How to Recall Your Dreams
Dream recall is very important if you hope to study your dreams and
come to a conclusion as to what your dream may mean in your waking life.
It also is conducive to learning how to experience more lucid dreams,
one that will make even the smallest of details easier to remember.
Becoming familiar with your dreams will allow you to begin to separate
yourself from the dream process as you experience and become the
audience instead of being so caught up in the active participation of
the dream. If you commit to doing the work, you soon find yourself able
to remember more and more of your dreams until it’s common for you to do
so.
 Getting enough sleep is the first priority; being well rested and
relaxed will allow you to slip into a state of dream period that will
begin to be longer and longer. It is also beneficial on those nights
when you may wake up and need to immediately record details of the dream
and then return back to sleep. It is interesting to note your first
dream of the evening is the shortness and tends to run about 10 minutes.
As you progress into sleep time, dreams can run as long as 45 minutes
and are a bit more difficult to wake up from until you perfect the
technique of doing so. It is accepted knowledge between experts that
dreams are not remembered if we do not immediately wake up from them. If
we, instead, pass into another sleep stage the dream will not be
recalled.
A dream journal is a very useful tool and can be kept by the bedside
so you can record whatever details you remember and allow yourself to
fall back to sleep. This journal may cue you into more details in the
morning when you wake up by reviewing what you wrote in the middle of
the night. If you have specific conversations in the dream, write these
down upon waking, as in the morning these sorts of details become most
elusive.
For some, just telling themselves that they are going to start
remembering their dreams really helps. Do this as you are falling asleep
and, as you awake, ask yourself what you were dreaming and stay still
until you have recalled all you can. Then, immediately write it down in
your dream journal. Do not worry if your recall is fragmented and seems
incomplete. Just follow the process of recording your dream.
 As you review your dream in awake state, examine your thoughts and
feelings in relation to the dream and how you felt as the dream played
out. Begin to see yourself actively in the dream, but standing to the
side, observing the action. This will help you gain control over the
direction the dream is going and what you may wish to learn from your
dream. Changing the outcome does become possible as you become confident
in your ability to do so in sleep!
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