The BIG Remembering Dreams topic - Part III

Me too! :sad:

why cant i remember…i have had ZERO recall for about a month now!?

I haven’t remembered anything this morning, I’m quite worried…

Amy

It’s just one morning…

It’s just one morning…

The only thing I remember from tonights dream is smoking inside a strange room. The weirdest thing is… I don`t smoke.

Errrr… :eh: Seems incredible! What are you practising as a recall technique ?

You don’t have to worry. Just wait until tomorrow morning. :tongue:

It’s quite normal. When you’re stressed or give much importance to daylife events, dream recall decreases. It will be better as soon as your exams will finish.

Lately I don’t remember my dreams. But it will come back. I know :smile: I have too many thing on my mind.
Soon it will be vacation (more than a month) and I will be relaxed and will give more attation to my (lucid) dreams and I hope there won’t be that much things on my mind anymore.
But mostly when I lie in bed and I try to remember my dreams I forget them. I think I try to force them at that time. And the most of the time I don’t try it. When I know my dream I write it down and then there comes more from my dream back. I just know my dream or I don’t.

I never remember any of my ND’s or LD’s :sad: I also tried VILT incubation for 1 hour but I didn’t have the dream…
please help! :cry:

it seems like since i posted here my recall has improved,mabye i just needed to lower the fustration a bit,though im still only getting 1-2 a night. i write a dj and do intention setting, is there anything else i can do? :confused:

Not to move when you wake up (I suppose you already do that). Another good technique, when you don’t remember anything when you wake up, is thinking about random words “a plane… a camel… flying… a boat”, etc. until you feel one of them has to do with something you dreamt. Then you focus on this feeling and you can sometimes remember a dream fragment, from which you can rebuild your dream in the reverse order, wondering what happend before.

Following the advice I got from these forums, I was able to recall 4 dreams last night! This is a big deal- I have alot of trouble with DR.

I put a journal next to my bed and after each dream I woke up and jotted down key points. I used a pen that lights up so I what I wrote wouldn’t be completely illegible. When I woke up this morning I could barely remember my dreams, but when I read what I had scrawled in my journal they all came back to me.

I try not to just jot bullet points, but at least have a medium level of detail. But once you’ve gotten it written down, it’s harder for your brain to exorcise the details in the usual waking dream-amnesia.

Doesn’t keeping a DJ get chore-ish after a while? I really had to force myself today, not really having any interesting ones. (One vaguely horrorish, the other I can’t remember now, lol.)

Amy

What technique do you use in order to remember your dreams?

A good place to post this question should be the BIG VILD topic. :smile:

I think so. But it seems that stopping to keep a DJ is the best way of not having LD’s. :grin: Probably because it means that you’re no more interested in dreams. Thus the best thing could be finding a new interest in your dreams, for instance remembering them in order to draw them later, etc.

Hello, I have had excellent dream recall in the past (i.e. 3 or more a night.) but ever since I started keeping a dream journal, I am lucky if I get even one a night. Any answers?

Hi lehigh nagy!
I moved your post in the BIG Remembering dream topic.

When you say “in the past”, when was it exactly? Did you lose your dream recall a long time before you began your DJ?

Actually, it was the exact day. I remembered three dreams from the night before, one dream my first DJ night, and none since ever.

It might be a psychological block… I don’t know what to think about… :confused:

Last night I had a dream and all I remember is a voice saying, “Yoda is real.”
Odd.

LOL ! :lol: Then it must be true. :wink:
I hope that your dream recall will be better and better.
Good luck! :smile:

Well, that’s because its not really science fiction. It merely happened a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away :wink:

Like the poster of this message, I am having a big problem with dream recall. It seems the the more excited I get over dream recall and LD’ing, the less I remember! :grrr:
I’m lucky if I remember a few dreams each month. (but, I’m newbie). Does having a dream journal really help? (I started one 3 days ago, but haven’t seen much improvement yet…but, duh, it’s only been 3 days. :smile: )