Too Tired to Write in the Middle of the Night
I'm trying to get better at my dream recall. I've actually started waking up after each dream like I've wanted to all along but I'm just too tired to pick up a pen and write each dream down. I know that if I started to write dreams down in the middle of the night, I'd never fall back to sleep, and I can't have that. I just take a key word from the dream and try to remember it in the morning to remind myself of the dream so I can log it into the journal then. Does anyone have any suggestions to make writing dreams down in the middle of the night easier? Or any thoughts on improving dream recall any other ways?
Re: Too Tired to Write in the Middle of the Night
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but I'm just too tired to pick up a pen and write each dream down.[/b]
Well, you see, there is probably a very good reason for that. If sleep were not important, I don't think we'd spend about 1/3 of our lives doing it.
I find if you wake up early in the morning/night and remember a dream, just go over it in your head as you lay there and go back to sleep. I will probably just start out as fragments from the dreams in the middle of the night, but after awhile you should be able to remember blocks of various dreams you had that night when you wake up refreshed in the morning. And even when you wake lay there and just try remembering your dreams. I am assuming it will naturally progress to larger blocks, and then perhaps to full dreams... but even that I'm not sure of.
For example if you ask me exactly what I did yesterday in a given 3 hour block, I couldn't possibly tell you everything. I could tell you certain blocks I remember, but wouldn't be able to give an exact run down of the entire 3 hours... I think remembering dreams is no different. (I don't know how long an average dream is; just using 3 hours as an example).
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I think though that if you actually force yourself to write them down in the middle of the night once in a while, that'll help tremendously with LDs.. because you're overcoming a lot of laziness
needing sleep = laziness?? Oh, forget it, I'm not even going to bother further commenting on that one.
Still having a hard time remembering dreams though...
First of all, I'd like to thank the designers of this website for the amazing information available. I'm an aspiring dreamer and have been finding this place really helpful for my first steps to LDs.
I had tried the journal technique sometime ago, but quickly gave up. After having a couple of really vivid dreams, I decided to keep a journal again. I can never wake up during the night, even though I concentrate and tell myself to do so the whole time before falling asleep. The first morning I couldn't remember any dreams, but as I started jolting down things, the different pieces came to my head. As for the second, I woke up sometime after REM (I believe), and right before REM for the following night, because of noise outside. Both nights I couldn't remember any detail whatsoever from my dreams, and couldn't feel anything specific about my mood. Later that day an image of the dream came to my head, but it was nothing more than that image.
Is it possible to also get better at waking up during the night by writing journals? I was thinking about setting an alarm on to try to wake me up around my last, or next to last REM of the night, but I never know how long it takes me from trying to sleep, to actually being asleep.
Anyway, once again... GREAT website! :) You guys now have another noob-dreamer-follower.