Willard wrote:
Keep a notebook and a pen next to your bed. Any time you remember a dream - even a
part of a dream -
write it down as soon as you wake up, every detail you can recall. At first you may only recall enough for two or three sentences, but write it down anyway. Do this every time you wake up, as soon as you open your eyes, even if you still feel groggy and half asleep (actually, you may remember more in this state).
If you make this a habit, you will very quickly begin to remember more and more of your dreams. After a few weeks, you'll be filling several pages with the epic stories you've been living in the dream world. Eventually you may find yourself recalling nearly complete screenplays.
If you aren't recalling dreams at all, its because your brain is switching immediately to daytime world concerns as soon as you open your eyes - if you train it to make a more gradual transition between dreaming and waking, you'll be amazed to remember where you've been while your body was napping.
Yeah, I've started doing this! It works really well. A lot of the time I will completely forget the dream after I've fully woken up even after writing it down, and a few days or weeks later I'll go back and read it and it's like "wow, I TOTALLY FORGOT THAT" but it brings the pictures right back to my mind. :3 It's very cool.
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