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

My suggestions is that you focus on the reality check itself, rather than working on changing your reality test method.

The idea of a reality check is to question your surroundings, not perform a mindless action (such as counting your fingers).

Originally Posted by XeL

My suggestions is that you focus on the reality check itself, rather than working on changing your reality test method.

The idea of a reality check is to question your surroundings, not perform a mindless action (such as counting your fingers).

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I beg your pardon?

I really did focused on the reality check in this dream, but the dream was to real and my realitycheck isn't just a mindless action it have worked everytime except this one :S
Nice that you are swedish me too Hej hej xD

I really like the idea presented in this thread about recall. It makes sense to me. I am going ot give this a try. It also got me thinking about another potential thing to add since some people alrerady do it this anyway. I am trying to increase my lucid awareness every day in my waking life. I wonder if adding these types of memories to the day's recall of events. In any case though this is a great idea and I am going to apply it.

Originally Posted by starzandstripes

I really like the idea presented in this thread about recall. It makes sense to me. I am going ot give this a try. It also got me thinking about another potential thing to add since some people alrerady do it this anyway. I am trying to increase my lucid awareness every day in my waking life. I wonder if adding these types of memories to the day's recall of events. In any case though this is a great idea and I am going to apply it.

Please do And reply your results x)

I got to say this does work. On nights that I've wrote a page long recall of my day, I recalled my dreams in good detail. There was a few nights where I didn't do this and struggled to remember any fragments of my dream. So yeah the technique is awesome
peace

Originally Posted by surealization

I got to say this does work. On nights that I've wrote a page long recall of my day, I recalled my dreams in good detail. There was a few nights where I didn't do this and struggled to remember any fragments of my dream. So yeah the technique is awesome
peace

I'm so glad to hear that, I have noticed that too I hope this will help more people =D
and surealization you will soon notice that you are more aware in your dreams and that you even start to notice your micro awakenings, I did.

Ok I'm going to start a poll in a new thread and I will write down the technique in more detail. See you there

Okay...so...I've read all the posts in all pages here. And I must say...it worked on everyone! So this gave me another positive chance. I am going to do this starting this night, and I hope I'll recall my dreams with success. I am having a hard time in dream recalling recently.

So how do you exactly do this? Write down all the events you can remember that happened throughout the day on a paper? What if you can't remember some things that happened and was not able to write it down?

I started doing this a few days ago as I barely remembered 1 dream a night prior to starting this. I go over my day in detail in my head once or twice before going to sleep and since then my recall has increased from remembering no dreams or bits of 1 to maybe about 6 dreams in detail every night.
Thank you very much OP for posting this.

I'm gonna try this tonight!
My dream recall is horrible and I can hardly remember one dream a week.

Originally Posted by hobbit

I'm gonna try this tonight!
My dream recall is horrible and I can hardly remember one dream a week.

Well, I tried this yesterday.
I wrote down with as much detail I could my entire day up until starting to write the summary.
And I was also gonna wake myself up after about 5hrs to try CAN-WILD.
When my alarm woke me up at 06:00, I grabbed my laptop without exiting my bed, and started the timer (I had prepared it before going to bed, and only needed to wake it up from sleep-mode).
I'm not sure if this ruined any dream recall I might've had, but I couldn't fall asleep before the alarm rang the first time. And then I definitely couldn't fall asleep before the next two alarms. So I gave up because there was a lot of noise from the street, and people started waking up in the rest of the house.
Guess I have to go to sleep earlier so I can wake myself up earlier.
But, back to dream recall.
When I woke up 09:30 in the morning, I almost couldn't remember any dreams at all. Only a fragment from one dream.
But then I decided to stay in bed for a little longer just thinking about the dream, and I actually managed to remember a lot more (still only fragments). After like 20mins of doing this, I could remember fragments from 4 different dream, and I wrote down everything I remembered from the clearest dream I had.
I'm not sure if this was because of MasterMinds technique, but I will try it again tonight and see if I get better results.

