Thread: bad recall because of school

Many of us are in the same boat. The only thing i can tell you is to go to bed much earlier, like 7-8 hours of sleep and to wake up periodically during the night using an alarm clock and then write down whatever you remember about your dreams. Also do that thing where you say over and over that you will remember your dream.

Same here. It isn't a thing I can't stop though. I wake up and get up too quickly and forget my dreams. I don't have time for a dream journal. Go to sleep earlier and wake up earlier and keep a dream journal.

Its killing me. Some times i rember but i forget so fast. And as for more sleep. I have trouble getting to sleep earlier. Any tips?

the noyl advice i can give you is to either take pills or to tire your body out enough so that you fall dead asleep.

I think its normally from you getting lazy and not from school. Thats normal though, who wants to wake up and spend time writing in their dream journal when they have to get up for school or work? I know I don't and my dream recall is getting pretty bad too.

Every dream you have except maybe the last one of the night shouldn't change any. So if you spend time writing them down, what you do when you wake up the last time shouldn't matter.

I know! Drop out!

Waking up early usually HELPS me remeber my dream, because I'm woken directly out of it. And, as for forgetting immediately, there's an easy way to fix that, as well. I don't have the time or disciplin to keep a dream journal, so what I do is lay in bed for a minute or two and think about my dream. Recall feelings, events, and people from the dream and concentrate just long enough to pull the dream thoughts from your half-asleep state to wakefulness.

And, also, about getting to bed earlier, try meditation. It can help prepare you to sleep. I, personaly, have started really looking forward to going to bed, in anticipation of going lucid or at least having a cool dream.

i expirience the same problem as u do. i cant recall my dreams and i havnt had a lucid dream since like summer vacation 2004 (i think). especially i liv far from my skoo and i hav to get up at 5:00 am. I can't drop out cus i just started high skoo. skoo is ruining it all. and wen i do remember dreams i 4get bout them as the day goes by.

yep you have to get up and start running right away, I know the feeling.
Should try going to bed earlier, so you have like 10 mins for yourself in the morning.

School has destroyed my dream recall, I have only had 1 LD since school started, and during the summer I had 17! I think I am going to start a dream journal again, tomorrow!

Dreamviews going down made me lazy about lding, I stoped thinking about it, and I havn't tried any techniques besides randomly in the morning where I would almost WILD, because that is what I did in the summer time. I'm so happy that dv is back up again Guess that means I will have to have an ld soon

LD or bust

So, I'm not the only one. I've tried to sleep earlier, not only in the hope to remember my dreams better but also to feel less tired the next day. Both without succes

I generally don't have this problem anymore. I think that this is because I kept a journal pretty regularly when I first began having LDs. The method Pubbles mentioned about lying in bed and going over whatever you CAN remember from your dream in a state of "half-wakefulness" (sometimes the more quickly you wake up, the more quickly you will forget). Try waking up slowly, or prolonging the waking process so you can "review" what you were dreaming about. This is very difficult if the dream was extremely abstract or if it was a nightmare (fear = adrenaline and adrenaline = stimulation to consciousness). Anyway, if you "don't have the discipline" to write a journal, you can also make sketches or brainstorms, diagrams, etc. -anything that will help you remember in the future. I would suggest developing the discipline, though since journal writing is the best way

I found my expirience has been the oppisite. I started losing my dream call ability lastyear when school started winding down and i wasn't on a consistant schedule with sleep etc. Since then I've been renovating my bedroom so my sleep surroundings haven't been the same and my summer job kept me constantly tired and randomly sleeping so I never felt like I had the energy for a dream journal. But now that I'm back at school I'm waking up consistantly and remembering more and more every morning, which coincidently is why I am here for the first time in ages.

i 4got. i dont really even hav time to write in journals in the morning either, well on skool days. but wait i think i did hav a lucid dream like once during the skool year. and the other one i had was on labor day i think and i think i found this form on labor day. but i guess i only had 2 during the skool year and i started aug/11 (doesnt that suck?) but i bet if i found this forum b4 the summer i wuld hav had like way mor lucid dreams

WEL MAYB U SHUD GO 2 SKOOL MORE AND LEARN HOW 2 SPAL!!11 OMG LOL

spal? wut iz theat?

No offense but it sounds like you're making excuses as to why you're not keeping a journal and obviously you don't want to put in the effort to make it work. In my opinion, this is what's keeping you from furthering your lucid dream skills.

Yip.

:yumdumdoodledum:

i wish the day had more than 24 hours... Theres not enough time to go around!!

Keeping a dream journal isn't always easy but it makes a huge difference. I literally go from remembering a few dreams a week to remembering 4-6 every night when I'm consistent with my journal.

Yes, it can be a pain, and yes, whenever you have a major change in your schedule (school starting, a vacation, etc) it can throw your routine out of whack.

Just remember, there are alternatives to writing your dreams in a journal. I find keeping an audio dream journal is easier and I tend to stick with it more consistently. For some reason I find it 'much' easier to wake up and speak into a mini-cassette recorder than to break out the journal and start writing, guess cause I leared to speak before I learned to write!

Alternatively, if you have a computer, you can hook up a microphone to it and get some free recording software and keep an "electronic audio" journal. If you go this route, make sure the software can save the audio files in mp3 or some other compressed format. Saving was .wav's can eat up hard drive space real quick.