Because you’re a light sleeper, you drop off to sleep quickly. In the morning you go straight into dreams. So try visualising something and hopefully you’ll drop off and that thing will manifest in your dreams.
i don’t really know what to visualize…actually for the past coupla days i’ve been telling myself i want to meet my spirit guide when i dream …so far…nothing maybe i’m not quailified yet haha
Ok, I finally gave in and started a dream journal. I dont write much, I really dont have time, just a few notes and details that will hopefully spark my memory next time I read it. And I sometimes add extra stuff later when I have time. And I’ve remembered more dreams in the past couple of weeks than I have in years! 
But I’ve run into a problem, one that only occurs on weekday mornings because I can’t sleep in. When I first wake up I turn off my alarm, and then lay there trying to recall as much of my dream as I can before writing down a few things and then falling back asleep until my snooze goes off. (I need a LOT of time to wake up). But as I’m trying to recall details, I lay completely still, and try not to move, or let my thoughts wander, just like everyone says you should. But I keep falling back asleep! And when I wake up I can’t recall the dream at all, I can only remember the fact that I DID remember it at one point. This is so frustering. Does anyone have any advice on how I can keep myself awake long enough to recall my dream without doing so much that I lose the dream altogether?
Hi people I’m a newbie! 
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The last few nights I’ve been keeping a dream journal thats actually readable, and have been remembering about 4 dreams a night. In the past telling myself I would wake up after every dream worked (too) well, so I went to sleep last night telling myself “I remember to recognise dreams.”
However I think I slept more deeply than usual, and I woke up earlier, and didn’t remember any dreams.
Later in the day I felt really tired so I had a nap when I got home, and I was out like a light. I again didnt remember any dreams. My dad called me and the first time I knew he was but didnt react to it (maybe I was half way to dreaming?) and the second time I woke up instantly like I’d been shocked or something! 
It might be due to stress as I have exams soon… but its a bit of a big change to happen in one night?
What do you think I should try tonight? I don’t want to miss out on dream recall again.
Here is an idea to motivate and enhance dream recall (I used it for me) :
I noted every dream I could remember and assembled the pieces to an endless (open) novel. 
The dreams came not in chronological order, but usually they turned around some themes, so I searched for the chapters / paragraphs that could form some ongoing story lines and assembled them, just changing some words or names.
After a month or so a plot began to emerge, and every morning and night I tried my best to recall because I really wanted to know how the story would continue …
hope it helps
Just recently, I had perfect recall for 6 of 6 days in a week, then on the 7th remembered nothing. That was very disappointing. Now three day’s later, I remember nothing again. It’s getting frustrating now.
Another curious change is that I was successful at waking myself after each dream for three nights in a row. It worked flawlessly from the very first time I tried. Then after those three nights ran out two days ago, I don’t wake up once 'til morning. What could be the cause of this?
I’ve been drinking mint tea every night before bed for a week, so I’m going to lay off of it tonight and go to sleep a little later so I’m more tired and see if it changes anything.
Has anyone else experience better dream recall while under the influence of alcohol?
About 2 weeks ago I was “under the influence” and had really good dream recall, I was really surprised actually as it was better than usual. Usually I can only remember one dream, but that night I remembered 2.
And one more thing, are there DJ’s for sale or can you use just any book lying around?
That seems like a very good idea. I think I’m going to try it. Actually, my dreams have had the same themes the last weeks. I’m dreaming about a winter ladscape, although it’s summer IRL. I realize it would be easy to tie them together to a story.
Not me… I’ve always had a terrible dream recall after I’d drunk alcohol. Seems like you were lucky that you were able to remember more dreams 
You can just use any book, but it doesn’t have to be big, so you can place it somewhere near your bed. I’m not sure if you can buy dream journals… but there’s always the special LD4ALL dream journal ofcourse: cafeshops.com/ld4all.8638521
Hello everybody! 
