Help to remember Dreams

[Fenris]

Hi ya!

Get a note pad or work book to record your dreams in, leave a pen in it and put it some where you wont mind getting it from first thing in the morning. Then in the morning if you remember the slightest thing from a dream write it down. This might be easier on a morning when you can sleep in. Your brain seems to learn really quickly when you write dreams down that you want to remember them, well I'm sure it's a lot more complicated then that, but that's what it seems like. Within two weeks you will find it heaps easier to recall dreams in the morning, but don't become complacent, keep recording them.

Another method is to look into the brainwave cycles during sleep, I don't remember the times of the cycles off the top of my head, but it shouldn't be too hard for you to find. But if you figure out when you should be in a longer session of REM during the early morning and set your alarm, get up, don't eat, talk or think about much, just go pee if you need to, wait till you are pretty well awake then go back to bed. You should kick off into a dream again, and this dream might be easier to remember, this is also used to help with lucid dreaming.

Hope that was of help

Kind Regards
David

[Dancer]

Thanks Ill give it a try and let u know how things go

[Fenris]

Hi again, I just found this and thought it might help //http://www.lucidity.com/NL11.DreamRecall.html//

[Dancer]

Thanks David [][8D] Gotta buy a note book and then Ill be on my way to remembering dreams and then learn to have lucid dreams

[shaman]

Hello Dancer,

I understand you will already look at the link I gave you.

Let me explain what I tried and worked for me and hopefully also for others and for you in particular.

- We dream every 90 minutes in the night, and usually we sleep 4 or 5 such cycles. We remember the dreams that we have after the 4th or 5th cycles. Usually the 5th is much better, since it is in the morning after almost 8h of sleep. The more and the better you sleep, you will have more chance to remember your dreams (usually).
- It is best not to wake up from an alarm clock, noises, or any other 'external' source. When you wake up stay in your bed and don't move, don't even open your eyes. When you realise you are waking up just continue to try and feel that sensation of sleep/dream. If you open your eyes and start thinking about what you have to do the same day (going to school, university, work, etc...) then you will forgot immediately your dreams. So take a few moments to wake up and remember your dreams. Sure a journal next to your bed will help too to keep track.
- before going to bed you can auto-suggest yourself by repeating that you want to remember you dreams and that they are important to you.
- I also drink herb theas in the afternoon and before going to sleep to help me relax and calm down. On the market you can find Chamomille thea, St John Wort Thea,.. they are usually sold as "calm", "relax", "good night sleep" theas... Also Valerian roots is good. However, Valerian is a real sedative and will induce sleep. It is also addictive, so you should not drink it on a regular basis.
- Rosemay and Mugwort (Artemsia Vulgaris) are two herbs that help increase the memory. One can make a "sleep pillow" with them (put some dried rosemary and mugwort in a little pillow case under your head or under your pillow). I personnaly drink rosemary thea as much as I have the opportunity (once a day, preferably in  the late afternoon). Some people have suggested to drink Mugwort thea, however there are some books that claim that Mugwort is poisonous (all the family of plants called Artemisia are poisonous except Taragon/Estragon and Russian Artemisia) and should not be eaten or drunk in thea. I am sure on this forum that some people would try it just because of that expecting to induce some side effect such as OBE or other thing that can happen when someone is poisoned. I would avoid that. I would avoid to drink or eat anything poisonous and that's what I would recommand you, not to try.
- Meditation can increase your power of concentration, awareness, consciousness and therefore you might be able to remember more of your dreams and even to have lucid dreams if you meditate often. But you need to be a veteran of meditation for that, that won't happen to a beginner like me.

I hope this will help.

Cheers,
Shaman - the dreamer ... [|)]

[Dancer]

Thanks Shaman
Got some good suggestions there.My partner is in to the meditation stuff and is teaching me stuff about it [] He actually got me on to this site.
Thanks Again Love Dancer

[jayselect]

My favorite method that was one of the exercises in a course i took is to repeat the mantra raom gaom before you even move when u wake up in the morning.

[Sam]

Raom gaom works wonders, but it stopped working after I started wondering whether it was placebo or not ie i think its like telling someone that eating a carrot in the morning will help them remember their dreams.  It will work as long as you believe in it.  For naturally cynical people like myself, such things don't work.

The best method for me is affirmations, telling myself to remember the dreams before I go to sleep, and when I wake up try to write down or memorise every aspect of the dream that I remember.  It takes the longest to work but took two months before I had a lucid dream and a projection.

[wisp]

Patience and writing the dreams down. The quality of the dream recalled, and the quality of writing gets better after a time.It seems relaxing and not trying too hard helps too.I tried the recorder way too, I broke the recorder into two pieces while trying to work it while still half asleep. []

I get up to write my dreams down. Sometimes you can lose things in that short amount of time.

[Dark_Phoenix]

i just sleep in to remember my dreams  although i remember every dream i had for a year...[!]gets pretty anoying after a while when you don't know what they mean....[!]


lol...anyways i can't tell you much about remembering dreams except for when you have a dream try to look at everything in the dream so that when you recall a item from that dream you remember it ....{for instance...a cup..or a table...and when you see that item or say that items name you recall part of the dream or maybe even all of it}

[Dancer]

I need some help to remember my dreams can anyone help?[]