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is there?
Im trying to raise my dream recall levels to the highest possible.
All help will be appreciated, also, just wanted to open a general discussion about this topic.
Cheers
Ariel
It is very unlikely to be able to recall all your dreams … to be sure of doing so, you would need to wake after every REM period and write them down. Even then … how would you know if you forgot a fragment or short dream? Since it is forgotten you wouldn’t know.
For good recall, you should aim for 4 normal length dreams a night or 2 long dreams.
There is a sticky topic on recalling dreams at the top of the stuff forum.
Remember all your dreams? I highly, highly doubt it. As moogle said, that would mean that you would have to wake up after every REM period - and probably write the dream down. Perhaps if you set an alarm clock every 15 minutes…
Actually, I think even 15 minutes might be too long, remember that your first REM periods of the night are typically only 5-10 minutes, if you go way into normal sleep before your alarm wakes you up there is a good chance you will have forgotten your dream.
thanks for all the replies so far!
sometimes I wake up without remembering anything and after 30 minutes to an hour I suddenly remember my dreams, this happens usually when I am not lucid in my dreams.
Is anyone aware of a very efficient method to remember your dreams when you wake up with nothing?
As far as I know, I only ever have one dream per time I sleep, and I remember all of those (to varying extents of accuracy). It’s possible that I have more than one and never remember them, but I think it’s more likely that I really only have one and remember that, because it’s very consistent.
Oh, I should point out that I don’t remember them in the long-term, though, unless I make a conscious effort to commit them to memory. Generally I forget most dreams after a day or a few hours if I can’t be bothered - but I always remember them when I wake up, so I can decide then whether they’re worth commiting to memory or not.
I remember many dreams per night sometimes and sometimes none…
It happened to me many times that when I woke up I could remember my first dream, how and when it ended and the exact beginning of the next one.
You probably have more than one dream per night as the REM cycles are continuing throughout the night, its possible that you are always have a continuing dream, one that it ends and the second one starts at a similar place to where it ended therefore leading one chain of events, or you simply only remember one dream per night, nonetheless, you are having more than one per night, be sure of it.
Just one dream is wrong, one REM-period is 90 minutes, after 4 1/5 hour the first begins, in long dreams there are gaps between one happening to another, they come when the N-REM cycle starts, also 90 minutes. The reason you feel it like one dream is just due to the N-REM periods are not registered. Thats what I think anyway.
After four and one-fifth hours? That just can’t be right. I have vivid dreams during 30 (or even 10!) minute naps, or naps of just a couple of hours, or sleeping all night long. Every time, I have (or remember, at least) exactly one dream. Guaranteed. I have no idea where your information came from, but I’m telling you it’s wrong.
Hmmm, this is very possible!
However, if it is the case that I always get dreams that continue in this fashion, why must they be classed as different dreams simply because there’s a break in the middle? That’s like saying that two acts of a Broadway musical belong to two different musicals simply because they’re separated by an interlude. Naturally this isn’t the case, and I don’t see why this situation would be any different. If everything in each of the two (or three, or more) parts is indistinguishable from the others and flows on smoothly, why must it be considered a separate dream? In that regard, I stand by my assertion that I only remember one dream a night.
I meant when you sleep for night the first REM begins after 4 1/2 hours.
When you nap your SC knows that youre just resting, thats why REM starts earlier than what I said. This happens due to that the SC skips the deepsleep when you nap.
the deepsleep is the REM. he skips the non deep sleep.
the rejuvenating part of the sleep is the REM, that is what the uberman schedule and other polyphasicsleep is based on, because when your body and mind gets used to napping, your entire sleep period is mostly in the REM state, therefore refreshing in 20 minutes.
Incorrect, no REM in deepsleep period, I have experimented with this. REM is so active that you feel a bit sleepy when you wake up. But if you set the clock 4 1/2 after going to bed, when you wake up you feel too awake to resleep. So, this proves Im right.
Timing is skewed slightly from person to person, but its generally the same. REM is the lightest sleep of all and the easiest to be awoken from. Stage 4 would be the deepest, and nearly impossible to be awoken from. Also (not sure of the scientific reasoning for this, but) you tend to lose memories of earlier dreams when you enter deeper stages of sleep.
Also notice the change after 4 hours, stage 4 is never really reached again. This is because the cycles change, and is a good time to wake up. If you wake up during/right after an REM cycle you will be more awake, thus when you fall asleep again, you well enter into REM as if it’s a nap.
Also, your body is only in SP during REM. Thus, if you dream outside of REM, you will move physically. This is really dangerous (since it’s hard to wake up) and much more uncommon. In short: You only dream during REM.
So in order to remember all of your dreams, you would either have to mostly only REM (and not get to the deeper sleep), wake up often in the night, be lucky enough your brain doesn’t erase your memories of dreams when entering deep sleep, or just don’t dream
I have pretty good dream recall. I can recall atleast one full dream a night, and alot of fragments. The whole dreams I recall I can easily feel up a whole page, and sometimes a page, and a half. This makes me feel good, and gives me confidents for the next night.