I think if you just keep practicing your dream recall will come back.
When you wake up try not to move or anything and just try and remember what you were dreaming.
You could try to get some extra sleep. Maybe go to bed ½ hour earlier and wake a ½ hour later so you get 9 hours instead of 8, that sometimes helps.
If you are really ambitious you can wake 1 or 2 times a night during the later part of your sleep cycle and write down what you just dreamed. It is what I did way back in the beginning when I first started to practice LD ing. I only had to do that for a few days. I then started to remember 2-3 dreams in the morning with out waking in the middle of the night. I don’t think you need to do anything this extreme at this point though. I think that if you just practice you will be back to remembering your dreams.
It is very strange. It is really impossible to tell exactly what the problem could be. There are so many things that affect your dream recall. Maybe you are sleeping deeper than usual. Stress, use of alcohol, and some even say that as we age we get less REM sleep. The possible causes are endless. I have very good dream recall yet I have had periods where I could not remember a dream to save my life then it would go away and I would be back to remembering my dreams again.
Maybe you were just anxious about starting LD ing again.
“Some say”? No, it’s actually true! However, the decline is so slow and small (about 25% → 13% I think) that this definately is not the cause for your dream recall dry spell.
I never suggested that it was. I was pointing out that there are endless possibilities as to the cause of a loss of dream recall. Took my quote a bit out of context.
I think my dream recall is good but not great 'cause I’m lazy with it. I’m trying to get back on a normal sleep scheduale. I stay up pretty late everynight. I went to bed at like 6 something in the morning and woke up at 10:00, the time I set my alarm for. I didn’t get out of bed I just feel back asleep then when I woke up again I remember having an amazing dream that was very long clear and vivid in my memory. I thought about writing the dream down in my dream journal but I just feel back asleep . My Problem isn’t that I have bad dream recall but that immediately after I wake up I don’t just write the dream in my DJ but I fall back alseep and then hours after the original dream I finally try and write it in my DJ. I do this quite often. I wake up after having a dream and then fall back asleep then when I wake up the next time or the next time after that I write it down then. I think the my recall is still good even after waiting hours and It’s rather long, but it could always be a whole lot better. I’m just lazy. I’m really trying to get out of this habit of falling back asleep instead of recalling my dreams. In this instance After I had woken up at 10:00am and fallen asleep I probably woke back up at like 11-12pm or something. Then the next time I remember waking up I looked at my clock and it was after 3pm At that time I wrote the dream I had in my DJ I guess you could say what I recalled was sorta good but If I had written in my DJ immediately after waking up I think it would’ve been great and really long. I had set my alarm at 10:00am so that I could wake up and stay up early and then with the 4 hours of sleep I had gotten I would be tired enough to go to fall asleep at around midnight so I can get back on my desired sleep scheduale waking up at around 8am. I’ll be sure to stay awake tomorrow though and recall my dreams immediately.
It is weird isn’t it. How you can remember a ND so clearly you think there is no way I can forget that. Yet 10 minutes later you can forget the hole dream. Maybe when you wake up try and just write down at least a sentence or two about the dream before falling back asleep. That might be enough to jar your memory when you wake up again.
In the past, when i did not have a dream journal, i remembered only strange and powerful dreams. I loved them.
Now that I have a dreamlog, I can remember more than a dream for night. But I don’t like them. I’ve found that I’m not interested in remembering them, because they are very similar to my ordinary life.
Yes. I have dreams about school. Just what I need, even more school. I waste 5 years learning education that I will never use in RRL. At the end of the day I don’t want to dream about more school.
But be patient. Your motive for remembering your dreams is to aim for lucid dreaming, and expand your consciousness.
I think we have all had those long boring dreams before practicing LD ing. I know that I have found that practicing LD ing has an effect on my ND making them more interesting.
Hey guys, im back! You probably dont remember me, but I’m back!
Well, i’ve been doing well with remembering, but now the tides have turned completely opposite on me. Instead of easily remembering dreams on weekends, i cant remember anything! What happens is that i have so many dreams because i sleep in that when I wake up they are all fresh in my mind but at the same time. This causes a ‘dream overload’ and i cant pick details or anything from it.
Not sure I understand what you mean by “dream overload”. You recall so much that you don’t recall anything? (I could just be too tired to work that out…)
Maybe you could try letting go of the little details for now, and just focus on writing down the basic plot of your dreams as soon as you wake up. List some locations, characters and significant events, then build on that with more specific information if you can.
Can you describe the situation in a little more detail?
Well what happens is that i have so many dreams and since im not exactly brilliant at remembering they get all mixed up. When i try to write them down i keep on crossing stuff out or hesitating because I just know that thats not what happened in the dream at that time.
Actually, I understand what you mean now. Occasioanlly I get multiple dreams mixed up if I don’t wake up a couple of times between them. I usually just write down what I can anyway, even if I don’t recall which dream the particular event was from.
I dont bother writing my dreams down when I wake up between them now, cos it stops me from either getting back to sleep or having vivid dreams later on. I do run them through while I’m going back to sleep thiough (which causes me to have 5 dreams in the same place/with the same theme). I don’t usually have any problems remembering them in the morning, but if I do I just go through the bits I can remember in detail ang go from there, mostly backwards.
Sometimes it’s really annoying because I’ll wake up in the morning and not be able to remember the first dream, and then an hoour later say, I’ll remember the first one, but I can’t remember the last one, it’s really funny(not at the time!)
. My Problem isn’t that I have bad dream recall but that immediately after I wake up I don’t just write the dream in my DJ but I fall back alseep and then hours after the original dream I finally try and write it in my DJ. I do this quite often. I wake up after having a dream and then fall back asleep then when I wake up the next time or the next time after that I write it down then. I think the my recall is still good even after waiting hours and It’s rather long, but it could always be a whole lot better. I’m just lazy. I’m really trying to get out of this habit of falling back asleep instead of recalling my dreams. In this instance After I had woken up at 10:00am and fallen asleep I probably woke back up at like 11-12pm or something. Then the next time I remember waking up I looked at my clock and it was after 3pm 
At that time I wrote the dream I had in my DJ I guess you could say what I recalled was sorta good but If I had written in my DJ immediately after waking up I think it would’ve been great and really long. I had set my alarm at 10:00am so that I could wake up and stay up early and then with the 4 hours of sleep I had gotten I would be tired enough to go to fall asleep at around midnight so I can get back on my desired sleep scheduale waking up at around 8am. I’ll be sure to stay awake tomorrow though and recall my dreams immediately.
