Dreamwork 101, Part 3: How to Remember Your Dreams
Welcome back to Dreamwork 101, Part 3: How to Remember Your Dreams! In this video we will be going over 10 practical tips to help you break a dream drought and start remembering more dreams!
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Set an intention to remember your dreams
1:41 - Set a nightly routine and prioritize your dreams
4:42 - Give yourself some dream fuel
5:15 - Set your alarm early
6:41 - Hold on to the dream fragments
8:12 - Lay in your normal sleep position
9:05 - Keep a dream journal
12:31 - Shamanic lucid dreaming and hypnagogic dreams
14:50 - Be active with your dreams
15:58 - Play games with the universe
17:57 - Pay attention to signs and synchronicities
So, you understand how important dreams are and you know the immense value we can gain from working with them… BUT there’s just one teensy-weensy problem – YOU CAN’T REMEMBER YOUR DREAMS!!
1: Set an Intention to Remember
The first and probably easiest tip is to set an intention to remember your dreams.
2. Follow a nightly routine and prioritize good sleep. Prioritize your dreams!
Not only is it impossible to remember dreams if we aren’t sleeping, but a full night of sleep is known to have positive impacts on our overall mental and physical health.
When we prioritize good sleep, we are also prioritizing our dreams.
3. Give yourself some Dream-Fuel
Be kind to yourself and put the phone away. Instead try relaxing with a good book about dreams or the multiverse or something with some FUEL to set off on an awesome night of dreaming.
4. Set your alarm early
Setting your alarm 15 – 20 minutes earlier than normal is a good idea if you want to remember more of your dreams. Just having the extra time to lay in bed and write down everything you remember can make all the difference.
5. Hold on to the Fragments
Sometimes all we can remember from a dream is a color, a sound or even a smell. If you only remember fragments, its ok!! It’s something! I find that those fragments may be all we are remembering because they are the most important part of the dream anyway. Don’t disregard them.
Some people dream less visually and more with their other senses. When this is the case, how you are feeling and the last things you remember - even if it’s just a smell or a sound – can be enough to work with. And once you start working with dreams, more tend to follow.
6. Lay in the position you normally sleep in
It usually helps to lay still when you wake up, but if you are having a hard time remembering your dreams this one works like magic! I have no idea why it works, other than it must be a muscle-memory thing… but shifting yourself into your regular sleeping positions can make your dream memories come flooding back to you! Just try it!
7. Keep a Dream Journal
Work with ANYTHING at all you remember when waking – a song, a feeling, a color, a phrase, an odd-looking dream character. Whatever it is – record it in your dream journal. I find that the simple act of WRITING my dreams down helps me to recall more, AS I’M WRITING.
The mere act of writing our dreams down, and even just having a dream journal by the bed, tells our subconscious that we are serious about this! It’s saying, “Give me dreams to write down! I’m ready for them!”
8. Try playing in the hypnagogic zone! Try Shamanic Lucid Dreaming.
When we dream we enter an Imaginal Realm, where everything we think of just happens. We can enter this realm in other ways than just falling asleep!
Shamanic Drumming helps put our brain waves into the Theta State.
Shamanic Lucid Dreaming and daydreaming help us tone our imagination muscles which helps night dreams come easier too!
Not only can these methods help us remember our night dreams better, but they are extremely useful tools in their own right.
9. Be Active with your Dreams
Talking about your dreams, sharing them and acting on them are all aspects of Active Dreaming that help our dreams know that we are paying attention and are serious about working with them. When we start becoming more active with our dreams, our dreams tend to become more active!
10. Play games with the Universe
A very effective activity you can try during the day to bring your dreams back at night, is to play games with the universe. This has helped me break dream droughts MANY times and even helped my mom break a years-long dream drought! When we connect with the magic that’s going on in the world around us, we start to see how dream-like reality is. When this happens, we have successfully tapped into the part of ourselves that dreams. Our night dreams have no choice but to come back!
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