Thread: Dream recall experiment

note: I will post entries for this one week only. If anyone else wants do do the same experiment, I would love it if you posted your progress here!

DREAM RECALL EXPERIMENT

The ‘experiment’;
I aim to set my alarm to wake me up every hour. Upon waking I will recall and record any dream/dreams I had. My hypothesis is that this will improve my recall! But I'm mainly doing this for fun This experiment is only to improve my recall, not to try and get lucid. However, by improving my recall, it will help me to get lucid and have longer more vivid lucid's later on!

Background information;
I used to have extremely good recall, and would remember up to 15 dreams a night, of varying lengths, the majority with great clarity of detail, so that even without being prompted by re-reading my diary I could recall the dream as if I was in it again, 10 years later. I let my recall slip over the past year or so, and am now trying to restore it to it’s former glory.


DAY ONE

2013/NOV/04
- note – as my alarm is new, I set it wrong and didn’t wake up until 3:30am, so then I figured out what I had done wrong and set it correctly, for every hour. I was annoyed that I missed 4 awakenings. I had set my first awakening for 12:00am, midnight, to give me 2 hours to get to sleep (it can take me awhile sometimes)
Bedtime 10:00pm

3:30am – no recall – just a faint, distant memory of a dream I couldn’t ‘reach’

5:00am – okay/medium recall – short dream – lying on a futon . A large, black, hard looking spider (more like a black crab, really) came toward my bed. I had a takeaway cup with carrot juice in it, & I squirted the spider – to no effect- so I touched it’s face with the cup a few times – no effect – so I pushed it away from my bed with the cup. It walked all the way around my bed, with me nudging it with the cup to stop it walking onto my bed, and then it walked out the door, so I shut it.

6:00am – excellent recall – medium length dream (I won’t recall all the detail, there is lots...from the colour of everything (i.e. people’s backpacks) to insignificant objects such as ladders and iPods, and a lot more happens in the dream) – I am in Thailand with my postgrad supervisor, 2 PhD students, and some other students/scientists. We are in a hotel room packing to leave on an excursion/field trip/experiment. I pack my stuff.

Everyone is leaving, so I go outside. It’s night time. Everyone gets in the car and leaves without me. I go back inside. I’m standing inside the door when the kids come home (I don’t know who they are, but in the dream it makes sense). Then I look at the kids..... they have 3 legs!!!! (it looks awesome and freaky!).

I realize they have been experimented on to make them mutate. Then I realize that I’m supposed to be away on a trip, and if ‘they’ (the scientists?) knew I was here and had seen what they had done to the kids, they would kill me. I try to hide, but the kids can see me (which is okay, but it means ‘they’ will know I’m here), so I run off with one 3 legged girl who decides to come with me.

We run through people’s backyards, and this girl is amazing! She can run like a spider, climbing up any surface ridiculously quickly! After a while, she stops cold, & gets this surprised look on her face. She looks like she is dying. I wonder if the mutation causes death or if she is about to mutate again.

Then I ‘wake up’ in bed (FA), it gets weird (people are digging up my front yard path), and I ‘wake up’ (FA) again. I realise I am asleep still, and try harder to awaken so I can record this dream, and then my alarm goes off. (I really enjoyed this dream).

7:30am – no recall – I get up