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

Just found out about this technique. I do have trouble with DR, and usually I only get one a night (I'm striving for 3 or 4 a night)
I'll try out the method. Sounds like a lot of you guys are having success with it.
Hopefully it will get me closer to LDing.

I was having trouble with DR lately, barely even remembering one dream. I did this last night. I spent a good 10+ minutes and ended up with a full page on a large sheet of paper (the notebook I decided to use for this is quite big). I went to bed, and woke up around 3 with no success. Figuring this could be a good WBTB type thing I browsed dream views until 5. I had trouble falling asleep, but I did. And when I woke up at 9? I remembered 2, long, vivid dreams!

So yeah, this works. And I love it. I'm going to make it a habit to do this

I find that just keeping a dream journal does this for me. It got so bad that I got tired of writing them all down and so I stopped doing it.

i just tried this yesterday, I today I recalled 2-3 dreams. They weren't full dreams (fragments, pretty much), but there definitely was improvement. So yeah, this certainly does seem to work, and I'll keep on it.

Thanks for sharing this

Life is what we make it to be happy of your life, and be a glad person every day and take a vacation in the night ?

im not sure but i think you rhymed

This idea is worth looking into. I am lucky if I can remember one dream per night...

Ok, I am going to try this tonight, and post my results in the morning. If it works, I will love you and I can be your servant in your lucid dreams.

nice idea!
this would work because when you try to remember what you did that day, your body will try to remember everything you do, including your dreams. Bravo, i should try.

Ummm. I am eagerly waiting for the end of the day. Thx Mastermind

Glad to help
This works because instead of letting the brain sort out the memories of the day when you dream, you are doing it before sleep and it is easier to become aware during the dream.

Trying this tonight, will post a success (gotta believe, right?) sometime tomorrow. Thanks for the great idea.

Wow...it worked for me, I got 2 LDs last night. Salute u, Mastermind

Originally Posted by SillyDreamer

Wow...it worked for me, I got 2 LDs last night. Salute u, Mastermind

haha nice ! What induction technique did you use ?

Well, just rolled out of bed about 20 minutes ago and have been trying to remember some of my dreams from last night. I was unable to remember any dreams from the previous nights this week, but I made progress. I was able to recall 3 seperate parts of dreams. I'm not sure if they were all part of the same dream or if they were completely separate, but they all had small details that tied into each other that I can't fully remember. I think I had another dream though, I just can't remember anything about it other than that one person was in it.

Going from 0 dreams recalled each night to 3 parts the next night sounds like progress to me!

Thanks for the advice,
Hunter

Originally Posted by MasterMind

haha nice ! What induction technique did you use ?

I used WILD with brain strain. After a an LD I got an FA and afterward awakened. I could go back to the same scene with the same WILD. Your technique is going to be my usual routine.

So many positive replies, definately gonna start a waking life journal, i tried for 1 time, but it didn't work, nothing worked there because of the time difference, but now in my home country I've started recalling fragments of dreams, hope this helps.

This seems to be a really good idea, Mastermind! Like Ashouren said, lots of positive replies; I'm going to try this out.
Should definitely help my recall ^^.

Why haven't I read this thread till now?!

Great idea MasterMind, it Seems like it works for everybody! I have had some bad recall latley so I will definitley start doing this. Will report results tomorrow.

Like I've said before this is not helping you remember your dreams easier, you remember them because you become more aware in your dreams and therefore you remeber easier. Atleast for me anyway. And when you are more aware of your day you are more aware of your dreams and every induction technique work easier.
Good to know

You're right, I think this 'technique' mainly helps because it makes you more aware of the world around you. This starts in reality (as you write down what happens to you every day) and hopefully this awareness transfers to your dreams. Perhaps you could see it as a continuous RC.

This techniqe rocks - I remembered about 5 different dreams last night. In one I almost realized it but none the less being more aware of them is gonna help a lot. Thnx for the help MasterMind.

Wow, everyone's doing so good, for me it's still the same few fragments every couple of days ;? It's a rare thing to remember something for 2 days in a row, then it suddenly dissappears and comes back with no improvement Gotta keep going, maybe it'll start working.

Keep it up everyone

neat idea i think i'll try it!!! very interesting how it seems to work even though it isn't correlated to waking up at all that i can see. lol =P

hmm... sounds interesting. I'll try it tonight, only problem is I consider those things private and i'm terrible at hiding things. *eyes nosey annoying cousin* well, i'll have a day to think about it, but first i have a few things to take care of...

I read about this long ago. What I read was that when you dream you process all the emotions from the past day/week (what needs to be processed) so you are ready to attract new energies/experiences into your life. When you write down this stuff before bed you actually save your mind some time in having to process these memories so you're free to dream more.

Kinda like freeing up RAM space on your computer/intellect/mind to be used for something else. Or a back-up even.