Problem with recalling details, colours and emotions in my dreams

**ePhoeniX** · 05-02-2011 11:15 AM

Hi, I have been dream recalling for about 3 weeks now and my dream journal is really filling up quickly but I have encountered a problem with my progress.

When I dream and wake up, I barely remember any colours, emotions or details and i'm having a hard time stimulating myself to get this inside my head and pay attention to it.

I had my first lucid dream about a week ago, and even in my lucid dream it wasn't really vived I had considerable more emotions and feeling but there was barely any colour and the whole world was dark and I couldn't remember any details. I saw a shark in my dream but thinking back I have no idea what he looks like.

**Oreo** · 05-02-2011 04:18 PM

For a lot of people, dreams don't tend to be very detailed, so having a good memory still might not bring a lot of color or detail. It also makes sense for you to have more emotions in a dream. I had a dream once where a DC told me I suck at checkers and then I started to cry and look for something to kill myself with.

You could also do what I do and just stay still. Right after you wake up, you want to stay still and just replay the dream in your mind. Scroll down to Memory Reinforcement in the Dream Recall Tutorial to get a better idea of how it works.