Thread: Is there any way to remember dreams well without a journal?

Throw Away Your Dream Journal: Remember Your Dreams The Easy Way

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Throw Away Your Dream Journal: Remember Your Dreams The Easy Way

Exactly what I used to do, and I never even knew what it was called haha. I will say though, it works very well. Make sure to wake up and spend those few minutes reviewing the dreams though otherwise you'll come back later and just see random words and have no idea what they mean.

Originally Posted by sleepyzac

what is this "throw away your journal" method?

Did you look at Ctharlhie's link? It explains everything.
It's basically where you don't dream journal your dreams, you just write down dream "seeds" that trigger the memory of the entire dream and you just spend a few minutes going over the dream once you wake up. Check out his link.

Originally Posted by OneUp

Did you look at Ctharlhie's link? It explains everything.
It's basically where you don't dream journal your dreams, you just write down dream "seeds" that trigger the memory of the entire dream and you just spend a few minutes going over the dream once you wake up. Check out his link.

thanks!

i don't use one site to be lead to another because it can become a long chain where each site may have a link to another, and another and another and another and so on. so if the idea can't be posted on this thread i'm not going to chase it down. if an idea is SO in depth that it CANNOT be summarized then i usually expect to be directed to a site where i can buy a 500 page book on the topic. most other ideas should be able to be summarized on a thread or even fully explained.

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Throw Away Your Dream Journal: Remember Your Dreams The Easy Way

I did a quick scan of this, but I think this is what I've been doing for like the last 14 years of my life, which was going to be my suggestion. I spend 30 minutes after I wake up to re-live the dreams I just had the previous night. I remember everything as much as possible right down to the emotions I felt. Overtime my brain tends to be really good at storing dreams in permanent memory, I still practice this though to keep it as constant as possible, and its not perfect, but I would say on average i remember 85-90% of my dreams in great detail.

I only write in my DJ when I feel like it.

This sounds great. Writing is slow and awkward lying in bed. Does it work when you wake up in the middle of the night as well or will the dreams be forgotten by morning then? Do you spend 30 minutes after each dream or just before getting out of bed in the morning?

Originally Posted by Crabface

This sounds great. Writing is slow and awkward lying in bed. Does it work when you wake up in the middle of the night as well or will the dreams be forgotten by morning then? Do you spend 30 minutes after each dream or just before getting out of bed in the morning?

I mean, if you wake up mid dream, it doesn't need to be 30 mins, more like 10 mins just to run over everything in your head. By then it should still be there in the morning and you can go over it again as you go over all your dreams.

Originally Posted by 11Greg

I did a quick scan of this, but I think this is what I've been doing for like the last 14 years of my life, which was going to be my suggestion. I spend 30 minutes after I wake up to re-live the dreams I just had the previous night. I remember everything as much as possible right down to the emotions I felt. Overtime my brain tends to be really good at storing dreams in permanent memory, I still practice this though to keep it as constant as possible, and its not perfect, but I would say on average i remember 85-90% of my dreams in great detail.

I only write in my DJ when I feel like it.

Yep, same here. I do keep a DJ ( Momento app ), but only use it when Im fully awake in the morning. I start out my entering a few key words and later in the day add to it and reliving the dream. I can go back years in my DJ and veiw an entry remembering it in vivid detail. I only record LDs