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? |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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Last edited by mdspencer68; 06-25-2012 at 09:10 PM.
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. |
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Keep on journaling and try a few more teks regarding the REM phase of sleep. You will get it |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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I guess you have to be excited to have a good dream recall. |
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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. |
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My Dream Journal = http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/isthisit/ DILDs - 9 WILDs - 5
Ooh, their breath is warm
And they smell like sleep
And they say they take me home
Like poppies heavy with seed
They take me deeper and deeper
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. |
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Is stress also effect our ability to recall dreams? |
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Last edited by elyuu; 07-26-2012 at 02:10 AM.
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. |
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I have been going thru a dry spell now for about 2 weeks but it's starting to improve. |
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Last edited by woblybil; 08-04-2012 at 12:46 PM.
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 |
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Have try auto-suggestion? Saying 'remember dream' or 'I'll get Lucid' until you sleep. |
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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" |
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