Remembering your dreams is the first step and most important of many to become capable of having lucid dreams. Every single person dreams every night, whether or not they recall. When somebody says "I never have dreams," or "I don't dream a lot." This is simply not the case. It is only that they can not remember. So before you can dream with lucidity, you must first learn to remember at least one dream every night. During our slumber we have multiple dreams each time we sleep. The first dream we fall into occurs for about 10 minutes in length. While after 7-8 hours our dreams occur in lengths up to 45 minutes to an hour long. Dream periods and dreams are different. Dream periods are occurring every 90 minutes. These are called REM periods. We can have multiple dreams within a REM period separated by short arousals that are very difficult to remember. It is generally accepted among sleep researchers that dreams are not recalled unless the sleeper awakens directly from the dream, rather than after going on to other stages of sleep. So in saying this, here are a few ways to help remember your dreams the best.
In order to be able to recognize your dreams as dreams while they are happening, you have to be familiar with the way your own dreams work. First keep a journal, notebook, or something you can write down your dreams with instantly. Keep this journal next to your bed and record every dream you remember, no matter how blurry or fragmentary it was, write it down. Since we dream in REM periods, it may be difficult to remember a dream after it passed, as I stated before. So another great way to remember your dreams, is actually waking yourself up once or twice during the night. By doing this you can record and remember multiple dreams a night, instead of just one. Since REM periods occur 90 minutes in length, it's best to set an alarm to wake up in the later stages of REM sleep. Great times would include: 4, 5, 6, and 7 hours after you have fallen asleep. A third way to remember your dreams the best is when you awaken from your slumber, do not move! Think real hard what you were just dreaming about for about 2-4 minutes, then proceed to write down what you remember.
Reading your journal each night before bedtime, is another great way to becoming more familiar with your dreams and get better at remembering them. Learning to recall and remember your dreams may be difficult at first, but if you are persistent there is no doubt that you will succeed. Once you can do this you are on your way to being an expert lucid dreamer.
After you have exercised this first step HERE are all the lucid dreaming techniques to get you underway to complete dream control.
Sources Include:
http://www.world-of-lucid-dreaming.com
http://www.lucidity.com
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