Is there any way I could be able to remember my dreams?

I've always heard that this is the BEST and ONLY way:

1) Keep a journal and pen RIGHT BESIDE where you sleep.

2) IMMEDIATELY upon waking...start writing every little detail you can. BUT, try to write it in the order you dreamt it! Just keep writing and don't stop to think, for this will interrupt your thought process.

3) I sorta doubt that you will remember any pieces of it later that day, but if so be sure and write down ANY thoughts immediately.

4)When you return home add these to your journal.

I agree with your thoughts of wanting to remember dreams. I believe that Dreaming is often our "subconscious thoughts".

The Dictionary gives this definition for “Dream”

1)Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping.

2)A hope or wish.

3)Alternate realities created by our subconscious from different parts of our mind that can range from our hopes and fears, to a life-like scenario

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreams

1) Dreams and memory:

Dreams are ever-present excitations of long-term memory, even during waking life. The strangeness of dreams is due to the format of long-term memory. During waking life an executive function interprets long term memory consistent with reality checking.

2) Functions of dreams:

There are many hypotheses about the function of dreams. One function of dreams is to protect our sleep. It is the purpose of dreams to hold one’s attention so as not to awaken from any outside stimuli. During the night there may be many external stimuli bombarding the senses but the mind interprets the stimulus and makes it a part of a dream in order to ensure continued sleep. The mind will, however, awaken an individual if they are in danger or if trained to respond to certain sounds, such as a baby crying. Dreams may also allow the repressed parts of the mind to be satisfied through fantasy while keeping the conscious mind from thoughts that would suddenly cause one to awaken from shock. Bad dreams let the brain learn to gain control over emotions resulting from distressing experiences. Dreams also let the mind express things that would normally be suppressed in the waking world, thus keeping itself in harmony. Dreams may also offer a view at how future events might proceed; this is similar to running future events through the mind, for instance: a work presentation, a job interview, or a first date. Dreams may compensate for one-sided attitudes held in waking consciousness. The dream, when told, may communicate something that is not being said outright. There have also been analogies made with the cleaning-up operations of computers when they are off-line. Dreams may remove parasitic nodes and other "junk" from the mind during sleep. Dreams may also create new ideas through the generation of random thought mutations. Some of these may be rejected by the mind as useless, while others may be seen as valuable and retained. Dreams may also regulate mood. Dreams may function like psychotherapy, by "making connections in a safe place" and allowing the dreamer to integrate thoughts that may be dissociated during waking life.

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Your brain is like a giant computer, that is constantly taking in information from various sources, what you see, what you hear, even what you smell and taste (have you ever tasted something or smelt a perfume of a passer-by that has suddenly cause memories to come rushing back to you?).

Now, your sensory organs can't tell the difference between relevant and irrelevant information so even the things you see and hear without concentrating on, like background noise or images, gets sent as information to the brain. While you sleep or daydream, your brain sorts out which information is relevant or irrelevant. The relevant information gets sent to the back of your brain for storage, and the irrelevant information is sent to the front of your brain to be deleted.

The way your brain deletes information is quite complicated. First your brain puts you in a subconsious state allow you to think without being conscious, next your brain produces a chemical called Dimethyltriptomine (DMT) which causes your brain to go into a lucid, dream-like state that is easily manipulated by input. And finally your brain inputs into your dream all the unwanted information from your day, which forms your dream and rolls off like a story of sorts. This is why you often cannot remember your dreams, because the purpose of dreaming is to delete unwanted information.

Your brain does this because, like a computer, you can overload with information, and this can cause severe problems with the way your brain processes information.

People who have experimented with sleep deprivation tests have been known to start dream while awake, because their lack of sleep and the build-up of unwanted infomation has forced their brain to start dreaming.

A good way to remember your dream (kind of) is to have lucid dreams, where you use an agent to enhance your dreamstate. You've heard the thing about eating cheese before bed makes you have mad dreams? It's true and it happens because a chemical in certain cheeses makes your brain go into a lucid state when sleeping. You can even go extreme and look at different hallucinogenics.

Google up LUCID DREAMING TECHNIQUES and see what you can find.

Best thing is to write down anything you remember as soon as you wake up, this way you won't forget these parts and you may also remember other parts too by keeping the bits you do know written down.

dreams are messages from your spiritual guide. If you don't remember them is because first you are too much in the material level. my advice before going sleeping dont eat too much, no spicy food or meat or potatoes.

2° take a pipe drops of assenzium

3° go to the bathroom and evacuate

4° stop in bad half a hour in the mornig time and write your dream quickly

CIAO LOREM

1) Write it down as soon as you had the dream or

2) When you had the dream, try as much as possible to retain it until such a time when you can write it down.

a) Always have a pen and paper close- by to write your thoughts and dreams.

b)Try to concentrate on to remembering the dream and or recite the dream to help you memorise it.

Hope this helps.

Joel

England

i remember reading about this some where..... if u dont get out of your bed as soon as u wake up, and remain lying in your bed for some time in the same position, u can remember ur dream...... And its also really important that u dont wake up with a start....

keep a notebook and pen beside you. immediately after waking from a dream write what you can remember.

by reading your dreams you can see that your dreams has patterns and the more you study your own dreams the more lucid it becomes.

Concentrate.

pad of paper, pencil (pen) along side of bed....immedialtly upon waking write down as much as you can remember....later when you're wide awake maybe you can piece all of it together....

Don't go to sleep wasted. That includes sleeping pills.