's a good idea to keep a paper journal next to your bed, so as soon as you wake up you can start writing. That plus the light from a monitor isn't good - it wakes you up too much and the dreams start to fade from your memory right away. The less you change about your situation after waking up the better - best to stay in bed or at least right next to it - it would be even better yet if you didn't have to open your eyes to write - but I haven't figured that one out yet!

Then later you can copy them over to the computer if you want. I used to do that, and I found it actually helps - first I would scribble down what occurred to me as soon as I woke up, then after breakfast I'd type it up. It helps because sometimes if you look at your written journal after some time has passed (like a few weeks later, or a year or whatever) sometimes you can't even read what you wrote! Plus when you first write it you're in a hurry to jot it down quick before you forget, then later when you're typing it up you don't feel that same rush, and you can take more time and write it up in better detail, whole sentences and so on (plus I like to add pics at that point if I can find any that fit).

**gab** · 06-01-2012 05:12 PM

Originally Posted by SomeKindOfPony

Would a computer work for a dream journal? and if you only have fragments of a dream, should you jolt those down? Because I haven't bothered with those

You definitelly should write down everything, even if it's just a few words or a feeling. The more you think about your dreams, better will your mind understand, that dreaming and remembering them is important to you and it makes you happy (don't forget to say thanks to your higher self) and will help you achieve both.

And I do what darkmatters says - paper journal within arms reach for keywords or whole dreams and then in the morning I type them on my laptop.
Happy dreams