Thread: If you can't remember your dreams, TRY THIS!

The last night I just tried a new way to remember my dreams, and when I woke up I almost remembered my vivid dreams instantly. I actually had a lucid dream to, but not for very long because I didn't take my time to stabilize it.
Anyway the day before that I had did something that I don't usually do. When I came home from school I wrote down my events that day, my waking life so to speak, almost like a diary, but not really. I wrote downthe most important things like some conversations, events, thoughts etc.

Here is what I wrote:

This day I woke up around 6.46 am then I went down and ate breakfast.
My dad asked worried "How are you today ?". I just answered that I was really tired. After that I went up to my room and were stressed of not having enough time to write down my dreams in my dreamjournal then I got dressed. I rushed downstairs, told my mom that I were in a hurry because I didn't want to miss the bus. I walked quickly to the busstation, but the bus came 4 minutes later so it was cool. On the bus I met Tom Isgren my old classmate from Lindeborg school. I asked him what grade he got on the movie we made together, and he answered MVG. Then we talked about how much tests we had. When the bus arrived in Davidshall the clock showed 7.50 so it was plenty of time left before we started my next class. On my way to the lockers I were worried that I had forget if we were free or not, so I looked for a computer and I found one but it was broken. Then I saw Johan Holm, my classmate, and I got reliefed. On my way up for the stairs I saw the rest of the class sitting on the steps. At the fourth floor I met Felix and then Teodor came and then David. Then Angelica ran up and was very tired cause of the stairs and she said
"My god what I am tired, I went to bed at 3.00 am" and I said "Well, that explains why" and she laughed and she told me that she would laugh the whole day because when she are tired she do.
Then I had many lessons, Math, Swedish, and Biology (NO). When the schoolday was over I argued with Andriano about lucid dreaming, he tried to convince me that I was just dreaming that I were lucid, then I asked him "You've had a lucid dream right?" yes he said, then I asked "It has to be a proper lucid dream because you are aware of it otherwise you wouldn't remember it that well, but maybe you remember your normal dream to?" and then he said "Yeah, that's true but... are you saying that every dream is lucid?" blabla. then I went home, but I really convinced him there.
The bus were late as usual and when I came to Mobilia I met Astrit, my classmate from Kulladal school and then I took the 7 bus one station and went home. etc

This took me 10 minutes to write down , but when I woke up I remembered 4 dreams, and I usually just remember one, but I didn't had to recall them like laying still in the bed or something they just showed up like normal memorys when I woke up. I also use a voice recorder just to quickly record it when I wake up and then fall asleep again. Well, I hope this helped someone, and sorry if my english sucks

Sweet Dreams!

That's a cool idea, like clearing out all the memories to make room for new ones. I'll have to try that!

Yeah do that and tell me your results from it, but I actually think you pracctise your longterm-memory when you do this.

how crazy, congrats!
I'm doing something like that. Every night, when going to sleep, I review all my day in my mind, because I had very bad memory with it comes to try to remember what I did. so yes, It's a good way to practice.
and I started to get more dreams, I can't remember them all, but I start to remember more and more,very slowly, and I feel myself in a lot of dreams.

good luck.

I will definitely continue with this recall technique.
I have allways wondered how a person can remember 5-7 dreams per night? And how do they know that it's one, two dreams and not just one dream.
This night I got my answer!

I went to bed 11.00 PM and woke up and recall my very long vivid dream and then looked at the clock, and got a shock. I had only slept 3 hours!
then I record my dream and fell asleep again. And then I woke up one hour later and recall a new long vivid dream and it stays that way until the clock is six and I get up and eat breakfast. And that's how I know that I remembered 5 dreams last night!

In the weeked I maybe can combine this with a DEILD

I really recommend this technique to people how struggle with their dream recall.

I would give it a shot but i would probably depress myself :p

Originally Posted by MasterMind

I will definitely continue with this recall technique.
I have allways wondered how a person can remember 5-7 dreams per night? And how do they know that it's one, two dreams and not just one dream.

It is hard to say whether a scenes are from one dream or separate ones. When I wake up I usually have a good idea which pieces fit together and which belong to different dreams.

I would say the nature of dreams, fading in and out of dream worlds, makes it harder to know this for sure.

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Yeah do that and tell me your results from it, but I actually think you pracctise your longterm-memory when you do this.

