Triggering dream recall

Sometimes I wake up unable to recall my dreams, but then a word or something else seems to trigger recall. For example, this morning, I woke up sort of feeling like I'd been dreaming, but not able to remember anything, and my OH said "Are you going to feed the horses?" - and the word "horses" made me remember quite a long and involved dream that culminated in me encountering a whole bunch of loose horses in a park. I had another dream recently about wrapping a Christmas present in pink paper, which I only remembered when I happened to be wrapping a real present in similar paper later in the day.

Is it common to find that a word or some other situation triggers recall of dreams?

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Originally posted by Blackpit
Is it common to find that a word or some other situation triggers recall of dreams?

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It seems rather common with me. I sometimes:

1. Hear or read a word that triggers recall.
2. See something that triggers recall.
3. Have spontaneous recall of a dream during the course of a day.


The very first thing I do when I wake is record my dreams. When I begin writing down the dreams I remember, I find that other dreams usually come rushing to consciousness in a sort of chain reaction and I'm hurridly writing them all down.
But sometimes just lying there in bed will aid in recall when I have that "edge of consciousness awareness" of having had a dream or dreams.

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Is it common to find that a word or some other situation triggers recall of dreams?

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I think so. It happens to me all the time! But more often with pictures than with words. LIke I obviously had a dream about a baby last night but I can't remember what it was. Everytime I see a baby that feeling from my dream comes back.
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Yes - it is possible for one key word to trigger the memory of an entire dream. It happens to me sometimes.

And lately, when I crawl into bed at night, just being back in bed (the sensation or smells) triggers a memory of a dream I had the night before. Or I remember more details from a dream that I could only vaguely recall before.

My dreams some times just pop into my mind thoughout the morning. Just one part of it. The rest I can then remebmer. That kind of proves the brain works with links and shit I think.

Yeah i had this on saturday morning after trying to remember the countless dreams i had had i looked down at my neckalce only to remember another one where some chav had ripped of my necklace :mad:

interesting...I also often remember dreams during the day suddenly when i see or hear something inherent to what i experienced in the niight.

Maybe we could develope some recall tecnique based on this fact....
Like to read a list of common words after the awakening or something similar

Any ideas?

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Such triggering is common indeed but a technique built on this would doubtfuly be very effective. This being because the spectrum of concepts in existance is just too enormous for any certain list to be built. The efficiency of such a technique for dream recall would take up too much time and be effective too seldomly.

I didn't remember anything about dreaming when I woke up this morning but some of it came to me about 10 minutes later.

A technique for random triggers wouldn't be easy...