10 Tidbits for Total Recall

If you have the urge to explore your dreams, then your intuition is guiding you. When you hear the term 'Total Recall,' you might imagine the sci-fi film with Arnold Schwartzenegger.  You may also reflect on useful tips to unlock messages in your dreams.  Its possible to help jog the memory and follow the thread back home. 

Whether you are pregnant and wishing to connect to your unborn child, someone who wants to use dreams as a problem-solving tool, or see dreams are key to emotional healing or guiding you in other ways, its helpful to know you can train the mind to recall dreams consistently and in detail.  You might ask where to begin?

As you gain confidence with basic recall, you grow aware of different layers dreaming and may ready learn about astral projection. Consider ten tidbits for dream recall.  Never underestimate the power of intention.

1) Set the intention to remember

• Raise awareness of your ability to recall dreams

Pay attention to your surroundings while awake. If you aren’t already recognizing how you use your senses, how can you expect to train the mind to multi-sensual awareness while asleep? Start simple: simply notice beauty and details on route to work. Do you detect smells easily? What did you feel of trees in bloom, or even the prickly weeds that grow in your lawn? Know you hold power to recall. Notice what you tend to overlook.

2) Meditate

• Ensure you're comfortable and can achieve deep states of peace.

If it appeals, check out library books, instructional CDs, online chats or local in-person meditation groups. It’s a kind of mental training that requires discipline to teach you to move between conscious and unconscious states at will. This is not a process of forcing yourself to exert effort to quiet the mind.  Its about shifting attention away from noise and choosing to focus on messages your body is already sending and also listening.

3) Create sleep rituals.

• Schedule your sleep for a consistent sleep cycle.

Deciding to regularly get a good night’s sleep promotes clearer thinking and reflection in the morning. Do what you do to unwind. Some people read. Others engage in sex. Whenever you’re ready, prepare to sleep. Lay back flat. Take a few minutes to relax all muscles. Make a habit of saying aloud, “I will remember my dream.” Tell other people of your intention to do this.  Verbalizing makes it stronger.

4) Keep paper and pen handy. 

• Make it a habit to write or draw spontaneously (without thinking)

It makes sense to record whatever you recall just as you awaken. Many begin to recall pieces of dreams as symbols or images. You need not make sense of it.  Don’t get up and brush your teeth or use the toilet before. Change in temperature (outside bed) and altered perception of surroundings tends to affect dream recall. The fewer movements and disruptions, the more you’ll gradually  remember.

5) Develop a 'pre- get up' routine.

• Make it a habit each morning to reflect on your dreams

Allow yourself to awaken without an alarm or before an alarm sounds. To be shocked awake may lead you to lose the dream thread. Keep eyes closed. Ly still. Tell yourself to permit dream images to surface. Imagine following a thread back through whatever events are still accessible within your unconscious. Repeat what you sense aloud. Record what you remember; objects, sensations, moods, feelings, colors, or anything.  Explore possible significance later.

6) Share your dream thoughts.

• resist doubting what you see, feel in dreams

Choose people with whom you would like to share your dreams. In some cultures, this is common practice among families from childhood. Speaking about dreams can make the experiences feel more real and can bring on revelations about their meanings. Other people may help shed some light, but ultimately, you’re the best person to decipher your own dreams.

7) Explore creative memory process.

• allow yourself to free draw impressions or feelings of what stands out in dreams

To decode your dreams, explore drawing, painting, sculpting, gardening, pottery, or other appealing pursuits. Dreams aren't always easily described in words.  Some people compose music or find other creative outlets to express what is flowing through them.  Be opten to inuition. Sense new inspiration and revelations.

8) Be aware of the influence of energies.

• recognize possible external influences on dreams

Every night, between 2am and 5am in every time-zone, is when ELF and microwave transmissions are the strongest.  This is when mind-control instructions are emitted by satellites, control towers, and can compress, transmit and embed programs in the human brain.  The active waking up to go to the toilet for instance, sets the unconscious program in the mind. Your daily routines may also seem to influence how/ what you dream.

9) Keep a journal.

• When ready, maintain a dream journal every morning after you wake up.

If dreams are hard to recall at first, simply journal about what is going on in your daily life. It may simply be a few lines per day. This kind of regular, conscious reflection will help you discern patterns in emotions, feelings and behaviors that begin to stand out in your dreams. If you are writing a work diary, pregnancy journal or keeping notes for other reasons, you may notice correlations between night dreams and reflections you transcribe elsewhere.  Everything is inter-connected.  Dreams are internal messages inviting you to see this more clearly.

10) Tap into the power of mantras. 

• listen to instrumental music when falling asleep and also to jog memeory of dreams

Mantras are a repeated series of words with psychic effects.  Some people listen to mantra music like O mani padme hum as a way to relax with eyes open or closed. Some people repeat mantra chants when falling asleep or when awakening into conscious awarness.  The words and stressed vowels of mantras stimulate chakras, which heighten sensitivity in astral realms. 

"A man is a genius when he is dreaming." - Akira Kurasawa

Comments

[Tom Horrocks]

Very cool top 10 tips. Have you noticed how many people still use total recall to sell other stuff.

[Liara Covert]

Very true, Tom. Catchy titles have power to grab the attention of our eyes and trigger quirky nostalgia. It can be very surprising to discover what treaures you uncover by following your gut only to discover and be something completey new and enlightening.

[Alexys Fairfield]

Hi Liara,
I agree with all of these juicy tidbits. I would also add that perhaps one could have a tape recorder by the bed just incase they don't feel like waking fully to write them down. Relaxation is the key, but I have also noticed that when one is overly tired, dreams seem to be rampant. I know that the Mayans used to share their dreams over breakfast as part of their daily ritual.

Understanding dreams is an asset to understanding life.

[Liara Covert]

Alexys, the tape recorder idea has great potential. Its worth noting some humans are known to mumble what sounds like gibberish when they are somewhere between 'the astral' and returning to 'the physical.' This suggests some people may need to translate what they record. This seems appropriate since we spend our lives deciphering what we think our thoughts, feelings and behaviors mean. Astral symbols are par for the course.

[Donna L. Faber]

Interesting information ... I do most of my lucid dreaming just before I wake up. I bet most people do. But keeping a dream journey journal is something I've never done consistently, but wish I did.

Thanks for the tips!

D~

[Liara Covert]

Donna, dreaming is a process that is ever-evolving. Its great to learn these tips are helpful to you. I would invite you to read the post contribute to my new dream ebook and share some questions you would like answered as part of this evolving project:

http://blog.dreambuilders.com.au/journal/2009/5/29/contribute-to-my-new-dream-ebook.html#entry4123207