is it all real?

[andrewfigueiras]

hi i was wondering if this is really all true. i'm 15 and all my life i have never really remembered more than 1 dream a month! can someone plz help! i will gladly accept any advice THX!!!

[Deere]

Well the best piece of advice that I've heard is: Say to yourself that you're going to wake up after dreaming and that you'll remember your dreams completely. Also write every dream you do (partially) remember in a journal/diary. This should also help your dream recall. Really, I think if you use the search function you'll come upon hundrerds of topics about this. edit: And ofcourse you have to be confident you can do it!

[Barbizzle]

Question Question Question hi i was wondering if this is really all true. i'm 15 and all my life i have never really remembered more than 1 dream a month! can someone plz help! i will gladly accept any advice Question Question Question [/b] Hey, first of all welcome to Dreamviews! Yes, Lucid dreaming is very real. It has a long history infact. for thousands of years numerous cultres have used lucid dreaming to gain new insight inot thier lives and community. Some cultures were even based all around lucid dreaming. Tanks to many scientist, exspericaly Stephen LaBurge, we have factual data and proof that Lucid Dreaming exists. It is excpeted by the scientific community. YOu should keep a dream journal to write down your dreams. beofre you know it you will remebr many many more dreams. I peronsaly remebr on average 4 dreams a night, And I have a lucid dream at least 2 times a week. Read the tutorials on the main site, and browse the forum. If you do that, I promsie you that you will have Lucid Dreams very soon. Good Luck!. You may also PM me with any more questions you have.

[SleepyJosh]

I also heard from someone on this site that the more you move after you wake up the less likely you will remember the dream. This is not the case with me, since i can remember dreams from couple of nights ago and tell them to my friends during the day. After you wake up, try to just lay there and remember what just happened. Search through your memories. It will take some practice, but dont give up. And welcome to the forums!

[Amethyst Star]

Another thing to add to what Josh said, when you're laying in bed, try to recall anything such as a color, person, place, object, etc. Usually, when you can think of one thing it will lead you to recalling much more. Then it's a "thinking backwards" process. Everyone dreams, but since many people don't focus on them, it's not uncommon for them to not recall them. Hope all of this was helpful and let us know if we can do more for you Welcome to DV! -Amé

[andrewfigueiras]

thanks for the advice. but don't you ever wonder that... ok you know when u die? i believe in reincarnation, so your born into another body, but u forget everything. just like baby's do! and the same with our dreams. it just facinates me that while i'm dreaming i could be lucid and i could be an expert or something, but i would never know. i would be able to create and entirely different world. i would never know! heck! i could even be harry potter and make magic real and all that but.. i would never know!!!

[Gargen]

Originally posted by andrewfigueiras * * *hi i was wondering if this is really all true. i'm 15 and all my life i have never really remembered more than 1 dream a month! can someone plz help! i will gladly accept any advice * * THX!!! yea its real and you likely have alot more dreams and just dont remember them i heard somewhere everybody has an average of 40 a night

[Tsen]

One large problem facing many people is recall. The reason you forget your dreams is simple: When your mind leaves REM sleep (the dreaming stage of sleep), your mind is wiped of short term memory, to a certain degree. Because of this, most everyone has several dreams each night that they can't remember, but there's a way to recall at least a few more dreams each night. Set your alarm clock for about five hours after you go to bed. This should wake you up in the middle of an REM cycle, so you should be able to remember your dreams. If not, try adding or subtracting a half an hour from that time, and wake up a little sooner or a little later. Everybody's REM cycles are different, so it's impossible to pinpoint one, but there's a good chance that most people are in an REM phase five hours after they hit the sack. Anyway, provided you DO remember a dream after you wake up, then IMMEDIATELY write it down in a Dream Journal. If you go back to sleep, you may forget it by morning. Then, after you've written it down, you can just go back to sleep like normal! Or, if you feel like it, you can try a WILD (There's information about those in the tutorial section if you're interested.)

[andrewfigueiras]

thxs again i'll try that!

[TygrHawk]

Hey, Andrew, and welcome! Yes, it's definitely real. Like others have said, you need to improve your dream recall first, and keeping a dream journal is the best way to do this. Also make sure you check out all the information on the main DreamViews site, and browse through the tutorials section -- lots of good info there.

[andrewfigueiras]

will do thxs!