Improving Recall

**goldenaxel321** · 08-12-2010 03:27 PM

How can I do it? I haven't remembered a single dream in something like a week and I feel terrible about it. My DJ is near empty. Are there any ways to improve recall?

**SillyDreamer** · 08-12-2010 04:47 PM

One way is to stay on the bed, and try to recall your dreams once you have waken up from the sleep, before doing anything else.

**kevojy** · 08-12-2010 07:00 PM

When you're going to bed tell yourself over and over that you will remember your dreams. Be consistent with your dream journal, and get plenty of sleep. Everyone has dry spells, it's up to you to keep consistent and push through it.

**Puffin** · 08-13-2010 12:30 AM

Originally Posted by SillyDreamer

One way is to stay on the bed, and try to recall your dreams once you have waken up from the sleep, before doing anything else.

To add onto this, it helps if you're staying completely still with one arm over the bed (holding a pen), and have a sheet of paper right there. That way, you can record while you're still lying down with your eyes closed.

**SupaCoopa** · 08-13-2010 01:08 AM

Make a habbit of giving 15 minutes every morning to remembering what your dream was.

**Maulrus** · 08-13-2010 01:18 AM

Originally Posted by SupaCoopa

Make a habbit of giving 15 minutes every morning to remembering what your dream was.

This has helped me out in the past two days that I've been working on my dream recall. I woke up at 3:30 this morning and was gonna go back to sleep cause I couldn't remember my dream at all, but I made myself stay up a bit. Then I recalled orange hair, and from there the dream flooded in. I couldn't remember it all, but without willing myself to I wouldn't've remembered anything.

Also, after a nap in the car today, I forgot to try to remember the dream and I lost most of it. A cautionary tale >:I

**Skyline** · 08-13-2010 08:22 AM

I feel like I'm the only one who can't recall. Absolutely nothing. I can only guess what happened in there.

**Siphorix** · 08-13-2010 08:26 AM

Does no-one know how to read the tutorial sections on this forum? They will get 10000x better answers by reading them.

**kjarva** · 08-13-2010 08:47 AM

Well if it makes you feel any better, right now I am only remembering fragments of dreams. My big problem seems to be after waking up I fall immediately back to sleep while trying to remember my dreams!

**kevojy** · 08-14-2010 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by kjarva

My big problem seems to be after waking up I fall immediately back to sleep while trying to remember my dreams!

This happens to me ALL THE TIME! Its so annoying, Im busy remembering a dream when I wake up a second time. Oh well, usually I completely forget the first dream but it's replaced by a second

hmm I can see that increasing chances of a DILD..

**goldenaxel321** · 08-15-2010 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by kevojy

This happens to me ALL THE TIME! Its so annoying, Im busy remembering a dream when I wake up a second time. Oh well, usually I completely forget the first dream but it's replaced by a second

hmm I can see that increasing chances of a DILD..

Happened to me this morning. I actually unintentionally started to wild. I got interrumpted by a loud, high pitched scream. Freaking HI. I lost a few details, too.