Thread: we can i remember dreams one week then i cant for the next 3?

i dont know why i am so inconsistent with my recall. like i will have one week where i will remember 4 long and vivid dreams every night, then for like the next 3 weeks i will onlt be able to remember tiny parts of dreams if even that. does anyone else experiance this. and whenever i am able to remember my dreams good i usually have an ld 2 out of 3 days.

The big question is obviously if you are keeping a dream journal or not. If you are, keep it up, if you aren't, start! Aside from that, it's probably just a normal thing for you to do that, if it happens consistently. I recall vivid details almost 6 nights a week. To the point it's predictable, dream journal or not, I'm gonna get 6 days of extreme detail and one night of nothing per week. Unfortunately last night was that nothing night, I remembered enough to write three lines. This against the normally two page minimum with three pages being average. So maybe you need to practice recalling more, or maybe it's just how you are right now. Trying to force yourself into recalling, at least for me, tends to actually make it worse. Is it possible you get really excited when you have your vivid and lucid dreams, then try extra hard for three weeks to recall everything before "giving up" and just accepting it as it is, only for it to return?

Edit: oh I said above I recall really well even without a dream journal, which IS true... to a point. That point being when I wake up, yeah I can always remember, but if I don't write it down before stirring too much, I will lose it forever.

yea i keep a dream journal.

Can you see this 1 week/ 3 week phenomena as being a very definable pattern in your journal? Not like it just happened once or twice but many times in a regular type of pattern?

no its only been recent

Then it seems to me it's probably just an anomaly.