Mosh's Dream Recall Tutorial.

[Man of Shred]

HI! Are you interested in having dreams that are as long as the one below? Spoiler for Long ass Dream.: AA Conference in the sky I arrive in some Hotel lobby with Asuka. I look around. Everywhere people are with coffee cups and smokes. They all look happy. "oh god." I say to Asuka. "You brought me to another AA meeting?" "Not meeting." she said. "Conference. And you're favorite speaker is here." I looked around and spotted a board that said "Clanhdfhdfhg" Clan who? Clancy. A friend of mine iwho i knew went to AA once invited me to a conference in seattle. I went along and the guy who spoke was funny. "Oh... But do I really have to go here? I don't even drink much at all." "You drank on valentines day and forgot most of our dreams. And I see you drink all the time in dreams." Asuka complained. "I remembered the highlights." I said. "All you remember is sex. We dreamviewed our wedding and you didn't even remember that!" "Don't worry." I said. "When I'm sure I'll remember I'll view it again and remember... God i have so many lucid goals, and so rarely lucid... Ho Am I going to do it all??" "Maybe if you don't drink in dream. Maybe you'll remember more Stupid." she said. and hit me over the head with a tennis racket with no net. As I pulled it from my head, Asuka turned into a grey dog. and ran away going "Wuff, wuff wuff." It sounded like a bad voice actor dubbing in her barks in some crappy Cartoon. I chased after her. I was bending down to catch her when she ran in between some man's legs and I accidentally bumped into him. "Watch it you p..." he was going to say "Punk". But stopped when he noticed the coffee he was carrying, that I bumped into didn't spill. He turned the cup upside down and the coffee didn't spill out at all. He looked confused. "Relax Clancy." I said. "It's a dream...." "Oh." he stated. "It's you... Maybe if you would have walked straight like I told you years ago in seattle maybe you could see where you are going." "I came to hear YOU speak at this conference, NOT to hear your criticism." I said. I opened my mouth and a green cobra head came out and hissed at him. "Gahh!" He said, backed a few feet, and did a hail mary. "uhhh keep coming back." he said and left. "Right back at ya" I said. He looked at me, huffed and walked into the large conference room. I spotted Hockey Bruce standing by himself smoking a cigarette. "Holy shit man." I said. "I thought you were dead! Bruce what's up?" "I am dead." he said. " But I still like coming to these things... god you're not dead are you? you're too young Rob." "No... I'm dreaming all of this. Still smoking I see." He smiled as if to say Yes. "And you better darn quit those things too rob, Or you'll wind up like me." "You died of cancer? wait no. The night you found out you didn't have cancer you just happened to die a of a heart attack." "yep." he nodded. "It was just my time to go man. Gotta get my seat. see ya. I hope you come visit us again." He left. I decided to find a seat too. I didn't see Asuka around. As I walked through the door some big lady shook my hand, gave me a huge hug and said very loudly. "Welcome". I wandered away and spotted Irvine. "Hey man... How's it goin?" I asked. "Oh you!" he said. "Nice to see you here. wait... You're not are you? Shame... so young." "I'm dreaming this man." I said. "And you DID die of cancer. I saw you at the hospital meeting when you were withering away... wow what a trooper." "Thanks" he said. I looked around the room. There were tons of humans, orcs, nagas, and other species. I even saw a few of Q2's kind around. I spotted someone waving. It was asuka. "look who I found" she was saying. I ran over to a row of seats she had saved one for me and next to it was sitting Nomad. "What the fuck dude!" I said. "What are you doing here?" I asked. "What is this place?" he asked. He had short brown hair and was wearing glasses and smoking a cig. "This is an AA conference.... Asuka keeps bringing me here for some reason." "Oh well." he said. "I've been trying to cut down drinking this new year anyway. I bet Angel would be happy I went here." "Well she cares about you man." I said. "Really?" "Hell yeah she wouldn't have helped support you when you were looking for work otherwise if she didn't think you were worth it. I don't mean you have to come here.." "you're right... Thanks. you always say such positive shit when I'm down man." Just then an Orc stepped up to a podium nervously. he cleared his throat and spoke. "Ahem" he said, "Due to the dreamers here we won't go through the official readings... uhh The next speaker was my sponsor in my past life. and now dream sponsors me in my current life. I bring you Clancy I!" everyone clapped and Clancy came up to the podium. He adjusted his glasses, introduced himself. and looked around the room for a minute. "Lovely bunch of folk here." he said. "You know, I once stated at a