Thread: Give all you've got, or try not to try so hard? (my story, RCs and MILD + some thoughts)

Hey lucsande, welcome aboard!

I actually read the whole thing! You seem to be well on your way and to be thinking about it quite a bit, which is good. I have a response to one of your questions (I'll leave the rest for others to answer).

If you really don't want to take the time to write down your dreams in the morning, at the very least you should tell them to yourself as if you're talking to a friend. Not out loud of course - heck, if you do that people would just think you're CRAZY! But I mean subvocally, but actually form the words in your mind just as you would if you were talking to a friend or wrtiting them down. This forces you to really go through in order and get the memories organized and go through them once. This is a lot better than just quickly remembering an image or two and thinking "Ok, I've remembered that dream!". Not good enough - you really need to at least put it into words, which makes you go as far back as you can remember and then work your way forward telling each part, and occasionally remembering other parts along the way. Of course this is not as good as actually writing them down, but it's second best.

When my recall was at it's peak I was writing by hand in my notebook as soon as I woke up and then later I'd bring the notebook down and type the dreams up in my online DJ and take the time to google for images or occasionally photoshop something together. I sincerely believe all of this really helped me to get my mind firmly focused on my dreams all throughout the day.

So my best advice is always write them down... once you get lazy you'll start to backslide but at first you won't realize it. If some days you really don't want to write, then at least review it in words under your breath as if you're writing. I wouldn't do this for several days in a row though or make a habit of it - but if you do start to slack off at least this way you can keep from losing too much ground too fast.