Guys, I’ve been blessed for a long time with some great recall.
In the last few years, though, my recall quality has been varying a lot. I blamed it on stress and worries, as well as some radical changes to my sleep schedule.
However, I’ve been doing an experiment lately that may prove me wrong, or at least partially wrong:
You see, I love reading. In fact, I’ve always read a lot, all my life. And along with the changes in my schedule, my reading times got a lot of variation as well.
In the past, I mostly read before going to bed, but I lost the habit. Now I usually checked out things in the internet or watched movies, series and whatnot before setting off to dreamland.
On the last 3 days, though, I read before going to bed, and got a lot of recall (at the time of this writing, I still got to post it all on my DJ, but I’ll get right to it after I’m done with this).
On the first day, it was mostly as an accident. I wanted to finish a comic book before sleeping. So I did, and wow, my recall was great. I thought up the theory the next day, and tried it again that night. It worked! On the third night I ended up going to bed late, but still managed to catch up on some reading and again got good recall (still, not as good as the other two nights, but I did get less sleep, so there’s that).
So here’s my theory: reading before bed = better recall. What do you guys think?
Oh, by the way, none of my reading was related to dreams. I mostly read issues of the Ranma 1/2 manga.
