Remembering Your Dreams

So many people forget their dreams in the first few minutes after waking up, but there are some tricks to keeping then if you would like to try it. It takes some practice, but it really works. Anyway, it did for me.

First of all, at night just before you go to sleep, tell yourself that you want to remember your dream. Try to think about that as you are drifting off.
Then, just as you start to wake up. Do not open your eyes or move too much. Start immediatly thinking about the dream you just (hopefully) had. Run it back through you mind, try hard not to let anything else creep in and break your concentration. Get up slowly, and gradually start your daily routine, but make sure you have completely thought threw your dream before getting all caught up inthe daily challenges of life.

Now, there is a down side to this. When you start remembering your dreams, you will find yourself wondering all the stinking time, "why in the hell did I dream that???" You start dwelling on your dreams and find they interfer with thinking about the things you need to do and take care of. I tried this for several weeks, and honestly, it was about to drive me crazy. So I shut it off. Just reverse the process above. When you go to bed tell your self you will promptly forget your dreams upon waking. If you do dream, get up and get moving as soon as you wake up and force the dream out of your mind by thinking of all the other things you have to do today.

It sounds pretty weird, but it really works out that way. At least it is a good mental exercise to see if you can gain a bit of control your your brain.