Thread: delayed recall??

I'm having similar problems since my returning interest in dreaming. Two years ago when i was last active I would remember my dreams as if I'd just got back from actually doing them and took a nap and woke up. Immediately remembered about 30-50% and from there the memory just flowed back.

Past week of rebuilding my recall however, I wake up and don't remember much of anything, perhaps a few flashes of imagery. I'll lie there for about 10 minutes and finally two or three snippets of detail will appear and I have to drag the rest out from the mental fog.

yea I know what you mean, mines been getting better over the past week or so, I wake up and (usually) have lots of memory immedeatly from a couple dreams.... practice makes perfect i guess

This happens to me quite often. I'll wake up and either remember part of a dream, some dreams but not all of them, or nothing. As the day progresses I see things that end up reminding me of my dreams, either just adding a "scene" to a dream that I did remember or reminding me of an entire dream. My recall has been getting a lot better in general but this still happens, I'll just already know more than I used to.

For example, before I'd remember nothing. A few hours later I'd see something and remember part of my dream. Now I'll remember 1-4 dreams and then see something and remember another one or another "scene".

I'm pretty sure it's a normal thing.