Too much movement in the morning

[Explode]

I haven't remembered a dream in a long long time, so my first question is, is the reason because I need to get up and walk over to my alarm clock every morning? Second will my recall improve if I put my alarm clock at arms length? I used to be very much into dreaming, but a while ago I stopped writing in my dream journal, but I decided I wanted to get back into it when I was stumbling around DV and someone mentioned tape recording your dreams. I thought "yeah then you won't forget as many dreams every morning because then you won't move around as much to get to your journal and write it down" which is where my first question comes from. So my third question is: is tape recording your dreams more, equally or less effective for increasing dream recall than writing them down?

[AlexLou]

Haha, I have the same problem with alarm clocks. When I wake up I'm immediately thinking about turning off the alarm clock instead of my dream, which is time enough for a dream to slip away. I've started to just let my alarm clock go off for a while while I take a few minutes to just lie still and wake up. Alternatively you could train yourself to think about your dreams whenever you hear your alarm.

[LobbyDonut]

I agree. In my life, an alarm clock is 100% necessary. Without one I just sleep for frickin' 10 hours without waking up. The downside of course is that I just don't remember my dreams. In fact it's so bad right now that I don't remember ever having any. I am considering going to bed extra early some nights so I get tons of sleep and might wake up naturally before my alarm. Somehow though, I dont see that happening.