Consider your bedtime and your way of falling asleep.
Ideal bedtime for me is 22:00, but this can vary depending on your sleep patterns, the important thing is that it's a very regular bedtime.
And in order to dream peacefully and calmly that in turn makes it easier to remember, you need to fall asleep calmly and peacefully.
If you fall asleep with a stressed mind or many worries on your mind you will get very chaotic dreams with lots of random information that wont make sense to you and because of that also is harder to recall. And either way stress relief is healthier than being stressed, and who wants to be stressed anyway?
This is why I recommened this thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/f15/if-you...ams-try-93005/
It lets you acknowledge all the experiences you have had during the day and because you don't surpress it, you will not have chaotic dreams about it, because you already have placed it in your memory sort of. And it's a good short-term memory practice that will help you remember your dreams, because the biggest reason for bad recall is probably because of the short-term memory.
For stress I would recommend meditation, a simple version is one of Robert Monroe's visualization tools that I often use:
You go to bed and tell yourself that nothing will disturb your nights sleep and then you visualize/ imagine a chest, box, safe or anything of you choosing and then you think of something that stresses you and you make symbol out of it and then put it in the box, chest or what ever you choosed. If you are stressed about school work you can imagine putting all your school books in there, the important thing is that you understand the symbolic meaning of the object. Do this for everything that stresses you and then put the lid on the box, close the chest or the safe etc.
Then turn away from it. And now for another exercise to make you aware of your dreams.
Now mentally tell yourself again "Nothing will disturb my nightly sleep" begin now by visualizing yourself walking in your house, don't worry about the detail of the visualization, the more relaxed you become the more vivid it gets. Then walk around the different rooms in your house and if you want get out of the house, continue visualizing and explore you are basically dreaming now not vividly but you are aware of the self.
You will fall asleep during this process and since that will be the last thing your mind thinks about "To be aware and control this experience" that intention will spill over to your dreams.
After some practise with this you will stop remember your dreams like "movies" or even recall them in a typical manner.
Instead you will become so aware that when wake up you already remember the dream because you experienced it, it is just that at the time you were experiencing it you were not aware of the fact that it was a dream but you were still aware of the situation. (if that makes sense). When I first experienced this I described it as "It felt like being in a different persons mind and body and experiencing all the things he/she did but never becoming aware of the fact that you are another person for real and that I was just dreaming att the time" like schizophrenia or something.
When you are this aware, it is much easier to become lucid because all that it takes by then is a strange event within the dream or a reality check from your side. This will also help you remember your dreams.
This was what I did to get my recall process going, feel free to follow it as a method, but don't be afraid to experiment and find other solutions.
Sweet dreams
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