New To All This

[shadownet]

I read about Lucid Dreaming in my Psych class, and I was really interested. Then I ended up seeing A Scanner Darkly, which lead me to Waking Life. After seeing this movie I read a thread by ExoByte on IMDB. He was talking about LDs and he gave this site. I've had one LD in my life, and I didn't know what it was until recently. It was stupid, but I liked it. I'm starting a dream journal, and I already have all I can remember of two dreams. I'm really hoping I am able to pick this up easily. I have no hobbies, only college, so I have time. Can anyone give me some tips on improving my dream recall? I can usually remember a piece of two dreams I have every night. But they're small. Luckily, I remember a lot of detail in those pieces of my dreams. It's like a video repeating in my head, and I can remember almost every detail. But I want to remember more of them. Any help?

[Pride]

You can improve recall by wakening up at REM times, it also improves the chance of a DILD

[Vex Kitten]

Hi, welcome to Dream Views. Great that you've started a journal. The best way to improve dream recall is if you make sure you write something in the journal everyday. Even if it's only a flickering fragment or even an emotion you felt upon waking. Train your mind and body to recall and record and it you should start recalling longer more vivid dreams. Intent is good, simply intend to remember your dreams and mean it as you're drifting off. I'll leave it at that, Im sure others will have good, if not, better suggestions. See you around.

[Wavefunction]

Hi, welcome to Dream Views. Great that you've started a journal. The best way to improve dream recall is if you make sure you write something in the journal everyday. Even if it's only a flickering fragment or even an emotion you felt upon waking. Train your mind and body to recall and record and it you should start recalling longer more vivid dreams. Intent is good, simply intend to remember your dreams and mean it as you're drifting off. I'll leave it at that, Im sure others will have good, if not, better suggestions. See you around. *copies advice and takes credit for it* Anyway, to the forum!

[shadownet]

You can improve recall by wakening up at REM times, it also improves the chance of a DILD How do I wake up during REM sleep? My sleep patterns suck, and I can never really fall asleep. It takes a good 2 hours for me to fall asleep, no matter how bad the day was. I think it would be hard for me to time it. Every time I'm about to fall asleep I have to be really still or I lose it and have to wait twenty minutes to get back to that again. Thanks for the advice, everyone.

[Wavefunction]

How do I wake up during REM sleep? My sleep patterns suck, and I can never really fall asleep. It takes a good 2 hours for me to fall asleep, no matter how bad the day was. I think it would be hard for me to time it. Every time I'm about to fall asleep I have to be really still or I lose it and have to wait twenty minutes to get back to that again. Thanks for the advice, everyone. You set your alarm for 4-5 hours into sleep, and then for every 30-60 minutes after that. You might have to tweak the numbers a bit. Basically you're waking up during a dream, which makes it really easy to remember. Keep your journal handy...

[Adrenaline Junkie]

Well hey there shadownet and welcome to the forum Its awesome that your interested in lucid dreaming, to answer your question, i think a good way to improve your recall is to plan to recall your dreams when you awaken in the morning, do this the night before, i find that it helps me dreams seem more clear because i put out the intention. Another way is to tell yourself before bed that you will remember your dreams, it can really work if you believe it to. With dream recall it is good to keep a dream journal and write down any details from the previous night, anything at all may help so its best to write down even the smallest details because things will improve eventually If you have any other questions, feel free to ask!

[Alex D]

Hello, welcome to Dream Views! As the others have said, intention to remember dreams and the act of writing a dream journal helps a lot with dream recall. You'll find keeping this up for a few weeks you'll be remembering a lot more dream than before.

[MixedMan]

You set your alarm for 4-5 hours into sleep, and then for every 30-60 minutes after that. You might have to tweak the numbers a bit. Basically you're waking up during a dream, which makes it really easy to remember. Keep your journal handy... I can't find a multiple-alarm clock, is there something off the internet for that?

[Alex D]

I can't find a multiple-alarm clock, is there something off the internet for that? I'm quite sure a lot of mobile phones can do it. The last two I had could.

[MixedMan]

I'll just set my snooze button to 60 min. thanks

[shadownet]

Okay. I sort of had one last night. Well, a few. I was on a boat, or ship, or something, but everytime I realized I was dreaming I woke up. = ( I ended up beating my bed with my fist because I wanted to stay in it. Any tips on this? I felt like I almost had it, but couldn't keep it.

