Thread: Bounded to one night of dream per week...?

Go to bed slightly earlier, and get an alarm clock, something like a CD alarm clock that will wake you up slowly (I have my CD alarm clock playing sounds of waves on a beach as a wake up call)

Set that 10 minutes before you'd know your brother is coming in to wake you.

you'll wake up slower, more relaxed and will have time to lay there and recall.

SleepyCookieDough...welcome to the real world! It doesn't get much easier! I've got two girls who get up often in the middle of the night. Crying baby and toddler make for a quick get-up.

I'm not sure how much sleep you're getting every night, but let's pretend that it's somewhere around 7 hours. That should give you plenty of dreams during the night that you can also focus on, not just that one most vivid dream that the siblings wake you up from.

You could try telling your mom that you would like the responsibility of waking up on your own. Theoretically you are over 15, so this is something you should be doing anyway. Get an alarm clock, or use your cell phone (if you've got one). Just make sure to prove to her that you can actually wake up on your own.

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?

Hopefully it won't be too hard to fall back to sleep. I wake up a few times each night to write down dreams, and rarely have trouble falling back to sleep.

Learning to wake up after your mid-night dreams should help you with your lucid dreaming anyways. Every time you write in your journal, treat it like a mini WBTB. Reaffirm your intention to lucid dream, then return to sleep. These would also be great opportunities to try a MILD or WILD.

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

okay, thanks guys. This is reassuring

Out of topic... When you wake up, you right away remember what happenned? i use to be like that but since I've started when i wake up it feels like I had no dreams so I have to try to remember... And then it comes

Originally Posted by Shift

You can even just try running through it a few times in your head

I like doing this, also. For me, it often turns into a DEILD, where I can slip back into the dream.

Remember, Laberge's original MILD method cashed in on this type of scenario. You record the dream you just had, then immediately go back to sleep re-imagining the dream but changing it so you imagine yourself becoming lucid. It is a great method that is hugely overlooked.

I have to replay it in my mind anyways so can I just do that and not right it down? Can I just play it in my head and try remembering every detail? Write the most important part... Make relations, that stuff? Would it be sufficient to remember it for the morning?

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

I like doing this, also. For me, it often turns into a DEILD, where I can slip back into the dream.

Remember, Laberge's original MILD method cashed in on this type of scenario. You record the dream you just had, then immediately go back to sleep re-imagining the dream but changing it so you imagine yourself becoming lucid. It is a great method that is hugely overlooked.

Bingo. Not only that, but the majority of people for some reason leave that out of the traditional MILD method. Or think that it's some sort of visualization addition to 'the traditional MILD'. NO, that IS the traditional MILD! haha

Yes I am a big fan of it

When I just go over it in my mind, I never remember it as clearly in the morning. If I write it down, I remember a ton more details. I think it has something to do with translating it from thoughts to words. You form new memories while translating it. Similar to taking notes during a long lecture, or while reading a textbook. The act of writing helps you remember better.

Try it both ways, and see what works for you. No harm either way, right?

Originally Posted by SleepyCookieDough

I have to replay it in my mind anyways so can I just do that and not right it down? Can I just play it in my head and try remembering every detail? Write the most important part... Make relations, that stuff? Would it be sufficient to remember it for the morning?

Yes, I usually remember right when I wake up. It's like when you're reading a book and someone walks into the room and is like "Hey!" You got a sort of start, you'd been so into the book and suddenly come back to yourself, but you can remember the paragraph you were just on.

And again, it depends whether or not that would be sufficient. It is usually sufficient for me, and of course you run the risk of not remembering it later. It depends on factors I don't even know, and I'd say some big ones are your memory in general, the strength of your associations, how mentally sound you are when you first wake up... No one can tell you this but you, so go try it out and see what happens.

Well, it seem to be sufficient for me since when I wake up, as I said, it feels like I had no dreams and I'll I can see is black. My first thought is "Oh, well, i've tried but it seems I had no dreams" and then I remember that it's impossible not to have a dream so I try really hard to remember and it comes back pieces by pieces. They come slow but they do, it's really important for me not to get disturbed when I'm doing this. When I see I can't remember anything else or that I'm getting too disturb to concentrate enough I just stop and then when I come back from school that day I write it in my journal remembering it as well as that morning...

As people have said, see what works for you, but I generally find that unless I write things out in a comprehensible way, I tend to look at my notes in the morning and say "WHAAT?? 'Cecil Rhodes in a puddle of milkshake'?? What the heck does that mean?? 'Pre-fabricated whipped cream German lacquer handbags???' How could I possibly have dreamt about that??"

Even when I write things down in their entirety, half the time I still can't remember having dreamt them by the morning, but at least I've written them down.

Originally Posted by paragon

As people have said, see what works for you, but I generally find that unless I write things out in a comprehensible way, I tend to look at my notes in the morning and say "WHAAT?? 'Cecil Rhodes in a puddle of milkshake'?? What the heck does that mean?? 'Pre-fabricated whipped cream German lacquer handbags???' How could I possibly have dreamt about that??"

Even when I write things down in their entirety, half the time I still can't remember having dreamt them by the morning, but at least I've written them down.

Complete opposite from me XD

Originally Posted by paragon

As people have said, see what works for you, but I generally find that unless I write things out in a comprehensible way, I tend to look at my notes in the morning and say "WHAAT?? 'Cecil Rhodes in a puddle of milkshake'?? What the heck does that mean?? 'Pre-fabricated whipped cream German lacquer handbags???' How could I possibly have dreamt about that??"

Even when I write things down in their entirety, half the time I still can't remember having dreamt them by the morning, but at least I've written them down.

I can relate to this, when I take down quick notes instead of writing down the whole dream, my associations to the notes are generaly kind of weak so I end up not remembering much at all. Also my handwriting is always crap in the middle of the night so the notes pretty much turn in to hieroglyphics.

Now it strikes me, I've gotta work on this