Thread: 3 Days in a row... What am I doing wrong??

Optim has some great suggestions... it's pretty much what I do too...

One of the things that has really helped me was making my notes on my phone. It also reduced the occurances of pen marks on my sheets I found what really boosted my recall was to open my "Notes" program in my phone and just write little one-liners on each scene i remember.

If I'm having difficulties in recalling my dream, I lay in the position I woke up in (with my phone in hand), close my eyes and start asking myself questions. Or, if I do have a vague memory of the dream, I just think about it. Sometimes going back to the same position and closing my eyes brings it back. It helps to keep my phone in my hand so once I get the rush of the scene back, I can note it straight away.

Also, if I'm not sure about the appearance of one of those questions, I'll still write it as a possibility that it showed up, and just question mark it. There are certain things that are pretty much always on my mind; so sometimes, they appear in dreams residually, as an affect of me always thinking about them.

Thanks everyone.

I will start to follow any advice you give me. Dream recall is no joke.

What's funny is, I fixed the link Marcher22 posted, and I followed it.

Last night, my dryspell ended for I remembered 1 dream. That 1 dream happened to be my first (true) lucid dream!!!!!!!!

It happened JUST like a previous endeavor. Last time, i was talking to my mother, and "This is a dream" happened to roll off my tongue. After than, everything went unstable, and I could "feel" my eyes. Everything was then black, and I assumed it was the inside of my eyelids. (I thought I woke up.)

This time was a different story. I don't remember what caused me to become lucid, but I remember becoming unstable, and then seeing black. This time though, I "opened" my eyes and looked at my hand. (reality check.)

My pinky was sort of fading in and out depending on how i moved it. I KNEW i was dreaming. I flew, etc. Of course after stabilizing and whatnot. I tried to get it as realistic as possible by looking really close at objects. it was surreal.

This is where another question arises:

Why did something so vivid become so ordinary after I woke up???

I woke up, opened up my MacBook Pro, and started typing out my dream. It was then that I noticed that this awesome moment was slowly becoming more and more like ordinary dreams. Foggy, foggy, foggy. In fact, I couldn't remember some of the things I did.

Also, this dream is starting to appear less realistic in memory, though I remember thinking to myself how realistic everything was.

plus, right when I woke up, I was so flabbergasted by what I just experienced. Now it doesn't seem like such a big deal.

What is up? Is this all just a case of bad recall? I want to remember these events as if they happened in waking life.

Thanks for all the help!

LD