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DREAM NITES EPISODE 1 - Remembering your dreams

Welcome to episode one of Dream Times, your subconscious Podcast. I am your host Sheldene and today we will be talking about how you can remember your dreams.
So let me ask you…do you remember your dreams?
Are you the one that remembers some of them?
The one that only remembers nightmares?
The one that doesn’t dream?
Majority of listeners have said that they only remember some of dreams.
I tend to be the same, I only remember some dreams.
And I always remember a nightmare
It makes sense to me that a lot of dreamers only recall nightmares because of the strong emotional reaction it can cause within one self.
I consider myself an avid dreamer. Quite often I would wake up with a very clear image of a part of a dream and I find that as I focus on that one image of the dream I begin to remember more.
But just as often I find that a very busy life can stop any recall of a dream. Do you have those times where things are so busy that the second you wake up, your thoughts are already about what you need to do today. That chaos in your mind, that lack of freedom you experience due to the hold a busy lifestyle can have on you immediately takes precedence over the recall of your dreams. So in essence to remember your dreams is to wake up with a quiet mind.
Dreams I can easily remember even with a busy mind are dreams that have a very strong emotional impact on my psyche. For example nightmares. To me a nightmare is a dream about something that scares me. Not that long ago I dreamt that one of my dogs had suffocated and died. I woke up crying and all I could do was cuddle my dog as much as possible and I kept saying I’m so grateful that was just a dream. It had such a strong impact on me I couldn’t let go of that awful image in my head and that awful feeling in my heart. Naturally, I would think that such a dream would of course be one that you remember. To give you peace of mind I’ll just go a little deeper into this dream. I spoke to my mother about the dream and because she was able to view the dream objectively she could shed more light on its beauty. After my dog had died in the dream I resuscitated her and she survived. My mother pointed out that Honey dying in the dream was not the important part of the dream, the important part was that I had a knowing, a faith above reason that I could and would revive her and I did. This objective look into the dream changed it from a nightmare into something beautiful.
A strong emotional dream may not necessarily be a nightmare it can also be of something that you desire so strongly and it happens in your dream. For some it could be a dream about finding the love of their life, or being pregnant or receiving a particular reward. Whatever it is, if it has a strong emotional impact on you chances are you’ll remember it.
So what about those that feel they don’t dream at all? I’ve heard it from friends and family that they just don’t dream. But they often recall a feeling after waking up, like they can recall what was felt in a dream but nothing else. Isn’t that fascinating, feeling that maybe you dreamt but with your dream was feeling?

So let us talk about ways to remember your dreams.
From a personal stand point I know that if i want to remember a dream I can only do so if I am not woken up abruptly. The most abrupt way that I am woken up is if one of the girls hears something outside and they bark, I mean, they sleep in our room and are Rhodesian ridgebacks so they have a big bark, and far out does that just scare the crap out of me. I would jump up and my heart would feel like it is going to climb out of my throat and I would struggle to go back to sleep let alone remember a dream.
I also know that if I were to dream and then go to the bathroom, by the time I am back in bed I have already forgotten the dream. So two key points, to remember your dreams, wake up gently and record your dreams straight away before stepping out of bed even to go to the loo. Ways to wake up gently.
My alarm is of a song that is calm and gradually increases its tempo as it progresses. I begin to wake up with the calm tone which is calm enough for me to want to listen to, I find that I am half into a conscious state while still being somewhat in my subconscious dream state. I’m conscious to enough to realise that I am about to wake up and that I would like to record my dreams. That conscious awareness of wanting to record your dreams and that gradual transitioning of moving out of your subconscious state is what allows you to clearly remember your dreams right in that moment. So once you sit up and turn your alarm off record your dreams.
How to record you dreams, I tend to use two methods, I open notes on my phone and write keywords and feelings. Then I will write a summary of the dream. Then I will stop and go to the loo and get ready for the day. When I make the time to go over the dream properly I like to record it in a digital journal in full detail and usually the keywords, feeling and summary are enough for me to recall it all.
The other method I have only recently began to do more and more is voice record my dreams because I can talk much faster than I can type. Voice recordings are also great because you can do it with your eyes closed.
The third method that I very rarely use is writing it down in a journal that I leave on my bedside table. You might feel more inclined to do this because you like to write, writing is an action that enforces deep thought.
Writing is just as powerful as creating music or art. The more you do it the better you get. The more you record your dreams the more you will remember.
You may even have those moments of remembering a dream without consciously trying to. It could be something in your day that triggers the memory of the dream, it is really cool when that happens. Sometimes it feels just like deja vu, like you’ve experienced that exact same moment before.
Creating art from my dreams is something I do to enforce the power of the dream but not so much to remember it.

What is the last dream you can recall clearly.
Think of the dream and then try and think of why you remembered it.
Was it because you woke up peacefully
Or it had a strong emotional impact on you
Or was it scary
Did you perhaps wake up calmly

Well it is already time to wrap this up.
I have to say I’m feeling quite joyful of my very first podcast and thank you as a very important listener to me for hearing me. In this episode we discussed whether or not we remember our dreams and methods we can use to remember them in the future. We also identified what our latest recall of a dream was and tried to establish why we remembered that particular dream. In the next episode we will talk about what a dream is. Have you ever thought about that?

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Thanks for listening.
I am your host Sheldene and be sure to dream well tonight.

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