Something I've noticed lately.

I've been remembering dreams usually on a daily basis, one or two a night, and have been practicing my recall. Lately, however, I've noticed that I haven't had any nightmares in the five or six months that I've been practicing.

Oddly enough, even though I have dreams that should induce a nightmaric state, I've been able to keep under control and not get upset.


I can remember one dream I had in which me and a group of people were all staying overnight in the loft of an old, abandoned house. While there, I realized a story of how the place had become haunted by the ghost of a little girl. The dream took this idea and a little girl appeared about ten feet away from me. Everyone in the loft immediately started to run for the door, but the girl floated up and blocked them. Then, the part that could have turned into terror began, and she started killing the people inside the room. Quickly, I became the only one left and she approached me. I could see her face clearly now and it looked as though her eyes had been torn out and were dangling from the sockets. There was dried blood on her cheeks. However, I had no fear.

At that point, she walked past me and out of the room. I followed and watched her enter another room in the loft and close the door. The dream continued normally and it was pleasant thereafter.


Just last night I had one of those terrible 'forgetting something important dreams'. However, instead of getting all anxious about it I simply unconsciously went with the flow of the dream and in fact said to myself within the dream that "I should just deal the the consequences of forgetting it" - which suprisingly enough lead to the aquisition of that forgotten object through other means - as well as a compliment by a dream character about how talented I am ... but it would probably take me too long to explain how that came about.


So, am I becoming more aware in my dreams? If so, is this a result of dream recall? And, if it is, then would this be a good way to reduce nightmares?