Do you ALWAYS have to say a remembering mantra?

[LimboCity]

I only remember my dreams if I tell myself to. The tutorials say "Once you can remember x amount of dreams per night, you can try induction techniques." Does this mean you need to be able to remember your dreams without thinking "I will remember my dream tonight"?

[Bobblehat]

In my own experience - and everyone is different - I found that when I assumed that remembering dreams had become a habit the result was a dip in recall and I had to go back to mantras to bring recall back up.

[yuriythebest]

dream recall mantra?? if it helps you sure - use it, but it's not necessary in my opinion and few here actually do. mantra or no mantra if you can remember 1-2 dreams per night you'll be fine.

[Hukif]

It depends, if it helps you, just continue using them, that is a form of MILD anyway, so you could use the mantras for recall and to aid DILD.