I use an alarm to wake myself up to record dreams. I will do this until my body gets into the rhythm again. When i wake up, my dreams seem blurry. I was wondering if it was my dream recall or if i’m waking up too late after my dream has ended( after 10 minutes you lose 90 percent of your dream.) Oh yeah and the statistics: after 5 min you’ve lost 50%, and after 10 min you’ve lost 90%. Can you improve those stats if you have good dream recall.
I think you will adjust and start remembering your dreams better.
If I get to bed at a regular time, I can remember my dreams for about 30 minutes, so those statistics don’t hold true for me.
If you get enough sleep you should be able to remember them quite clearly.
I’m just trying to get my recall back to what it was.
Hi yohanover! You’re not alone when it comes to dream recall problems. Here are some tips that I usually abide to:
• Try waking up 5 to 10 minutes before you usually do. This will cause you to interupt your regular sleep patterns and you will exit fresh out of a dream. Many times this does just the trick and you can remember a crapload more than before.
• Make sure you’re getting plenty of rest! If you’re only getting around 5 to 6 hours, that’s usually when we have our shorter REM cycles, and most of the time we easily forget those dreams within. A good number is around 7 to 8 hours of sleep.
• Every single time you get up from a dream, do not move anything at all. Keep your eyes closed and just go through as much of the dream that you just experienced as possible. After a runthrough, go ahead and move and write it down in your dream journal, which I’ll talk about next.
• Make sure you have a written dream journal! For some reason, we as humans have some trigger that goes off in our minds if we phsyically write something down (which is why teachers make you write notes, etc). Make sure your written journal is right next to your bed so that you don’t even have to get up to write in it. Make it as easy as possible to reach and write!
• If you’re really desperate, you can try using a form of Autosuggestion on your dream recall. Basically when going to sleep, command your subconscious (in your head, not out loud) that you will remember your dreams once you awaken from them (or some similar mantra). Believe it or not, the subconscious does exactly what you tell it to do, as long as you expect it to work.
• Finally, there is one last thing that hasn’t been scientifically tested in a laboratory that I know of: masturbation. In personal research, I’ve recorded that masturbation has the possibility to affect your dream recall. I’m not good with the jargon, but I’m told there’s a certain chemical (anybody feel free to say which, because I forgot) that’s released during, eh, pleasure 
, and it’s this occurance that seems to affect people (loss of concentration and energy mainly leads to poor dream recall). Regardless of whether or not it’s correct, I’d give it a shot and try it out for a couple of days to see results.
Hope that helped! Let me know if you need more tips!
Once you wake up from a dream, don’t move a muscle. it helps in dream recall because you dont fire off any of those nerve things, i forget what they’re called.
I tell my subconscious I want to remember my dream, and it… 
she listens to me xD