How much of the night's dreaming can be remembered?

**ConsciousMan** · 01-26-2011 03:42 AM

I read about this lucid dreaming and I’ve been very interested right from the first thing I read about it so I moved on to some more information. Virtually all the things I read say that one must start with training themselves to recall their dreams and beware of them once they’ve woken up. Today I was able to recall a few very short elements from the dream I had the last night. One of them was pretty good but now I’ve been thinking about lucid dreaming and here’s what I asked myself. How much information a dream actually is? We sleep as long as eight hours! I can hardly remember my day in such detail even though I was awake. Can we remember our entire dreams or do we only get a few segments of them? That morning it took me a couple of minutes to remember just two moments. What about all the dreams from the entire night? Can I remember eight hours of sleep? In what order should I do it and what should I look for in the morning? What about other things such as micro-awakenings that interrupt our sleeping without us being aware of it?

**KushyBear** · 01-26-2011 03:45 AM

To get better dream recall, you have to start a dream journal. Just set some paper, or a notepad, next to where you sleep. Right when you wake up, don't move at all, just lay still and try to remember as much as you can. Then just write the dream down in the most detail you can remember. After time, it does get better. Like any skill, with practice, you get better.

**Raetin** · 01-26-2011 05:39 AM

You don't get 8 hours of dreaming, only when we reach REM (rapid eye movement) sleep. They come like every hour or something and last longer the further you sleep. (ex. 1st Rem 5 min, 2nd Rem 10 min, etc) Something like that.