Daily Dream Journal Thread

Bump and GN all. I need to get back into it so I'll put my reminder here. Happy dreaming.

I had another LD! It wasn't too special, I was in some sort of city square or something and then I got lucid and talked to a dc. I asked something along the lines of "What is my greatest weakness" but every time I asked the question he said something different and nothing really made sense. Will try to have a better dc convo next time.

Nice, youre in your prime now it seems.

Is there any tricks to remember dreams

Keep a dream journal. As soon as you wake up, before you do anything else, write down what you remember, even if it's nothing, write that down too. Over time this will improve your dream recall and it will become easier and easier to remember more of your dreams. Not to mention your dreams will become much more vivid and memorable in general.

Thanksies!

Also just make sure you are getting quality sleep in general, so exercise and get some sunlight especially in the morning, go to bed at a decent time, stay off screens right before bed, etc.

Oki

Yes, yes. I actually didn't expect that because I only tried it for a month or so now. Half a year ago I also tried to ld but it didn't really work.

I need to get back to this, I remembered this morning. Not too many details but there was a part of it where I was kinda just chilling walking around my school with a friend who doesn’t go to the same one, and I walked into a few rooms and they were weirdly elaborate, almost like they were auditoriums. I also remember there being this random glass jar thing that made it look like coins disappear when you drop them in or something like that being involved. Can’t remember a full plot though

Two today, and I think a third but I forgot it. All short though.

The first, I was building something, and then suddenly appeared in the end from Minecraft. There was a narrator narrating what I was doing and I almost felt like I was in a third person perspective watching myself. Anyways the narrator said I now would need to collect a lot of an item called "moose carpets" to finish the build and also that placing them would cause endermen to pick them up, so I would have to throw them on the ground and then pick them up again to transport them (looking back that makes no sense, but ok). They looked like regular mc carpets, but they had the textures of those tree leaves in the crimson biome in the nether.

Second one: I suddenly had a bunch of guitar equipment arrive, and while I was looking at the new guitar, I turned around for a second, and when I turned back, my sisters had somehow lifted the hefty guitar amp all the way on top of a massive stack of random junk in our garage. I don't remember much more than that.

Both short and weird, but I got them both down which is good.

I can assure you beyond a shadow of a doubt that you dream every night, as everyone does. We just normally forget them quickly because our brain doesn't know to prioritize keeping the memory intact for longer.

Remembering dreams is almost like a muscle. It gets stronger with daily exercise, but if you stop exercising, even if it was doing really well at one point, it goes flabby and your recall vanishes.

The secret is to make writing your dreams, or at least a few keywords that will trigger the memory later as soon as you wake up a daily habit. If you do anything else first, it will make the chances of forgetting them greater. If you keep up with it long enough though (and it can be hard to do so at first) eventually you'll feel weird that you ever struggled to remember dreams. I'm trying to get back in the habit myself right now. Just journal anything you remember in the morning, and if that's nothing, then journal how you felt when you woke up.

Forgot about this thread :/ I had a LD today actually. I woke up once or twice in the middle of the night and noticed my watch fell off my wrist (in real life I woke up and the watch was also not there in real life) . I was too tired to search for it and put it back on so I fell asleep again. I woke up again and felt it on my arm. That's when I was pretty sure I was dreaming, I then confirmed that with a reality check (I had 6 fingers). I was about to fly out of my window when my alarm went off and I needed to get ready for school :/

(I think in my dream the watch was on my wrist because I almost always wear it and my brain got used to it being there)

Awesome! I’ve heard a few other people who were triggered by their watch being on their wrist, it sounds like a pretty decent reality check for false awakenings, if you aren’t sure, just check your wrist, look away and look back to make sure. I typically do something similar, but I just check the time on my phone and then check again to see if it changed.

Also I had another today, can’t remember it atm but I got it in my DJ so I’ll check when I get home. It was significant too because it was one I actually had in the middle of the night after naturally waking up, but I didn’t write it down till morning and still remembered it then somehow

I remember it now. Dreamed that I was working at this summer camp like place that suddenly had gone completely off the rails by serving drugs to the staff and other crazy things. Later on, there was some sort of two partner race around a dimly lit, closed indoor track where one person basically laid on top of the other and then pushed with their feet from the back while the person on the bottom ran on all fours. My partner got us around so fast, it was literally a blur and I thought we were going to crash through a wall, but we stopped in time for that not to happen. I then went a second time with a different partner but we struggled to go as quickly, and I woke up shortly after. Weird one.

Happy dreaming to anyone else in a similar time zone!

I still find it amazing how realistic it felt. Took me a while to realize I was dreaming.