 Originally Posted by SleepyCookieDough
Yes I do get enough sleep
I did also tell her that I programmed my brain to wake me up after each of my dreams (which does work), I don't really need a alarm clock... Anyways, so you're telling me to forget about the last dream and to focus on the ones during the night? Since now, I would just wake up and go back to sleep not really planning to do anything... So, if I do that, I would just like some answers to these questions...
When I wake up during the night what do I do? I lie in my bed and do not move. Right away, I have to think about my dream and try to remember it and then go write it in my DJ? Is that right?
After writing in my journal, will it be easy to go back to bed? Or will I be completly awake?
Well, these things depend. Personally, when I wake up from a dream it's pretty much the same no matter what point in time I wake up- probably from years of cultivating good dream recall. It's like walking out of a movie theater and realizing that what was just going on was just a fictional story, not reality, but something I could get caught up in that distracted me from reality. Does it matter what time you leave the theater? For me, it doesn't. For you, it may at first. Try to just lay there. You should be waking up from these dreams naturally. Even if not, try to just lay there and let it come back to you. There are a zillion tips on DV for recalling dreams.
Regarding writing in the journal, it depends on what sort of sleeper you are. The biggest problem I have is actually sitting up in bed, not laying back down in it, but then again it depends. Sometimes if something wakes me up in the middle of the night, I'll be up for hours (usually it will be something intrusive, like obnoxiously loud neighbors, not just naturally waking up after a dream). I recommend experimenting with this on days you can afford to sleep in, just in case, and to see how it works out for you. You could try a tape recorder, keeping a laptop (if you've got one) near you to just flip open, type, close, sleep, or writing it out by hand. You can even just try running through it a few times in your head (what I usually do), and forming associations (ie I just had a dream about bagels, and I have to go to the bakery today, so now I will remember my dream about bagels, and if I forget I will remember when I see the bakery) before going back to sleep.
Honestly. This stuff is like an art. Just do whatever works for you personally. Experiment, try different things, and see what gives you the best results. There are no real step-by-step guidelines (and even if there were would you want to follow them always? The variation, the fact that it is so personalized, is one of the reasons I love LDing) and we aren't all exactly the same. No dream is exactly the same, no environment is exactly the same. Good luck, and let me know what you find works for you
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