conference like this that I wasn't afraid of death. I take that back. Now that I know i have all of YOU to look forward to." he said sarcastically. Everyone laughed. "In my waking life I deal with dying pukes on the streets every day, and I literally mean DYING. Then I gotta deal with a bunch of snot nosed punks who think they're case is different.And when I'm dead I'll have to deal with a bunch of snot pukes and snot nosed punks with snakes coming out of their mouths!" Every one laughed. Especially a bunch of Hissing Nagas. Nomad was laughing and slapping his knee. Nomad thinks everything is so funny in a dream. "When I die I think I'm going to incarnate again as fast as i can... Sheesh." I then began to wake up. How about a night with 7 and maybe even up to 13 dreams like this: Spoiler for Night of 13 dreams: Music on a beach I was on some Beach. I was looking at the other end of a vortex. It looked like a multi colored energy funnel. I must have just come from there. I watched it swirl as it slowly got smaller and vanished. I looked up and there were these strange blocks sitting in the sky. I flew up and looked at them from a distance. The blocks formed a particular graph in the sky. It reminded me of music Stave. The blocks began moving in succession and began playing music. It was the opening piano line of SOS by ABBA. There were some notes missing. The first note was a single note instead of a third. I flew up to the first note and touched an invisible screen. A block appeared there, it was another note, but it sounded off. I plced it until I heard the correct harmonization of the line. I spent some time filling in the missing notes. I then played the whole sequence. I was excited when the music got to a fast arpeggiated part. The note blocks jumped up and down after another one by one. Sand console In this dream i was on a different beach. I was looking at a giant computer console that stuck up from the sand. Scrolling across it were all these letters and numbers i didn't understand. Weird woman I was in some house cottage. There was a creepy woman who looked like the woman from Raven's dream when she fought in Loaf's inner world. I was in a living room and This Woman walked by with a small girl with black hair. The woman Was Ranting and Raving about something. for some reason i thought they were actors in a TV show like "little house on the prairie" or something. The Creepy woman took the child into anohter room and locked the door. Suddenly I heard music blaring through the house. It was some heavy metal music. I thought maybe the music was a cue for the show to start. or it's theme. The music was so loud that i thought a band was playing. I ran out of the living room and into the kitchen looking for the band. But instead i saw a huge Stereo System on the counter. ??? Vague impression of Having sex with someone. Kiss I remember the face of Asuka blowing me a kiss. As soon as she blew A noise in my real room woke me up. Chasing Gump I was in egypt Running Behind Forrest Gump. He was Running, as usual, And I was following him up a sandy path that went upwards. People were yelling and making fun of him. They were yelling things like "you Run like an idiot... Keep running dumbass... YOU SUCK" As he kept running, I became Gump... looking through his eyes. And then suddenly I was a pharaoh being carried up a Sandy path by slaves. I was sitting on some Pharaoh cart. We came To a small pyramid in the path. It was hidden. My brother was buried there. I said to my slaves "I will do my family name great Justice. The Pyramid Built in My honor shall be Admired by the entire earth for eons!" Then flames Shot out of my eyes. Limo Crash I was in my inner world looking at a street from 3rd person view. I was watching a long white limo I was driving. I couldn't turn it properly and watched it turn too shard right into some sort of Dump truck. After the crash i was standing behind the kimo looking at the scene. i panicked and went to run across the street towards my house, But the travick was too fast and heavy. A guy called Loaf, flew right out of the crash and when he landed he was on a bicycle. He pedaled over to me with Rage in his eyes. he yelled. "the crash victims are going to Kick your ass. If they won't I WILL". He then shook his head and pedaled away. I saw an opening in the line of traffic and I ran across the street and into my yard. I stopped at the garage veins pumping with adrenaline. I thought "if people are going to fight me. I better practice." I then went into the opening moves of my Tiger and Crane form. Asuka came out of the house, gave me a puzzled look. "oi, Rob! Nani shitte no?" (hey, Robert WHat the hell are you up to?) I said I was getting ready to fight the people that i killed in the limo crash. Asuka looked towards the street and saw a bunch of people trying to run into my yard but bouncing off an invisible shield. "Mou" (geez) she said, rolled