Thread: If you can't remember your dreams, TRY THIS!

I need to start doing this, now.

I kind of stopped doing this the previous days, idk if I shall continue.. cus made it in 14 days but my recall been very bad.

I can think of one idea why this may be good. I always use to dream about something that happened during the day, but these things is always something totally random, something that hasn't been so huge. It could just be a small detail I'd been looking at for 5 seconds and been thinking 10 sec about.

My dream recall was fairly good to begin with, but it improved significantly when I tried this. I usually give my face a steam treatment when I go to bed. I've been using that time to close my eyes and visually go over my day. Typically, I can recall one full-length dream and maybe a dream fragment from earlier in the night. On the first day I tried this, I managed to recall 3 lengthy dreams.

I have been beaten for replying to really old threads before anyways so here we go !
I read this last week and tried it, I dont know as it helps directly but it does give me something to write about lucid dreaming just before I go to bed which in turn helps create a mindset to remember, If that makes sense :p

I heard about this in meditation. Its apparently good for your well being.
I could totally see this working because you let go of all the things in the day. So then at night you have nothing to worry about.
Another way to do this is write what you did everything you can remember then while you go asleep picture putting all those things in a box beside your bed. Sorry for anyvtypos on phone. Happy dreaming!

DEFINITELY gonna try this out.. my recall has been shit since the start of the month.. fkn sucks..
when i used to just write down tags in my dream journal and then throughout the day put them in my phone and then before i went to bed i would write my actual dreams from the tags i did during the day and would always end up having dreams i remembered..
gonna try this and hopefully be all good !!! will post results..

Also just thought of something - maybe writing about the lucid dream that you want to have that night while writing your waking journal will maybe help you have that lucid dream or a lucid dream?? does that make sense ??? so for eg. so got home and sat for about 10 minutes thinking about what i wanted to lucid dream for tonight and remembering in future that i was going to write it in the waking journal. *details go here* then i went and had dinner watched a tv show about socks etc etc etc... make sense???
so like autosuggestion kind of thing incorporated into this..

gonna try the waking journal first and then see what happens when i try my idea!

Really interesting! I'll try this for a few weeks...

I've been keeping a dream journal for two weeks and usually have pretty dream recall. But for the past couple of days it seems my dream recall has been going in reverse. This sounds like a very interesting method that I intend to try out. I've one question. I know MasterMind said to be very detailed, but what if you just can't remember certain details. An example is what if I forget what was said in a conversations I may have had with someone? Would this hurt my chances?

Before I went to sleep, I reviewed my whole day in my head. I remembered 4 different dreams that night and I wrote them all down. Idk if it was this that helped me remember or what, but I'm happy. I'm going to do this every night and see how many dreams I can recall. Thanks!

Thats a good technique as you transfer your problems with waking life to that paper so your brain can fin the dreams easier

At least this would be something I do for myself. Ok, I would stick to this method and see howl it would go. Really hope it would work.

I dont think any one thing works 100% all the time, At least not for me, Sometimes even my old reliable mantra fails me, I must keep changing around, Tonite I ate a gummy vitamin, Tomorrow night a Mnemonic brow beating, next night writing stuff I did all day etc: It seems to take something out of the ordinary.

wow it sounds like this technique really works! i am definately trying this since i have to work on my recalling before i get into lucids thanks for sharing!!

Well, It was my third day as I write my day journal. The last two days ago I have no luck of remembering my dream. But....

As my stress lift yesterday I could recall 5 dreams when I woke up this morning. I didn't realise it when I wrote down my dreams for the first time. I thought I had 4. Then as I analysis and type them in my computer I notice that I actually recall 5.

I'll keep doing my Wake Journal until I'm use to recall my dream naturally.

This is getting me pumped like crazy! There are so many positive reviews! I gotta do this! I'll post the results on sunday (my time). This may be what I am looking for because my nights are often on and off.

I can't believe this! It worked! and as an added bonus I woke up after each dream almost! There were 4 in total, but I remember 3. And as another added bonus, I became partially lucid. freakin thank you! Now I can't until tonight because I'm going to mix it up a bit.

and I experiencing a false awakening without me notice. I only notice what I was doing in the false awakening dream didn't exist in my awake as I wrote my waking journal. Oh my, I'm really impress!

I wrote down all highlights in detail this seems like it has a hug success rate so I'll b back tomarrow for a review thanks buddy

im gonna try this tonight and post the resluts in the morning.
thx

This has increased recall for me after 3 days!

I think I will try this tonight. This is similar to another post that I halfheartedly did it seemed to help. I like the simplicity of this one however. My recall isn't particularly lacking but my recall ability seems to fluctuate (on the downside past few nights) and so I'm always looking for ways to improve. Will post results.

That's my dude right there! Xanous woot!!!

WOAH :O This thread got popular! I am still on the forum but with a different username because I forgot the password to this one (but I just figured it out).
I have been a little careful because of my fright to get banned for more than one account - I'll give you a hint, I am still Swedish, write down my recalled dreams every day and I am asian looking.
I hope the admins will have mercy on my soul...

Cya keep recalling!