Dream Recall much better YAY!! lol

[Sir Loin Tenderloin-Steak]

LOL sound like a total retard with the title, but anyways rofl I haven't really had a good memory of a decent dream before I started to explore the lucid way of things ; who would expect being a boy to have been so stressful that I could only recall a dozen of them? I mean doesn't it all start to deteriorate when you have to work, get chewed out by your boss and have to suck it up? I really wonder if it's like that for everyone, so before I go back on topic I want to ask you what your dream recall was like when you were teenage? I'm really curious Anyways, since having my first sort-of lucid (but very unstable and largely uncontrollable) dreams I've told myself to memorise my dreams and recall them. I did this one night while lying in bed in my pokemon winter pajamas (LOL just kidding) and I made a mental image of the words "I MUST REMEMBER MY DREAMS!" just before going to sleep. The amount of dreams I remember since in this short period of time (3 months at the most) is way more than memorable dreams that total in my life up to the point when I *hypnotized* myself lol. And whahay it worked!! , I've had so many dreams since then that I've crammed my head up with so many visual scenes; and it made my head bigger lol since I've been too lazy to update my dream journals; so it's still all in my head. I also haven't been trying to dream lucid; I haven't been telling myself I really want one, I haven't been preparing RCs like convincing myself that I don't have 6 fingers on one hand , or arranging sleep patterns. But I'm thinking it could be because I'm jamming up too many dreams and using up too much space in my head; do you think so? Anyways nice updating you all and being back for once at last and I'm just happy I've improved myself!!

[topten35]

LOL sound like a total retard with the title, but anyways rofl I haven't really had a good memory of a decent dream before I started to explore the lucid way of things ; who would expect being a boy to have been so stressful that I could only recall a dozen of them? I mean doesn't it all start to deteriorate when you have to work, get chewed out by your boss and have to suck it up? I really wonder if it's like that for everyone, so before I go back on topic I want to ask you what your dream recall was like when you were teenage? I'm really curious Anyways, since having my first sort-of lucid (but very unstable and largely uncontrollable) dreams I've told myself to memorise my dreams and recall them. I did this one night while lying in bed in my pokemon winter pajamas (LOL just kidding) and I made a mental image of the words "I MUST REMEMBER MY DREAMS!" just before going to sleep. The amount of dreams I remember since in this short period of time (3 months at the most) is way more than memorable dreams that total in my life up to the point when I *hypnotized* myself lol. And whahay it worked!! , I've had so many dreams since then that I've crammed my head up with so many visual scenes; and it made my head bigger lol since I've been too lazy to update my dream journals; so it's still all in my head. I also haven't been trying to dream lucid; I haven't been telling myself I really want one, I haven't been preparing RCs like convincing myself that I don't have 6 fingers on one hand , or arranging sleep patterns. But I'm thinking it could be because I'm jamming up too many dreams and using up too much space in my head; do you think so? Anyways nice updating you all and being back for once at last and I'm just happy I've improved myself!! Wow dream recall as a teenager, boy, i can't recall any of the dreams i had as a teenager. My recall was horrible if not impossible as a teen, in fact i was so busy as a teen, i don't even think i even had a dream. Just can't remember

[Shift]

As a teenager, I was having about 4-6 good dreams per night. That's about how my recall still is (I'm 20 now), but I think I'm more stressed out now so I don't get as much sleep or recall as much. On breaks, especially over the summer (even though I take summer classes, I'm still not as stressed) I'll still get those many many dreams.

[ben505]

hey as a teenage boy (which I still am) I had no recall at all until I started trying to lucid dream.. I never knew how long my dream really were and how random they could be

[Creation X]

I recall 3 every night at least, so obviously you are higher up in "rank" than I am. or maybe I just have 3 dreams every night :\ either way, congratulations!

[Sir Loin Tenderloin-Steak]

As a teenager, I was having about 4-6 good dreams per night. That's about how my recall still is (I'm 20 now), but I think I'm more stressed out now so I don't get as much sleep or recall as much. On breaks, especially over the summer (even though I take summer classes, I'm still not as stressed) I'll still get those many many dreams. I recall 3 every night at least, so obviously you are higher up in "rank" than I am. or maybe I just have 3 dreams every night :\ either way, congratulations! 3 per night is really good, and god shift you must have been natural lol. I can probs remember more than 3 per night, but I'm not always stable, my recall has been not so good lately since I still have 15 dream sequenes stuck in my head. Another problem is defining what a single dream is, what I call a sequence is actually the things that I've dreamt the whole night. And even alost all of them happened continously, there's so many changes of scenes that seem like a completely different dream. So yeah I don't really know how many dreams I can recall per night, but only that I remember what I've dreamt that night. I mean, what IS a single dream??

[Shift]

So yeah I don't really know how many dreams I can recall per night, but only that I remember what I've dreamt that night. I mean, what IS a single dream?? Hm, reminds me of http://www.dreamviews.com/community/...ad.php?t=70629 I maintain that any memory of dreaming that takes place between being awake is a single dream, and that in most cases it's harder to remember actually awakening than it is to remember a dream. That's how it is with me. False awakenings being a continuation of the dream that was happening before you thought you woke up. All one dream. But that's just IMO. I'm sure there's a technical definition but I don't know it.