Spontaneously remembering a dream you have fogotten?

[Fairywindblues]

For the past couple of weeks, I've been having a lot of dreams. I wake up a lot during the night but I end up having 2-3 dreams a night that I can remember bits and pieces of. Who knows how much one actually dreams. What I've been noticing lately is that I'll get amnesia for a few days, sometimes, even, and doing something or saying something will trigger a memory of a dream to flood in, much like a download. Just now, I was going about my business as usual, when I remembered that a day ago, I dreamed about seeing that cloud phenomena in the sky where the clouds look like they have UFOs behind them. You know, the clouds with the shiny rings around them, and stuff. I was outside looking at them in my dream; there were dozens of them. People were in flocks, looking up, and pointing up, going "UFOs!". It all seemed so vivid and I remember dreaming about it now, but I swear, I just couldn't remember for over 24 hours.

[roman67]

Try to write your dreams in your dream journal so that you can review it whenever you want to.

[Szaxx]

Its normal, you'll see or do something and this triggers the memory.
Some mornings no recall at all and the afternoon it begins.

[Astralzombie]

This is very common. It really gets interesting when you remember the dialogue and the small details instead of just the general gist. When you have these dream recalls days and even weeks later, they often take on much more relevance than they would have if you had initially remembered them with as much detail.

[Fairywindblues]

Right. I've had dream recall before where I'd get little snippets and useless bits of information flood back to me at a later time, but it's rarely ever like watching a movie start playing on a screen in my head. It was so cool.

[Astralzombie]

Even though I know better, I always instantly judge a dream as being worthy of remembering it or just let it go. I think I'm just too lazy to get up and write them all down. I do actually remember most of the good ones but the problem is that I only think I do.

[Bedeekin]

I am still apparently getting REM from the minute I close my eyes to the minute I wake up. Full dream recall. This happened at christmas and hasn't relented.

Couple this with the new inducement method of not actually needing to be in REM or necessarily asleep and you get the picture.

One funny and curious fact of the dreaming thing is that they are fully immersive and totally non-lucid. I have intended every night I go to bed that I will get lucid. This either culminates in full SP (which I am now actually finding slightly annoying... yeah.. me!!!) or an all night epic fully subconscious dream.

[ChopstickFox]

I still think that's so cool... lucid or not! xD

Sometimes I'll wake up remembering that I had a long detailed dream, but basically forget everything.

Then it will hit me hours or days later, suddenly being able to write a few pages worth. Funny how that can work!

Its_all_bad, I am guilty of the same thing. If it's especially interesting I'll write it down, but writing down everything would take forever. @_@

[Eildosa]

I still think that's so cool... lucid or not! xD

Sometimes I'll wake up remembering that I had a long detailed dream, but basically forget everything.

Then it will hit me hours or days later, suddenly being able to write a few pages worth. Funny how that can work!

Its_all_bad, I am guilty of the same thing. If it's especially interesting I'll write it down, but writing down everything would take forever. @_@

When I wakes up from a long detailed dream cool enought to be in my dream journal I instantaniously jump out of bed
and write keywords about it.

Then I write it in my dream journal.

If I don't do that I'll forget it while writing the beginning

[ChopstickFox]

I used to jot down basic footnotes when I was working, then use it to trigger the rest later. VERY good point!

[Fairywindblues]

Sometimes, key words will trigger things and the memory of the dream will just come flooding back.

Let's say I had a dream about puppies, but forgot about it. If someone mentions puppies that day, I'll sit there for a second, having a moment where dream recall will happen.

[majour ka]

Right. I've had dream recall before where I'd get little snippets and useless bits of information flood back to me at a later time, but it's rarely ever like watching a movie start playing on a screen in my head. It was so cool.

