Thread: DaveTheJoker's Workbook

Originally Posted by melanieb

Do you want to focus on dreaming or not? Your wording leaves me confused...

Writing down every dream really helps.

Yea, my wording is horrible and I was being lazy even when I made this thread. Just like I was lazy this morning. I thought of a few sentences about my dream, but instead of writing them down, I rolled over and fell back asleep.

Originally Posted by DaveTheJoker

Yea, my wording is horrible and I was being lazy even when I made this thread. Just like I was lazy this morning.

I thought of a few sentences about my dream, but instead of writing them down, I rolled over and fell back asleep.

I'm starting up a new idea to help remember dreams and fragments, especially if you have multiple dreams and wake up between. It's based on something gab and I talked about. You pick images from your dream and literally link them together in your mind. And you do this just prior to rolling over and falling asleep, and you're sure to remember alot more. Say for example you dreamed about a duck and later you dreamed about reading a book, then later about a hot girl. So the moment you wake up and remember these things, before rolling over and going back to sleep, imagine a duck holding a book, and the cover of the book has an image of the hot girl. Something like that. I tried it for the first time last night and woah nelly! We'll talk about it more later if you're interested, I think it will really help recall, especially the dreams that happen earlier in the night, because those get forgotten first usually.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I'm starting up a new idea to help remember dreams and fragments, especially if you have multiple dreams and wake up between. It's based on something gab and I talked about. You pick images from your dream and literally link them together in your mind. And you do this just prior to rolling over and falling asleep, and you're sure to remember alot more. Say for example you dreamed about a duck and later you dreamed about reading a book, then later about a hot girl. So the moment you wake up and remember these things, before rolling over and going back to sleep, imagine a duck holding a book, and the cover of the book has an image of the hot girl. Something like that. I tried it for the first time last night and woah nelly! We'll talk about it more later if you're interested, I think it will really help recall, especially the dreams that happen earlier in the night, because those get forgotten first usually.

That sounds like something would work, its a very good idea. I will definately try it.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

I'm starting up a new idea to help remember dreams and fragments, especially if you have multiple dreams and wake up between. It's based on something gab and I talked about. You pick images from your dream and literally link them together in your mind. And you do this just prior to rolling over and falling asleep, and you're sure to remember alot more. Say for example you dreamed about a duck and later you dreamed about reading a book, then later about a hot girl. So the moment you wake up and remember these things, before rolling over and going back to sleep, imagine a duck holding a book, and the cover of the book has an image of the hot girl. Something like that. I tried it for the first time last night and woah nelly! We'll talk about it more later if you're interested, I think it will really help recall, especially the dreams that happen earlier in the night, because those get forgotten first usually.

I've heard people use this technique for decades to help recall all kinds of things. It works.


Dave...sorry about your ban. Keep dreaming and writing them down!

Yeah changing stuff up a bit works for me too, like you said, increasing your awareness in general. I will sleep on my bf's side of the bed using his pillow when he works night shifts and I get a similar effect. Mixing things up a bit keeps you from going into autopilot too much, which is, as you know, bad for awareness.

Originally Posted by melanieb

I've heard people use this technique for decades to help recall all kinds of things. It works.

Oh totally, I used to use it in college all the time to remember gobs of seemingly unrelated facts. It wasn't until I got alot of complaints about recall on DV that it occurred to me to suggest it as a way to remember multiple dreams in one night.