Everyone dreams. You're just having problems remembering them. You should write down your dreams right after you wake up. Describe every little detail. Even if you can just remember one small thing from a dream.
And before going to sleep, tell yourself that you are going to remember your dreams that night. If you do this every night, your subconscience will react and you will get better at remembering your dreams.
Although it can be annoying you can try setting your alarm to wake you maybe an hour and a half before it normally would. Spend about 15 minutes awake and then go back to sleep for the remaining time. It seems to be alot easier to remember your dreams in that situation.
Combine this with writing down the dreams and it may kickstart you into remembering them from normal sleep.
Oh and another technique i used to use to remember my dreams was when i would wake up id just lay there and think to myself, "what did i dream about", dont let the real world flood in just lay there and concentrate on trying to remember.
Hope this helps,
RooJ
Hyperblu,
This is some good advice for beginning to dream more. You remember your dreams more frequently than I did. Although I knew I dreamed, I would be lucky to remember a dream once a year.
Telling your subconscious you want more information is how to do it. Keeping a tablet and pen by your bedside is a good start toward this message getting received.
Just before I began having regular dream recall, the dream seemed like a cloud or skyward object just beyond my grasp.
I dream every night. The nights I don't remember, I do remember the essense of the dream. It seems the harder you try the less apt you are to remember them. Relax more, and get the most out of a good night's sleep. Sometimes a good sound sleep is more important than a dream recall.
Sometimes i would like to know how to not dream! I have so many dreams by night, that i get tired! i awakw with my mind very very tried by the morning! And if i dont have many dreams in a night, at least i have some few (2-3) that are very long, that seems to last for hours (althought i have no real idea for the time that it takes).
It is said that everybody has dreams, the problem is that they dont remember it. I remember because i am always awaking up in the middle of night.
At nght, before go sleep, i always drink a cup of milk with some cereals (like korn flakes). Maybe this is relevant, at least i heard something related to dreams and eating before sleep (the problem is: i think i readed this is a romance book!).
if it really is so that i dont remember my dreams then pen and paper wont help me on the morning..
as soon i wake i always think what i dreamed about... but there is nothing. no memory at all. :S
It helps to read the dreams you write before you sleep.
I think it is proven by science that every body dreams every night! So your problem is remembering. There are a couple of things you could try:
-When you wake up, how do you feel! sometimes I can't remember my dream but I still feel something lets say "fear" so I think about things that scare my and suddenly I remember.
-We usally dream about things that are conected to our waking lifes especially emotional things or rpoblems fears etc, so during the day remember that you try to figure out what you have dreamt last night You might you see something that triggers the memory from last nights dream.
- when you wake up don't move at all dont think anything, first try to remember the dream. any waking life activity might erase the dream memory
- before falling asleep say to youself "I want to remember my dream" say it with willpower, to this for a couple of weeks
Hope this helps, Tom
Well its proven fact that is if you are even entering the dream state. If you aren't than you don't.
The big way to detirmine if you are reaching the proper state of sleep for the night is judging how you feel in the morning when you wake up.
What are your emotions, how do you feel physically, do you have problems moving, did you wake up in the same spot/position you went to bed in. THings like that.
I know what you are going through I had the same problem for many years.
I started remebering my dreams about a month ago every night(who knows why) and started writing them down after a week or so and have been doing it ever since. I think if I do not try to hard but just relax it works better. This is probably true for the whole day. If I am relaxed and do some breathing work/energy work/meditation in bed or before going ot bed it goes better. I was all uptight the last couple of days and had to practically force memories or lost dreams altogether. If you are sort of relaxed and dreamy in the day with light daydreams and a lot of imagination/visuals in your head then it should carry over into your dream time. For example I even remebered some really old dream over the weekend that I had forgotten a long time ago but was vivid back then and stuck in conscious memory. this is because I sort of got into a dream mood(or mode).
sounds like all my dreams are stored in subconsious or something...
but the wierdest thing.. why cant we access sub-c when ever we want... why do we have to train ourselves to do that.
if you know who derren brown is or have seen his dvd (i recommend)
then... he looks at every page in the english word dictionary for like few seconds... so he memorized entire dictionary in like 20 minutes or something..
what he did was that he made a mental picture of the page and memorized every single page...
anyway... he gave the dictionary to a man and told him to look at a page and pick a word... then he asked the page number and how many rows is the word down from the first row... and the man answered...
however derren did not only say the word... istead he told entire sentence.
its wierd how brain seems to work... its all kind of crap it saves for later uses but when you (your mind) need this info then its problems to access it :S
hm.. hehe i kinda went off from the point but anyways...
how to train the brain or sub-c to access every info that passed by from your eyes?
