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Hello guys, I haven't posted in a long while because of my long experiment.

When I read a story and it pleases me, I notice that I get goosebumps. I only noticed that my dream rate increases by a lot just a few days once I found a really good story. I devised an experiment to see if stories would increase dream recall and vividness.
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My First Experiment: --does reading improve dream recall?
Very much.
Days that I haven't read any books: No dreams that were important/not easy to remember.
Days that I read a part of a story that was good: I read 5 parts of a story per day and had 5 dream filled nights. All of them, I remembered fully.
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My Second Experiment: --does plainly reading a book increase dream rate?
Nope. If you just read something randomly, it won't increase your dream rate by a single bit! You need to be liking what you reading because if you feel no emotion on the topic which you are reading, you would have just wasted time. One instance of knowing that your liking a book is if you talk to yourself or have goosebumps. The talking to yourself might just me be...
1 month of no (good)dreams / no reading any sort of book.
After that month, I decided to read this book called MLS. I read the first, second, third, fourth part.
First = It was really good I guess. I got goosebumps. = I had a vivid dream
Second = Better than the first. Probably best of all four = I had a really vivid dream where I could feel everything.
Third = Somewhat slow but still great = The dream was odd but it still had that clear feeling.
Fourth = Quite boring part of the story = I didn't have a dream or at least didn't remember it.
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Conclusion:
Based on the research and another source of evidence which I will get into later, your emotion levels increase dream rate drastically. When I was really liking the story, my dreams were heavily vivid and easy to remember even after 3 days of forgetting to write it in my dream journal, I still remember what happened in the story. Find something that will trigger heavy emotion and it should increase dream rate. Extreme sadness and happiness works the best.

Here are some examples of my dream which were affected heavily by emotion:

1. Sadness
-----I was really sad for a week for some reason. I had a vivid dream about a certain pink character throwing me a party. I was really happy the next day like the sadness went away.

2. Story Fail
-----I was really into a certain story awhile back. I read all 29 chapters of it and gotten really good dreams in a row. The 30th chapter had a plot twist that was so stupid and it made me hate the story. The plot twist ruined the story so much that after that, I didn't have any good dreams for awhile.

3. Madness
-----I was really angry that my internetz wasn't working and couldn't play a game all day. Plus those idiots outside were so noisy and kept making me angry so I slept extremely early like 8:00 and got a dream where I was destroying loads of stuff.

END, please post what you think and ideas in the replies.