Hello. I just found this site yesterday but it was not the first time i have tried to attempt the things this site talks about. I don"t have very good dream recall. I would say at best i can remember key details of my dreams about twice a month. When i do remember, they are sometimes very extravagant or off the wall, which makes them pretty easy to remember. Last night I tried (with out any success) to verbally and mentally tell myself to remember my dreams. Often looking forward at the excitement i would have while dreaming and what ever else in that category. So i was going and a going on with this and then i kinda felt myself drift off almost directly into the beginning of a dream. (half awake and half asleep) This caused me to wake up and have to start over. I have done this times before and it has resulted in sleep paralysis and a mix between thinking that are happening and not happening. (on a different occasion, i was sleeping and i heard and felt a ball fly into my head.. there were no balls in my room or anyone to throw them.) I think I'm on the right track because I had this dream where i was talking to my friends mom and something she said made me realize i was dreaming which caused me to be aware and then get sleep paralysis and have a short time where reality and my dreams were mixed slightly. I'm now starting a dream journal. Does anyone have any advice on how to increase my dream recall or can anyone evaluate what the examples i have given you actually are? (beginning of lucidity, lack of dream control, INSANITY (lol jk))
Thanks
-Dig