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Hey all,
I don't know if I'm using the right terminology or not, but I'm looking for information on setting up your mind so that looking at something causes you to remember your dreams.
For instance I could write something on the back of my hand in the morning and it triggers dream recall.
Any information on that?
Maybe the term you are thinking of is "Dream Signs"
No, at least I don't think so.
I'm not talking about while I'm dreaming. I mean after you are awake you look at something and it triggers you to remember the dreams you had that night.
In my opinion, the only thing that triggers dream recall is things that were either in the dream, or things that spurned the dream in the first place, the "seed" of the dream. When I find a "seed" of a dream, all I need to do is remember that and the whole dream is always there.
It looks like a great idea, kind of like the anchors used in Neuro-linguistic programming. Well, I guess you could use anything as a trigger for a desired response. You could, for example, recall your dreams in the morning, then as soon as you remember a dream, press your thumb so that the action of remembering your dreams becomes anchored to your thumb pressing. You would have to work that one a great number of times so that the response becomes deeply ingrained to a specific trigger. Haven't done that though, but you can certainly experiment with it and see how it goes.
Thinking about it though, everything we do is an anchoring process. Say, for example, how we decide to remember our dreams in the morning just as we wake up, meaning that a specific time in the day is anchored to the practice of dream recall. As we do this over and over again the anchor is being reinforced to the point that just from waking up in the morning we're able to remember our dreams easily. Likewise there are many other types of anchors you could use, whether visual, auditory, kinesthetic, feelings, anything at all. That's entirely up to your creativity.
I'd been pondering about this a couple of moths ago, about creating a technique that manages to anchor the desired state, this case being lucidity, to a specific trigger. The problem with it is that the content in a dream is very unpredictable and changes randomly, so it defeats the purpose of using a specific anchor to induce lucidity because we would not know whether our desired trigger (like a visual object or a sound) will manifest consistently in every dream. I'm still thinking about this though, I'm sure there's a way to do this.
If you have a slightest clue of what you dreamt, follow that clue and it might lead you to recall the whole dream.Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkranger85
If you do not remember anything at all, think of random items/events/feelings, think of whatever you see in front of you. As soon as you guess the right fragment, you can recall the rest.
Read more here: http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-sign...how-works.html