Thread: Salma123's Workbook

Welcome, salma!

Don't worry -- I started right where you were with dream recall when I started trying to pursue lucid dreaming, remembering perhaps 1-2 dreams per month. Nevertheless, everything I read indicated that virtually everyone dreams for several hours per night. Experience has proven to me that this is correct. It's just a matter of training yourself to actually remember these dreams.

What got me going was to do just as paigeyemps recommended and really think about dreaming and insist to myself that I wanted to remember them. Then upon every waking, I would lie perfectly still, grasping for some piece of the last dream. Even an emotion, concept, or keyword is fine. I would examine my own state of mind. What was on my mind upon waking? Did it relate to my most remembered dream?

Once you can grab on to any image, no matter how brief, try to retrace backwards and forwards from that point, bringing as much of the dream back to you as you can. Think of it like grasping the tail end of a long rope. All it takes is getting one piece of that rope and you can start dragging the rest back in! Upon waking, try to do this before you move or do anything else. This takes practice for some (it did for me), but if you stick with it, you'll succeed. It's just like any other skill.

And if you find that you cannot reel the rest of the dream back in, that's okay too. That still happens often to me. If all you remember is a fleeting emotion or feeling, write it down in your dream journal.

Once you have run through the dream in your mind and brought it back into your short term memory, be sure to get up and write it down while it's fresh!

Just take your time with it, trust yourself and the process, and keep us up to date with how you do! We're happy to help.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Welcome, salma!

Don't worry -- I started right where you were with dream recall when I started trying to pursue lucid dreaming, remembering perhaps 1-2 dreams per month. Nevertheless, everything I read indicated that virtually everyone dreams for several hours per night. Experience has proven to me that this is correct. It's just a matter of training yourself to actually remember these dreams.

What got me going was to do just as paigeyemps recommended and really think about dreaming and insist to myself that I wanted to remember them. Then upon every waking, I would lie perfectly still, grasping for some piece of the last dream. Even an emotion, concept, or keyword is fine. I would examine my own state of mind. What was on my mind upon waking? Did it relate to my most remembered dream?

Once you can grab on to any image, no matter how brief, try to retrace backwards and forwards from that point, bringing as much of the dream back to you as you can. Think of it like grasping the tail end of a long rope. All it takes is getting one piece of that rope and you can start dragging the rest back in! Upon waking, try to do this before you move or do anything else. This takes practice for some (it did for me), but if you stick with it, you'll succeed. It's just like any other skill.

And if you find that you cannot reel the rest of the dream back in, that's okay too. That still happens often to me. If all you remember is a fleeting emotion or feeling, write it down in your dream journal.

Once you have run through the dream in your mind and brought it back into your short term memory, be sure to get up and write it down while it's fresh!

Just take your time with it, trust yourself and the process, and keep us up to date with how you do! We're happy to help.

I haven't been able to get on that much lately because of school and I barely get any sleep anymore. But, I went to sleep at like 7:30ish Friday night and woke up at like 10 AM (so i got like 15 hours of sleep ) and in the morning, I remembered a small part of my dream! All i remembered was that I was in school walking to my first class then i couldn't recall anything else I think I'm improving a little! I wrote it down in my dream journal too! I did mantras before I went to sleep and I guess that helped too! Thanks for the advice!