I’m having a really diffficult time trying to recall dreams…the only dream I really remember really really really well is my reoccurring nightmare… 
(Is there a reason as to why people get reoccuring dreams/nightmares…?) I can only vaguely remember every other dream that comes along…any advice as to how I can work on recalling my other dreams EXCEPT the reoccuring nightmare? (And can anybody give advice as to how I can change that reoccuring nightmare into something else…?) Thank you
Thanks for that reply mystic, I found an old notebook lying around and am using that as my dream journal now.
The best method of dream recall I’ve found so far is the drink-half-a-glass-of-water method. The first time I tried it, everything from my dream the ngiht before flooded back to me, since then I haven’t needed to use the technique as I remember my dreams as soon as I wake up. I do use it anyway though to see if I can get any more little details from it but that never happens. I’ve also been giving my dreams titles =D, they’re in my dream journal if anyone wants to look.
Sorry… what’s this method, El Fonzo?
If you’re referring to the drink-half-a-glass-of-water method, I think that’s the only one I mentioned, then it’s a method I think I found on this website. I’ll give a brief explanation of how I did it…
Before going to sleep, I drank half of a glass of water and thought to myself “When I wake up I will drink the other half of this water and remember my dreams” (It probably works better if you actually SAY it to yourself, come to think of it), then when I woke up I drank the other half of the water with the memory of doing that the previous night and the intention of the act of drinking the water bringing back some dream memories, and it worked amazingly well! As soon as I took a sip of water, the memories felt like they had a blanket lifted from them and I could remember the whole dream. It’s in my dream journal on this site, it’s the one titled “Panther Burgers”. Since that first time, it hasn’t worked amazingly well, the dream memories steadily come back or they’re already there before I drink the water so its not really needed. Also, since I did it for the first time, I’ve been getting MAJOR headaches. 
I would advise this method to try at least once, in fact if anybody does try it maybe they should post here saying if they had the same amazing recall that I had and if it’s giving them headaches too.
This is mad 
why would it give you headaches?
You need to switch to Coke 
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Heh. The headaches are probably completely unrelated to it, but it’s worth mentioning since that was around the time they started.
Funny story about Coke, I gave it up a few years ago. That’s if you mean Coca Cola coke and not cocaine Coke anyway. It’s bad for your teeth. I used to drink it ALL. THE. TIME. Damn that was hard to give up. Why am I mentioning that here?
Can you change the order of the dreams around or add bits? Mine are so boring sometimes, I’m not sure how I’d make a story of them.
I don’t have much advice I’m afraid but you could try to visualise yourself becoming lucid in the nightmare and changing things. If you do that before falling asleep each night it might eventually become something you remember in the dream.
If anyone saw my last post, it was a little less than a month ago. Lately I’ve been really busy, and I havent had much time to sleep, let alone think about dreaming. About 3 weeks ago, one night I forgot to tell myself to remember my dream in the morning, and I woke up feeling like I hadn’t dreamed at all, the feeling I used to have.(When I started working on my dream recall, I may not have remembered a dream, but I still KNEW that I had dreamed) Over the next couple of weeks I kept forgetting, I had other things on my mind when I went to bed. And I haven’t remembered, or even felt like I had dreamed, in about 20 days. Now I can get back to my DJ and such, but I feel like I’m starting all over again.
My advice for those attemtping to increase thier dream recall: Make sure you tell yourself to remember your dreams. I’ve now learned this is vital. Or, perhaps this technique doesn’t work for you. But once you find one that does, stick to it.
My main problem with dream recall, is that I am such a deep sleeper. No exaggeration, 99% of the time my alarm clock won’t wake me. I’ll either wake naturally, or my Mum will wake me up (only on weekdays for school). Mind you, I can recall some dreams, but normally only fragments.
Another problem is often I think that my mind is just making up these dreams as I go along. I start off with one scene, and then it sort of progresses step by step in my mind, as if I’m making it up.
Hello! im new to this forum, and ive read the hole thread aswell as the whole homepage. I have never heard of lucid dreaming before and i got totally interessted. I shall try remember a dream tonight, and i shall make a DJ before going to bed. I shall report here how it went
I second that! For me this is also the best technique. It only has to take 5 minutes, but be sure that you repeat your intention with enough strength. Truly believe what you’re saying and put real meaning to the words.
@1337-Dreamer: good luck 