[poll] What do YOU do to recall dreams?

After some searching I have found that there aren't any threads made within the past few years like this... so it got me thinking.

What do YOU do to recall dreams?

I'm curious because my recall seems to be pretty abysmal. I've been keeping a dream journal for about 6 weeks and it's got 3 very blurry dreams and a few fragments. None of them have felt anything like real life, just ghostly mostly audiovisual memories like it happened a long, long time ago and I'm just now remembering it.

I'd like to see what people actually do to recall dreams. I've added a few popular things I've heard of on this forum. Another thing I am interested in is how many dreams you remember per night, lucid or non, and what's the general quality of your non lucid dreams.

I keep dream journal and wake up at night. I get 3 dreems per night very easily and they are realy vivid. Every time after waking up I am dissapointed for not attaining lucidity. ;D

I get about 3 dreams per night, and around 3 more fractions or vague memories of dreams.. I wake up ever night around 3:10 for attempting a WILD with WBTB but Ive also been keeping a dream journal now too, but not seeing much of a pattern.. :(

I just wake up and write whatever comes to mind in the morning. Often it'll start off as one memory, and I just trace backward from that one fragment. If I don't stress and stay relaxed, I usually manage to dig deeper and recall more and more! Sometimes it gets up to multiple dreams.

Whether its waking up in the middle of the night, or in the morning, relax and recall. Once I have recalled as much as I can, I write it down, reliving the details in my mind. Sometimes, I get feelings associated with the dreams, tastes, sounds, smells and as I'm writing, I remember more! Then I have to erase and rewrite to be able to chronologically fit what I remembered in the right spot of the journal entry.

It may sound complicated, but it's simply relaxing, recalling and not focusing on "remembering." If I don't remember anything, then that's all right! It's just the way I roll :D

I just remember my dreams after waking up in the morning. I've been meaning to start up a dream journal though, just to document some of my more interesting dreams that I don't want to forget.

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Originally Posted by PhantomLegend

I just wake up and write whatever comes to mind in the morning. Often it'll start off as one memory, and I just trace backward from that one fragment. If I don't stress and stay relaxed, I usually manage to dig deeper and recall more and more! Sometimes it gets up to multiple dreams.

Whether its waking up in the middle of the night, or in the morning, relax and recall. Once I have recalled as much as I can, I write it down, reliving the details in my mind. Sometimes, I get feelings associated with the dreams, tastes, sounds, smells and as I'm writing, I remember more! Then I have to erase and rewrite to be able to chronologically fit what I remembered in the right spot of the journal entry.

It may sound complicated, but it's simply relaxing, recalling and not focusing on "remembering." If I don't remember anything, then that's all right! It's just the way I roll :D

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Thanks for the advice. I may get some practice over spring break on the relaxing thing. It seems like the first thing I do when I wake up is worry about what I need to do the next day. :panic:

I have huge problems remembering my dreams. I started a dream journal and my recall was promising at first, but it is declining more and more at the moment. None of the states methods work for me.

Regards
Lorgarn

Other than the using remembering-the-dream-after-waking-up, I find that there is a place at which I recall dreams at a high rate- my grandparents' house.

When we were younger, our family used to go over for dinner every Saturday, and usually while we were at the table eating, forgotten dreams would come to mind suddenly but very naturally (I wouldn't even be trying or thinking about trying to recall a dream.)

I always found it very strange because if there is a place that helps me recall dreams, it should be my GREAT-grandparents' house, because it was like our second home when we were young, and that house is still the setting for many of my dreams. However, I've never recalled any dreams naturally while there.

So it's like:

Great-grandparents' house- Dream about it alot, but never recall dreams there
Grandparents' house- Never dream about it, but recall alot of dreams there


Very strange...

The best way for me is to just before going to bed, looking back at some of my previous dreams and try to visualize them,
then repeating something like "I will wake after my next dream and remember it"

Nothing at all, always had natural recall since I can remember.

I originally tried writing down dreams in the middle of the night, but I'm to lazy for that so I just write it down when I wake up for good.

I only remember one dream really well, and the fragments of all the other.

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Originally Posted by WinRic

I originally tried writing down dreams in the middle of the night, but I'm to lazy for that so I just write it down when I wake up for good.

I only remember one dream really well, and the fragments of all the other.

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This is exactly what I have - recall of one dream and then lots of fragments.

I can't seem to remeber ANY of my dreams for a very long time.. I've been trying to remeber lately but nothing at all is coming to me :panic:
Any suggestions

I usually wake up after my dreams and remember them, but when it happens in the middle of the night, sometimes it's not enough to just remember them because of if I don't write them down it is most likely I will forget it the next morning. As I just want to go on sleeping and at the same time I don't want to forget the dream, I designed kind of mnemonic system which helped me a lot to remember some of the most amazing dreams I had. The first thing I do is to remember the dream the more I can that moment, then I look for anything on my bedside table to put it in some incongruous position, which, when I see in the next morning, allows me to remember almost all, if not all, what I remembered that last night. When I didn't do that, usually I lost the dream in spite of I remembered it when I woke up in the middle of the night.
Edit: I have just realized it was a multiple choice poll!! I didn't vote for wake up after dreams without alarms and just remember in the morning which usually is the way I remember them.

I remember my dreams when I wake up naturally at night (about 3 in the morning) - at this time, I have a sheet of looseleaf at my bedside and a pencil. I kind of just lean over and write them down. :P Then, I do the same in the morning.