Wednesday May 12, 2004

Anyone have tips for remembering dreams?  I still have such a hard time.  If I wake up and just lie there and not move, then I just tend to fall asleep again.  Many times when I manage to wake up with a dream hot off the press, I make a grab for the pen and paper, but by then, *POOF*, that dream is a million miles away and I have no inkling of what it was about or who was in it, etc.  The very action of waking up and moving seems enough to make the short-term memory fade.  It’s quite frustrating to keep a dream journal where some of the entries merely say, “Uh… I had a dream.  Yup, definitely had a dream… about… something.  I thought it was a pretty extended sequence too.  Maybe about work.  Maybe not.  I have no idea anymore.”   I even tell myself as I go to bed, “I will remember my dream.  I will remember my dream.  I will wake up and remember my dream and write it down.”  Nope.

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