It’s not so much a technique as just a handy trick that I accidentally figured out this morning. I didn’t see anything on this in the first few pages of the forum so I thought I’d just post about it. Might have been mentioned before and if so, sorry for bringing it up again. Anyway:
I’m trying to improve my dream recall. Typically I’ll remember between 3-5 dreams a night, but I also occasionally wake up after a dream without any recall. Today I had set my alarm for 8:00, but I kept turning it off, setting it for 10 minutes later and went back to sleep each time. Until about 9:30-ish.
In that short period of time, I had a dream almost every 10 minutes, mostly very short ones (d’uh), but some quite vivid. I went back to sleep, with the alarm set 10 minutes later about 9 times and out of 9 times I remembered 5 short dreams.
So, if you’re still working on your dream recall, and you have an hour or two to sleep in after already having had a good night’s sleep (weekends are a good time for this), try to set your alarm 10-15 minutes later and just go back to sleep, see if you can remember a dream. Since REM stages are long at this point, it’s very likely that you’re going to have a few dreams. It’s good practice.
If you’re already a master at recalling dreams, it’s not going to help much, of course 