Thread: Practicing recall without journaling

This is not just a lazy technique! This morning (and yesterday too maybe) I whispered the dream to myself instead of writing it out. It is much faster and easier than writing my dreams down. So obviously this makes no sense if you really want to record them to read them later for fun and/or to learn something from them. But I mostly journaled to improve my recall.

A serious benefit: because it is so much easier to whisper the dream than to pick up paper and a pencil, light a light and write the dream down, I can squeeze in an additional session of recall practice, whereas usually I would just think about it, recap it, wait for some grogginess to wear off before writing it down. In these moments I might fall asleep. Not only that, I may be waking up at least once at night and forgetting it later on and because I am so groggy I don't write it down, but if I am whispering them right after waking up instead of writing, I am so much more likely to get in extra recall practice.

Another pretty big benefit: because it is so fast and effortless to whisper as opposed to writing, I can add little details here and there and things like this: "oh, she had blonde hair like that girl from that show" "and i think that happened because he was doing this 5 minutes ago" these little things that take a lot of effort and 15 seconds each to write down are now of negligible effort. This also makes it so that I spend more time exploring my memory of the dream, which is good for improving recall and also to learn more about my dreams. And there are a lot of these little things that cross my mind about the dream but would take insanely long to write down.

Pretty cool huh