Moved to dream recall. |
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I know that DJ is very important for LDing. But ever since I've been back to school this term my dream recall has dropped from 5 a week to 1 or less a week. At weekends I would have about 5 in one night! However, now I'm just managing one a weekend and this requires a lot of thinking to even DJ it. |
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Moved to dream recall. |
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I have 8 hours of sleep a night and when I wake up I lie and close my eyes and think about how what dreams I had last night but I just can't seem to think of any. |
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Try to go to bed at regular times, that used to help me when I had recall drops. Or WBTB for a few minutes each night, so you recall some of the dreams. |
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Instead of thinking of what you dreamed you might try checking on how you feel when you wake up. Sometimes you can trace these feelings back to what made you feel them. |
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Haha this weekend I thought to myself its the last time I'm going to bed at different times. From now now on my plan is to go to bed at half 10 and wake up at 7. Also I do WBTB but im not sure if I do it for long enough I wake up go toilet try and remember my dreams, but the problem is I dont try hard when I WBTB to remember my dreams as I'm too tired. Then I will try and accompany this with a WILD, do you think I should stay up longer for a WBTB? |
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I read something about that before try and see what you feel. I have tried this but the only feeling I feel is tired. I do think the problem is because of my different sleeping times. In the holidays my sleeping pattern was messed up and then having to wake up for 7 at school the next week was a shock to the system. Hahaha I shall try to keep a continuous sleeping pattern from now on |
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What I did to really improve my dream recall, before this I could remember maybe one a week and that was when I was trying. What I did different was actually the way I went to bed. I relaxed more, made sure that all of my attention was on my dreams, having them, controlling them, recalling them, etc. Everything else (work, drawings, tattoos, my motorcycle, loneliness, etc. all went out the window) and then I began telling myself that after each dream, I would wake up to write down notes on it, not the whole thing, since that takes time and will pull you too much out of sleep (at least it will for me) and I started keeping a small notepad and pen by my couch. |
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Aristotle
NO, NO, that's bullshit! I wasn't with a hooker today HA HA!
Also, what I did to relax my mind from random thoughts, is I kept a journal specifically for them, where I would literally write down and more or less have a scitsophrenic (spelled wrong I'm sure) conversation with a character. I'd go on and on as long as needed until basically all my issues would be talked out, usually that's all it takes, you find your own answers, but it comes from a seemingly outside source. Basically to me, it's like I'm talking to my subconscious mind, and whatever answers it gives me, I go with. |
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Aristotle
NO, NO, that's bullshit! I wasn't with a hooker today HA HA!
Oh right, I shall try doing this and see how it works out for me. Also I was planning on doing MILD and really trying on this. As I have found out that it has probably been my best technique as every time I have tried MILD it has gave me the best results. I am going to try Naiya's MILD technique. I think I shall do what you have said to get my recall back up then I shall proceed onto the MILD technique. And when I do write notes down I can easily remember a whole dream so what you suggested sounds promising for me! Thank you |
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That's a really good idea....I'm going to start doing that. I need to get a new dream journal anyway. When I bought the notebook I have now, I got the kind with the pages glued to the binding; now all the pages are starting to fall out. I should have gotten the spiral notebook kind. |
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That's a really good idea....I'm going to start doing that. I need to get a new dream journal anyway. When I bought the notebook I have now, I got the kind with the pages glued to the binding; now all the pages are starting to fall out. I should have gotten the spiral notebook kind. |
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I just use Word, but then again, I only associate paper and pencil with art, which is why I use a small yellow pad and pen for jotting down the important parts of my dream when I awake from them, that way it's just really quick and I can go back to sleep immediately. When I wake up, I look at the yellow pad, see the major events of the dreams, and then it all just seems to flash back in all at once. And I can type a hell of a lot faster than I can write. |
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Aristotle
NO, NO, that's bullshit! I wasn't with a hooker today HA HA!
I've tried a hell of a lot of different methods. For some reason, if I think anything, literally anything, I stay awake and am brought out of my relaxation, so mantras, affirmations, and so forth suck for me personally when I'm trying to doze off. However, if you don't have that problem, just remember, positive is key. One thing I did once for relaxation (I wasn't trying to sleep though) was I breathed very deep and slow. In through my mouth, where I would say (with my inner voice) "sleep" and then with my exhale, I would say (again, inner voice) "deep sleep". I associate sleep with relaxation though, not literal sleep. But I would think it would hold true if you were to say something like "deep sleep" on the inhale and "lucid dream" on the exhale. |
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Aristotle
NO, NO, that's bullshit! I wasn't with a hooker today HA HA!
Sorry for the really long post, I just remembered I also told you I keep a seperate journal to help with clearing my mind. I still do that, but I only use it when I need to. What I do for that is kind of weird, but I have a character that I associate with my subconscious mind, and I will literally open a Word document, say hello to him, let him reply, and then move on with whatever is bothering me, or stumping me, so on and so on. It is kind of weird, because it's like being skitso in a way, but for me it works. |
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Aristotle
NO, NO, that's bullshit! I wasn't with a hooker today HA HA!
I took your advice and bought a small yellow legal pad to keep by the bed. When I wake up during the night, I don't record the whole dream either; just a few key words or phrases from it that will help jar my memory when I look at it later. Then I log into Dream Views and record it in my journal. |
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"I will remember my dreams , I will remember my dreams, I will remember my dreams." All you need to do. Say that 3x and then wake up and try to stay still a bit. I went from no recall to remembering 1-3 dreams even on school days when I'm rushed awake but not the most vivid. |
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Spoiler for Secret to LDing:
I really want to know when you reach your goal of crapping on your teachers desk. Just reminds me of when I was in school, and a student really had to piss, but the teacher wouldn't let him leave the classroom. After a quick argument, she told him if you leave then you're suspended or expelled. So the kid grabbed her trash can, pulled it to where he was standing, whipped his little buddy out and started pissing in the trash can, while facing her! That was one of the greatest days of my life! |
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Aristotle
NO, NO, that's bullshit! I wasn't with a hooker today HA HA!
Thanks almost got my recalling back on track now i am recalling 1 - 3 on a school day! Also at least one of them is vivid! |
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Last edited by covlad96; 11-09-2011 at 09:29 PM.
Thats really great man, if there's one thing I've learned since coming back here, it's that patience is key. |
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The unexamined life is not worth living - Aristotle
NO, NO, that's bullshit! I wasn't with a hooker today HA HA!
I have now had a LD. This has worked so much! Thank you! |
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