Thread: I'm completely failing

Let me throw some non-herbal advice in. Maybe study memorization when awake? Advance your mind. Read books (not Kindles or IPADS...actually soft cover books). Check out old theater style plays from your library like "One Acts" or Shakespeare plays....and memorize them as if you were planning on acting in it. Work on number memorization or spelling-bee style memorizaton (I had to do those every week in Elementary school for probably five of the six years I was in grade school; memorized like ten or more hard words for a test at weeks end). Key is to work on memorizing and remember along with alertness. Song lyrics. This might help when you’re sleeping. I remember most of my dreams at night very clear. At least two or more per night that I can remember some of them for weeks. But I have a photo genetic memory where I can look at lines on a paper like a speech and have a memorized after one or two readings. My mom is the same way. Maybe its genetics but when I think about it as a kid and teenager in school I did a lot of the above mentioned. Studying for spelling tests every week. Number tests…having to memorize stuff for English class or Science. Reading a lot of books. This was all before the era of Internet (1980s/90s). I would read an article and focus on it..let it repeat in my mind. It might be harder I f you’re young because your mind is still developing. Stuff like video games that are played for more than one hour a night might have something to do with your lack of dream focus. Try daydreaming. Close your eyes at home and daydream about something…like you want to do in a lucid dream….and think open your eyes and think about it…memorize it. This all might help in remembering your dreams. People say “I never dream” but that’s not true. We can dream several dreams a night. We should be able to remember two or more of them…sometimes we have that one big vivid dream that removes them all out. In the old business school days of the 1930s they would train secretarys short hand. When the boss gave a letter to write out by verbal or had to take notes in a big meeting…these secretarys didn’t write down every single word…they wouldn’t be able o keep up. So they learned what is called (and almost a dead art) “shorthand” writing. So keep your journal near by and when you do dream write down that dream with shorthand like “Swimming, lake, house, John there, flew to China, punished billy in the stomach” to remember it by.

Any form of Lucid Dream is a success. A full form Lucid, a semi-lucid, or a dream that's very vivid and real even though you might not had conscious control over it.

Hope that helps a bit.