Thread: WideEyedChild's Workbook

It's interesting how seasonal differences affect sleep and dreaming. I had terrible insomnia in the heat of summer (it's also very light here in summer), struggling to sleep more than 5-6 hours, and now that it's dark and cold through the night, I'm sleeping 7-8 hours much more easily. The sleep does seem to be deeper, though, and it is a bit harder to recall dreams. I, too, and working on boosting my recall. It's *really* important to at least scribble down some key words. Just the other night I spent quite a lot of time reviewing a middle waking dream, to make sure I'd remember it in the morning, and in the morning it was completely gone! In the past I've been able to maintain a mental list of keywords and images/names for dreams and accumulate more on every waking. But that takes time and energy, that I'd rather be spent sleeping, so now I'm working on writing key words. I can write actually pretty legibly in the dark it turns out, printing is best for that.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

It's interesting how seasonal differences affect sleep and dreaming. I had terrible insomnia in the heat of summer (it's also very light here in summer), struggling to sleep more than 5-6 hours, and now that it's dark and cold through the night, I'm sleeping 7-8 hours much more easily. The sleep does seem to be deeper, though, and it is a bit harder to recall dreams. I, too, and working on boosting my recall. It's *really* important to at least scribble down some key words. Just the other night I spent quite a lot of time reviewing a middle waking dream, to make sure I'd remember it in the morning, and in the morning it was completely gone! In the past I've been able to maintain a mental list of keywords and images/names for dreams and accumulate more on every waking. But that takes time and energy, that I'd rather be spent sleeping, so now I'm working on writing key words. I can write actually pretty legibly in the dark it turns out, printing is best for that.

Yes that is incredible, how you can remember something so vividly in the middle of the night, and then it's all gone in the morning. The mind is an interesting thing.

I also usually write down key words at night and then write full stories in the morning when I wake up. If I still remember what it was about, that is. ;)

Good luck with working on your dream recall!

This morning I could not remember a single thing about my dreams. I did "feel" that I just woke up from a dream-I felt some emotions-but it was all gone at the moment I woke up. I could not even register which emotions I was feeling exactly.

Later today I actually remembered a snippet from a dream; I remembered that I wrote something in my workbook here on Dreamviews. The reason why I realized it was a dream and not a real memory from, for example, yesterday, is that I remembered that in my dream I posted two posts in my workbook on the same day, and I hadn't done that.

Tonight I'm planning to read old entries in my dream journal. I hope that that will remind my subconscious that remembering dreams is important! :)