dream recall

how many of you remember your dreams when you wake? or often? i haven't remember any of my dreams for months now and i'm curious as to why this is, but honestly i've got no idea whatsoever :( in addition, i get woken incredibly easy, and have to stay awake once i wake - though i don't have trouble falling asleep, so it's not insomnia afaik
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i always dream of ex girlfriends ;D
so u don't dream ?
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hahahahahaha :P
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hahaha pwned :D
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hahaha pwned :D
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I often remember my dreams but I've been training this ability for a quite long time.
by doing what?
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i can take words out of context also
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You can do it by writing down your dreams right after you wake up with as many details as you can remember.
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graham greene "a world of my own"
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thats quite much work!
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You don't have write an essay, just note out the most important things, like the place, whether it was in colour or black-white, people you met there, whether it was real or not, some things about what happened and that's all, it takes 15 minutes max. In the first days you won't be able to recall much anyway and later you will get used to making those notes.
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i still remember a dream i had a lot of times when i was young (from 8-12 years) but its not explainable i know what feelings i got in it and i know how it looked like but its not really explainable or possible to write it down (maybe i can paint it :DDD)

but well quite hard imho!
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can't remember my dreams 2 :<
sometimes
I never remember my dreams, although I did alot when I was younger c:
make a notebook
im serious :o
ye, i've heard about that, but if i don't remember my dreams i have nowhere to start
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you will in the end ^_^
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so what, i write down:

don't remember
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don't remember
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don't remember
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on and on? :D
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idd !!
eventualy you will remmember !
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not anymore
in my dreams i often dream about probs at work but with other characters and sometimes rly crazy shit with real ppl in it.. . i dream almost every nite.
consider freudian analysis my friend!
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i dream about you every nights =)
shake that booty :D
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its scientific fact that if you are sleeping after the sun comes out, you get a lot more dreams + you remember them more easily, compared...
rofl this journal delivers win
i haven't been able to remember my dreams in years :<
I often know what I dreamt. But I do have sometimes a period of a few weeks in which I can't remember any dreams at all. It's also often so that of what I'm thinking in the evening, I dream about in the morning.
i get that sometimes, i only remember dreams like that are just
cRAzy!!!!! 8D
i tend to remember mine when i wake up. but since i don't want to (then i'll just redream them) i don't instantly say them out loud. then i always forget them.
Only when I sleep a long time.
Just today, forgot what it was about though.
They make a lot of sense.
Lolz, Im glad I only remember half my dreams with my twisted brain :D

Edit: Try making urself aware that you want to remember the dream before you go to bed, that supposably helps after some time of practice..
I have some sick dreams, always remember only the sick dreams :<
I only dream when I sleep for longer than 10 hours... but then most of the time it is some weird shit. Strange though as they almost never contain any persons I know.
afaik you dream multiple times a night, though dreams only last a few seconds in reality and most you really won't remember
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you know what i mean... when i wake up after like 10 hours of sleep i can recall more things than after 6.
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It's because the longer you sleep the longer the REM phase gets, thus the chance of remembering a dream grows.
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i never dream
i blame the proteins!
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i remember it in the morning then it just disappears
yes i do alot the days after i smoked weed xD but in general i frequently remember shit. Even during daytime things/facts that happend in my dream pop up suddendly, and im like "wtf? oh that was a dream".
If you get Lucid in Dreams you can control your dreams. Google! Or try out "Paradiso" - Creating your own Dream.

You can also do much more with these Lucid TechniqueZ!
Lucid dreaming is quite fun, very hard to achieve tho :/
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i dream like once in a year
but
to 99% it`s woman-related
most vivid dream i ver had i ws executed in iraq. shot in the back of the head tring to escape. felt me skull collapsing from the bullet and everything. nasty
i had a dream where i had to kill saddam husein. had to crouch through barb wire and stuff...
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did u succeed?
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don't think so :P got busted

image: saddam
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try to catch osama bin laden next night :)
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u remember the dream if u wake up in the middle of it
A Freudian psychoanalyst might tell you that the wishes being fulfilled in your dreams are sufficiently deeply-rooted in your subconscious to preclude any conscious memory of them after waking.

In any case, if you can be bothered, try to figure out when you'd be ending a REM cycle by adding however many hours to the time you usually fall asleep, and set an alarm. You might be more likely to remember the dream then. You could also try to induce a lucid dream (a dream in which you are conscious of the fact that you're dreaming), like Flixx suggested. I've experimented with this with considerable success, both using electronic devices and otherwise. There is plenty of information about it online.
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