Things that can hurt dream recall.

[TommyDubbin]

Hey Guys, I've been into the whole Lucid Dreaming thing for a few weeks now. My girlfriend of awesomeness got me into it. And I've been doing pretty good. I've gotten really good at dream recall (good relative to what I could remember before), at least one a day, and I've even had one full Lucid Dream, and one - ha, well failed Lucid Dream [knew I was dreaming...didn't do anything about it]. Now here's where it gets frustrating. For the past 4 days I've been taking vitamin B6, and since doing so for the last 2 days I've started to wake up congested for no reason at all - I go through the day I'm not sick at all, it's just in the mornings and just since I started taking the supplements. And waking up congested like that is, I think, hurting my dream recall. For the past two days I've had NO recollection of any dreams whatsoever. It could just be a coincidence, it might just be stress from work, it very well might not even be the B6 causing the congestion. But that got me thinking? What are some things that you notice can absolutely kill Dream Recall, and are there workarounds for these specific hindrances? -Illness/Congestion - Any work-arounds? -Stress - I've found just making the last hour before bed very mellow, relaxing, and also using low lighting can help. When I'm on the computer up to the moment before bed, or engaging in anything physically or mentally strenuous, I find it can hurt my chances of dream recall. -Others/Ideas? So any pet peeves/solutions that people have come up with? Sorry if this has been talked about elsewhere, but I thought a fresh conversation with new insights might be in order. -Tom

[Caradon]

when I have trouble with recall, I repeat to myself, how important my dreams are to me, ove rand over. that seems to work, and think about my dreams a lot. I think you are right, about the realaxing at night thing. I find kicking back with a good novel, helps not only with my recall, but becoming Lucid as well. maybe it's because reading a story is almost like being in a dream.

[RakelvonB]

Well first off, I don't believe vitamin B6 would be the cause of your congestion. The Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for vitamin B6 is roughly 80-100 mg per day, depending on your age. If you were to go over this amount (say 1,000 mg or so) you would most likely be experiencing such things like pain and numbness of the extremities, all that pleasant stuff. Read more about it here: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocente...ins/vitaminB6/ Your congestion is probably just caused from a cold. At times they can be so minor that the symptoms would barely show, if any. So I would suggest just having a hot bath, drinking tea, plenty of water and all that jazz would help your congestion in no time! Perhaps getting a humidifier might help too. One thing I find that helps with dream recall is to make an effort to wake up at least once before you wake up in the morning. I drink lots of water, rather than to wake up suddenly with an alarm and forget most of your dream. Hope this helps Tom!

[RakelvonB]

Well first off, I don't believe vitamin B6 would be the cause of your congestion. The Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL) for vitamin B6 is roughly 80-100 mg per day, depending on your age. If you were to go over this amount (say 1,000 mg or so) you would most likely be experiencing such things like pain and numbness of the extremities, all that pleasant stuff. Read more about it here: http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocente...ins/vitaminB6/ Your congestion is probably just caused from a cold. At times they can be so minor that the symptoms would barely show, if any. So I would suggest just having a hot bath, drinking tea, plenty of water and all that jazz and your congestion will probably go away in no time. Perhaps getting a humidifier might help too. One thing I find that helps with dream recall is to make an effort to wake up at least once before you wake up in the morning. I drink lots of water so you wake up rather gently, compared to waking up suddenly with an alarm and forgetting everything. Hope this helps!

[RakelvonB]

lol oops ignore that :p