training myself to wake up after dreaming

[adrift]

my morning recall is fairly efficient, but i've decided i need to take it up a notch and train myself to wake up after dreams so I can jog notes on a piece of paper. This is mostly because I have so many dreams at night, or a particular dream is so long and broken up into pieces, that i cannot remember all of it at night. so i was hoping somebody here could point me in the direction of some threads or tutorials that would get me started - or offer their own advice on how to do this. anything would be greatly appreciated. thank you!

[ultranova]

I guess you'll have to do some tweaking with your alarm. Try to guess when your REM cycles are. First try setting alarm at 4.5 , 6 , or 7.5 hours after you go to sleep. Thing that helps me is waking after 5-6 hours and then after that waking every half and hour. Usually I remember 1-2 dreams after every ''half hour session''. And usually when I wake up during that half an hour I wake right after the dream. So sometimes I recall 8-9 dreams if I have plenty of time to sleep.

[adrift]

i'll give it a shot, thanks ultranova!

[Koalaman]

You could use your prospective memory to wake yourself up after a dream using intention techniques similar to MILD. This can take some practice, but you won't need an alarm. I use an alarm though. I need to wake up entirely for WBTB. I try to make myself wake up right before the alarm. Sometimes this works, other times it doesn't or doesn't seem to. Perhaps I'm too sleepy to be aware at times, even after "waking up". Anyway, either I wake myself up or the alarm does.

[CloudOFmichael]

this really helped, thx BD