Thread: Can't remember my dreams?

Set your alarm 4-6 hours after you are ready to fall asleep and then again for your normal wake up time. I find for me waking up in the middle of the night helps with recall... it's also supposed to help increase the chances of Lucidity.

Originally Posted by robertcox88

Set your alarm 4-6 hours after you are ready to fall asleep and then again for your normal wake up time. I find for me waking up in the middle of the night helps with recall... it's also supposed to help increase the chances of Lucidity.

But how am i supposed to get MILD, i tell myself before sleep that i'm gonna have lucid dream tonight and i go to sleep and wake up in the morning with no dreams.

And i do reality check trough the day but some videos told me to do it when something strange happens, but i never have a strange feeling or something strange.

Originally Posted by Blackhole

But how am i supposed to get MILD, i tell myself before sleep that i'm gonna have lucid dream tonight and i go to sleep and wake up in the morning with no dreams.

And i do reality check trough the day but some videos told me to do it when something strange happens, but i never have a strange feeling or something strange.

You can try mantras paired with WBTB. I wake up between 4-6 hours, then I handwrite "I remember to remember my dreams" (Prospective memory, you can also just write "I remember my dreams" I think), and "I remember to remember that I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming" around 15 times each, then I say them out loud a couple of times, then I think them internally as I fall asleep. I got ~3 vivid dreams a night and some occasional lucid dreams. It was my main method for a while. You can read more about prospective memory on this forum for exercises and how to use them.

Give it a try!

Originally Posted by HanZartaC

You can try mantras paired with WBTB. I wake up between 4-6 hours, then I handwrite "I remember to remember my dreams" (Prospective memory, you can also just write "I remember my dreams" I think), and "I remember to remember that I'm dreaming when I'm dreaming" around 15 times each, then I say them out loud a couple of times, then I think them internally as I fall asleep. I got ~3 vivid dreams a night and some occasional lucid dreams. It was my main method for a while. You can read more about prospective memory on this forum for exercises and how to use them.

Give it a try!

Okay, thank you for the reply, i will try this tonight!

Hi Blackhole, I highly recommend reading LaBerge's Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming. Together with it's companion booklet, A Course In Lucid Dreaming, you get a complete background and a step by step progression exercises to buid dream recall, begin raising daytime awareness, and work towards lucid dreams. Following LaBerge's suggestions I started recalling dreams my very first night of trying, and haven't ever stopped since! I had my first lucid dream one month to the day I started lucid dream practice (again, following LaBerge). You can't go wrong with following LaBerge to get a great start.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Hi Blackhole, I highly recommend reading LaBerge's Exploring The World Of Lucid Dreaming. Together with it's companion booklet, A Course In Lucid Dreaming, you get a complete background and a step by step progression exercises to buid dream recall, begin raising daytime awareness, and work towards lucid dreams. Following LaBerge's suggestions I started recalling dreams my very first night of trying, and haven't ever stopped since! I had my first lucid dream one month to the day I started lucid dream practice (again, following LaBerge). You can't go wrong with following LaBerge to get a great start.

Thank you for the reply, i will check it out soon when i have time!

Originally Posted by Blackhole

But how am i supposed to get MILD, i tell myself before sleep that i'm gonna have lucid dream tonight and i go to sleep and wake up in the morning with no dreams.

And i do reality check trough the day but some videos told me to do it when something strange happens, but i never have a strange feeling or something strange.

Doing a reality check when something strange happens - I tend to do when I'm in situations I wouldn't normally be in. We all have our routines, get up, go to work, go home then probably regular things you might do at weekends too, if you go somewhere you don't normally go just try and remember to do a reality check then, your dreams are likely to be something you don't normally do so this will get your mind in to the habit of questioning reality.

Could be as simple as a different supermarket you've gone to one day.

Hi, Blackhole, welcome to DV!

FryingMan has given you excellent advice: LaBerge is where many of us start, and for good reason. His methods reliably produce lucid dreams in the vast majority of people who seriously attempt them. Virtually anyone will get better at this through diligent practice. This may sound a bit harsh (I hope you don't take it that way!) but I would make time to read LaBerge. Even if it is just a chapter a week. Read it, think about it, and then start practicing.

Do you have a dream journal, by the way? It is probably the swiftest way to build recall, and no one even mentioned it! Tut, tut!

Last thing I'll mention--it will be difficult at first to notice what a "dreamlike occurrence" is, because we've been "plugged in" so long (Matrix metaphor). Once you start waking up, you'll notice things: a person you've never met before catches your eye in the grocery store--DREAM! You run into your friend twice in one day--DREAM! You misunderstand what someone says in conversation--DREAM! All of these might be good places to start; best to get dream journaling so you can find out what your dream signs are.

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Hi, Blackhole, welcome to DV!

FryingMan has given you excellent advice:

Thanks!

Do you have a dream journal, by the way? It is probably the swiftest way to build recall, and no one even mentioned it! Tut, tut!

LaBerge ETWOLD of course mentions DJ , so so did I through the transitive property of "giving a reference."

Hey Blackhole,
great advice so far.
I would only add a couple of things;
1) Very important to get plenty of sleep. As an adult at least 8 hours, as a teenager lots more! If you are pushed for time and don't get enough sleep, try at least at a convenient time (weekend or when you don't have to get up) either go to bed really early, so when you wake naturally there is not too much disturbance from traffic noise or other people in the house, OR, go to bed at normal time and when you wake at the normal time, try to go back to sleep again. The idea here is to try and extend the later period of sleep when REM is more prevalent, and when you are slightly more aware and likely to remember your dreams.

2) When you first wake, don't move, but also don't think of anything to do with your coming routine for that day, or what happened yesterday. Try to let your mind go blank and stay "dreamy". Then try and rememeber something of your dream from that night- anything. Even an emotional feeling, or a basic scene. Don't "try" to remember, just let your mind wander but don't let it drift to the boring things like what you need to do today. Don't "talk to yourself" either. Just stay blank and dreamy and try to drift back almost to what your dream would have been. If you still have nothing, try and picture in your minds eye the sort of scene that it could be. For instance, was it outsie, or inside? Was it in a car driving? Were you up high? Even just the smallest start can then allow you to link that to something else.
One small bit of success will lead to more recall each night.

When I started I was similar to you. Most nights I remembered nothing. Now I usually remember at least a dream a night, usually 2, and occasionally 3 or 4.

Another useful trick is if you do wake in the night (force this by drinking water before bed to make you get up in the night), often you will wake after a dream (which can involve toilet scenes!). Before you get up, obviously do the above routine to try and remember. Once you have linked the dream back together as best you can, go over the story a few times to get it firmly into longer term memory, otherwise you will have forgotten by morning. This part is surprising difficult to do, particularly when you start remebering more, and when you have more than one dream to remember!

Hey guys thanks for all those advices I had could remember 2 dreams today yesterday one I don't know why but I think because I slept now 10 hours or so and because a dream journal I started at 30 dec ans gonna check that book out today too so thank you all for the replies and the help!