her eyes and walked back into the house. Meeting Lucidja I was standing on the Surface of the moon. Q was standing nearby with Asuka. I was looking at Lucid Ja. Asuka said "Give him the gift". I then Dropped a necklace in his hand with a stone attached to it. "This will help keep the dark energies away from your dreams." I told him. Weird Show Some strange man was with me in a room. I was watching TV and the guy gave me a weird look at what i was watching. I thought i was watching some Anime. But everyone on the screen was normal. I was suddenly in the scene. I was standing on the step of a huge stone building. The easter bunny walked by but he was an entire shade of Green. then i Saw Santa clause, he too was entirely a shade of dark green. Getting Kicked out. I was in some community hall. A swarm of middle aged women began crowding in. A man came up to me and told me and my friends to get out because all the old people were about to have an orgy. I was pissed of I had to leave. want to stay and watch so i could laugh at them. Another man joined him and began pushing us out. I saw Richard Hoagland walking in the doors as I was leaving. I said "see you later Richard". He waited for a moment and said . "I'll see you later Robert." Raven on skype I Was Chatting with Raven. I told her that i didn't remember the dream where me and her Escorted Asuka back to my inner world. "Really?" she said "We had one helluva time trying to get her there safely" Asuka on Facebook I was on Facebook Chatting to Asuka. She had a cheezy anime picture where she was smiling. She acted like a total internet noob. It was fun tho. The mad man from Hang Feng Restaurant Just a flash of being in a meat freezer in some restaurant. A chines man Was waving a bag full of frozen meat about. "I hate working for this goddamn Hang feng" He looked at my dad and said "It's all your fault." The man then began hitting my dad over th head with the bag of frozen meat. somehow i got outside and was staring at the building. And then later i was eating a steak made by the crazy man. There was a portion of the steak that wasn't cooked. It was completely raw and it tasted funny. I spat it out. Maybe it was something in the meat that made him go crazy? __________________ Ok then. Since your still here. I wanna tell you to NOT be amazed. I believe everyone can have this kind of recall when they work at it enough. Waking Nomad asked to write this tutorial. Most of my methods for recall have already been posted around. I just kind of mix them up a little. Before bed What I do is Grab a journal book with lined paper. You know the kind you can find at a dollar store. I write 20-40 LINES In the PRESENT TENSE of Mantras for Dream recall. I typically write "I remember ALL of my dreams" I have a page that looks like this: I also write 20 or more mantras for lucidity. THEN, While I lay in bed I run throough my mind what Kind of dreams that I want to have. I also use a basic meditation breathing exercise which only lasts a few minutes: Basic Kriya Yoga - Microcosmic Orbit Breath in while visualizing energy going up the spine to the back of the head. Hold in a moment. Breath out visualizing the energy continuing the circle to the front of the body downwards back to the bottom of the spine. Hold out a moment. Repeat 24 times. Follow by some time in silent awareness, even if only for 10-15 minutes. One hour and a half is recommended. Two would be even better. If there is a daily practice, 12 repetitions can be added to the mix every month. Quality of Intent is everything in this practice. If any pain or discomfort is felt stop and fix the physical or energetic imbalance before continuing. Balance and honesty devoid of ambition is the way to not get hurt. For more info about this practice and similes, get Kriya Yoga, Kundalini Yoga and Taoist Yoga literature. I know some of you are thinking "Is this meditation crap really gonna help?" or. "Meditation... how lame! It takes too long" The answer is YES! It does help. It doesn't take long to take 24 breaths while visualizing energy going up and down your spine. Whether you believe or not in energetic practices makes no difference - It's The effort that you put into it yields results. I tried for months before bed saying to myself in my head "I remember all of my drreams" for months. Not enough effort, therefore, I got no results. Waking up in between sleep cycles Nothing here that you haven't already read. To review: Set an alarm clock for a few hours into the night. Do this EVERY night for a few weeks to a month until you naturally wake up in the middle of the night. Another method is to drink a little bit before bed (Water juice, or milk, you fool. Alcohol generally kills my recall). so you can wake up when you need to go. When you wake up: It took me a few tried NOT to fall back asleep. But generally just lay there.. don't get too comfortable or you may fall back asleep. Ask