Thread: Hello, time to introduce myself.

Thanks, and I just remembered a question.
If I use an alarm clock for waking up in the middle of the night, how am I supposed to remember my dreams? Those dreams 5 days ago, I used an alarm clock first, but I didn't remember anything, so I turned it off and went back to sleep. I remembered reading somewhere that thinking about waking up and remembering dreams after every REM period works, so I tried that and it worked! It seemed so easy, but I haven't been able to do it again, and that troubles me...

And now I remember a second question.
I tried WILD yesterday, I wanted to at least try it, and I think I managed to become lucid, because for a few seconds I managed t breathe through my nose, while pinching my nose closed. Then, suddenly I couldn't do it anymore. I looked at my hands, and my alarm clock, but everything looked normal. What happened there?

EDIT (hate double posting): Identity X, that picture is perfect, can I use it as avatar?

Originally Posted by Ham or Turkey?

EDIT (hate double posting): Identity X, that picture is perfect, can I use it as avatar?

I... guess so.
Remarkably, I myself do not manufacture the ham myself and thus do not hold the copyright on the image. So I couldn't care less what you do with it.

Originally Posted by Forynia

I emptied my bladder

I know you were trying to be eloquent but I found this phrase strangely disturbing.

Originally Posted by Identity X

I know you were trying to be eloquent but I found this phrase strangely disturbing.

Sorry to disturb you. lol.

Hey, Forynia, that water drinking thing didn't help. It only made me feel sick. Luckily my bladder control is perfect.

I'm going to try doing exactly as I did it when I remembered dreams a week ago, it has to work!

The answer is ham.

Welcome to Dreamviews.

Welcome to DV.

For your recall, I would actually suggest not trying so hard. Just take a week where you take a minute or two in the morning to lay in bed and remember your dreams. It's the kind of thing that comes with time and practice more than anything. Hell, it took me over a month to finally establish any kind of recall, but I seem to be one of the slower people here.

Originally Posted by GestaltAlteration

The answer is ham.

Welcome to Dreamviews.

Nope the answer is Turkey Ham! Thanks for the welcome.

Originally Posted by TaNK

Welcome to DV.

For your recall, I would actually suggest not trying so hard. Just take a week where you take a minute or two in the morning to lay in bed and remember your dreams. It's the kind of thing that comes with time and practice more than anything. Hell, it took me over a month to finally establish any kind of recall, but I seem to be one of the slower people here.

I don't really have time to stay in bed thinking about my dreams, I have to get up and hurry to catch the bus, I always forget to think about my dreams when I wake up. Maybe I should go to sleep earlier so that I wake up earlier?

And a month, really? Well everybody is different, who knows, it could take a year for me to develop a good recall if I continue like this...

You don't need all that much time. Literally, take 60 seconds to lay there and try to remember, then 30 seconds to write down a couple of one word bullets so you can remember and write it in detail when you get home. If an extra 90 seconds will really screw up your routine, try and wake up two minutes earlier.

But extra sleep does always help. The main reason I was in a slump for most of last month was that I just wasn't sleeping enough.

Originally Posted by Ham or Turkey?

how am I supposed to remember my dreams? =
I tried WILD yesterday

Hello Ham and Welcome to Dreamviews.
A person who has never had a LD needs to focus on the basic skills first. Improve your Dream recall by keeping a comprehensive journal. It starts off slow but your dream recall will improve with the journal.
Secondly, but probably more important is doing reality checks. You have to make it a habit so that you will automatically do one during a dream. How often? At least every half hour.

DONT try to LD yet. Get good at dream recall and RC's and let the LD come to you. When you try to LD and fail, you will become frustrated and disappointed and that will inhibit your ability to LD.

If you read about most people's first LD, it came without trying and a lot of the time, after giving up trying. Once you become good at the basics and have achieved LD, you can start on different methods of inducing an LD.

Thats my two bits worth.
Good luck.

I'm never going to use an alarm clock again... I was about to remember the dream before I heard the alarm. When I had turned off the alarm I had already forgotten every part of the dream I had managed to recall. Plus, I was so angry that I couldn't fall asleep no matter what I tried.

Originally Posted by TaNK

You don't need all that much time. Literally, take 60 seconds to lay there and try to remember, then 30 seconds to write down a couple of one word bullets so you can remember and write it in detail when you get home. If an extra 90 seconds will really screw up your routine, try and wake up two minutes earlier.

But extra sleep does always help. The main reason I was in a slump for most of last month was that I just wasn't sleeping enough.

Ok, then I'll go to sleep earlier so that I have more time in the mornings.

Originally Posted by Ronstek

Hello Ham and Welcome to Dreamviews.
A person who has never had a LD needs to focus on the basic skills first. Improve your Dream recall by keeping a comprehensive journal. It starts off slow but your dream recall will improve with the journal.
Secondly, but probably more important is doing reality checks. You have to make it a habit so that you will automatically do one during a dream. How often? At least every half hour.

DONT try to LD yet. Get good at dream recall and RC's and let the LD come to you. When you try to LD and fail, you will become frustrated and disappointed and that will inhibit your ability to LD.

If you read about most people's first LD, it came without trying and a lot of the time, after giving up trying. Once you become good at the basics and have achieved LD, you can start on different methods of inducing an LD.

Thats my two bits worth.
Good luck.

Thanks for the welcome. Ok, I'll decide later when a good time to start trying LD's is.
And if what you say is true, I'm probably not even doing half of the Reality Checks I should do. Does that mean it will take much longer for me to learn? But I guess I'll start remembering to do them more often after a few weeks.

By the way, my dream journal is almost empty, what am I supposed to write in it when I remember nothing?

Yes, welcome.

Recall is probably the easiest step. If you try to remeber your dreams every day, I guarantee you will be able to recall a few every night in only a couple weeks.

You'll have to better than a few reality checks a day. That will get you no where. You should do one at least every 30 minutes.

Remembering to do reality checks is not what I'm concentrating on right now. I want to get better dream recall first. For example, all I remembered from this night was an image of two different kinds of locks. That's bad, right?

Luckily I don't have to go to school for the rest of this week, so maybe I can try remembering dreams harder now. Tomorrow is Finland's Independence day, he he, and it's special. 90 years of independence = Thursday and Friday free from school!

Scary signature, Grod.