Mastermind, I hate writing anything down. So instead of writing down everything about my day I decided to try just reviewing it all in my mind. I've done this about 4 times today and went over everything I did in real life and Runescape in extreme detail. The longest dream i've recorded since i have started has been a little over a paragraph. After using your technique for one day here are my results. My first ever page long dream. I actually enjoyed writing it and knew a few of the characters in real life and found some signs that will probably hopefully be able to help me achieve lucidity! *note I also almost DILD which i've never done. I was only one role away. Mastermind I love your technique and am actually grateful i read it. - zerk

Originally Posted by Zerk

After using your technique for one day here are my results. My first ever page long dream. I actually enjoyed writing it and knew a few of the characters in real life and found some signs that will probably hopefully be able to help me achieve lucidity! *note I also almost DILD which i've never done. I was only one role away. Mastermind I love your technique and am actually grateful i read it. - zerk

Originally Posted by BassGear

AWESOME!!
I have used this method three days in a row and have logged two dreams a night over the last three days! I would have logged three dreams last night but after making an attempt to re-enter a non-lucid dream I ended up forgetting it all together instead of writing it down right after I had it. I have been writing the events of my day just before I go to sleep, so far it's been great thanks again MASTERMIND!! What's strange to me it that I have been logging my first dream within 2 hours of going to sleep, so very early in my sleep cycle.

Interesting, I still haven't had a chance to do this but I plan to give it a roll tonight, possibly 20minutes before bed and I plan to be as specific as possible(time, details, etc....) Who knows, maybe I can recall some dreams tonight

Originally Posted by Zerk

Mastermind, I hate writing anything down. So instead of writing down everything about my day I decided to try just reviewing it all in my mind. I've done this about 4 times today and went over everything I did in real life and Runescape in extreme detail. The longest dream i've recorded since i have started has been a little over a paragraph. After using your technique for one day here are my results. My first ever page long dream. I actually enjoyed writing it and knew a few of the characters in real life and found some signs that will probably hopefully be able to help me achieve lucidity! *note I also almost DILD which i've never done. I was only one role away. Mastermind I love your technique and am actually grateful i read it. - zerk

Nice This seems to work for everyone. I'm so glad that I could help you try to write it down and see if you remember more

Originally Posted by BigFan

Interesting, I still haven't had a chance to do this but I plan to give it a roll tonight, possibly 20minutes before bed and I plan to be as specific as possible(time, details, etc....) Who knows, maybe I can recall some dreams tonight

Not maybe You will, hopefully haha

The reason this works is that REM sleep works like a memory-sorter; it sweeps out useless, short-term trivia and keeps the useful, long-term memories that you need. If you do this self-evaluation of your memories in your waking hours, you'll spend less time doing it in your sleep. Of course, that means that your body will be less focused on shifting memories and more on evaluating thoughts. Since evaluating thoughts requires at least some logic, the conscious mind is more likely to wake.

Hi again, I have not recalled my dream for a week now because I have been pracctised WILD (http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=94649) and I got my first WILD thanks to atkins513

But I just realised, how important the dream recall was :S and I read through this thread and my own replies and I have not followed it -.-

I remember that this recall method made my dreams more vivid because I were almost aware of them, I often succed MILD and DILD. But the WILD made the dream so much more realistic and I forget about this. But it will probably be easier to WILD if I have better recall and this method also made me wake up in the middle of the night and that's good for wild too.

But it tooked to much time to write this down everyday, and actually you dont even have to save your waking day, unless you want of course.
All you have to do is to write down or just say out loud what has happened during the day and that should work.

Sweet Dreams!

I'm loving the response to this technique, nice job MasterMind.
This could be exactly what i'm looking for! I feel my dream recall is not doing so well at the moment so will definitely try this tonight and let you know my results. I smoke green also which doesn't help with memory all together but hopefully this method can balance that equation.
Thanks man, peace

Good luck to you As you may have seen, it have helped others

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Good luck to you As you may have seen, it have helped others

great !! helped me alot but i used the way another person suggested just going through my day in my head

i havent been lucid for weeks last night was atleast 3times !! and i was in full control even had time to fine tune my flying which recently has not been working

great tecnique thats for sharing !!

Nice lucidisfree! (indeed), right now I focus in WILD before sleep the whole night with Yoga Nidra, so I only do WILD now because I really want to master that technique.
Did you fly ? Good work

Originally Posted by BassGear

WOW!!!
I've have been going on a four in a row (nights) dry spell of not being able to remember any dreams..well until I read MASTERMINDS method a waking journal late last night before I went to sleep. I was able to wake up twice after dreams and remember and log two dreams!
I used MASTERMINDS method, and wrote just over a full page of highlights of the day, and I'm back on track! I will try again tonight and report back on my results. Thanks Mastermind!

