Originally posted by Gwendolyn
Sometimes, no matter what you do to prepare for your awakening dream scribbles, you loose your train of thought. Don't get mad. There's always tommorow.
Agh.... yeah, I've been doing this exact same thing, waking up after a dream and then falling back to sleep, for the past three nights, but last night (it's 5:30am here in NZ now) I got the hang of it... I "conquered" the falling-back-to-sleep thing.

Here's how I did it: by the bed, I keep a king-sized block of chocolate. Cadbury Black Forest, it's my favourite. So before I snozzled off to sleep, I break off six squares and keep it on the bedside table, next to my dream journal, alarm, and drink bottle. So, instead of telling myself and training myself "After dream, wake up and remember it" I tell myself "After dream, wake up and eat chocolate".

So last night, I had a dream, woke up, and remembered it. The first thing I did was grab the chocolate and stuff it in my gob. THEN I remembered "damn... okay, gotta right this dream down!" so I did. And it worked.

Except after then, I couldn't get back to sleep (I always have trouble getting back to sleep after I've woken up) so I only got bout 5 hours sleep last night. Which sucks. Which is ALSO why I'm sitting here at 5:30 am typing. GRRRR!!!!!

So... I say, try the chocolate thing. It works.