Thread: Linkzelda's Workbook

How come you remember so much dreams each night? Do you set your alarm several times a night or do you wake up very often?

Originally Posted by Chicken

How come you remember so much dreams each night? Do you set your alarm several times a night or do you wake up very often?

No, I only woke up once (maybe twice, but that was probably unconsciously without the alarm waking me up) to remember around 4-5 dreams, I remembered more, but those were too short and random to even consider putting down.

I'm pretty used to remembering my dreams, since I try to post them daily. I mostly rely on remembering a fragment of a dream focusing on what comes next. My mind gives me all sorts of images and experiences, so I guess in a way, I have a photographic type of memory when I'm in the "Twilight" state, (being half-awake half-asleep).

I trained myself so much to remember my dreams based on certain imagery, emotions, etc that as long as I can remember a part of it, I can chain it with more events. I try my best to have the mentality that I won't give up on remembering my dreams, and staying still in bed to recall the dreams I experienced helps a lot.

I'm relying on one timer to wake me up, but last night, I woke up two times, and that was to make sure I would keep my eyes closed to get the motion of the CANWILD technique down.

Ever since I came on this forum, dreams have been the only thing that I know that can't be taken away from me, and I continue to push myself to get lucid as much as possible.

Things like being able to act out events in dreams to prepare for things like any type of speeches, assignments in lab, studying, etc. motivates me be serious in remembering my dreams.

And because my passive demeanor of waking life in general as increased since I became a member of this forum, remembering my dreams is routine, so I'm already used to remembering my dreams. In all 200+ entries of my dreams, I tried my best remember as much detail as possible, and being passionate for lucid dreaming in general makes dream recall like second nature for me.

There are other things that can help with dream recall:

Drinking bottle of water before going to bed, and hoping I would wake up after a NREM or REM period to take the time to remember any dreams. And because of how I grab certain snippets of moments and imagery, it helps a lot.

I think another factor is I try to add some images on my dream journal. Even though some might not make sense to others, if I can find an image to distinguish the dream from the others, when I look back and check, I remember most of what I experienced before, so knowing how it feels to be in the dream state non-lucidly helps with dream recall.

Knowing my emotions in my dreams, knowing how I feel when I get lucid occasionally, all of these things help with dream recall.

Just takes practice and devotion, and acknowledging any events where I don't have any dream recall for a certain day, because as long as I keep up with my dream journal, it focuses my mind to remember more of my dreams.

And my mind is pretty generous with helping me remember my dreams, even if I get out of bed, I can still remember the majority of the dream, so if I forget one part, I just go back, think, and it comes back to me again most of the time.