Ahhh now that explains allot !
I went through that for a long time and wondered also what was going on. My dreams would literally be played back to me vividly in my mind.
I presume you meditate and have some intuitive and psychic abilities ? and you have an interest in colour and are a very visual person ? As our conscious mind learns the path way from our subconscious to our conscious, aspects of our dream scape and bits of clairvoyants will start to appear spontaneously. Enjoy ;o) Regards M x

[enlightnd]

Ahhh now that explains allot !
I went through that for a long time and wondered also what was going on. My dreams would literally be played back to me vividly in my mind.
I presume you meditate and have some intuitive and psychic abilities ? and you have an interest in colour and are a very visual person ? As our conscious mind learns the path way from our subconscious to our conscious, aspects of our dream scape and bits of clairvoyants will start to appear spontaneously. Enjoy ;o) Regards M x

Im also only just having this exact same thing happen to me, sometimes ill suddenly remember certain parts of a previous dream from a week or weeks ago and sometimes ill be remembering abit of a dream from that night and then it will trigger a short clip from another dream from days ago to appear.. really strange but cool   I have been meditating a lot more lately also

[Fairywindblues]

You know what's even weirder? Sometimes, I'll spontaneously recall a dream I've had years ago. I can quite easily slip in and out of previous dreams, in my mind. They are quite hazy and get more hazy over time, but there are dreams I still remember from when I was five years old. Sometimes, I'll be going about my business, when I'd remember a dream I had long ago and will start replaying in my mind.

Perhaps, much like how we like to consciously watch movies and tv shows that are make believe, our subconscious mind likes to entertain itself with the best movie of all: your dream. The movie YOU direct and make. 

[majour ka]

You know what's even weirder? Sometimes, I'll spontaneously recall a dream I've had years ago. I can quite easily slip in and out of previous dreams, in my mind. They are quite hazy and get more hazy over time, but there are dreams I still remember from when I was five years old. Sometimes, I'll be going about my business, when I'd remember a dream I had long ago and will start replaying in my mind.

Perhaps, much like how we like to consciously watch movies and tv shows that are make believe, our subconscious mind likes to entertain itself with the best movie of all: your dream. The movie YOU direct and make. 

Same happens to me 

[ChopstickFox]

That's awesome!! I will recognize settings from dreams when I was little, but I haven't been able to watch them again.

[Fairywindblues]

Oh, as time goes by, I forget some of my favorite childhood dreams. Or they will become fragmented. There are certain clips from dreams that seem to last 5-10 seconds, max. I will remember a snippet of the dream but will gradually forget the rest. Luckily, I do remember many different snippets, even from my early childhood dreams. Ages 5-10, that is. I remember a mere few seconds of these dreams but it is still a treat. I can replay a few seconds and connect to my childhood self and what my childhood self imagined, at the time. I still remember bits and pieces of dreams where my childhood self was being chased by undead mummies. 

It truly sucks remembering a bad dream with the kind of memory I seem to have. I once had this really vivid dream where I was all alone at home and this creature grabbed me by my neck and started choking me. The dream was very vivid and I remember feeling like I was stunned, and I started to vibrate and I felt this sort of surge go through me. The creature that grabbed me was humanoid, a light green, and it sort of looked like a cross between a grey alien, a swamp monster, and chupacabra. It made me stare into its eyes. It held my neck firm and made sure to stare right into me.

It totally stinks being able to recall THAT dream with total ease... 

I have a theory though that there are just lower astral entities that feed on our energies. So, when they stun us or scare us, they may be stealing some of our energy. That wasn't the first time I felt stunned in the astral. It's sort of like... what I imagine being tasered would feel like minus all the pain. Am I crazy or have any of you guys felt this before?

[ChopstickFox]

The only childhood dream I remember is a recurring nightmare of a dark alley, green acid, and a really ticked off black cat. Oh, and floating in my garage. Haha! Then the one time running around lucidly in my neighborhood. Ok, maybe now that I think about it, I do remember a few dreams and now that I look back on it, the later two were most likely OBEs in the RTZ. Maybe if I pondered more, more would come back to me?

If you believe something is taking your energy you will feel drained. If you believe you have energy that can be taken, it is possible to be taken. I used to believe something was taking my energy. It was some sort of dark looking thing that kind of looked like a dark sentient plant. After getting all worked up about it and it bothering me for a while I thought that it was silly to let it walk all over me and I imagined myself overcoming it and destroying it. I was fine after that. Was it me battling the thing off? Or me believing it could no longer hurt me? hm...

Regardless, belief is powerful.