Hey there Beant, believe me I understand. Neither do I have time for the DJ: I have to wake up early too and rush right away. In the evening 70% of the recall will have vanished plus I would have forgotten 90% of how the experience felt like. (Self-estimation percentages, of course)
I have an electronic DJ. Usually when I sit down to type I try to describe everything as well as possible: environment details, feelings, on-moment-knowledge b[/b], sound of the voices of people whom I talk to, and so further and so on. Conclusion ? I have to take a lot of time for this, which I don’t have in the morning.
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I tried waking up earlier than usual, but even though the alarm rang, my mentality always would be: “Five more minutes.”. :rolleyes:
The only thing which proved to have given some results was writing some keywords in a text note on my phone. This does help in recalling what the dream was about, but you will never get that same feeling of a fresh experience like in the morning.
Seems pretty hopeless to me too. That is why (starting with the start of 2011) I let the DJ be and went for practicing quick methods, such as WILD and DEILD. It proved to be very hard indeed, but not totally impossible. Going to sleep with the intention of noticing the microawakenings during the night could help as well as mantras or practicing WILD while going to sleep.
However, none (unless you put in a lot of effort, which again requires time and even loss of sleep) can really replace the DJ.
I don’t know how my post could help you - perhaps just to know that you’re not the only one. I wish you good luck and hope you will find a solution to your problem.
EDIT (after having read some posts):
Of course, going to sleep earlier might be a good idea. However, I tried this only to end up rolling around the whole night in my bed and not being able to find my position. If you’re going for this, my advice would be to either start off with small amounts of time of going earlier to bed (10-15 minutes) or, if you want to go straight to 2 hours earlier, don’t give up once you’ve begun.