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I normally have good dream recall. After I started dream journaling two weeks ago my dream recall got a little better. However, for the last five days, my dream recall seems as if it is going in reverse and I can't understand why.
Even before I pursued lucid dreaming I would hit a dry spell every once in awhile, which I know is normal for everyone. But my dry spell normally lasts 2-3 days. I need to know if something like this can happen even while dream journaling.
So how many dreams you remember each night? Do you wake up after REM and write them down? Or only in the morning? Do you write details in your DJ?
And yes, it happens that you can't recall any or very few dreams. That can happen when you wake up in a wrong part of your dream cycle, or just because.
You can try this:
Write in your dream journal, even if all you can remember is just a single word or feeling. If you don't remember anything at all, write that in your DJ and also write some kind of affirmation to help you remember.
- I remember my dreams
- I like my dreams
- I have good memory and my recall is getting better every day
Writing in your DJ and thinking about your dreams tells your mind, that dreaming and remembering your dreams is important to you and it will help you achieve both. When you remember something, say thanks to your mind for your dream and for remembering it. Hope this helps:)
Normally I remember at least 1 a night, sometimes 2. In fact the night before this started, I remembered 3. Thought the past few nights I'd be lucky to remember a sliver of a dream. I write them down every time I wake up during the night and the morning. I write every detail down, sometimes there so much detail that my writing hands becomes a little cramped.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by gab
Okay. I just wanted make sure I wasn't doing anything wrong.Quote:
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I'll do that.Quote:
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Thanks for the tips.Quote:
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One dream a night is OK. Maybe you just have some stress that's getting you out of whack. If you keep writing in DJ, your recall will be back in no time. Accept it as something that happens. :)
Keep on journaling and try a few more teks regarding the REM phase of sleep. You will get it ;)
Don't get up right away when you wake, stay in bed and try to remember some dream fragments, then it will slowly get back to you. Works for me.
Actually, you may have a point. I WAS stressed out regarding an incident this past weekend. However, thankfully, it's been resolved. I'm thinking maybe I should go back doing meditations.Quote:
Originally Posted by gab
If you've been having good recall and it goes downhill for a while, it's completely normal. The more you think about dreaming in general, the more likely you are to remember dreams, or at least in my experience that's the case. With this in mind, so long as you don't just give up you'll be fine. Just give it some time. :)
Dry spells happen, that's okay. What I do when I want to break a dry spell is set my alarm for 3 or 4 am, just as I would for a WILD. The instant I wake up, I reach over for my notebook and write down everything I remember.
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Thanks. I needed that reassurance.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by dreaming90
I guess you have to be excited to have a good dream recall.
The day when I first heard about LD, was the BEST time recalling all the dreams.
I was excited + interested to have a new experience.
But as I get used to whole remembering dreams and writing journals (it becomes one of the routine)
The interest kind slowed down... with dimming memories...
Need continuous interest and caring and patience to recall any kind of dream at all
Hope this advice work for you ^_^
I have too had a dry spell. I then thought about it, and it was on the nights I had been partying, getting less sleep and being out of routine.
However I noticed an improved dream recall after eating B6, mostly from bananas.
Yeah, it was a real drag for awhile. Thankfully I have had a slight uptake in my dream recall. I think I may be overcoming it. I think it may due thinking more about my dreams than I had for a few days, and reading over my dream journal a couple of times during the day. I also worked on my confidence and beliefs in myself. Just the other night I had three dreams, one of them a fracture, that I was able to remember. It was just a matter of making a little more effort I guess.
Is stress also effect our ability to recall dreams?
My dream recall have been getting worse and worse. When I first start to remember 2 decent dreams every night. Then start to day 4 my recall was cease to 1 decent dream (Lucky I had 1 lucid during this time) then recently was cease to 1 in 2 days. All of them were fragment that didn't make sense until I can't describe them on paper. And today I can't recall anything at all.
Maybe because I feel humiliate yesterday?
It is true that stress affects dream recall, yes. When you wake up in the morning, if you begin to think about anything else that may happen during the day (or has happened, in your case), you make it that much harder to remember the dreams, as they slip away really fast.
I have been going thru a dry spell now for about 2 weeks but it's starting to improve.
The problem as I see it anyways is getting cocky about it :P
I have been doing this about 4 months now and I get to a point where I think I dont need to do all the things I did when I started and just take dream recall and lucidity for granted and forget about pre-sleep stuff and start skipping tidbits in the journal etc: Like losing interest in the work and just waiting for the results until I remember nothing in this world is free. (Not even good dreams)
It Goes alright for a time but then deteriorates rapidly to as bad as the beginning... What I have had to do is "Go back to Basics" Go back to the recordings, Maybe Some Mantra's and music before going to sleep. Quitting the movies early or all I get is movie rerun crap I have already seen. Go read some of the stuff on here instead to put my mind in the right place. Giving dreams a new place of importance.
Just as slow a recovery as when I started too.
You must be my long-lost twin or something. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by woblybil
That is exactly what happens to me.
Yeah same has happened to me lately. For the past couple of weeks my recall has just gone to the shit. i stopped writing a waking journal and didn't put some fragments in my dream journal. Gonna start all of it again. Add in meditation aswell. put notes in my dream journal. about remembering dreams lol.. aaaaahhhhhh
Have try auto-suggestion? Saying 'remember dream' or 'I'll get Lucid' until you sleep.
Waking journal seems to increase the number of dreams you can recall but can't ensure you to recall everyday (As refer to myself). Auto suggestion might help put your recall on track. If it's not working either eat dream food like banana, orange, milk etc and lastly take supplement like Choline and B6 or something like that.
Well last night after not writing in my waking journal for a while i wrote a page down, just the important parts of the day really that mattered and i also wrote in the dream journal side of it saying I am aware when im dreaming, i remember my dreams etc, i lucid dream 2-3 times a night, and also said out loud a couple of times "im always aware when im dreaming" "i wake up after every dream"Quote:
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So last night i did all that and ended up being lucid for a while in my dreams but i can't remember it proprerly. i just know i was lucid because i remember the feeling. but can't fkn remember lol.. SUCKS my dream recall used to be awesome. i know i had a DEILD last night which i haven't really been able to TALLY down either.
I do have choline but in powder form and im not sure how much to take and i thought your basically supposed to use it with Galantamine?
i also have b6 but the 100mg pills haven't really done much in the past. maybe i will try them again tonight. maybe just snort the powders hahahha jokes jokes....