Thread: Weird Idea

some people say they have horrible recall and it's hard to believe some people have bad recall when some people have excellent. so i was thinking, for people new to lucid dreaming that can't remember their dreams, they could make some sort of dream journal out of a memories they've had. pretty much like writing a story, but, maybe if you acted like you were recalling something that could've happened in a dream, it could fake out your brain and help you build good recall. or maybe just trying to remember things you've seen in movies that were supernaural or something might help. so basically you would be writing down fake dreams. just a theory

I did some regression a while back. I was in my old bedroom surrounded by old stuff i had when i was little and so i was curious to see how much i could remember. The more i wrote down the more i would remember and was surprised at the results.

I found after that experience my dream recall was much improved! I'm guessing that using that part of long term memory kind of excersised it for remembering my dreams.

i was just thinking that if you tryed that your brain would know
expesaly if you know it's fake
it could work for some but everyone is different

Well honestly, this sounds like a good idea! Especially for people with zero recall, like me; it's very frustrating being at this stage.

I'm a little unclear on the details, though. Do you mean to kinda make a journal entry of a significant past-event, and treat it as if it were a past dream? Please inform me, I'm willing to try your method and post the results.

One thing, though. The problem for me is not recording... it's that I don't wake up with anything. I'll be honest, it's been very hard for me to have my absolute FIRST thought be "what was I dreaming", but I often remember to "remember" after about 5 seconds. I rarely get anything. I honestly don't know why this is; is your VERY first thought "what was I dreaming?"

I like the sound or regression over made up scenarios. Might help to focus on places you're more likely to dream about, like school and your home.

i kind of mean like, take a past event or something in your life and add details to make it sound like a dream and write it when you wake up in the morning and treat it as a dream you had that night and maybe that might get your dream recall up, thinking you've been having dreams, faking out your mind somehow. i try and remember my dreams practically instantly, but sometimes i don't remember them and it takes 10 minutes for my mind to remember, or , like last night, i had 6 dreams and woke up practically after all of them and i didn't write any down so i forgot the first 2 until i looked on the message boad and read something that sparked my memory. a good way to help your memory is writing down your dreams and setting an alarm at night so you can wake up and have a better chance of remembering your dreams, or just setting an alarm so you can maybe remember that you were just in a dream when you wake up and you can then map out your REM periods, i've set my alarm clock for 5 hours the past two nights and i've woken up during a dream each time, so that helps knowing that i dream around then. just talking about lucid dreaming and dreams around my one friend has brought up her recall and had a couple second long lucid dream.

lots of random stuff in that post, hope you can kind of find something your looking for.

Originally Posted by eppy

some people say they have horrible recall and it's hard to believe some people have bad recall when some people have excellent. so i was thinking, for people new to lucid dreaming that can't remember their dreams, they could make some sort of dream journal out of a memories they've had. pretty much like writing a story, but, maybe if you acted like you were recalling something that could've happened in a dream, it could fake out your brain and help you build good recall. or maybe just trying to remember things you've seen in movies that were supernaural or something might help. so basically you would be writing down fake dreams. just a theory [/b]

That sounds like a really good idea... it sounds like it would work.