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Ok so i have been keeping a dream journal but as most of you know here you do not dream all at once you dream in sections. So this is my problem i was dreaming and the first dream i had i woke up and was going to write it down but i was so into the dream i did not want to wake up and it go away. So i fell back to sleep having had another couple of dreams once i woke i could not remember the first one or any of them. Now normally i can remember them whenever i wake up and immediately write it down. Well ill get to the question i feel like i am rambling. I was wondering how some of you go about remembering your dreams? I will keep repeating i will remember my dreams when i wake while i am going to sleep. But i would like to try some other methods to better improve. Thanks for any help.

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Ok so i have been keeping a dream journal but as most of you know here you do not dream all at once you dream in sections.

Now normally i can remember them whenever i wake up and immediately write it down, i had i woke up and was going to write it down but i was so into the dream i did not want to wake up and it go away.

So i fell back to sleep having had another couple of dreams once i woke i could not remember the first one or any of them.

You're speaking to a larger question than you're asking. It is a point worth pondering that you know you were supposed to get up to record the dream, remembered to do so, but were "so into the dream i did not want to wake up and it go away". Anyone on this forum can rattle off a half dozen methods to go about it - in fact I think we already have - but as long as you still find more pleasure in having your dreams than you do in recording them you won't make any progress. They are only dreams; pretty fragments of thought, fun to look at, sometimes informative, but then so are those news programs with the flashing animations all over the screen. Would you ever get so into the news you forgot what it was you were watching it for? Remember its only a dream, the experience is not as important as bringing back something worth the trip. Besides, once you get good enough with it you can pick up right where you left off, after you record the dream, the next night or whenever.

I think this should be done over time as you get better. Having a dream journal is a pain anyway I think. If you wake up after having a dream continue to think about the entire dream and review it, making sure to actually see the dream as it happened. Dreams do not typically operate with long term memory, they operate with short term memory. When you wake up you need to quickly transition the memory into long term storage by recalling it. Anywhere from one to five minutes max should be fine.