Thread: Help recalling dreams

Yes. It works BIG time. Autosuggestion is the reason I finally made it into the double digits on my dream tally in my sig.

Woot! I woke up this morning and got out of bed right away (I always do and I don't know why; maybe it is because it annoys me when my brother takes forever to get up...) and didn't remember a thing. I did use autosuggestion and when I was getting in the shower I was thinking that my efforts were in vain again. When I was just thinking about dreaming, getting out of the shower, it dawned on me that I had three dreams last night and I remembered every one. I'm pretty happy

Yay! Welcome to the site! Keeping a Dream Journal really helps. If I write down all of my dreams every night for about a week, my dream recall counts goes up to like 3 or 4 per night. But right now I am having trouble remembering dreams. Maybe because I am sick? Dream recall is super important because if you have a lucid dream, but dont remember it, then what's the point?

Good luck, and happy dreaming!
Puppycat

Autosuggestion??? how does this work? how CAN you hypnotize YOURSELF????

Um, autosuggestion is where you repeat a phrase to yourself over and over again to "suggest" to your mind what you want to happen. In this case I repeated the phrase, I will remember tonights dreams vividly upon awakening, over and over until I fell asleep...

Yeah. You aren't really hypnotizing yourself, you are just sending messages to your subconsious. I once read a thread that 10 people had posted on saying AutoSuggestion worked for them.

I usually remember 1-2 dreams upon awakening and I remember another 2 or so while I'm writing. What I do is keep my journal and pencil at my bedside and as soon as I wake up, before getting out of bed, I write down every tiny detail I can remember even if that means writing pages before I even get up.

Since I've done this I've been able to recall little things in dreams alot better. Maybe try to make your DJ more detailed?

Ah yeah, gottit now. tanks!
i got a question: is the language any matter? I'm German, but I often think in English ^^. so whats the best for my subconsiousness?