Thread: DREAM RECAL:works EVERY time.

I don't know if its like this for everyone but when i wake up i just can't seem to remember my dreams. i get my sub-consious working on remembering it, and when someone says a key word or just a word that happend in my dream, (EX: I dreaming about swimming and someone talks about water or a swim team) i remember my dream instantly! So i made a file on my computar of a list of a page of singal words that were the most random i could think about. i read them when i wake up and when one of the words match up to what happend in my dream, then i remember them! I remember 4-8 dreams every day!

Yup, a good idea. I run over an imaginary checklist in my head when I wake up for the same effect.

If I can just remember the last place I was before I wake up, I can pretty much remember the full dream. For example if the last place I can remember being was on a beach, I would just go backwards from there like "How did I get there?" and so on and so on

Originally Posted by hootman

So i made a file on my computar of a list of a page of singal words that were the most random i could think about. i read them when i wake up and when one of the words match up to what happend in my dream, then i remember them! I remember 4-8 dreams every day!

That's an approach I'd never heard of before.. thanks for sharing!

Triggered recall, it's a fun thing. Another way to bring back dreams is to lay perfectly still and close your eyes immediately after waking up. It'll kick your dream memory back on and you'll get it back in even greater detail than your method.

It seems like it would be really useful to go through my dream journal and just pick out a bunch of key words to make a list like yours. That would be extremely targeted, plus it would help me keep dreamsigns in mind.

I like this. Thank you!

That is a fantastic idea. I am so doing that now, especially since I can look in my DJ and find common themes and keywords.

Thats interesting. I probably should do that sometime soon.

Wow! I am going to make one of those lists right now.

That really is a great idea, nice thinking!

maybe I could take a copy of that list from you!
well its a pretty good idea

Sounds like a great idea! Problem is, do you remember the whole entire dream? It seems like with this method you only remember a few fragments of it that were triggered by the word.

i should try this. I only remember about a dream a week right now...

similar situation, except I made a thread and told it more detailed. Isn't it trippy?

Wana post the list you use, ill give it a go. Couldnt hurt

this is definately a good idea. I will try it and let you know the results. Current recall averages at 3 dreams per night. The best i've ever had is 9.

Something I do when Im recalling dreams and I blank I just say to myself "I am remembering now" and it always works.

I believe the list has to be personal, customized to your personal keywords. I for one intend on trying this technique, its like a brain database, you search a keyword and receive the dream. I like it, good work.

I think I'm going to try this now that my recall is up. Thanks for the idea!

Originally Posted by hootman

I don't know if its like this for everyone but when i wake up i just can't seem to remember my dreams. i get my sub-consious working on remembering it, and when someone says a key word or just a word that happend in my dream, (EX: I dreaming about swimming and someone talks about water or a swim team) i remember my dream instantly! So i made a file on my computar of a list of a page of singal words that were the most random i could think about. i read them when i wake up and when one of the words match up to what happend in my dream, then i remember them! I remember 4-8 dreams every day!

can you upload the file?

Oh good idea, tough it wouldn't work for me... I see really weird things in dreams that I would need a really, really, really big list.