Even though your dreams can give you deep insights and widen your awareness, it can sometimes be difficult to remember them. You naturally tend to forget your dreams so that you can quickly adjust to your waking reality. However, there are a number of steps you can take to help you remember your dreams.
First, as you lay your head on the pillow, ready to fall asleep, say to yourself ‘Tonight, I will remember my dreams’. This will make you more likely to retain your dream imagery and experiences. Then when you do wake up, keep your eyes closed and try not to move your body for a minute or so.
This can be a challenge if you have to jump out of bed immediately or if you have children bouncing up and down on top of you! If you do have the luxury of lying still for a minute, then just allow any images and feelings from your dreams to drift into your waking consciousness. It may be difficult to see any images at first, so just concentrate on feelings. Are you feeling happy, anxious, exhilarated, frustrated?
As you become aware of your feelings, then imagery from your dreams should start to appear. These images may seem to be quite fleeting and vague to begin with but as you let them come into your awareness, you should be able to start to connect them together into a coherent dream recall. The more that you do this, then the more accustomed you will become to doing it and you will find that it becomes easier and easier to remember your dreams.