What's wrong with me?

**Chicken** · 05-20-2013 07:26 PM

Please help me! My recall is terrible since 2 months now and I hate it :-(

I've been keeping a dreamjournal for 1,5 year now and my recall used to be really good, almost every night I could remember one or more dreams and some really long ones as well. But since 2 months or so it has become blank in my head in the morning, like I know I had a dream but can't recall it in any way. It frustrateds me because I love my dreams and was always happy to write them down. Now when I'm lucky I remember a short dream but mostly just fragments.

I don't know what caused this except I had serious backpains which let to sleepless nights, the backpains are gone but so is my recall

I still write in my DJ daily ("no dreams recalled last night"), have a regular sleep patern, don't use alcohol or drugs, no stress, blinding curtains in the bedroom etc..

Can someone please help me, I miss my dreamworld!

**JoannaB** · 05-20-2013 07:41 PM

Ok, my guess would be that the back pains made it hard for you to get any rest, and so while the back pains were not getting enough rest to remember dreams.

As to why the dreams have not returned now that the back pains are gone? Why are the back pains gone? Are you taking medicines? Are you sure you are physically ok now? How long has it been since the back pains stopped? It could be that you are still catching up on getting sufficient rest? Also by now it could be expectations and anxiety over not remembering dreams, give it some time, relax, and hopefully the dreams will come back.

**Chicken** · 05-21-2013 08:26 AM

Thanks Joanna for the reply. I took medication for the pain but that was also 2 months ago. I guess it has something to do with the season, my biological clock wakes me early and makes me active. Which is a good thing only not for dreaming.
Funny thing is I had a very long and crazy dream last night! I'm happy about that and maybe my dreams will get back slowly eventually and I can start practice on my lucid dreaming again.

Good tips are still welcome!

**Voldmer** · 05-23-2013 12:56 PM

Dream recall has its ups and downs for me; it goes in waves. I've had two LD's over the last three nights, and they mark the end of about two weeks with very little dream recall. My feeling is that larger consumption of "psychic" energy (for lack of a better expression) during the day must be followed by more deep sleep, with less dreaming as a result. So periods of larger than normal demands on mental activity would lead to fewer dreams.

But this is merely a hypothesis at the moment (at least for me).