Lucidity kinda makes me immediately wake up...

[warpio]

For a while now, ever since I've started regularly recording my dreams I've gotten into a pattern of waking up way too early and having some of my most vivid dreams at that time, and then I write it down and go back to sleep, and then wake up again fully refreshed and maybe write down another dream. I've noticed that a common feeling I have as I wake up from a dream is that I get the slightest feeling that I know that I'm dreaming just as I am waking up. Maybe I'm just too focused on recording my dreams, and I'm like "oh wait this is a dream? wow I'd better wake up and write it down before I forget it!", so then I wake up immediately. I want to improve my dream recall more than anything else, because I'm sure there have been times I had an amazing lucid dream and then completely forgot about it after waking up. I want to get to the point where I can easily write 1.5 pages of dreams every morning, not just on a good day. Like I know for some people recall is completely natural and they don't even have to try anymore. I want that kind of recall, where I don't have to struggle to keep the dream in my mind long enough to write it down. So yeah it's just gotten natural for me to wake up randomly and record my dreams this way now. Maybe I should focus on doing the WILD technique since I already have such a weird sleep pattern?

[StasConstantine]

Try calming down cuzz if you're to exited you will wake up, And try not to record right after you wakeup, keep the dream in your head andwrite it down 10 minutes later

[speedbasssux]

How long have you been keeping a DJ? Dream recall improves dramatically over time. Just keep at it and you'll get to where you want to be. But I don't know of anyone who can record a dream hours later in as much detail as they could minutes after the woke. Using keywords and phrases helps a lot. Sometimes I'll wake in the middle of the night and scribble down maybe like five phrases and go back to sleep. Then when I wake up in the morning, reviewing the phrases can bring the full memory back. Just don't get in the habit of doing that all the time because you'll work up a backlog and not want to write the full entry.

[Peel]

I experienced this same thing last night... Edit: Well, as the dream was fading I realized it was a dream, and I woke up about 10 seconds later.

[warpio]

Try calming down cuzz if you're to exited you will wake up, And try not to record right after you wakeup, keep the dream in your head and write it down 10 minutes later See, I don't think that would even work. When I wake up I immediately focus all my thoughts on my dreams, and even as I'm doing that, every second that I'm not writing it down I can feel memories of the dream slipping away. It's too much to remember all at once. Whereas writing the dream down as I'm recalling it eliminates that burden. I can clear my mind more when I'm writing, and that's when most of my recall happens. How long have you been keeping a DJ? Dream recall improves dramatically over time. Just keep at it and you'll get to where you want to be. But I don't know of anyone who can record a dream hours later in as much detail as they could minutes after the woke. Using keywords and phrases helps a lot. Sometimes I'll wake in the middle of the night and scribble down maybe like five phrases and go back to sleep. Then when I wake up in the morning, reviewing the phrases can bring the full memory back. Just don't get in the habit of doing that all the time because you'll work up a backlog and not want to write the full entry. I've been keeping a DJ for about a month so far. I often start by writing down keywords and phrases if that's the only thing I can remember, even that can sometimes lead to recalling a full page. Other times though I can't recall any more than that. I guess I just have to keep at it to get better. Ironically enough, last night I had a false awakening where I thought I woke up at night and wrote in my dream journal, and it was too dark to see well so I just wrote in it with my eyes closed. I then opened my eyes and saw that I fit 2 lines of text into one space between the lines... After I woke up for real and wrote down some of my dream and just as I thought I was done, I remembered how I had written in it previously during the night and that there were 2 lines in one space, but couldn't find that entry anywhere in the book nor could I remember anything of what I wrote... I thought that was funny because I was worrying so much about my dream journaling waking me up but now I've gone and done it in my dream.

[itachix]

How long have you been keeping a DJ? Dream recall improves dramatically over time. Just keep at it and you'll get to where you want to be. But I don't know of anyone who can record a dream hours later in as much detail as they could minutes after the woke. Using keywords and phrases helps a lot. Sometimes I'll wake in the middle of the night and scribble down maybe like five phrases and go back to sleep. Then when I wake up in the morning, reviewing the phrases can bring the full memory back. Just don't get in the habit of doing that all the time because you'll work up a backlog and not want to write the full entry. I do this a lot I've wrote down a couple of key phrases phrases being 1 or 2 words allow me to remember the dream in the same detail as i would just waking up it expands it from four to sixteen years when hearing the key phrase. but not bad considering im 21 and most of the key phrases and most of them before I can't tell because they fall in a memorys instead of dreams.