Welcome to DreamViews, Toni! Great to have you here.

Quote Originally Posted by antoniastar View Post
I did start a dream journal this morning. "Detailed and stable dreams" aren't a problem for me except that I'm having difficulties remembering everything to write it down, even when I write in my journal immediately upon awakening. I think I should sharpen my memory by doing exercises to improve memory and maybe learn short hand? I also have a micro-cassette player ... that might work better for me?
As gab said, no worries on not having perfect recall right away. There's typically a bit of a wall that separates dream memories from waking memories. When we're awake, it can be hard to remember our dreams. And when we're dreaming, it can be hard to call up certain waking life memories.

The best way to wear that wall down is simply to practice your dream recall via journaling. So by starting your dream journal, you are bang on course.

What you'll find over time is that as you work to remember more and more details from your dreams, your skills will naturally grow. There will be ups and downs in dream recall (as there are for all of us) but our minds respond well to intent and effort. Keep grabbing every detail from your dreams that you can and after a while you'll find that there's more and more to grab.

Quote Originally Posted by antoniastar View Post
Looking forward to becoming a pro at this! lol
You'll be there before you know it! Just keep learning, putting in the work, and believing in your abilities. You'll be amazed at what you're capable of.

Happy dreaming!