Increasing Regular Dream Detail.

[Feynaro]

I have been reading a few peoples' dream journals, and, I have to say, I am almost jealous of the amount of detail they provide. Things like what someone was wearing, if there was a stain on it, the colors of objects, etc. My dreams are sometimes teeming with intricate details, but not as much as I would like. Is anyone aware of ways to help the dreaming mind in gathering more detail from the dream world? Or is this even possible in regular dreams? Please note, I am talking about Non-lucid dreams here.

[Wolffe]

There are looooooooooooooadsa ways you can increase detail infact! The main, non-suppliment ways usually involve keeping your dream-journal up-to-date as often and soon as possible, concentrating on trying to recall your dreams before and during your sleep, and maybe even some general memory exercises! Other methods involve using an alarm clock to wake yourself up right after a dream so you can remember it in greater detail etc, drinking high-sugar/energy/caffinated drinks so your mind is more active while sleeping, and people also report rather greater vividness after taking things like vitamin B6 aswell. Hope this helps!

[Dagget]

And also time... some stuff just takes time and patience.

[Merlock]

What Wolffe posted are just about all the most popular methods for increasing dream recall, not precicely dream detail. To increase dream detail I think it's a good idea to understand how sense interpreteation in dreams works all together. Dreams are conceptual thought and our minds interpret it as sensory input, the kind of which we're all so used to receiving it every waking day our entire lives. Thus, in order to raise one's dream detail one would, as is one of the more known about methods, do well to train the use of one's senses and awareness of them in general. There's a number of ways anyone can devise for themselves, I'm sure, to train awareness of one's senses but here's an excerpt from LaBerge's "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" on the topic of sensory awareness and self-awareness in general: The Experience of Lucid Dreaming If you haven’t yet had a lucid dream, you may find it difficult to imagine what it is like. Although you have to experience it to really know what it is like (“Those who taste, know”), it is possible to get an idea of the experience by comparing lucid dreaming to a presumably more familiar state of consciousness: the one you are in right now! The following experiential exercise will guide you through a tour of your everyday waking state of con-ciousness. Spend about one minute on each of the steps. EXERCISE: YOUR PRESENT STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1. Look Become aware of what you see: notice the richly varied and vivid impressions&#8212 shapes, colors, movement, dimensionality, the entire visible world. 2. Listen Become aware of what you hear: register the various sounds taken in by your ears—a diverse range of intensities, pitches, and tonal qualities, perhaps including the commonplace miracle of speech or the wonder of music. 3. Feel Become aware of what you touch: texture (smooth, rough, dry, sticky, or wet), weight (heavy, light, solid, or empty), pleasure, pain, heat and cold, and the rest. Also note how your body feels right now and compare that to the many other ways it feels at other times, tired or energetic, stiff or limber, painful or pleasant, and so on. 4. Taste Become aware of what it is like to taste: taste a number of different foods and substances, or remember and vividly imagine their tastes. 5. Smell Become aware of what you smell: the odor of warm bodies, earth, incense, smoke, perfume, coffee, onions, alcohol, and the sea. Remember and imagine as many of them as you can. 6. Breathing Attend to your breathing. A moment ago you probably were not consciously aware of your breathing even though you have inhaled and exhaled fifty times while doing this exercise. Hold your breath for a few seconds. Let it out. Now take a deep breath. Notice that being conscious of your breathing allows you to alter it deliberately. 7. Emotions Become aware of your feelings. Remember the difference between anger and joy, serenity and excitement, and as many other emotions as you care to feel. How real do emotions feel? 8. Thoughts Become aware of your thoughts. What have you been thinking while doing this exercise? What are you thinking right now? How real do thoughts seem? 9. “I” Become aware of the fact that your world always includes you. As William James noted, it is / see, / hear, / feel, I think that is the basic fact of experience. 5 You are not what you see, hear, think, or feel; you have these experiences. Perhaps most essentially, you are who is aware. You are always at the center of your multidimensional universe of experience, but you are not always consciously aware of yourself. Briefly repeat the exercise with the following difference: At the same time you attend to each of the various aspects of your experience, be aware that it is you who is noticing these things (“I see the light...”). 10. Awareness of awareness Finally, become aware of your awareness. Normally, awareness focuses on objects outside ourselves, but it can itself be an object of awareness. In the light of ordinary experience, we seem to be distinct and limited centers of awareness, each alone in our inner worlds. In the light of eternity, mystics tell us, we are ultimately all one—the unlimited awareness that is the source of being. Here, experience cannot be adequately expressed by language.[/b]

[Enigma13]

There may be other better ways, but I found one that works. I was trying WILD once, and I failed and fell asleep. Then I had a long non-lucid dream, but it was soooooooo vivid. So my theory is that trying to WILD, getting into it, then failing increases vividness. I don't know.

[Wolffe]

Originally posted by Merlock What Wolffe posted are just about all the most popular methods for increasing dream recall, not precicely dream detail. To increase dream detail I think it's a good idea to understand how sense interpreteation in dreams works all together. * Dreams are conceptual thought and our minds interpret it as sensory input, the kind of which we're all so used to receiving it every waking day our entire lives. Thus, in order to raise one's dream detail one would, as is one of the more known about methods, do well to train the use of one's senses and awareness of them in general. There's a number of ways anyone can devise for themselves, I'm sure, to train awareness of one's senses but here's an excerpt from LaBerge's "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" on the topic of sensory awareness and self-awareness in general: etc... For me they always seemed to come synonymous!

[Barbizzle]

Just pay more attention to the real world. When you are in a room, look at all the tiny deitals and soak them up. become aware in yoru life, and you will beocme aware in your dreams.

[disabled_account_2]

I increase dream detail by looking at my palms and/or tasting something ( often take out this menthol leaf from my pocket ). That usually is enough for me, but involving all the other senses will work aswell (smell the air, etc). Looking at my palms avoids awakening when I'm excited about something aswell.

[alfy984]

try touching your tounge to the roof of your mouth in a dream...