Dream Recall
Recalling your dreams is as simple as can be and anyone can do it.
I think of it as a skill because it's a practice that builds and becomes refined and increasingly effective with time. If you've never recalled a dream and believe you can't, then I'm happy to deliver a paradigm shift. Follow these simple instructions for two weeks and you'll not only begin to remember your dreams but your waking life will reflect it.
The Fundamentals
If you wake and find your dreams elusive, vanishing into the ethers, write what you’re feeling and any thoughts roaming around. The simple habit of putting pen to paper is often enough to summon them back. Even if you don't remember much, after just a few days, you will. Throughout your dream practice, this is a habit to return to. This should work well enough, if your dream journal is on your computer because your mind (via muscle memory) knows what your typing from the keystrokes. If you prefer to use a voice-recorder, it should also work, though I haven’t tested that method so if you take this route, please let me know your results.
The benefits of recording your dreams
Keeping a dream journal nurtures your relationship with The Dreaming and your own dream life. It’s really as simple as “the more attention you give to your dreams, the more will unfold for you from them. Your sleeping dream first, then your waking dream.
Recalling your dreams is as simple as can be and anyone can do it. I think of it as a skill because it's a practice that builds and becomes refined and increasingly effective with time. If you've never recalled a dream and believe you can't, then I'm happy to deliver a paradigm shift. Follow these simple instructions for two weeks and you'll not only begin to remember your dreams but your waking life will reflect it.
If you're already remembering your dreams, these skills can assist in discovering new patterns and new layers that you may not have noticed before.
The next step to remembering your dreams is to want to.
Ask yourself if you really want to remember your dreams. Do you hear a voice responding with reasons why that's not actually true? I've spoken with many dreamers over the years who felt fear, anxiety or concern around engaging their dreams more consciously. Some feel it leaves them exposed and vulnerable to danger. Others feel that it may require them to DO something as a result of what they learned in their dreams and that 'thing' may feel larger than them. Still others have only experienced nightmares and want to close that door as tightly as possible.
To let you in on a secret, my fascination with dreams began with seven years of recurring nightmares.
Are you familiar with the phrase, 'The only way out, is through" ? This is just as true of your dreaming as it is with everything else. What's different here is that you're not doing it alone, nor are you doing it without guidance and that can make ALL the difference.
Everything is in the dreaming and you have as much power as you choose to have.
Talk with someone about it. Email me about it. Feel it.
The majority of evolutionary practices begin with a strong emotional surge and resonance in the heart. Can you imagine waking in the morning and remembering vivid, exciting dreams you've just left? Focus there. What are you genuinely feeling? Excited? Tearful? Surprised or in shock? Skeptical? Relieved and comforted? Whatever is there, feel it as fully as you can. This is the juice.
The next step is for you to practice Intentional Dreaming, which is for dreamers of all levels.
It directly serves you if you never remember your dreams, as much as it will serve you if you have been regularly lucid dreaming all of your life.
Learn the art of Intentional Dreaming
Step 2. Write your dreams - (for details, see Journaling)
When you wake, breathe and be for a few moments or minutes, then write.
Write whatever is there, whether it's a single image, a feeling, anything at all. Did you wake with a song in your head? You can use what you’re feeling and thinking as your "In". Often the act of writing itself is the best way to connect to your dreamspace. Even writing down what’s going on for you, now that you’re awake, will work, because this has you writing and thus creating the friction between pen and paper. The body understands this vibration. Lightly allow your thoughts to linger in curiosity about what you were dreaming, rather than struggling or grasping for it. Ease is what supports and encourages this approach and with a little practice, it will bring that quality to other parts of your life. This is the difference between forcing and allowing or inviting.
Another practice is to wake and write out a brainstorm.
For example, one morning I wrote out 13 good ideas for dream courses and workshops. As long as it’s creative or approached with curiosity as an exploration, have fun allowing yourself to stay in the space between the dreaming and the waking for the writing, to invite unexpected directions of discovery to emerge. The Dreaming is a far wider field of energy than you may think.
Why remember your dreams?
Recalling your dreams is a way to heighten your over-all sense of self-awareness. The more you connect with what you're up to, both asleep and awake, the more conscious you become in both. It's through this that you begin to truly be able to answer questions like: What do you want and why do you want it?
Your answers will most likely change over time, by small and large degrees, every time you ask and it's the asking of it that prompts you to dream into your new, constantly evolving truths. And still, beneath, your core is unchanged. This journey is about shining ever more light of your conscious awareness into the shadowed and hidden parts within so that you can claim every bit of who you are. From there, you can choose what you want to do. Deny a piece? Embrace it? Explore it and shift it if you wish to? There is a limitlessness here and always, when you drop back into trust, into trusting who you are, trusting in your connection to and expression as Source, you open yourselves to brilliance and quantum potentiality. You're then able to surrender to a greater knowing and from there, the choice that supports your highest good and truest evolution is revealed, often through the simplest of choices.
