Thread: remembering dreams.

Hi! Try to lie completely still when you wake up. Keep your eyes closed and focus on nothing. The dreams should start appearing. I usually "probe" for my dreams. If I wake up with a hunch, a single image or some random word in my head, I try to explore the thing. This usually leads me to recalling the entire dream. Try this if you don't get nothing after lying still. Also have the intention of remembering your dreams. You want to tell yourself: "I will remember my dreams". Good luck!

i will always remeber my dreams. this morning when i woke up i only remembered one dream but then i thought about the specifics of that dream and remebered two other dreams i had. sometimes something during the day will make me remember a dream i had the previous night. start keeping a dream journal, the more you right them down the more you remember. try to do it first thing in the morning when you wake up and add to it durning the day if you remember anything else. hipe this helps

Agreed. I usually "probe" for dreams as well. This morning was a perfect example for me. I woke up and remembered nothing. Absolutely nothing. I was upset, but had the intention of recalling something. After like 5 minutes, I felt that I did have a dream about something as opposed to a total blank. Not the knowledge that we always dream every night, but a feeling that I had just experienced some sort of reality that I couldn't remember. I couldn't remember what though. The feeling was nostalgia again (which is common in my dreams). I didn't know where to start, but I started thinking of people from my past to see if thinking of anyone of these people evoked that feeling. I quickly ran through (in my mind) people I knew from home, family, high school, college- that was it! The feeling grew stronger, as if I had just seen someone from college, but the nostalgia came from high school.

I ran through a list of people in my mind who I know from college, and as I went through several specific people, that feeling grew stronger. I was on the right path! There were two friends who evoked this feeling the most. I had just seen them not to long ago was what the feeling said. I focused on them and them alone. Then like a person with amnesia remembering everything he forgot, my dream came crashing down on me. It was like I was given all the puzzle pieces at once, and I had the opportunity to put them together. First this happened, then that, then that! Before I knew it I had my dream memories and I quickly wrote them down. It may not have been everything but it was something!

It's funny how I don't really think about how I recall, I just do. It doesn't feel over-analytical, it just feels like relaxing and trying to remember. Letting the memories flow back. Your intuition seems to play a role when it comes to THAT feeling. The feeling that you just saw someone or experienced or did something. That is the feeling I always feel when I cannot remember a dream but am on the right path with the memory of a specific person or place or experience. Or sometimes the feelings and emotions that guide you to your memories are those that were evoked within the dream itself. Fear if it was a nightmare that you forgot or maybe other more positive ones.

I don't recommend setting an alarm clock to wake yourself up. This is simply because when you are having a dream you don't want to be disturbed at any cause. And if you were to wake up during it then it would likely fade more quickly from your memory than if you completed the dream and moved on to the next one. Usually you will always (at least for me) wake up right after one dream ends. This is when you can try to recall it and write it down or think about it for a little bit so it'll stay fresh in your memory for at least a day until you later find time to record it. Like I said, if you're having a lucid dream the last thing you want is some alarm clock waking you from the dream. -Chase

P.S. Try mantras before bed every night and during the day when you RC.

Keeping a dream journal and typing or writing dreams upon waking; effort to remember. Keeping a consistent schedule may work, it did for me in the past. I can usually recall dreams from each night regardless of my schedule now. Proper diet and a healthy body help too, of course. Using an alarm clock to wake me up during the night or REM never helped, simply disturbing.