(i think it was derren who sayd:
the point /info you look at /focus on is stroed in your c. but everything else... you see around but clearly cant see is stored in sub-c. and there is stored absolutely everything that passes by you eyes)
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Originally posted by Kazbadan
Sometimes i would like to know how to not dream! I have so many dreams by night, that i get tired! i awakw with my mind very very tried by the morning! And if i dont have many dreams in a night, at least i have some few (2-3) that are very long, that seems to last for hours (althought i have no real idea for the time that it takes).
It is said that everybody has dreams, the problem is that they dont remember it. I remember because i am always awaking up in the middle of night.
At nght, before go sleep, i always drink a cup of milk with some cereals (like korn flakes). Maybe this is relevant, at least i heard something related to dreams and eating before sleep (the problem is: i think i readed this is a romance book!).
having lots of sugar/chocolate is said to give you weird dreams/nightmares... I can't really say whether this is true or not, sometimes I seem to notice a connection, sometimes not.
Milk is supposed to help you sleep though as far as I've heard.
But yeah I have the same problems as you... sometimes I'd kill to just lay down at 10 and all of a sudden it's 9 a.m. (or whenever I want to get up) and I'm REFRESHED and felt like I spent an eternity resting or something.
Alcohol has that effect I guess... but DAMMIT IN THE USA IT'S COOL TO TELL EVERYONE WHAT THEY CAN AND CAN'T PUT IN THEIR BODIES..... if you can force me to die in your wars, you can let me drink.
My parents aren't the cool parents that buy their kids booze and let them smoke the herb either....
using alcohol to induce sleep isn't good for you anyway, but I just felt like expressing my distate with the government, like I tend to do sometimes.
Telling yourself "I won't dream, or if I do, it won't be lucid and it'll be a happy dream" sometimes seems to work... I still wake up on average once per hour, usually after every REM cycle ends...
Actually, chocolate/sweet things are loaded with carbos and energy, so you're more likely to not get much sleep at all, the nightmare thing isn't really true.
As for remembering your dreams, you should have more faith. You say that the fact that you don't remember them is proof enough to say that the pen and paper method doesn't work. But, if you wake up and ask yourself what you were just dreaming, things, no matter how little, will come back to you.
Have a little faith
-FT
I also have a very had time remembering what I dream if I indeed do dream(I have apnea so I wake up many times at night).
I only remember one dream from when I was 12 I think. Since then I have not remebered any of my dreams. I have a note pad by my bed and I tell myself to remember, yet I still have not had a dream I could remember in years...
any help would be great
Fenrir
yeah convincing... a good idea... but never works on me.
i cant even dream about when im convincing myself. i just somehow cant trick my brain like: It is possible and i can do that
or like
i WILL remember my dream(s) when i wake up
or what ever... i even tried TK and tried to trick my brain.. "I can do this... everybody can" but never worked... somehow my brain is stuck on this info that it holds in itself.
and talking about chocolate yeah it gives actually energy ... ive noticed that...
when im really tired at the work then i eat some... and afterwards i feel full of energy... so this one works.
but eating chocolate before sleeping ive no idea.. ive heard that it isnt really good idea to go to sleep after you eat fat.. and chocolate contains fat as far as i know.
but i will try that tonight. and i really hope it works :D
antways thanx for good advice and tips.
Fenrir,
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I also have a very had time remembering what I dream if I indeed do dream(I have apnea so I wake up many times at night).
What are you doing to help your sleep problem? The sleep apnea takes priority, you must be able to breathe!
Hyperblu, you've been getting some good advice here already, so I don't have much to add.
