Can't remember my dreams! Any help?

Lately, exteme exhaustion has caused me to not be able to remember any of my dreams, which sucks because I like dreaming. I say, remember, because I read that one dreams every night, just can't always remember. Any suggestions to help me remember more? (Getting more sleep isn't an option)

 

I got a dream catcher, and as weird as it sounds I started remembering my dreams after that more often! It let me realise how truly boring my dreams REALLY are! Seriously, I don't know why, probably like mind power or something but after getting the dream catcher I began to remember them more (and I didn't even buy it with those intentions.)
You might want to buy one, or better yet MAKE one. I will probably eventually make my own and give my old one away to a little kid or something.

 

Actually memories are tied to emotion, many dreams you have are just random brain sputter and have no emotion attached to them, but I'm sure you can remember nightmares or something as a child because of the fear attached to them.
This happens when we are awake too, can you remember all the shit you learned in school better than the good times you had with friends there?

 

writing down when you do remeber somthing, get a note book and put the day it happend on the page and write what you remember. this helped me remeber my dreams better.

 

I know alot about the dream world. Are you getting a good sleep? Get a good sleep and along with that set up an alarm up to a time when you might be dreaming. When you wake up have a notebook and pen ready which you will call your dream recorder. When you wake up immediately write your dream in there because our mind has a sort of "dream eraser" that stops you from remembering so write it down right away. Keep doing this and sooner or later you can just recall your dream in a snap. -This message was brought to you by RiverStone the 13 Year Old Neo-flower child.

 

this is the advice that I was going to give. keep a book to write down your dreams. Have another book to track your day-to-day activities/experiences so that you could better understand the dreams that you dream at night.

 

yea whateveryone else has said...... writing them down as soon as u wake up is the best....

 

another trick is to stay in the same position you were sleeping in when you wake up. if you move at all, your mind catapults into waking mode and you're far more likely to forget your dreams. try to stay in that hazy half awake state long enough to remember.

 

The best advice I was given was to write down what you remember as soon as possible after waking up since that's when it's still fresh to your mind.

Also, intoxicants will supress dreams so if you tend to get high right before bed, that will hinder your dreaming and your ability to remember any dreams you do have.

 

Oh wow, good thing to know.. that could def. be what has been messing with my dreams lately then. Thanks for the help!

 

Not a problem. I smoked weed regularly for a few years. Bout a 1/4 ounce a day, and didn't have dreams for probably the last 2 years. When I quit smoking the dreams were so intense that I'd find myself waking up several times a night in cold sweats and such. It's not pretty.

 

Kinda sucks now though if I have to choose between buds and dreams... i love them both!

 

Just don't get stoned before bed on a regular basis, or smoke massive amounts of weed, and you should be fine.

 

Yeah I'll def. keep that in mind. thanks

 

I've been waking up about every 90 minutes for the last 2 years after dreams and I try to forget them ASAP. Consider yourself lucky. 5-6 nightmares a nite, damn. I feel like somebody glued me to the seat of an all night horror movie theater.

 

if you could learn to embrase diversity as being the nature of reality, with or without, as i am, being thankful that it is, would they still BE 'nightmares', or only fascinatingly and gratifyingly strainge?

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They are funky shitty dreams with the underlying feeling like you get from your parents when they tell you to do your homework or you are gonna be a snotty faced wino hurling fluids in a gutter on a public street. The lesson that others teach in my dreams was not invited, is telepathically sent, and is a fucked up reminder that the control freaks in this world come at you whenever they want.

 

Even when you were on weed you still had dreams. People ALWAYS HAVE DREAMS. ALWAYS. ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO AVOID ONE. Its just that you were so high that it made you forget your dreams to point were you feel like you didnt even have one. This has been scientifically proven.

 

valerian root is a good dream enhancer, it also promotes a more restful sleep.