[Wavefunction]

Okay. I sort of had one last night. Well, a few. I was on a boat, or ship, or something, but everytime I realized I was dreaming I woke up. = ( I ended up beating my bed with my fist because I wanted to stay in it. Any tips on this? I felt like I almost had it, but couldn't keep it. As soon as you become lucid, calm yourself, then concentrate on your body. Convince yourself that it is a dream. Look around, and tell yourself "this is all a dream. Everything here is a dream." Then, always keeping in mind that you're dreaming, do whatever you want to do. There is also the possibility that you became lucid a few seconds before the dream would naturally end, and if it has already begun ending, there's not a whole lot you can do. But it's still technically a LD, and it means you're getting close

[Pollonator]

Try the normal WILD TECHINQUE, increase ur dreaming recall abilitie, but if u want to have lucid dreams in less than a week, use a binaural brainwave generator (check http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ead.php?t=1519 ) and put an alarm in ur watch to remember u : ask urself: is this a dream?, then check for some dream signs like readiong something twice, or check if u have 10 fingers... things are chaothic in a deram but u wont notice it unles it is in un memory: if this hapens, it must be adream... use the brainwave generator with ur ipod, laptop, or ibit, etc works quite well have a nice day and night

[shadownet]

Thanks everybody. I'm going to apologize in advance for being annoying, because I have a lot of questions. It says I can't save it. Do I need to buy something for it to save?

[Alex D]

No need to apologize for asking questions. And is that in reference to BWGen? If so, I think there's a way to save to mp3 without paying, though I'm no longer on windows, so I can't try.

[shadownet]

Yeah, it was for BWGen. Also, if anyone could send me their mp3(made with BWGen)for LDing I would appreciate it. I tried for 30 minutes, but I really suck at most things, computers included.

[Wavefunction]

Thanks everybody. I'm going to apologize in advance for being annoying, because I have a lot of questions. It says I can't save it. Do I need to buy something for it to save? Questions? Annoying? That's what we're here for... to answer your questions. It is our purpose in life

[shadownet]

I want to be adopted after I've been here two weeks. Then I have someone to annoy every time they're online. I ask a lot of questions, and I'm sort of slow, so I need a lot of help understanding some things. It tends to annoy people.

[Lseadragon]

You're not being annoying. You know what you're talking about, and your grammar is fine. If you have those two things on the internet, you can go far.

[shadownet]

Thank you for the compliment on my grammar. That's one thing I really do try on. Well, no more lucid dreams. I've tried most of the techniques, I just can't find one that works. I spent two hours trying to go into sleep paralysis. I only had my fingers left, I couldn't move anything else, but then my dog jumped on my bed and my body came out of paralysis. I tried SP again tonight, and I just fell asleep. No paralysis at all. Then I attempted again tonight, and it just didn't work. I'm really trying, and people keep saying it's not that hard, but I've tried most of the techniques on this forum, and I'm trying with dream recall. I haven't been able to recall a dream in two nights. I can't seem to have a LD, and I can't recall any of my normal dreams. It's sort of defeating.

[Wavefunction]

Thank you for the compliment on my grammar. That's one thing I really do try on. Well, no more lucid dreams. I've tried most of the techniques, I just can't find one that works. I spent two hours trying to go into sleep paralysis. I only had my fingers left, I couldn't move anything else, but then my dog jumped on my bed and my body came out of paralysis. I tried SP again tonight, and I just fell asleep. No paralysis at all. Then I attempted again tonight, and it just didn't work. I'm really trying, and people keep saying it's not that hard, but I've tried most of the techniques on this forum, and I'm trying with dream recall. I haven't been able to recall a dream in two nights. I can't seem to have a LD, and I can't recall any of my normal dreams. It's sort of defeating. Two nights? Don't get frustrated that easily! It took me a good week or two to build solid recall, and 1.5-2 months to get my first lucid. But both recall and lucids have steadily increased for me. Just be patient

[shadownet]

It's not really the amount of time I've tried. It's more of the fact I've gotten less than seven hours of sleep in two days, followed by my parents harassing me about every little thing during the day. I'm sort of stressed. Really, I feel awful. I've heard that your body starts to die after 48 hours with no, or little sleep. I can't even sleep normally.

[Wavefunction]

It's not really the amount of time I've tried. It's more of the fact I've gotten less than seven hours of sleep in two days, followed by my parents harassing me about every little thing during the day. I'm sort of stressed. Really, I feel awful. I've heard that your body starts to die after 48 hours with no, or little sleep. I can't even sleep normally. This may sound counter-productive, but stop trying for a few days. Just sleep normally, no WILD or WBTB. Stress is a LD-killer, and so is sleep deprivation.

[shadownet]

It's more of the stress that's giving me the lack of sleep. I just can't sleep. I lay in bed hours and nothing happens, or I go to sleep and wake up three hours later. My parents kind of threatened to kick me out if I don't get a job. They gave me a week. I doubt Jesus could even get a job in a week without a miracle.