How to Remember Your Dreams

The other day I went to one of my friend's place and she was all excited and it seemed as if she wants to tell me something sensational. After she saw me, she literally grabbed me and took me to her room and told me that she had a dream. She saw the two of us in the dream but could hardly remember the whole dream and what exactly happened in it. And the whole 'sensational' feeling fizzled out. This thing is not very unusual. In fact there are many people who cannot remember their dreams. Here are a few things you can try to be able to cure that.

Tricks to Recollect Dreams Easily

Give Thy Name
A name is an identity and an easy way to connect with a particular thing. Likewise, naming the dream will help you connect more with the dream. Give your dream a title, it will certainly help you in remembering it. Speak to others as much as you can about your dream using the title. Take clues from the title whenever you feel you have forgotten it.

Pen the Dream
For this, you will need to maintain your personal dream diary or journal. To recall your dreams easily, you can cultivate the habit of writing down your dream, as soon as you wake up. Divide the page into 2 parts. On one side, write the dream and on the other, write your interpretation of the dream. Oh yes, please do not bother about your grammar or sentence formation or anything, just scribble whatever bits and pieces you remember about your dream, since the focus here is the dream, not the language. It is an effective tool for remembering dreams. After the month is over, go through it and see how much you remember. You would surely be amazed by what all you remember. This will help you in remembering dreams from years ago.

Draw it Up
Rather than words, pictures can also powerfully portray events and your feelings. Therefore, if writing is not your cuppa tea, try creating a picture of your dream. In case you are good at images than you are with words, this is a fantastic option. Create a picture story of your dream. Ask your self where was the dream located? Who all were there in the dreams? What was the location and things like that. This will surely help you to recollect your dreams.

Read Only Dreams
There is a phase in our sleep which is called Rapid Eye Movement (REM). It takes around 20% percent of the time we are asleep at night. The best part is that the dreams in this phase can be very easy to remember. Thus, if you are hell-bent upon remembering your dreams, try getting up at different times at night. This is one of the very common ways suggested for remembering dreams.

Be Positive
Most important of all, get yourself in the remembering and recalling mode. Tell yourself before going to bed that you will definitely remember your dreams. Try harder and try to remember longer and complicated dreams. This will surely help you. There can be recurrent dreams as well so you have to analyze them even carefully.

Other than these methods, if you really want to be able to recollect your dreams, accept and pay attention to them. If something from your dream disturbs you, see how you can go about dream interpretations. Or may be you can also try doing bubble mapping of the dreams. Dreams are ultimately a treasure trove. If you can remember them, well, you would realize that doing so is just like exploring Aladdin's cave in all its glory!

You may find it hard to believe, but I myself remember my dreams, and it is absolutely mind-blowing to know where all your mind and subconscious can take you! To end this dreamy article, I would put across what Carl Jung had said about dreams - "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens".