Thanks very much for the reply Burns.

In answer to your question I wanted to stop my dream recall because they were very scary and were interrupting my sleep. I'd have to keep waking myself up all the time because I could have a few dreams a night where I'd be being chased by something. Even flying or bringing myself out of the dream in a nice way was bad enough, but if something went wrong such as I ended up in small room with a low roof (flying seemed to be my only idea at the time) and I got caught, the results would be rather disastrous. Waking up because your arms and legs got pulled off was much more distressing than managing to come out of the dream myself. They caused me so many problems at the time I just really needed them to stop.

I'm fairly certain I could begin recalling dreams again using the method you suggested. It's just working up the courage to do so after so long. Do your dreams not interrupt your sleep and effect your daily life? Do you not still have bad experiences? Im enjoying reading the forums though, so many experiences and thoughts. I will be sticking around no doubt, maybe sometime I'll have a new experience to add.

**EDIT**

Thanks to dudesuperior as well for the info and welcome to the board. Trying things out in your dreams to get a clue as to how things would turn out in real life deffinately sounds interesting (if thats what you meant by coming up with solutions to real life problems) If its a dream though surely the outcome of your actions does not indicate the same outcome will occur in real life?