I tried it again tonight, but couldn't remember any dreams at all.
But I think it's more likely that I couldn't remember anything because of my failed CAN-WILD attempt rather than the technique not working.
I guess I have to try it and just get a normal nights sleep. Without waking myself up for WILDs of anything.

I'm going to start using the technique today because it seems to work well, and I'm having trouble remembering dreams lately.

The other night I was looking for some inspiration to get back into the whole dream scene by upping me recall. I read through all the posts here and was impressed with the high success rate. Ever one for new things I gave it a try that night and when I woke I was +2 dreams (from my previous 0). In the interest of not jumping ahead of myself I tried again the next two nights with a consistent +2 dreams on my recall. Then I had a night where I was too tired to bother with it before bed upon waking I had nothing. Every other day since then my 2 dream recall has been brilliantly consistent and on the money.

So now I have about a week of experience and I am thoroughly impressed by this technique, it definitely works. I like the idea of it too, I don't write it as a journal, but as notes on my day's experiences as I rerun through my entire day from waking up. That's the same as when I wake up I write down notes on my dreams as is common, rather than writing proper journal style dreams down; so it makes sense to just parallel these with notes on the waking hours.

I give this method my support - from no recall for months of laziness to +2 consistently.

I have tried this a few times now, and 'm actually starting to get results.
The only thing is, I've started doing a couple of other things too, so it might be the combination of all of them.
Anyways. I've now three days in a row remembered 3-4 dreams. It's mostly fragments, but I can piece together enough of every dream to get an idea about what happened.
What I've notice though is that:
1) I NEVER remember any dreams when I try to wake myself up during the night.
2) When I wake up in the morning, I usually never remember anything without staying in bed for a while trying to recall what I've dreamed.
3) If I try to WILD during the night and fail (which I do all the time since I haven't really gotten the hang of it yet), I end up not falling completely asleep again at all, and that messes up my dream recall too.

One question though.
When you guys remember your dreams. Do you mostly remember fragments? Or can you remember your entire dream?
Is there anything I should try to remember more of my dreams, or do I just have to continue this and it will help over time?

@hobbit
In my experience, if I recall a dream, I recall it fairly well. I remember the key events/plot points that the dream centres around e.g. people, places and significant activities. I totally understand what you mean by fragmentation but by working from key points, the bits in between usually come back to me and I can reform the coherent dream.
Given time your overall recall will improve - fragments of 3-4 dreams a night is really good and will improve probably quite rapidly if you keep up with whatever it is that is working for you.

Hello There! To be short, I will try this out. I had a different method I was going to work on EILD but I'll pass for now. Will post results in the morning.

I think I'm going to try doing it ^_^ I usually have fairly good dream recall, but it's annoying when the dream is long and I end up forgetting parts of it >_> Also, good idea with voice recording :3

Originally Posted by marcher22

Hello There! To be short, I will try this out. I had a different method I was going to work on EILD but I'll pass for now. Will post results in the morning.

I tried this and so far, it didn't work but I did wake up EARLY than usual. Lately I've been waking up around 4am ( have no clue why) and can't fall asleep until like 45 mins later. Last night I woke up @ about 3:15am, after lying down in bed at 10:30pm last night. Weird.

Since I have trouble falling back asleep, so I think that's why I didn't remember anything. I'm going to try again tonight!

Good idea!!!!

I'm always looking for room of improvement. My average varies. I recall 1-2 dreams each night plus fragments. Some nights I recall 4-5 dreams. I had tops (more rarely) of 8 and 9 dreams in a single night)

I will love to increase my stats (which are not bad, but I always like to improve) I will start a waking journal tonight I see myself breaking the 9 limit (into double digits recall )

I do this without clock or unnatural disturbances... In fact, I just wake up myself to write dreams down.

Can I type my life's events on my computer?
Or is it better to write them down?

Both works, I prefer to keep it in my DJ, though.