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

Wow SurfinShroom you have in turn opened my eyes, I need to start doing this ASAP!

I used to just see this as a way of getting the recall started, but now when I do recall really vivid dreams every night, without this, I am really excited to see what will happen if I start using this again.

So I am glad that it helped you, and thanks for making me aware of something again.

LOL now it's me bringing the good news. I don't want to brag, but I already had fairly good recall before yesterday night, so I just viewed this as a way of getting the recall started, and therefore I didn't keep a day journal myself. Although last night I wrote one page in a word document describing my day, and this night I had even better recall. About 4 really long and vivid dreams (that I didn't wrote down though) because later in the morning I had one long and vivid slightly more aware, perhaps even lucid dream that I wrote down instead. (See DJ).

It should be obvious that better memory leads to better recall, although I didn't thought like that until now.

Any time I give recall advice; I alway mention this.

My recall has been crappy lately so I went back to this last night as a last resort, I ended up with a two page on and off lucid in my dream journal that took a full hour to edit from the recorder to the computer, Whew,
Sometimes it works too well

I do believe this has helped me. For the past two days I've tried it it's worked. I'll update again once I've hit 7 days, if I remember 7 days worth of dreams then I commend this method and thank you so much.

About this time every month my recall goes to hell and I'm back here for a couple of days and I'm good to go for another month erso

I just wanted to post a small twist on this method that I've been using.

Rather than physically writing down my day on a piece of paper or on a computer, I lie down in bed before going to sleep and imagine I have a keyboard sitting on my stomach. With my eyes closed I can pretend to type in an entire day's journal, lightly tapping with my hands like it's really there. It's easier because I don't have to worry about typos, while at the same time I'm expending the physical and mental effort required to make this technique effective.

If you can't touch-type obviously this won't work for you. You could pretend to write it down with an imaginary pen but it's not much more efficient that doing it in real life.

MasterMind, sorry if you discussed this already, but does this work if you replay your day in your head without physically typing anything out? I feel like I can recall a lot more details by just running through my day mentally, but I don't know if the physical act of writing about your day makes a difference.

Edit: Just realized this thread is kind of old and MasterMind's last post was in March. Guess I'll try the mental recall myself and see how it goes.

Hehe no worries people come back here from time to time.

Doing it mentally is fine, the whole idea is to just practise your memory. Try it out and tell us how it goes.

I don't know if I've said this here before, but this is a tibetan dream yoga dream recall technique, pretty cool if you discovered it independently

Hey! Yes it was mentioned later on somewhere in this thread. And yeah I discovered it on my own it was nothing special though I just thought that practising my memory in general would make a difference in recall, and that turned out to be a good guess. This was just my western minded theoretical thinking it would be really interesting though to read about the Tibetan explanation of it and see what deeper understanding that information can provide us! :meditate.

Something about burning the seeds of karma. Specifically, the practice is to recall the day regarding each memory as a dream.

Hello MasterMind! I joined Dreamview not to long ago and have been looking for answers to get my recall back. She as a child I could have alot
of dreams, and I knew if I were in a dream, but I didn't know at the time that what I was doing was doing a mild form of lucid dreaming.

Well I haven't had many dreams since I was like 12, maybe even 13. I'am sixteen now so. I wanted to ask you if it matters how detailed I am
with my new walking journal. I have just entered my first log and it pretty damn long. I was wondering if this is better than a semi detailed one.

Also, if this technique works and I obtain good recall, which at the moment I can't recall anything really dream wise, what should I start with after that? Like I.e Mild, DILD, and stuff like that.


Thank you so much Mastermind!

I sent you a PM.

But the detail should be in the same way as you want to remember your dreams, because the whole idea is to practise the same kind of memory needed for both the waking journal and the dream journal, short-term memory.

Practising short-term memory is a tool that will help you enter a positive circle for the lucid dreaming process:

recall -> motivation -> intention of awareness -> awareness of dreams -> experiencing dream more vividly -> lucidity.

And when I was a beginner and wrote this thread I started to realize that I no longer recalled my dreams, which means that I didn't had to lay still and recall the dreams, I had already experienced them more aware and therefore already remembered them upon awakening.

So for me this worked as DILD and MILD induction on it's own. However when you chose an induction all that is needed is that you find a technique that puts you somewhere in the positive circle I described above. So choose a technique that you find interesting.

Good luck!

So I'm new to everything, including recall, and I've just did this last night and did pretty good with my day, and so when I woke up, (probably 3:24) I had the feeling THREE dreams were coming up, (like I would remember different objects of the dreams) but it just continued on and left my knowledge, I'd like to say this method helped, but it's just my problem of waking up and not being able to find the dream I came out with.

But yeah, thanks for the method, I'm very sure it will help in the long run.

You can't judge yourself after just one night. Since lucid dreaming is a long process, you also need to look at it in a longterm way.

For example you can't go to the gym totally new and skinny and expect to lift the heavy weights that the 20 year experienced body builder next to you can do.
Ironically you can be bigger than that guy someday.
But you have to admit to yourself that you are at the start of your journey and be happy with the little progress that you make.
Did you lift 1 kg more than last month? Great!

Same view for lucid dreaming, did you almost recalled three dreams, or different objects of the dream? GREAT!

Look back at your post 6 months from now and see how much you have learned and grown as a person.
And if nothing much have changed by then, that's when it's time to change things.

Hahah, of course that's what I'm trying to say, , I'm going to continue this method, it's just that starting new and just not being able to recall right off the bat is probably the problem, but like I said, it seemed like this method ALREADY helped me get in the mindset for the night and morning. So thanks Mastermind!

Oh wow. This makes sense. When I used to write a journal, I also have wonderful dream recall. I'll get back to this habit. Thanks!

Oh sweet! This sounds like a great way to get my recall up. I gotta try this.

Ok so first off - Great technique / idea you've developed, Mastermind! It's a solid idea and it's helped me with my recall a lot.

At the moment I spend about 30 minutes with an entry (I really try to remember as much as possible and write down as much as I can). My entries get to about a whole page in word with letter size 11.

I'm noticing however that its effectiveness has decreased a bit. I'm not sure if this is anything external like stress or not sleeping as well as before, or that I'm just in a dry spell week of dream recall, but have you experienced anything like this before? If so, did you do anything to solve it or did it pass by itself?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks, i this sounds great!
I am really new to LDing(started 3 days ago lol) and i havent ben able to recall any dreams so far.
But as i was walking to the bus as normal i just started thinking of what i had done today and while thinking of a few things and i just remembered one of my dreams Wich really made my day.

I'll defenately try this out.

This is genius. Thank you.

Hey thanks for sharing this, I'm going to give it a try!

So I meditated before going to bed and I thought about all the things that happened during the day, just listed them in my head in chronological order (and visualised a little bit, but that was automatic) and I woke up today remembering 3 dreams! Although some were a little fuzzy.

I think this works! =D