Tony, you absolutely took the words right out of my mouth! [:)]
Okay, if you seriously want the best chance to recall your dreams, have a "slumber party" where someone is willing to watch you sleep. When your eyes start twitching, the person talks to you or touches you to wake you up slowly. Other posts are right when they say don't try and come fully awake right away. Just drift up. As you do, you should catch a tendril of the last dream you were having. Concentrate on just that little bit -- don't try and recall the whole dream or you'll lose it all. I never said this method was easy -- at least on the observer! [:D]They've done dream research at universities like this. Of course, that observer is getting paid! [;)] A relative of mine once woke me up by tickling my nose with a feather. As I came slowly awake I dreamed of a huge mosquito hovering around my face![:)]
There are times when I don't recall my dreams, usually when I'm really tired over long periods, or just stressed out physically. You've got to be sure you're getting enough sleep first, and good nutrition of course.
I don't know about the chocolate, but that's one therapy I could be on board with! [:P]
Wisp
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What are you doing to help your sleep problem? The sleep apnea takes priority, you must be able to breathe
I tend to either drink some Tea and try to relax, I work Graveyard so it is hard to relax.
I am not totaly anti doctor, but I have had some unpleasant runins with them.
The apnea only tends to really flare up when I am really tired or cant relax bed going to sleep.
can anyone suggest anything with helping me relax.
Fenrir
Fenrir,
Wish I could help you. I have somewhat the same problem myself. For me, it's about lifestyle. I know I need to change something, but I'm not taking the steps to do it. I've done it before, and it can be done. I think I'm just being lazy about it. In the mean time, I go with the flow, and remember to not let things get to me.
Something I do for me is I have my bed right next to an open window. I love to sleep with an open breeze. I also try to exchange my last cup of coffee with an alternative drink before going to bed, lately it's been apricot nectar, sometimes a beer.
My particular tension isn't so much sleep related, though it effects my sleep sometimes. I'm working on tension which has built up in my arms.I'm holding on to something and not letting it go.
Hyperblu, try doing NEW. I used to be like you: I would never remember my dreams. However, I started NEW and my dream activity increased after about three days of doing RJ's techniques. I kept this up for about two weeks, and by then I would remember up to four dreams a night! Anyway, this worked for me; it's worth a try. Also, after I started remembering dreams, I did write them down daily. The advice already posted on this thread is invaluable. NEW will just give you a kickstart; then you can implement the other stuff. Tell us how it goes!
BMW:
well yea ive heard that NEW works and makes a lots of things better in you. but the thing is like i understood ... you trick your brain to feel something that you dont feel... and after a while when you really feel it youve tricked your brain and begin to understand more whats really going on. anyway to the point. i dont remember if i have replied to a post here...
the thing is that i cant trick my mind. there is no way i can do that.
everyone used to say... if one can then everybody can... well its true but i dont know how. ive been tryong now AP like 4 months every night sometimes on the mornings... no success.
same with TK... started since jan. i think but still no success.
trying to have LD... success there eighter.
and when i started with TK i my interest to NEW got bigger and bigger... but im too lame to success with something.
so the problem is the same allways... How ?
NEW makes it your every-day little bit more.... simple (if i got that right) and as i belive... and know.. every second that passes is the beginning to your future. so you make your own future, life, friends and so on. every single thing i do i always keep failing... ehh... anyways thanks for the tips peeps but its still the same as it was before :(
/take care
Hyperblu:
If you haven't already, I would highly recommend reading Astral Dyamics; that would help with NEW tremendously. Anyway, NEW really isn't about tricking your brain about anything; in fact Robert Bruce says that your energy body is being stimulated by NEW, which in turn stimulates nerves et cetera. I would keep it up.
Back to your lack of dreams, my father and I have both found that if we eat bananas before we go to bed, we will have vivid dreams (usually wierd ones). This probably has to do with the potassium content in the banana. Anyway, I would stick to NEW. E-mail Robert Bruce if you are having more trouble with it. Good luck!
yeah i bought astral dynamics.. but i cant remember much from there now... it was a while ago i readed it. but anyways im using his tech.s for NEW that he descridbes in the book...
or maybe i have too hard to emagine feeling on my own skin..
i can imagine what ever i want.. but not physical feelings that i really "feel"
anyone knows what to do ?
i never dream.. and if i dream its maybe once in a month... but even not that often :(
i wanna dream more.. i want to dream every night...
havent been dreaming last 2 years...
this year ive been dreaming maybe 6-8 times :(
heeeelp