Techniques to conciously remember dreams?

[Nagual]

As soon as you wake up, don't move, don't think, do nothing except replaying the dream you just had in your memory...  You can forget it in a few seconds, so focus on it and replay it at least twice even if you think you won't forget it.

If you already forgot it, focus on common things sequentialy, until one triggers a memory.  Like think about your house and see if you remember anything about it.  5s after, think about your school/workplace.  A car.  A friend.  A computer.  Bathroom.  Etc...  Then, from that memory, try to find what was before and after...  Etc...

If you are lucid in your dream, repeat something like "I will remember this dream".  Or just decide to wake up, and you should remember it easily...

Hope this helps.

[kampersdream]

Also using the mantra 'RAOM GAOM' works very well for me. Use it when you first wake up,
preferrably before you move. Stretch it out when you say it.
ex.- rraa--oomm  ggaa--oomm. I have no idea why it works, but for me it does.

[jc84corvette]

Dream journal. Have it located my your head some place. I did it and it did not work. But thats ME, we are all diffrent.

You could wake up 3 hours earlier and you will know you had a dream right away because they are the first things you think about if you rememberd them. If you had one, then record it in your journal. If you did not, then go back to bed (thats the point of this tech..). Wake up in 30-60 minuets and repeat the process.

You can use an alarm clock to wake you up ofcourse.

[themadness]

I've found dream journals to be the most effective for me. When I wake up after a dream I want recorded I immediately go to my dresser (usually fall towards) and pull out my dream journal and just begin writing automatically from an early point in the dream I remember. Typically, I will remember earlier things as I write; often, whole other dreams that precede that one.

Dream journals are great! I could recite to you an amazing dream I've had from memory, but often times I find that my interpretation doesn't exactly match what I wrote in my journal. Journals also offer a state of mind. When I re-read them I can feel the substance of the dream. Woah, sorry I rambled there. Also, repeating a desire to remember dreams before nighttime usually helps.

[Centa Five]

Maintaining a dream journal is essential for dream recall. I keep a hand-held portable cassette recorder next to my pillow and I record each dream into it the moment I wake up and then write it into the dream journal the next day. Try not to move when you first awaken and after recording the dream try to replay it in your mind a couple of times so the imprint is strong.  Also note any anomaly that you spot in the dream and question it so that next time you will notice these irregularities.

[jc84corvette]

For me its NOT essential.

[Hyperdimensional]

The best time to remember dreams is at morning (in my case), 7 or 8 am, you need full concentration after wake up, usually the alarm clock sounded when you are dreaming, and the process of remember is very easy..

Immediately after wake up you must think in what you dreamed only, then images appear in your mind and you start to remember gradually all of your dreams, usually 6 or 8 different dreams appear..

A single image could make you remember an entire dream.

Best regards

[Adkha]

First of all....the most problems u get with memorizing dreams, are when u where drunk, or you had gone to bed really late.

The Technique I use is simpel....before I go to sleep I get a glass of water....I drink it till half of the content....then say to yourself that you are going to drink the rest when u wake up.

Then when you wake up...you stay relaxed...get the glass of water next to your bed and drink the rest of the water.

What also helps is stay very calm when you wake up....and just think about you could have dreamt. And nothing else...don't go out of bed till you know what you have dreamt.

Well....I hope it helps...you will see if you memorized a dream a few times in the morning...you will be better in it the next morning.

ME

[Ramiel]

Hi I was wondering if anyone could provide me with a list of techniques that could help me to remember the dreams I'm having, I feel they are significant but I cant access them.

All help would be appreciated, thanks!

-Alex