Originally Posted by
Sageous
Can I offer a caveat here?
I did that dream seed thing for a while many years ago, and now I have a pile of notebooks filled with small groups of meaningless words. I was sure at the time that all I needed to do was jot down some important cues (just like that guide to which you linked suggested), and my brain would have the memories on hand when I summoned them, based on those cues/seeds. My self-confidence at the time was fairly strong, as was my general recall ability, so I figured just jotting those few words down would be more than enough to store the dreams forever (it also satisfied my laziness streak immensely, BTW). I also have a pile of dream journals filled with extensive, multi-page records that succeed, even 30 years after written, to bring back vivid memories of the dreams I painstakingly recorded in them.
I think this seeding thing is not a solution to disinterest in journaling, but a fairly leaky bandage at best; sure, it's an appealing idea, but -- at least in my experience -- it is an extremely inefficient tool, especially in the long term. If you want a document that you can look back on, forget it; those seeds will be nothing more than meaningless words when you look at them in the future, while the dreams you wrote down in full will likely come right back to you as you reread them.
Also, when you jot down those seeds, rather than try to record everything you can remember, you stand a chance of only recording the stuff that mattered to you at the moment; by trying to write down everything, you stand a good chance of bringing in details, forgotten seeds, that may carry great import (or be the real keys to getting stored in long-term memory), but that you just hadn't thought of at the moment of waking.
So yes, this seeding idea is very appealing, and probably does work to a degree (especially at this moment, while you are actively following your dream life), but in the long run, for the sake of both long term memory and collecting the stories of your dream life, it might be better, I think, to write it all down.
I suggest you try to tough it out, Ctharlhie (and Sensei) and record as much as you remember. This seeding might work for you in the short term (it certainly will seem like its working, at least it did for me), but making it your technique for remembering dreams might really does risk forfeiting some very important memories.
So, consider this carefully before you risk sacrificing your adventures to the ether. I could be wrong, sure, but what if I'm not?