Thread: Help recalling dreams

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Here's a quick, key question for you; Do you keep a Dream Journal? I mean regularly. If so, reread it before going to bed, and when your alarm wakes you up. This tells your mind that you want to remember your dreams more. (If you are just starting one, it will have the same effect.)

Another thing that will help is Autosuggestion. Basically, before you go to bed, plant the thought of remembering your dreams firmly in your mind by repeating a phase over and over, like, "I will remember my dreams tonight..." or something you come up with. Autosuggestion also works if your want to dream about a specific person, place, etc.

If you have anymore questions, please feel free to ask them.

Like Snowy said, you need a dream journal. Find wasup's tutorial on dream recall in the tutorials section. The more pathways to your dream memory, the easier it will get to reach it.

Ok. Well I am just starting to use a dream journal, but if I wake up and don't remember a thing since the night before it is hard to right down nothing. I will try to do all I can to remember them and to cause myself to remember them. By the way, does the hypnosis thing actually work?

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?

What I autosuggested worked pretty well for me. I didn't remember anything until I got out of the shower, but then I remembered the three I knew I had and wrote them down.