Thread: Is it better...?

Originally Posted by Hyu

I am positive that the combination of keeping a dream journal and doing reality checks + focusing on remembering dreams when I wake up has helped me a great deal so far.
Before keeping the journal I remembered about 1 dream a month.
I managed to increase this to ~1 dream a day.
I'll admit, it's hard to tell how much the dream journal influenced this, but I believe it played a great role so far.

Another interesting aspect of the journal is that I actually remember my dreams for more then just one day, especially the interesting/vivid ones.
If I don't write them down they degrade very quickly and I often don't remember anything about it the next day.
Reading up on a dream I had a week ago in my journal, I can relive parts of it in my mind. Some images and feelings are still surprisingly clear.


May I ask how you keep your journal?
I found that I have much better success if I note down my dreams the moment I wake up.
I do so by writing keywords into a notepad that is lying next to my bad, whilst I try to relive the dream in my mind.
Later, when I turn on my pc, I write down the proper dream journal entry, using my notes.
Other people have a lot of success with a tape recorder, which actually seems like a better idea in my opinion since you have to move less, and it is much more precise then keywords.

Well I don't have a physical dream journal. I rarely ever write in my online DJ anymore. But when I do I don't do it the second I wake up. I do it when after I brush my teeth and stuff. I have a vivid dream every so and then but regularly I forget the dream all together.

Originally Posted by Hyu

And yes, of course lucid dreaming is real!
Good luck!

Well that might me true for you but not for me. I've tried every possible method and I've yet to have a Lucid dream. The best I got was when I had a False Awakening(which I didn't become lucid) ever since then I haven't been close to LD. Thanks anyway though.