6 Tips For Remembering Your Dreams
Recalling one’s dream can sometimes be the most difficult challenge of the day. We often find ourselves getting ready for work, in the shower, or making breakfast in the morning and thinking, ‘I know I had a dream last night, but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was…’
It can be a real pain, and taking SleepSmart will assist you in this regard. With such memory-enhancing ingredients as Vinpocetine, Huperzine, and Bacopa Monnieri, and 5HTP and Valerian which help to potentiate vividness, dream recall has never been easier.
There are many tips and tricks in addition to a memory and dream enhancing supplement to aid dream recall. Outlined below are six helpful hints to help you remember your dreams:
1. Sleep Well: It’s an obvious tip, but getting plenty of sleep is the first step to good dream recall. If you are rested it will be easier to focus on your goal of recalling dreams, and you won’t mind so much taking the time during the night to record your dreams.
2. Repeat After Me…:Before dozing repeat to yourself several times, “I will remember my dreams. I will react in my dreams.” This will cement in your mind the goal of recognizing that you are dreaming and increasing the odds of recalling your dream when you wake.
3. Write It Down: As soon as you wake, be it in the middle of the night or when your alarm goes off in the morning, write down as many of your dreams as you can recall in as great of detail as possible for you. This will not only train your mind to save your dreams in a sort of ‘mental cache’ for easy retrieval when you wake, but will also accustom you to transcribing your dreams. It will become easier and soon you will be able to recall your dreams in greater detail. A general rule would be to make a point of recalling colors, shapes, gender, water, weather and movement. These details are revealing details into the current state for your well-being.
4. Review: Before bed, break out your dream journal and reread previous dreams. This allows you to begin to reconnect with your dream memory. This is also an good opportunity to spot parallels and congruency between your dreams and your waking life.
5. Wake Up Slowly: It is sometimes extremely difficult not to panic/stress/freak out in the morning when our alarm goes off. This is often a direct cause of our inability to recall dreams. Next time you wake, turn off your alarm and lie still. Do not think about the day ahead, but try to concentrate your mind on whatever it was that you were just dreaming about, even if you don’t remember having a dream. The act of trying to remember will help train your mind to have your dreams on the cusp of retention when you wake, so the next time you attempt to recall your dream it will be top of mind.
6. Be Patient: Dream recall is a mental muscle which may require some time to get back into shape. SleepSmart will help you train this muscle and boost your memory processes (consolidation, sorting, and storing) to aid int he dream recall process, but the key here is not to try too hard. Do not take dream recall too seriously or risk straining yourself. The last thing we want is a forgotten dream and a migraine to boot. Relax and calmly retrace your dream steps as much as you can. The more often you do this, the farther you’ll go.
Rest Well. SleepSmart!