Originally Posted by BassGear

AWESOME!!
I have used this method three days in a row and have logged two dreams a night over the last three days! I would have logged three dreams last night but after making an attempt to re-enter a non-lucid dream I ended up forgetting it all together instead of writing it down right after I had it. I have been writing the events of my day just before I go to sleep, so far it's been great thanks again MASTERMIND!! What's strange to me it that I have been logging my first dream within 2 hours of going to sleep, so very early in my sleep cycle.

Originally Posted by Zerk

Mastermind, I hate writing anything down. So instead of writing down everything about my day I decided to try just reviewing it all in my mind. I've done this about 4 times today and went over everything I did in real life and Runescape in extreme detail. The longest dream i've recorded since i have started has been a little over a paragraph. After using your technique for one day here are my results. My first ever page long dream. I actually enjoyed writing it and knew a few of the characters in real life and found some signs that will probably hopefully be able to help me achieve lucidity! *note I also almost DILD which i've never done. I was only one role away. Mastermind I love your technique and am actually grateful i read it. - zerk

Originally Posted by Cosmo

sorry to reply to an old thread but it was bumped up so..

i just wanna say thank you so much ! havnt been able to remember my dreams for days now, tried this last night and i remembered 5, more than ever! Thanks man, your method rocks!

Originally Posted by lucidisfree:)

great !! helped me alot but i used the way another person suggested just going through my day in my head

i havent been lucid for weeks last night was atleast 3times !! and i was in full control even had time to fine tune my flying which recently has not been working

great tecnique thats for sharing !!

Originally Posted by lschievenin

OMG. The results of the first night that i did that was fantastic.
I prefer to write it down, cuz its easier to me delete it and make room for new toughts!

Extraordinary.
had 2 very very very vivid dreams.
Thanks a lot dude

This is just incredible look at all the reults

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Nice lucidisfree! (indeed), right now I focus in WILD before sleep the whole night with Yoga Nidra, so I only do WILD now because I really want to master that technique.
Did you fly ? Good work

Yes i did fly but i think that was down to me having the time and control .. as everytime i felt me loosing the dream i would rub my hands together and spin around sorted it out everytime then i just got into the rythem and flew away

another thing i tried was to lift a car up but first i failed then i thought im lucid anything is possible i know i can do this ive done it before and it instantly worked

i think just telling myself i can do it works as my mind knows in the real world it would not happen

im going to try it again tonight

i had great recall again last night using this tecnique but did not become lucid ( i did forget a dream or 2 so may have in those )

i will post my results tomorow

thanks again

Originally Posted by MasterMind

Good luck to you As you may have seen, it have helped others

Mastermind this is awesome!! I shall tell you my results.

Went to bed last night and began writing my waking journal from the moment I got up to the point where I had to leave for work at 6pm (I finished writing here as it was quite late and wanted plenty of sleep to add to your technique) So I finished reviewing my day in my head.

Next morning I woke up recalling a pretty cool dream. Afterwards I drifted in and out of sleep twice recalling two more dreams which is rare for me. So yeah, just wanted to thank you a lot for sharing the technique

Originally Posted by surealization

Mastermind this is awesome!! I shall tell you my results.

Went to bed last night and began writing my waking journal from the moment I got up to the point where I had to leave for work at 6pm (I finished writing here as it was quite late and wanted plenty of sleep to add to your technique) So I finished reviewing my day in my head.

Next morning I woke up recalling a pretty cool dream. Afterwards I drifted in and out of sleep twice recalling two more dreams which is rare for me. So yeah, just wanted to thank you a lot for sharing the technique

Hihi nice job surealization THIS WORKS FOR EVERYONE ! .. I hope x)

Oh, I shall try that! DD

Ok I am going to do a lucid dream schedule were I use all the techniques MILD, WILD, DILD, WBTB and reality checking and my remember dreams method, In one night! And I remember that this method made me recall 6+ dreams and they were vivid and I almost realised that I was dreaming everytime and I didn't had to recall the dreams the dreams were like waking life memories when I woke up! and I also remember all my awakenings during the night I woke up after each rem-cycle. I reply my results

Wow MasterMind smart technique! :]
I'll try tomorrow I can hardly remember my day.>.>

I have to thank you for this thread and the focus you got me to put on the re stepping your day in the mind.

I've done this now and then but never really realized that it helps whit dream recall. Now that you mentioned it here and I got to thinking back at the times when I did this for longer spells and then times when I forgot about doing it and I can correlate much better recall to the times I've been doing this.

So I have to thank you for getting to make a good association between the two. I only before had a loose thought it helped whit long term memory on just what I have been doing in waking life not that it could improve memory overall and least on improving my dream recall.

I see it now was really obvious and silly I missed the thought you put fourth.

I'm going to try this tonight, it's sounds like a really interesting thing to do to help recall dreams,