Tips for
Remembering your
Dreams

* Buy an alarm clock or choose an alarm with a soft sound. A soft alarm sound will wake you up gradually as opposed to a shaking your nerves in the process. When you awake abruptly, your conscious mind will shift subconscious memories away more quickly. As you awaken calmly and gradually, the shift from your subconscious to conscious will be more gradual too and feelings plus images created in your subconscious will loop around your conscious. Therefore, this gives you a chance to catch visual and emotional aspects of your dreams.
 

* If you really want to know what you dream about after you have fallen asleep wake up once during your dream cycle occasionally. You can aim to do this by consuming enough fluids before you go to sleep to have your body need to awake you during the night. When you do get up attempt to consider what you had been dreaming why you drift off to sleep again. By ‘consider’ I mean consider any imagery you recalled and emotions you experienced when you woke up, not dwell on them afterwards.
 

* If you wake up during the night and remember what you were dreaming about think about it as you fall back asleep to encourage your mind to recall more of your dream/s.
 

* Keep a fresh pad of paper or book where you can notate any images and/or feelings you felt during any time you woke up. It would help if you dedicate this book/notepad just to dream recollections because this will help you see relationships between various dreams, which will also help trigger your memory regarding features of dreams that you would have not otherwise remembered.
 

* Before you go to sleep, tell yourself ‘I will remember my dreams’ continually. This programs your mind to focus on your goal to recollect your dreams. This one works really well.
 

* Speak of your dreams to others. Just like anything else, you may try to remember vocalizing what you have remembered will assist you in recalling more about it.





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