Thread: Just a small recall tip

One very small tip for,what I believe, can help greatly with dream recall. I usually set my alarm to wake me up an hour and a half to two hours before I actually have to be up and about. This just to help with inducing a lucid dream WILD or WBTB. So I don't to much want to move around and open my eyes that much...I find it harder to go back to sleep if I move around to much. But I always remember a dream during this time....and of course I want to write it down, I just don't want to write it all down right then and lose my "tiredness" so to speak. So...when I am awake during this time I grab my phone (my DJ of choice, mind you I have dimmed the background light) and write down important key words to the dream...and a few not so important key parts. For ex: one of my dreams last night was of me in the military doing a long run with some buddies...who jumped a fence. This situation I write down "Military, run, buddies, fence. And every single time I actually wake up for the day I look at these words and the entire dream will recall by those words! It saves time and helps me remain in a "tired dream state" and it helps you recall the dream to actually write it down!!! The key is to write down key words for the important parts and key words for the parts that don't seem so important so that you can recall the entire dream not just fragments.....sooo all that to say try it and let me know how it works for you!!!

Will be trying tonight! I remember recently I woke up, found out we had a 2 hour delay on school, fell asleep on the couch and had full recall! This definitely shows promise!

Haha, I did this last night! Great method, I don't know why it works so well, but it does! Thanks for posting! You are helping out alot of people when you do this.

Thanks for the tests!! Lol I figured it was a pretty good method...I'm glad it's working for your guys!

Thanks for the tip! I am going to try it tonight. I had this problem 2 days ago when I tried to write a small dream with a lot of details, and it took me a little while, so I ended up being completely awaken. If this method works I will definitely do this from now on, and then just write the story detailed on my computer.

I tried this last night by the advice of someone here previously ( I can't recall who )
but it worked quite well. i wrote about four words for each dream on a notepad I
had bought specifically for that purpose.

For example the dream I had this morning: dream journal entry
my keywords were
puma
old lady
race
car

interesting method that works quite well

I'm going to try this. Usually I recall fragments and write them down later (i have a job getting me up at 0400 and a 15 month old daughter, other things take priority in the morning). But I never sleep a whole night through-I always wake up at least once, so I'll try to just write those keywords down and then go back to sleep.

Some quick tips that help me recall my dreams when I am stuck. Tough everything I have to do now in order to remember them is to want to remember them. But here are some quick tips:

1. Wake 1-2 times during your night sleep. For example if you go to bed at 12:00 set alarm at 4:30 and again at 6:00. Do not use this if you have problems falling asleep back.

2. Want to remember your dreams. If you don't want to remember them it's more likely you won't. Before you go to sleep, remind yourself that you want and will remember your dreams.

3. When you finally wake up try not to move to much and try to recall your dreams.

4. If it's still not enough, remember what you've done last day, places you've visited and people you've met. It's more likely that some of these things will trigger a memory of dream.

I think I will try this, except I want to try using the voice recording feature on my phone. My problem is usually waking up but not feeling like turning on a light : P So i'll just listen to what I recorded and hopefully remember from that, and write it down in my DJ.

You really, really need to put down some notes! When waking up in the middle of the night, I also do not want to 'loose my tiredness' as je4 stated, so I decided not to write down anything, since I had a great and complete recall of my dream, but I can not remember anything now. I was able to remember two other dreams after my short wake up, still it feels bad not to have taken notes on the first one.

Regards
Lorgarn

i do the same almost every night. but when i write in my DJ i like to focus on small details and quick thoughts i have. i think it helps me remember them easier.

i love the feeling of when im at school or something and i hear or see something that reminds me of something in my last dream and i instantly remember the entire dream.

I am going to try this tomorrow morning and really hope it may help me to attain a WILD, the last time I attempted one scared the crap outta me and I have not tried one since, but this seems a good way to slip into it quite easily.

Thanks! ~ peace

Originally Posted by Nilabimini

I am going to try this tomorrow morning and really hope it may help me to attain a WILD, the last time I attempted one scared the crap outta me and I have not tried one since, but this seems a good way to slip into it quite easily.

It seems that WILD ist the hardest technique to have a lucid dream, so i stick to WBTB at the moment. I got that close, that I quite exactly dreamed what I had made up in my mind beforehand, but it was blurred and I was far from being lucid. Out of couriosity: May I ask, what scared you so much?

Regards
Lorgarn

Originally Posted by Lorgarn

Out of couriosity: May I ask, what scared you so much?

This was about 2 years ago, everything that I read of what was to be expected was right on cue, hypnagogic imagery, feeling the discomfort in my whole body starting in my toes coming up through my body to my head, god I wanted to move so bad it hurt! Then this feeling came over me that I had not felt since I was little and sick with the flu and it is very difficult to explain, like I am this giant viewing everything as if it were miniature in my head, but i can see it all so up close almost as if I am that mini size and giant all at once (it's a very trippy feeling), anyway that combined with the feeling of my body expanding like it was going to pop was just too much for me. When I made attempts after that, they were all useless and I think because I was anticipating feeling those same things all over again.

After that I didn't have much time to practice because life changed drastically and became very hectic with ZERO free time whatsoever, but now I am able to return here and start over again.

I understand. I tried WILD a few times and got as close as having a trembling feeling and finding it a little bit harder to breath. Then I pop out of it due to my excitement. I have not been frightend yet, because I know for a fact, that this happens every night. Well, I surely will mark my words, when I freak out from the first real hallucinations.
Anyway, I have stopped WILD for the moment, because I think it affacts my dream recall, already slips away from me from time to time.

Regards
Lorgarn

Are you keeping a dream journal? I have one in my phone, and I've transferred everything to here, it's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning. Last night I took the poster's advice and set my alarm 2 hours earlier than usual and when I really did wake up I could remember snippets of at least 3 dreams, which is something I could never do! I only wake up remembering one dream, my last one, but this was different... in a way the last 2 kind of ran into each other, but they were def separate dreams... at least this poster's technique helped to stem a change in a positive direction for me

Originally Posted by Nilabimini

Are you keeping a dream journal?

Yes I do. I started one in December. At the beginning I had a great recall, one dream per night, sometimes two or three (which was an awesome success since I almost never ever remembered a dream before) and now I am back to about one dream every 3 nights.

Regards
Lorgarn