Recalling conversations

**ixJake** · 09-17-2014 11:16 AM

Hi everyone,

I've been practicing LD'ing for for about 3 weeks now,
Since day 1 I've kept a dream journal, my recalling is hit and miss, sometimes I recall several vivid dreams and sometimes struggle for a few fragments, but that's another question.

The one thing I can't seem to do is to recall dream conversations, when I recall a dream I'm aware that I did have a conversation and can most often I can recall the subject too, but I can barely recall any dialog!

Any one got any advice on how to recall conversations more vividly

Thanks!

**lunagoddess** · 09-17-2014 07:55 PM

I consider myself to have excellent dream recall but I usually don't remember more than simple phrases. I think it's because dream dialogue is essentially thought dialogue we have with ourselves (since that's what a dream is anyways). Can you remember every word you thought in your head five minutes ago? Neither can I! But I do know what I was thinking about. In the same way, within dreams I remember the essence of the messages I conveyed to others and received from them but not the exact dialogue. Does that make sense?
The only thing I think would increase the amount of recall for this is journaling through the night as soon as the dream ends. That's when I remember most quotes said. But IMO knowing the essence of the conversation is just as good as quotations.

**ixJake** · 09-18-2014 08:43 AM

Thanks for the reply! Makes sence when you put it like that, It's just because I've seen people's posts where they can write fairly long transcripts, but hey!

P.s I had a dream last night and I was able to recall a few quotes, so that's something

**FryingMan** · 09-18-2014 05:51 PM

CanisLucidus and Dreamer make a point of recording conversation dialog *first* before anything else

**~Dreamer~** · 09-19-2014 03:33 AM

Recalling dialogue is not a strong point of mine, but FryingMan is correct, I tend to write down any dialogue I remember first, because it's always the first detail to disappear.
I seem to communicate telepathically in most of my dreams, rather than actually talking, so sometimes there aren't actually any words to recall.
If I'm lucid, there's a trick I use in-dream to remember dialogue more strongly, which is narrating the scene in my head as it's happening, and imagining how I will write about it in my DJ. I might repeat the dialogue a few times over in my head to make sure the memory is reinforced more strongly.

Hyu is a member who has very strong dialogue recall.
He says this about the conversations he recalls:

Originally Posted by Hyu

When writing everything down I [occasionally] fill in a gap if I know roughly what happened but am a bit foggy on the details.
Especially with conversations, it sometimes happens that I clearly remember the topic and outcome of a discussion, but none of the wording.
If I feel like I can reasonably reconstruct such a conversation I usually do so for my public DJ.

**Hukif** · 09-19-2014 04:21 AM

I generally have good memory for conversations, what I do is simply think back on what I say at the time of the conversation and then everything else comes back naturally.

Like when one recalls a conversation with anyone "I told them that XYZ and then they told me that AYUH can you believe that!?" and that's what works? Though as pointed up there by dreamer/Hyu, sometimes will have to fill in gaps when the conversation is too long and some of it has been forgotten; or incidentally when it is too long and you don't feel like writting down everything it feels nice to cut on the details and make a small summary of the conversation <.<