Thread: Happy to have found my way here.

As a fellow sufferer, I wanted to welcome you here. I don't know how many other people with fibro ever manage to get into LDing but for me it's a really important part of my life, even if I can't exercise it to the same point as other people. I no longer take any medication for my condition because of several different reasons, mostly related to their availability, though I do take some supplements for my sleep. I don't think there's anything against mentioning specific meds or anything either but I generally don't specify unless people ask.

Don't let your fibro (or the meds) dissuade you from the idea that you can have good dream recall. Sure, I'm having some trouble concentrating even just writing this now, but I have been going through a really strong period of fatigue. But because I'm keeping my intent to recall and write dreams down when I wake up, I am being able to keep my recall quite decent.

Having the dream journal definitely helps though. Like with anything that is learnable, writing things down, talking about them and reading them again is always a helpful way of improving your interest and therefore improving recall too. Sometimes if I don't write dreams down I still tell them to my partner to consolidate my memory of a particularly interesting or meaningful dream. You can easily see on my DJ here on DV how much detail I can still recall from dreams sometimes; I'm confident it would be even better if my sleep was better, since I have been at that point before in life anyway.

Personally I like using the dream journal system here on dreamviews because it sets a routine for me to write dreams down.

That routine means that I have to physically get up from bed, come to my computer and wait for everything to be loaded etc. to then finally start writing my dreams down. This forces me to have that large gap of time between getting up and writing, where I must simply remember and go through what I do remember while waiting to be able to write. Sometimes a dream or two go missing, but that's not too bad a thing considering I often take quite a while to type everything out in detail.

Anyway, I wish you luck with your goals!

Originally Posted by DarkestDarkness

As a fellow sufferer, I wanted to welcome you here. I don't know how many other people with fibro ever manage to get into LDing but for me it's a really important part of my life, even if I can't exercise it to the same point as other people. I no longer take any medication for my condition because of several different reasons, mostly related to their availability, though I do take some supplements for my sleep. I don't think there's anything against mentioning specific meds or anything either but I generally don't specify unless people ask.

Don't let your fibro (or the meds) dissuade you from the idea that you can have good dream recall. Sure, I'm having some trouble concentrating even just writing this now, but I have been going through a really strong period of fatigue. But because I'm keeping my intent to recall and write dreams down when I wake up, I am being able to keep my recall quite decent.

Thanks for the welcome DarkestDarkness and sorry you gotta deal with fibro yourself. I fortunately get a decent amount of sleep due to the medicine I take, if I don't take something, I will sleep 2 hours straight then on and off the rest of the night. Before I knew I had fibro, I slept like that for 10 years. It was usually blamed on my depression issues.

Since I have been using a dream journal and using affirmations to remember my dreams I've been having decent recall. The last few nights before last night, my recall wasn't happening, then last night I remembered about 3 dreams in decent detail. I've only been at this a month and a few days and i'm happy with my recall results so far.

Since I started again I've had one wbtb LD, totally on accident but still very cool and I had one dream were I LD'd 3 times in it. That was frustrating but still cool.

Thanks again and I hope you find some relief, fatigue is no joke.