what is the best way to remember dreams? also...?

Question

i also have dreams and i remember them for maybe 30 seconds when i wake up but they are only small pieces. like if it was a video it would just be a short clip. for example it will be someone saying somethin and what i was looking at when they said it. anyways i will forget about it but in say... a year or so it will actually happen and it always stops me dead in my tracks. does this happen to anyone else? (sorry for the long question)

Answer 1

It happens to everyone.
Your subconscious edits memories it considers unimportant to your daily life from short-term memory into no memory whatsoever.
Get a notebook, put it near your bed, and set your alarm for 1/2 an hour earlier. When you wake up, grab that notebook and start writing, don't apy attention to grammar, structure, sequence, or anything rational like that, just write what you remember.
Do that for a couple of months and your subconscious will come to understand that you actually want to remember your dreams, and you and establish a new protocol for choosing which ones and how/where to remember them.

Answer 2

You could keep a pad of paper or a recording device beside the bed. When you wake up, write down or record everything you remember immediately. You can gain some control over the dream state. Pick up a book called The Silva Mind Control Method. By Silva.

Answer 3

Have a notebook and pen beside your bed and as soon as you wake up, start writing down everything that you can remember. This may stimulate more memories of what you have dreamt about. If you keep a dream diary, at least then when you have one of these flashback-type experiences, you can refer to your diary and see if it actually is something you dreamt. Maybe you will see a pattern start to form.

Answer 4

It's a neurochemical slight of hand. Your brain is convincing you that something that has just occured happened before. Its a recursive echo of a sort. Try this for fun:
Take vitamin B-6 (50-200mg) about a half hour before you go to sleep. Your dreams will become more vivid, colorful and lucid. Also melatonin can produce more intense and meaningful dreams.

Answer 5

Write them down as soon as you wake up.
I once heard that nobody remembers all their dreams because each dream only takes a few seconds so we have too many dreams to remmeber all of them.
I usually remember parts of my dreams but I know somebody who is 29 and until a month ago he thought he wasn't having dreams because he couldn't remember them.

Answer 6

keep a journal beside your bed with a pen handy, so when you wake up, immediately write every detail (no matter how fuzzy) down, even if you can't focus on the paper!
Read it later and it will make more sense. There is a web site you can go to and look up all the symbols and their meanings.

http://www.dreammoods.com

Answer 7

One way would be to keep some pen and paper close to your bed. When you wake up, write down a quantitative account (FACT, for example "a man jumped in a toilet") and a qualitative account (FEELING, for example "it was scary").

Simply writing it down reinforces it in your mind any you may be able to return to the same dream!

Answer 8

that has never happened to me, but, what has happened to me is a year later after i had a dream, out of nowhere i'll remember a specific part of that dream. no idea why.

Answer 9

yes. for many people it happens. i ve experienced this phenomene twice in my life. this may be due to interpretation of mind with future happenings. but as the answer is not unveiled till now, this is still a myth and miracle

Answer 10

maybe it's just deja vu