Originally Posted by
FryingMan
Interestingly, the "wake up after every dream" intention worked for me right from the start, as did "I remember my dreams". I also used LaBerge's "I have interesting and meaningful dreams." . You have to *really* want that waking one. However, I let it drop a bit, and I believe that my progress has stalled a bit due to that.
The competitions really helped since you get points for any recall, so there is strong motivation to reach for the DJ upon every waking.
There's no doubt that waiting until morning to do recall causes detail to seriously suffer.
As a middle-ground, if I'm just too wiped out to actually record, I will remain still and do recall, and try to maintain a running list of dream keywords from waking to waking. Sometimes they all seem to make it to morning, sometimes not. But I think that's better than "sleeping through".
If possible, you may want to try some daytime naps to take off the edge of your deep sleep at night. Or alarms, even, if you sleep that deeply.