Thread: Unable to remeber dreams

I just dont.

I have followed the tutorials on this site, as well as the ones here, and here,.

Over the past 3 months, I have remembed one dream.

(This may not be the right place, I am not sure)

Aww... don't give up okay? One thing that it could be is that you're trying too hard, when you stress the words of "I'll have a dream tonight" you have to sound confident, not needy. Another thing is, your body, physically or mentally, consciously or not, could be stressed. That's a major cut back on dream recall, stress. Or certain things you do before bed [I've been reading up on these things in books on Lding] like watch TV, chug a soda or caffeine in general. I'll try to keep guessing at it until I find something that might help 'cause it can really suck to feel frustrated over things you're trying to do but haven't gotten to yet [as in achieved]

And welcome to DV

When I first started I tried so hard and could only remember maybe one or two dreams a week. After awhile I learned a little bit about how to force yourself to remember dreams. I noticed that I always remembered my nightmares because I was waking up from them, meaning that the dream was fresh on my mind. If you really don't mind interrupting your sleep, and want to remember dreams I would try waking myself up about an hour or two before you naturally wake up with a loud alarm or vibrating phone. Maybe even have your phone show you a message such as "what was your dream?" As soon as you remember it, write it down in detail! Do the same thing for several nights always taking highly detailed dream journals and soon you'll start to see yourself improving. One last thing is to mix the time at which you wake up. This is not a long term dream recall strategy but rather a forced way to begin dream recall, soon you wont need to force wakeup. I hope this advice helps a bit.

Originally Posted by ccc

Over the past 3 months, I have remembed one dream.

welcome to the club....

First off, the worst thing you can do is to quit. So don't think about that option :p. Second, try not to be too negative. If you believe you can't (which I'm not saying you are believing that), then you can't and won't.
Those tutorials you are using seem to be fine. You can also experiment with other ways of recall. One thing that has seemed to work for me with recall in the past is to write in my dream journal even if I didn't remember my dream. I would write something positive like "I will try again tomorrow".
Don't loose hope though. For some people it is very difficult. I personally know people, though they are not lucid dreamers, who do not remember their dreams even after six months.

The only advice I can offer is to just lay in bed for 10 minutes after you wake up, and don't move. Just lay there and try to think of different things, and maybe something will trigger your memory.

Also, turn off your alarm clock - the sound of it going off (for me anyways) is often enough of a shock to jar any lingering memories of dreams out of your head. Try to train yourself to wake up on time just by telling yourself to wake up at a certain time. It's pretty amazing what your body can do if you work at it

Originally Posted by Pelirrojo

The only advice I can offer is to just lay in bed for 10 minutes after you wake up, and don't move. Just lay there and try to think of different things, and maybe something will trigger your memory.

This is good advice. It's quite possible that your mind just wakes up so quickly that you're anticipating everything you'll have to take care of during your day. Give yourself permission to not start your day for the first ten minutes of being awake.

How do I ensure that when I wake up? I tend to forget not to move when I wake up.

I don't think there's any way to make sure you don't move, just try to remember not to. Eventually you'll get it. It'll just take a lot of trying but eventually you'll be able to do it. I think that's a good rule of thumb for everything with dreaming Just be persistant and eventually, if you keep at it, you'll be able to do it.

Welcome to the forum, hrm thats annoying, well you need to continue with the dream journal.

Try to keep positive, any negativitey greatly detroys the chances of recall.

Thanks, I will try to keep all of this in mind.

Well, good luck with improving your dream recall. I've been having a lot of trouble with it myself; I started my dream journal a little over two weeks ago, and so far I've managed to record a grand total of two dreams in it. As the others said, just keep trying, and I'm sure you'll get better soon enough.

Try waking yourself up in the middle of REM, you tend to remember them better that way.

Hi and welcome to Dream Views.
Congrats on the recall. The most important thing is to not give up. You'll find your way sooner or later. Dream recall doesn't work exactly the same for all of us.
Hope you catch many more dreams.