How to remember a dream: tips and rules

To forget a bad dream, you need to immediately look out the window after waking up. It works like this - your attention is sharply switched to the surrounding reality, and the nightmare will no longer bother during the day. But what about a situation where it seems that something unusual and interesting has dreamed of, and what exactly - is it impossible to reproduce in memory? How to remember a dream?

How not to forget your sleep after waking up

We only remember the night visions that come during REM sleep. This phase occurs every 1 - 1.5 hours. That is, if you can wake up 1.5 hours after you went to bed, then easily remember what you dreamed. But hardly anyone will go to wake up every hour at night and then spend the next day in a broken state just to remember all their dreams.

The following tips are not so extreme, unlike the previous method, and will help you remember what you have just dreamed of:

After waking up, do not jump abruptly out of bed. Wake up smoothly, gradually.
As soon as you woke up, without opening your eyes, speak out loud everything that you managed to remember.
If you are still on the verge of sleep and wakefulness, and you feel the vision begin to slip away, “go back” to sleep and start “looking” at it from the moment you remember it. This is facilitated by the practice of lucid dreams.

Bright dreams often cause realistic sensations, hold them. Was it cold, warm, sad or, on the contrary, fun? Cling to sensations and associations, and gradually recall which events from the night vision caused them.

How to learn to always remember dreams

If you absolutely do not remember dreams, then you should adhere to the following rules:

In the settings of the alarm set a calm, not annoying melody and turn down the volume.
Without opening your eyes, immediately after waking up, when you are in a borderline state of sleep and wakefulness, press the button on the recorder and say everything that you have managed to remember from sleep.
For the same purpose, get a dream diary. Keep it on the bedside table and write down everything that you can remember from your sleep.
If you are married, talk immediately about what you saw in your dream to your spouse.
Before you go to bed, let's set yourself up, be attentive and remember all the details.

Sigmund Freud argued that dreams contain thoughts and desires that we suppress. And only when the consciousness is “asleep” does the subconscious release them outside. According to the founder of psychoanalysis, we do not remember dreams, precisely because we suppress the images ourselves and our consciousness does not want to “release” them. But on the other hand, the study of their dreams is the path to knowing oneself, one’s true feelings and desires, strengths and weaknesses.

How to remember what dreamed tonight?

It happens that suddenly in the middle of the day there is some kind of association, and you remember that you saw this in a dream. But so what?

If the matter does not go beyond minor episodes of night vision, we recommend using the following table. It will help to recreate the image step by step, and recall the dream that dreamed today.

Where did the action take place	The room The outside Space (weightlessness) The mountains Forest By the river * add your options, places where you often visit (s): school, university, parental home, favorite cafe, etc.
What's happened	Fight Sex Conversation stroll Shopping * add your options
What did you participate	Active Watched from the side
What did you do	Flew Running away Danced Talked * add your options
Who was near	Acquaintances Unfamiliar people Mama Dad Brother Sister Business partner Colleague Husband wife * add your options
What did those present, what sensations caused the interaction with them	Helped Meshali Empathized Watched Annoyed Were happy Loved you / hated you Attacked / defended * add your options
Who were you in the dream	In the dream, we can be anyone. Perhaps you were in an unusual role for yourself? Try to remember whether you were yourself, male / female, how old - older or younger than now. Was there a relationship with a particular profession, occupation?
What general feelings did you have and why?	Fear Joy Pain Disappointment Happiness Delight Delight Feeling of flying / falling Panic Excitation Love The desire to protect or, conversely, to protect Anger Envy Anger Impotence Inspiration * add your options

Draw such a table in the "Diary of Dreams" and analyze your dreams every day. Soon you will learn how to remember them in the smallest details.

It is important not only to remember your dream, but also to interpret it correctly. This has nothing to do with magic and esoteric teachings. But, if you learn to understand the meaning of dreams from the point of view of psychoanalysis, you can understand a lot about yourself and change your life for the better. After all, our subconscious already contains information on how to act in a given situation, what choice to make. You just need to learn to understand his "language".