Dreams ?? Can't remember

[Amazingdreamer1]

Hello everyone, Today I woke up at 9.30 AM. I woke up 4 times in the night after a dream has ended but I couldn't just remember the whole thing. I only rememberd that I was in a classroom with my classmates and then I saw that I got a F for a test. That's it. Can u guys tell me how to improve my dream recall. I have a dreamjournal btw. Thanks, Amazingdreamer1

[GabiAlex]

Write down anything you can remember. I had same problem, but after few days of meditating in morning and before sleep to clear my mind and writing anything that I remembered from my dreams I started to recall entire dreams without missing any detail.

[Mellanhavande]

Write down anything you can remember. I had same problem, but after few days of meditating in morning and before sleep to clear my mind and writing anything that I remembered from my dreams I started to recall entire dreams without missing any detail. How did you meditate? I'm having the same problem.

[Wolfdog]

Tell yourself over the night, as you prepare to go to sleep, that you will remember your dreams, that you remember your dreams every night, and that you will focus on them with complete attention when they occur. Then, whenever you find yourself awake in the middle of the night, stay still, let the memories come in, and write anything at all that comes to mind. Likewise, detail the experience as much as you can. For example, you said you dreamed of being inside a classroom with your classmates. Well, how did that classroom looked like? Have you seen it before, was it a completely new place? Does it remind you of something? Your classmates, what did they looked like, did they said something? How does getting an F in a test make you feel? Think about the weather, the vividness of the dream, think about the experience and how it makes you feel. The way memory works is through association. Our mind is continuously receiving information, discarding stuff which the mind classifies as not important, and only focus on the important, meaningful stuff. How does the mind chooses what's important and not important to remember? Well, much of it has to do with yourself, with what you consider it's important or not for you to remember. The people who best remember something are the ones who make a great number of associations relating to a certain experience. Through association we connect the pieces of information with each other, facilitating our ability to retrieve those pieces and organizing them together to make a strong memory. Focus on your senses when being in the dream and writing it down in your dream journal. That's how you start improving your memory, creating associations from the dream experience, as well as training the mind to focus and maintain attention to whatever happens in the dream. We train the mind to consider the dream important and what's in it. Soon, you'll start to see your journal entries growing in number and content, richness and detail.

[GabiAlex]

How did you meditate? I'm having the same problem. For me Void Meditation works to the best. The idea is to clear your mind of every thought. This will help you to fall asleep faster, to have a better dream recall and a better memory and concentration capacity.