Need urgent help recall

[usernamenaomi]

My dream reacll is usually excellent. I'm talking 3 to 4 a night but about two weeks ago I had a rare lucid dream that was scarily similar to a bad experience I had IRL recently that I can't seem to get over. EVer since THAT NIGHT my dream reacll is not existent. I wake up and get a very brief flash of one dream and suddenly its gone. And I have tried EVERYTHING. I have looked every where and I don't know what to DO now. SOME ONE plz HELP. I live for lucid dreamimg and now I am well and truly stuck.

[jzinser]

Stop trying for a few nights, then get back to it... Lucid dreaming and the practice around it should be joyful not srtessful!

[EddieDean]

Negative emotions such as fear or stress have a disastrous impact on dream recall, from what I've heard and from my own experience. You have to try to either resolve the issues causing the stress or make sure you don't take it with you to sleep. I realise that's easier said than done but I don't know what other advice I can give you apart from just persisting in your efforts and not giving up the practice.

[usernamenaomi]

I had the same flipping bad dream again last night but not lucid this time. It seems to be following me around day and night. There is no way of resolving it, trust me. So I need to try to go to sleep without thinking about it... But basically you're saying to try and stay positive. No harm in that.

[EddieDean]

Yes, exactly Attitude is, I think, one of the most important things for lucid dreaming. It seems to make all the difference of the world for me personally. I don't know how experienced you are with this, but you could try to purposefully incubate positive dreams? So instead of leaving it all to your subconscious, you guide the content of the dream consciously a bit? You could attempt to do this by, right before sleeping, visualizing the kind of dreams you would like to have and think just of positive scenarios and situations.

[usernamenaomi]

Yeah thanks. I'll have to try that.

[FryingMan]

Yes, cultivating positive emotions and thoughts surrounding dreaming is important. Recall goes up and down depending on what our lives are like at the moment. If your thoughts are more occupied with waking life matters, recall can suffer. Otherwise, I find the best recipe for long-term average high recall, vivid and present dreams, is to change how you approach life: learn to pay attention to all your experiences (waking, dreaming, all of them), reflect upon them (was that dream-like?), and to practice recalling your experiences (before bed recall your day's experiences, and in the morning recall your dream experiences). Doing this steadily over time builds better and better recall, as well as more and more lucidity.

[usernamenaomi]

Thank you for all the help. I shall be trying this. I use to meditate a lot and my lucidity and recall were great but I suddenly lost time for that and it's all been going down hill since then really. I use to love all day awareness and wondering if 'm really dreaming. I was fascinated. But soon enough I get bored and lose interest. Motivation is key, I know that, I just don't know HOW to stay motivated. But anyways thanks for all the help again and I will be trying this all

[xxPhoebusxx]

Confront and resolve your waking life issues. Either in real life or in the dream. Trying to increase recall etc without addressing the issue is like trying to drive faster by pressing down on the gas pedal without taking your foot off the brake.

[cooleymd]

bombard your sub conscious with positive and negative reinforcement. for every minute of recalled (non nightmare like) dreams one piece of chocolate or whatever for every nightmare a bucket of cold water dumped over your head. And tell you subconscious before you go to sleep what's it gonna be tonight chocolate or cold water.