Thread: RECALL problems? try this

just ate a bowl of cerial and got so damn full i thought to either vomit or lay down. so i had another dream and it was SO vivid and real and remembered every detail. so this method is 100% yes finally it works. i wasnt lucid, though i was in full control in real time like most of our dreams. man it ruled! im gonna do this everyday now. alarm after 2 hours then sleep and keep dreamin!

I have to agree that with deeper sleep and my early REM period--I personally have a harder time remembering those dreams. It is the later REM stages or being close to waking time, that those dreams I remember better. I think your method is just that--getting out of the deep sleep and being close to consciousness.

Hell, i'll try anything!"
I had a dream last night, and it kinda made sense, but i was like 'uh?' just the same...
still writing in my handwritten DJ though...so i haven't quite given up all together.

well i did it again today and had 5 dreams

my recall sucks so ill do anything. gonna try it out tonight. when u wake up after 2hrs of sleep, do you remember anything? do u write it in your journal? or do u just wake up and go back to sleep without doing anything?

well just like this morning again. i woke up after 2 hours. didnt rememeber a damn thing (sometimes i do though). so i just immediatly went back to sleep and rememebered a TON of dreams. maybe 5 or more but some could have been scene changes. im telling you this method WORKS

O_O ya got me sold on it

but i usually just go back to sleep when my alarm goes off maybe a bucket of water... and i move my bed near the door and set a prarot on hte alarm clock attached to a string attached to the bucket of water... eeeeeehhhhh?!... too much work for me i dont even have a parot.

crap it didnt work for me... i woke up and imediatley got back to sleep... didnt remember a single dream a bucket of water might be a good idea

it worked for me again. not that u have to get up out of bed. cuz i dont. well unless you count drinking some water then hitting the pillow again.

crap. ive tried it three times now and it didnt work for my... i dont even remeber that i woke up this night, even tho i set the alarm. guess this isnt my method...

wow that blows dude. has it worked for anybody else yet? seems to be working for me everyday i do it. this morning i had a few long dreams

make sure you dont take any drugs while trying to get your recall up, if you do anyway

Good idea, jaydawg.

After about two week of being able to remember at least one dream a night, last night I remembered nothing ... frustrating to say the least!

But ... I usually drink a lot of water before going to bed so that I wake up, and last night I didn't, so I didn't wake up during the night. I'm going to try drinking LOTS of water everytime I wake up so that I have a better chance of waking after each dream.

i'll try it tonight, it's so frustrating when i can remember such a low number of dreams. it kind a gets me discouradged, but i'll try. like the proverb sais: if at first you don't succed, try, try, again!

by the way; whats the method again?

set your alarm to go off 2 hours after you fall asleep, when u wake up, write down what u can remember, then drink some water and fall right to sleep again?

can't wait to try it!

Originally posted by jay dawg
wow that blows dude. has it worked for anybody else yet? seems to be working for me everyday i do it. this morning i had a few long dreams

make sure you dont take any drugs while trying to get your recall up, if you do anyway

Actually I'm experiencing something similar. I was about to make a thread, but I just noticed this one.

The difference is that I don't wake myself up after a couple of hours. I just sleep until I wake up on my own. Then I just try and get some more sleep. That has been the only effective way for me to remember multiple dreams.
This might not be such a good method if you're not having vacation of some sort though.

Originally posted by Deere

Actually I'm experiencing something similar. I was about to make a thread, but I just noticed this one.

The difference is that I don't wake myself up after a couple of hours. I just sleep until I wake up on my own. Then I just try and get some more sleep. That has been the only effective way for me to remember multiple dreams. *
This might not be such a good method if you're not having vacation of some sort though. *

yeah no kidding, or if youve got loud assed people in your house in the afternoon banging around all friggin day. Thats especially why my method is so grand. it allows me to get those "REMembered" dreams in and still be early on in my sleep. and for better affect you could have your alarm set to wake u up every hour and a half or more, if u dont do that on your own yet.

This method works. I've been doing it for about a year now. Not on purpose, though. I just happen to wake up about every hour or so of sleep. It can be a pain but at least I remember almost everything.

Yeah... My memories tend to shatter after loud noises. I wanna get myself one of those vibration alarms, see how that works out. I just don't have a clue where to get them.

Deere, I had already sent you this info in a PM but here is the clock I have (but you might be able to find it cheaper elsewhere on the web or on EBAY.com).

http://www.balancedlifeproducts.com/$spind...ll1.yogaview.50

What's cool about it is that you can actually set 12 different alarms and it can be set to either vibrate or beep. It has a countdown timer, a custom timer and a meeting timer. It has 3 vibration levels and 3 loudness levels for the beeps. It works really well.

Yah, I remember
I just don't have a bank account or something with which I can buy stuff online. I've yet to find them nearby.
edit: And even if I could, my old-fashioned parents wouldn't allow me to. :/

I'm new here, mainly signed up cause my dream recall is worth poop. I've been keeping a dream/OBE journal for a little less than a month, but my interest extends back longer than that. Out of that month, I have like six total remembered dreams, and two of them were today. Without recall, I can't have lucid dreams. Without lucid dreams, I can't have astral projections, and that's my ultimate goal. I've actually left my body more times than I've remembered my dreams since I've started practicing this stuff.

So, uh, hello everybody.

I was wondering, does this technique take a bit of time to build up effectiveness? I've been trying mid-morning naps after about an hour or so of waking, and what usually happens is that I doze off and wake up in time for dinner, sans dreams. Should I be one of those people that sets an alarm every 90 minutes from the point my head hits the pillow?

yes

And so it came to pass.

Well lets see if i fall asleep say at 5:00 am then woke up at 7:00 am I can usually recall 1 dream very easily and during the dream I recalled I was very aware and could control myself. I then go back to bed and wake up at around 11:45 am and have had another dream which I was fully aware and could control myself and a few other things around me. I then fall back asleep again. I wake up again around 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm in which I have had full control of every single thing in my dream. This is mind you 12 hours of sleep and I do tend to waste quite a bit of my time sleeping just so that I can dream

My method is when you are falling asleep just think about dreaming until you can no longer thing any more (pretty much you are asleep now) I find it very easy to tell if I am dreaming or not. Its just being able to control yourself and the things around you that people seem to have a hard time with. And I am going to try the alarm clock thing today and see if that works.

Originally posted by jay dawg
well i did it again today and had 5 dreams

Im gonna try it out, I don't think i have problems recalling dreams, i normally recall like 2-3 per night or something but if you say you recalled like 5 dreams, that seems nice!
Once i slept like 13 hours and could recall like 6 or 7, that was amazing, i didn't know how i did it, they just came to me while the day was passing in short flashes that cleared up some things.