Is there a way to make your dreams more vivid, or remember them more?
The only thing I’ve found is drinking water before sleep, to interrupt REM by making you have to use the bathroom so you remember your dreams in the middle. Is there any other methods though? I think sometimes the water thing works but I don’t really know.
I rarely have actual vivid dreams like the one I had last night, I was aware of my physical body in the dream because I could feel myself breathing rapidly and my eyes moving, it was so intense. Sylar from Heroes chased me until I was flying all over NYC lol. I saw stratus clouds and the lights were so beautiful….
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keep a note pad and a pencil/pen by your bed and when you wake up write the dream down right away.
Smoke some calea zacatechichi….Indian Dream Herb. You buy it on ebay or any herbal shop. Wormwood and mugwort are good as well. Also agreed with @jamcanfi74 write stuff down. Dream recall gets better over time. Like practice.
When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one .
Funny you should ask. This all came from another question about what is a safe and effective does of melatonin. I looked it up and learned that melatonin is a naturally occurring compound found in plants, animals and humans. It is readily metabolized and safe even at doses far in excess of the typical therapeutic does. One study mentioned vivid dreams as a side effect in doses of 50 mg.
CVS just came out with a 10 mg dose, and I picked up a bottle and naturally, tried it out. WOW! Vivid dreams for sure. I wouldn’t make a habit of doing large doese, but just got kicks and giggles it can be fun on occasion.
I agree with @ETpro. Melatonin is great for making dreams more vivid.
You need to teach your body to figure out when you’re dreaming so you can remember it. Every once in awhile, do little checks to see if you are in a dream. It sounds stupid, but checking to see if you have five fingers right now helps your body understand the differences between awake and asleep. I’ve also had success with dreams by literally telling myself that I will remember my dreams.
I used to set my alarm for 3 am, wake up just long enough to write down a few images from a dream, and go back to sleep. Then do the same when I woke up at my regular time. Then, when I had time during the day, by sitting quietly and thinking about the few images, slowly both dreams would come back. After doing this for several months, I could recall the whole dream immediately. I don’t recommend relying on drugs to heighten your dreams. I would be concerned that they might also distort your dream content. But anything you do to increase the blood flow to your brain will increase the vividness of your dreams. If you don’t meditate regularly, I recommend it. If you do, try imagining a bright light just above the top of your head, and with every deep, slow breath, the bright light flows down through the top of your head. This is an image that your subconscious mind will recognize and will relax the blood vessels in your brain, increasing the blood flow. Do this for a while as you are falling asleep, and your dreams will be more vivid, and if you persist, you will have more frequent lucid dreams (dreams in which you are fully conscious of being in the dream world). Jackm’s suggestion is a good one also. If you get in the habit of questioning yourself during waking time, you will start doing so while dreaming. If you ever ask yourself “am I dreaming” and are not sure your are awake, then you are asleep, and will start to dream lucidly. Also, look for clues that you are dreaming. I (and apparently a lot of people) have dislexia in dreams. If I have trouble reading, or if words keep changing as I am reading, I know I am dreaming. Lucid dreams are very vivid, and a hell of a lot of fun. But remember, anything you do in dreams has the same psychological effect on you as if you really did them. Also, I had a professor in school who stood on his head for ten minutes every morning and every evening. I have never tried that, but it makes sense.
ya there is if you remind yourself in the dream that you are in control then i have found that you can actually make stuff happen in your dream that you could never do in real life
then the dream gets insanely vivid and unreal
WHICH IS TOTALLY AWESOME IF YOU ASK ME! :)
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