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I have experimented a lot with this type of thing.
Before you fall asleep at night, try to concentrate on the idea that you want to remember your dreams. You don't have to focus on this one idea from the moment your head hits the pillow until you finally zonk out, but just set up in the idea in your mind. Your subconcious will carry it forward through the night. I have heard that professional atheletes and martial artists do the same thing. They run plays or techniques through their minds before sleep, and this improves the mind's subconscious memory, which reinforces the waking memory.
Don't use an alarm clock that plays music or radio. It screws up your memory of whatever dream you had. Get an annoying one that wakes you up abruptly. The music overwrites your short term memory and makes you remember the songs ideas or personal memories related to the song instead of the dream.
Stagger your usual alarm clock times. Your body gets into a cycle, and if you always get up at 7 in the morning, or when your body feels like it, your sleep cycle adjusts to maximize our productive sleep. When this happens, you are not actively experiencing dream time at the moment of wake up, and are less likely to remember you dreams.
The downside of this is that your last sleep cycle of the night will not be as productive, since you are deliberately disrupting it, so this may not work for you. Coming out of a deep sleep like this leaves some people feeling like they got no sleep at all.
When the alarm will bring you out of the deep sleep, immediately write down everything you remember about whatever you can remember. Over time, your ability to remember your last dream of the night will increase. This works exactly the way that reading a book improves your ability to read.
If you wake in the middle of the night, try to write down whatever you remember. If you can avoid it, do not turn on the lights. Visual images can also overwrite your memory of the dream.
As you become more aware of your dreams, you may find that you are more aware within the dreams themselves. If you reach this point, before you fall asleep, start thinking to yourself that you want to more aware in your dreams. People call this "lucid dreaming".
I actually got to a point where I could routinely realize inside a dream that I was dreaming. Unfortunately, everytime I tried to take full control of the dream, I would wake up. This was very frustrating to me, and eventually I gave up doing this sort of stuff.
About the only thing I could really control inside the dreams that was unique was my ability to fly. Not like a bird or anything, but I found I could leap long distances at will, and sort of float in mid-arc, then descend slowly along the same curve. The logic I used to do this came from Douglas Adams "The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy": flying is falling without hitting the ground. Semi-logical ideas like this work well because dreams themselves are semi-logical.
I haven't practiced the lucid dreaming techniques for a couple of years, but I still find that occassionally in my dreams I utilize this same flying method.
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Originally posted by Eli
Me too. In almost all of my dreams I know that they're dreams almost immediately. Then they end.  |
That's too bad.  How do they end, though? Do you just "snap out of it" and wake up?
When this used to happen to me, I would be dreaming, realize it, and then I would say to myself, "I am going to close my eyes and when I open them, I will be in control of this dream." Then when I opened my eyes, I would be laying in bed, fully awake. Which is odd, because I sleep soundly and often have trouble waking up in the morning.
(I solved this problem when I was tracking my dreams by putting a super-annoying buzzer alarm clock on a desk across the room, forcing myself to get up in the twilight and cross the room to turn it off. I kept a notebook right next to it, so that even in my bewildered waking state I could right away start writing down what I remembered. The memory of your dreams can be improved just like any other memory.
The key for me was finding an alarm clock I really, really hated, which woke me up immediately. Just the sound of it forced me into action, even when I wasn't fully awake. They make these clocks now that try to annoy you just enough to wake you up. Find an older model at a year sale or something.)
For some reason, the only idea that ever occured to me was this "close eyes, open eyes" technique, which never worked right. My problem I guess was that I never really defined what "in control" meant.
Looking back, I was probably making a mistake trying to control the full dream and not making little changes which built on one another.
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Last night I dreamed that one of my best friends was throwing a party and charging $2000 each to get in - and I remember writing him a check, then vaguely regretting it when I woke up. Weird, huh?
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Comrade Tassadar
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I've heard that Lucid Dreaming is quite dangerous, and can leave you having many nightmares for many many years.
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David Floyd
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The bottom of a large bottle of beer
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I love it when I lucid dream.
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I've heard that Lucid Dreaming is quite dangerous, and can leave you having many nightmares for many many years. |
Sorta funny you mentioned that, because lucid dreaming is a technique that is often used by people who frequently have nightmares to rid themselves of them.
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12-01-2003 06:37
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incredibly erotic 
or unbelieveably bizarre 
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