Problem with dreams...

So guys I'm having a problem, but not your typical dream recall problem.
(At least I haven't seen a topic for it).

Ok so I've been keeping a Dream Journal and doing reality checks, but now I find that when I wake up and I go to write in my Dream Journal I cant remember my dreams. So then I sit there and ask myself what I dreamed about, and something comes to me so I write it down. As I write more comes to me.

What my problem is, is that I can't tell if it was actually what I dreamt or if it is something I'm just making up on the spot. Can anyone help me because this is aggravating.

Probably real memories of the dream are slowly filtering back to you as you think about it harder and harder.

I doubt that they are made up.

Don't worry :meditate:

I also doubt that you are just making all of it up. You might get some parts wrong, but most of what you remember probably is correct. For tips on ways to improve dream recall check this post out http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=68419

thats happened to me too. its so annoying because i have brilliant dream, and then as soon as i wake up, i remember it, but, say half an hour later, i can barely remember any of it!!! :roll:

Try laying still for a minute or two before reaching for your journal. Moving chases away your dreams, but laying still will allow them to come forwards again so that you can copy them into your short term memory before you move.

I think of the memory like a computer system. The dream memory is the cache, the short term is the RAM, and long term is the hard drive. When switching tasks the cache has to be transfered to RAM or else it is removed.

I sort of have the same issue as you mention. I'll wake up and I won't remember anything, but I'll have a sense. Usually that sense will trigger a memory and I'll be like "Okay. Now I know what I dreamt about, but I want to remember the whole dream." I'll continue to lay there and follow my thoughts through the dream. A few times this has made me fall back asleep and the dream will continue, but be different than the actual dream I had had. When I wake up from that dream, I'll remember both dreams. They will have both started the same, but ended up differently. The same thing has happened with FAs where I'm writing in my dream journal and then it will just become another dream based on what I was writing down.

So in my case, yes I am making up the rest of my dream on the spot, but only because I have actually entered another dream without noticing it.

lol meditate.

Thanks for the link seeker I will check it out. :)

Ninja I have a very lout alarm clock that wakes me up and I cant adjust the volume, if I don't turn it off fast it wakes everyone up. I have however experimented with auto suggesting myself to wake up 10 mins before my clock rings but then it ends up being over an hour lol. Thanks for the advice and I will definitively do that once I find an alternative clock.

Jonh and Sapphire it sounds like our problems are very similar, well it might improve with time if we just keep trying to remember.

Thanks
-NativeDreamer-

If i dont have time to write it all down befor getting out of bed i just write down key pieces, then while taking a shower or what not I go over the whole dream in my head

also i read that physically doing what you did in your dream can recall pieces, but also movement could erase dream memory, it only has come in handy when i army crawled in a dream then later that morning after hitting the snooze alarm and trying to recall i was laying on my stomache and that triggered a complete recall of that scene leading the whole dream