Thread: Help recalling dreams

Hello. I am new to this site and am very interested in lucid dreaming. However, I have a hard time remembering my dreams. Most of the time I wake up as if I hadn't dreamed at all. After researching a bit, I will set my alarm to wake me up at a multiple of 90 minutes and will start writing down my dreams (if I "had" one...). If there is anything any of you know will help, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

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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