yourself: What did I just dream about? if nothing comes.. just wait a few minutes and something may come. I use to wake up and immediately think "Damnit I can't recall my dreams!" and went back to sleep before I even recalled them. DON'T do that!. That's retarded. Eventually a memory will jump into your conciousness for a second or so. Don't let it go. Focus on the fragment, feel it, Try to relive it. go over it again and again in your mind. You'll find that some more memories will surface. Those fragments turn into dreams. Go over the dream again and again. By now another dream fragment should flash before your memory. then repeat what i said in the first 3 or so sentences of this paragraph. Do this until you've recalled as much as you can possibly remember. you should have around 2 dreams and maybe a handful of fragments. This can take anywhere to 5 minutes or a half an hour. No you can't fall back asleep just yet. double check all that you can remember BEFORE sitting up, turning on a light, and grabbing a pen and a MEAD notepad (also available at your local dollar or drug store.). Then write the dreams in key point form. put words that are specific so that when you wake up in the morning and look at the words, the dream comes flooding back to you. Sometimes As i jot down these keywords even more dreams will come to me. at the end you should have something that looks like this: Now, Set your alarm to half an hour before you are supposed to get up and repeat the above of what I told you until you have to get up for real. Throughout the day Pay close attention to otheri things that are happening. Sometimes a subtle things may trigger even more dream recall. After you've journaled for a while you'll notice common dream themes. Write those dream themes down. Look at them in the morning and ask yourself if you dreamed about this theme... It may trigger more memories. My themes often change every few weeks, so I am always making a new list. Also: keep running the dream memories around in the back of your mind throughout the day. Supplements I mainly use melatonin, b6, or Both. I use them a couple times a week. I have no problem with the use of supplements. They are a TOOL for dream recall. Dreaming is not a SKILL but a SKILL SET. Any number of tools in your skill set will help you. Don't be afraid to throw away or add any more of these tools. Rant: Loaf recently posted in his DV magazine that: supplements are bad because you are paying for dream recall. I personally think that statement isn't true at all. When i buy a notebook to write dreams down in. I'm buying a tool to help with recall, I'm not paying for recall. If i didn't have a note pad to jot notes down on I'd probably piss my notes in the Canadian snow. Well, since paying for recall is bad. throw out your bed, computer, dream books, ad infinitum. Abstract recall: This is a controversial method of recall. Sometimes there are those fragments that won't reveal any more. run these fragments through your head throughout the day and "make up a story" like a daydream until the dream begins to make sense. Our unconscious minds do contain all of our waking life memories and dream memories. So it is debatable whether you really dreamt those parts or not. I admit to having done it a few times in my journal. and to be honest i don't really like recalling dreams in this fashion. BUT, since I am more open minded to psychic dreaming... There have been instances where one of my "made up dreams" told details about someone I would NEVER either wise have known. Another way to think of abstract recall is to think of a few fragments as a symbol. And within that symbol is contained ALL of the information in the dream. Imagine reading a few pages of a book. Then imagine all of that information compressed down into a symbol that you would understand. So, that when you look at that symbol, even though it's small... you can "pull" those few pages of information out from that symbol. Abstract recall is exactly like that. You just "pull" all of the information from those small fragments. Try it. you will be amazed!

[scottyo]

I have been repeating a mantra in my head, although i thought there was a slight improvement in my recall I found that it was just for one dream. I don't remember multiple dreams a night. In all fairness i've been being a mental slacker. I will probably try writing out the mantras then try that meditation technique. Should I continue repeating mantras in my head? and does the B6 really help? And i can see how that one recall method is iffy. You could just be making stuff up for all you know.

[WishfulDreamer]

Thanks shred, I haven't really gotten into this stuff yet, but I'm going to start. I have been having lucid dreams for the last 3 months or so maybe 2 or 3 a week but can only remember parts of them. I just got to writing down one I had this morning when I fell back asleep which confused the hell out of me.