What's the best way to ....

What's the best way to wake up in the morning to remember your dreams better? Like waking up on your own, having some one shove you till you get out of bed, having some one yell till you get up,or an alarm clock. Because I wake up in the morning, forget to ask myself what did I dream, and I only rember a very tiny part of a dream I had. I lay in bed trying to remember but it does not work. I'm getting back it to writtening in my dream journal-the tiny parts i can remember anyways.So anyways any help would be great. Thanks.

Keep a notebook next to your bed... wake up on your own... just let the dream come to you. If you try too hard, it just slips away.

try setting an alarm clock to wake you up when your in the middle of a REM period, that way your more likely to wake up in the middle of a dream which is easiar to remember if you dont have good recall.

i've tried that alarm clock..it works...

when you use the alarm clock to wake yourself in the middle of REM cycle, should you do this only once per night? Since there are multiple REM cycles, which one do you wake yourself up during? and once you wake yourself up am i right in thinking that the stages are reset and you cant go instantly back into the next REM cycle.

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Originally posted by Vagner
Since there are multiple REM cycles, which one do you wake yourself up during?

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if you use an alarm then wake yourself up in one of the later REM periods(like 5 or 7 hours in)because they last longer and you more likely to have a desent dream to remember