Dream recall trouble

This has probably been posted a fair times, but this is really starting to bug me.

I've recently, within the last week or so, began trying to lucid dream. Ive started keeping a dream journal, and so far, have had nothing to write in it...
It seems to me like I just don't dream, and the dreams i do remember, seem more like unclear and blurry thoughts, rather than images and sounds etc.

My next problem is, if I do manage to get my dream recall to one dream a night, how can I notice my 'dreamsigns' if not only am i not in control of the dream, but the dream is as i described earlier and not a 'multi sensory expericen' but a faint, unclear 'thought'

Thanks for any help
Will

Okay, here's the deal. You just need to keep on with the Dream Journal. every morning when you wake up, lay in bed for a moment (don't fall back asleep!) and think about your dreams, It will help you remember.

As you continue with this process, you're telling your brain that dreams are important to you, eventually it will get clearer.

Now, for most people their first couple lucid dreams are an accident. In order to recognize dreamsigns, you have to train yourself in a waking world. Dreams are normally not all that logical and therefore, you do crazy stupid things without thinking anything of it.

try making a RC a habit. A Reality check, will help affirm whether or not you're dreaming. If you make these things a habit, it increases the chances of you doing one in the dream world.

Finally, If you do get lucid, try not to get excited. You need to be calm and concentrate on your surroundings (and ignore any Dream Characters in the area, they'll try to distract you, which is stupid easy to do unless you're focusing). If you don't focus and give in to excessive emotion, you'll most likely wake yourself. You can tell if you're close to a Forced Awakening when the scenery becomes chaotic, not fixed (at least, I can tell that way. It may be different for you).

Try asking others here. There are hundreds of ways to go about improving recall and becoming lucid.

Are you getting good sleep? That is important for good recall.

If you can't recall dreams vividly, then record keywords, particularly names and themes(ie. party, school) in your DJ.

Anything is better than nothing. Keep at it, you will improve. :)

Looks like we already have some good advice here. One thing I would like to add is record anything that you remember, even if it's only a fuzzy image. For example, if you wake up and have a feeling that you had a dream about school, but you can't remember anything about it, record something like this:

School Dream. Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Clarity 1/5 Lucidity 0/5

I had a dream about school, but I can't remember anything other than that.


If you do that, you'll start to be able to remember more than if you just skip recording a dream because you can't remember it. I've stopped writing in my journal so many times I've considered making an entry even if I don't dream. That's just me though.

Thoughts and blury images is a start. Keep at your journal, because all of these thoughts are apart of remembering and sending messages to your brain that you want a dream, or a lucid dream ect. Your brain will train to do it, as you do the techniques ect. Keep at it mate.

Sweet dreams.