Thread: help me find my rem

You should work on your dream recall. Are you keeping a DJ?
Don't worry about when REM is.

thats the problem shift, you see i have an unnatural LOVE of sleeping, after i wake up, i most liekly roll over and go back to sleep, so i usally forget my dreams, i can only remember bits of it.

Originally Posted by DreamingDragon

thats the problem shift, you see i have an unnatural LOVE of sleeping, after i wake up, i most liekly roll over and go back to sleep, so i usally forget my dreams, i can only remember bits of it.

Well, you've simply got to work on that. I have the exact same problem and have no written down so many lucids unfortunately Just working on discipline and recall should help. And at the end of the day you'll be just as well rested, with the memories of those cool dreams fresh in your head

Originally Posted by Shift

Well, you've simply got to work on that. I have the exact same problem and have no written down so many lucids unfortunately Just working on discipline and recall should help. And at the end of the day you'll be just as well rested, with the memories of those cool dreams fresh in your head

As always, I try to answer a question and I see Shift has beat me to it.

Shift is exactly right. Discipline yourself to write down all of your dreams, and soon enough, NOT writing them down will feel weird.

Once you can remember 3-4 (2-3 is even alright) dreams every night, then I think you should worry about finding your REM. After all, A WILD can't easily be achieved until then.

i agree. I had a dream, woke up, kept still and fell asleep again, and when i woke up, i couldn't remember anything to write down.
+ What happened to you isn't unique. I regularly stay in bed until 2 pm on the weekends, and my godfather once went to bed on a Saturday, and woke up on a Monday!

You can't trust yourself in the middle of the night. Of course you are going to want to just go back to sleep. We are all lazy and tired when we first wake up.

You have to rely on your prospective memory. Your future memory, or ability to "remember to remember" to do something. Tell yourself before you go to bed that you will remember all your dreams and write them down. Be firm, mean it, and picture yourself doing it. This should help you get in the habit.

Once you are in the habit of remembering you dreams, it will come easier. It is so fun, you will become addicted and really be mad at yourself if you let a good one slip.

I have the same problem - when I wake up in the night I can't bear to write anything down, even with the journal right next to me on the bed, in case I wake up fully and can't get back to sleep. Having an alarm on the other side of the room takes care of that. And I agree with the others who say once you start, you won't stop. I have to write down all my dreams now, interesting or not, otherwise I feel like I'm wasting them!

yeah, this was tough for me too, I really didn't want to write down dreams at night but you've just got to force yourself to. It took a few nights of deciding not to write down a dream and then forgetting it later in the morning before I was able to force myself to write down a dream.

You've just got to remind yourself at night that no matter how sure you feel that you'll remember the dream in the morning, you're likely to forget it and regret not writing it down.

Maybe remind yourself of a previous morning when you've forgotten dreams which you wish you hadn't? For me, if I have a great dream, I remember back when I've forgotten great dreams in the past and it motivates me to write down the dream at night so I don't lose the memory forever!

Good luck!

I just wake up, recall my dreams, write down notes (just words, no sentences), walk through the dream two times and go back to sleep. Next day I work out my dreams online