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I've had a few lucid dreams (not totally controlled since I now only have the ability to realize I'm in some of them)
But now for 2 months straight, any dreams in general are not happening (or I guess I can't recall even having one started)
Any ideas?
ive got a similiar problem , except i havent had a LD at all yet.
before i read up about LDs i used to remember at least 2 - 3 mins of a dream but lately i cant recall any of them. not even 5 seconds worth.
ive got a dream jounral with about 10 dreams on it. its like each dream is getting shorter and shorter and now i cant even recall them.
any suggestions?
Hope you dont mind hijacking this thread, Vashalaka ? Its on the same topic ?
Just to add to that, Horrigan (he's my adoptee ;)) has been doing the 'lie in bed and think about the dreams when you wake up' trick too
For a good 5 to 10 minutes...
Anyone have more ideas?
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PS: Perhaps this is more of a question, than a 'newbie' thread... should I move it?
Well, recall is based on a lot of things.
just to name the few:
time of the year (temperature/moisture can make your sleep uncomofortable)
what kind of foods you eat (some supplements/vitamins cause me to enter very deep sleep with no recall at all)
your motivation to recall dreams (trying too much or too little can have adverse effects) :/
How long you sleep - by far one of the most important factors. (for example I often cant remember dreams from the first 6 hours. So if you sleep only 7 hours, you may have trouble)
Recently I've found myself in a similar situation. -> I forget a lot of details and sometimes only remember the feeling from a dream.
I dont really know what caused it, but after I applied some real effort, my recall improved :/
maybe you're trying to hard? or you're sleep is being interuppted by an alarm clock so that when you wake up and hit the alarm, you've already lost some recall
I dunno, but lately i've been having extreme problems in recall to. suddenly i couldnt remember anything. I think its back now though
u know , just after posted wat i did , the follow night i recalled 3 dreams
1 lasted for 10 seconds
1 lasted for 2 - 3 mins (i was lucid in it)
1 lasted for 5 - 10 mins
and suprisinly i was very calm and collected in my lucid dream,wat happend was i was travelling on a train past my skool and all of a sudden i went past the same landmark twice with the same people , and i said to myself in the dream " geez this dreams weird " then i thought hmm yeh it is a dream. and then the train stopped i got out and looked around and then when i started to walk up to a girl near by i felt the dream fading. i shock my head , instead of spinning cause i forgot , kind of thought shaking head would haev the same result.
anyway yeh i was never excited all that much until i was walking up to the girl , party because i already had wat i whanted to do mapped out :D
Hey - Congrats dude! You finally managed one!
Dream induced is obviously the best way to go then ;)
seems to me the only way to boost your dream recall is to write them down and force yourself to do that first thing when you wake up.
I usually can recall my dreams during the entire day though I find they are much more clearer when I have just woken up, also I remember piece by piece. (say a dream had 4 parts, a,b,c and d. I sometimes think a and d were different dreams until I write d down and remember c, then b thus making the connection)
I don't want to sound like an expert on it, since I clearly am not. I'm at a loss when I read about people having trouble recalling dreams, since it has always just been normal for me. Kind of like those people who have lucid dreams all the time :wink:
And i bet your young too. You'll have trouble.. naturals never stay naturals forever. I was one, and i lost the ability for about 2 years. So, do not think you are immune to it, and remember this site, it helped me get back on my feet.