Dream Recall is about fun, exploration and adventure. It's also about courage, multi-dimensional consciousness and self-awareness. It's about willingly, intentionally unleashing yourself as you truly are - an expression of the universe; Infinite, varied and immeasurably powerful. And it's a key facet of your ability to genuinely co-create your reality.
I only go on like this in the hopes that you don't underestimate the value of this skill. The more attention you place on remembering your dreams, the more of them you will. More scenes, more nuances, more details and then, without warning, you'll begin to recall memories of travels, of places you went while sleeping, of people you spoke with, of things you saw that are actual, of messages coming through from so many different places and times, and an entire dimension of dreaming becomes real and accessible. This is when you really begin to tap into a what's possible. There are multiple dimensions, realities, time-lines, planets, and more with whom and with which you're already in contact. The value in this, if it's not already apparent, isn't simply a widening of how you define your reality. You begin to see evidence and indicators of it all through your waking life.
I'm here to tell you that it's not good, bad, right or wrong, whatever has been the case. You've done as you've needed to, doing the best you've been able to, in each moment. I know this because it's what you've done and we, by our nature, do the best we can in each moment. This is inescapable. The moment you 'improve' your life by any degree, is the first moment, due to any number of reasons and conditions, that you were able to.
In this age of 'knowledge is power', developing your skills of dream recall is the nurturing of a limitless resource, with effects throughout your life, sleeping and waking - just watch the quality of your daily memory become sharper, keener, and enduring.
So, how do you amp up this magnificent ability?
Journaling is one step. Setting Intention the night before is another.
Click here to learn about Intentional Dreaming
Recalling your dreams is as simple as can be and anyone can do it.
I think of it as a skill because it's a practice that builds and becomes refined and increasingly effective with time. If you've never recalled a dream and believe you can't, then I'm happy to deliver a paradigm shift. Follow these simple instructions for two weeks and you'll not only begin to remember your dreams but your waking life will reflect it.
The Fundamentals
- Set your intention the night before
- Take a few moments to come back to your body before moving or opening your eyes
- Pick up your journal and pen (or laptop or computer)
- Put down the date (and time if you wish, but don't skip the date)
- Write what's there.
- If nothing is there, write that nothing is there and let it be. Very soon, more will be.
If you wake and find your dreams elusive, vanishing into the ethers, write what you’re feeling and any thoughts roaming around. The simple habit of putting pen to paper is often enough to summon them back. Even if you don't remember much, after just a few days, you will. Throughout your dream practice, this is a habit to return to. This should work well enough, if your dream journal is on your computer because your mind (via muscle memory) knows what your typing from the keystrokes. If you prefer to use a voice-recorder, it should also work, though I haven’t tested that method so if you take this route, please let me know your results.
The benefits of recording your dreams
Keeping a dream journal nurtures your relationship with The Dreaming and your own dream life. It’s really as simple as “the more attention you give to your dreams, the more will unfold for you from them. Your sleeping dream first, then your waking dream.
Recalling your dreams is as simple as can be and anyone can do it. I think of it as a skill because it's a practice that builds and becomes refined and increasingly effective with time. If you've never recalled a dream and believe you can't, then I'm happy to deliver a paradigm shift. Follow these simple instructions for two weeks and you'll not only begin to remember your dreams but your waking life will reflect it.
If you're already remembering your dreams, these skills can assist in discovering new patterns and new layers that you may not have noticed before.
The next step to remembering your dreams is to want to.
Ask yourself if you really want to remember your dreams. Do you hear a voice responding with reasons why that's not actually true? I've spoken with many dreamers over the years who felt fear, anxiety or concern around engaging their dreams more consciously. Some feel it leaves them exposed and vulnerable to danger. Others feel that it may require them to DO something as a result of what they learned in their dreams and that 'thing' may feel larger than them. Still others have only experienced nightmares and want to close that door as tightly as possible.
To let you in on a secret, my fascination with dreams began with seven years of recurring nightmares.
Are you familiar with the phrase, 'The only way out, is through" ? This is just as true of your dreaming as it is with everything else. What's different here is that you're not doing it alone, nor are you doing it without guidance and that can make ALL the difference.
Everything is in the dreaming and you have as much power as you choose to have.
Talk with someone about it. Email me about it. Feel it.
The majority of evolutionary practices begin with a strong emotional surge and resonance in the heart. Can you imagine waking in the morning and remembering vivid, exciting dreams you've just left? Focus there. What are you genuinely feeling? Excited? Tearful? Surprised or in shock? Skeptical? Relieved and comforted? Whatever is there, feel it as fully as you can. This is the juice.
The next step is for you to practice Intentional Dreaming, which is for dreamers of all levels.
It directly serves you if you never remember your dreams, as much as it will serve you if you have been regularly lucid dreaming all of your life.
Learn the art of Intentional Dreaming
Step 2. Write your dreams - (for details, see Journaling)
When you wake, breathe and be for a few moments or minutes, then write.
Write whatever is there, whether it's a single image, a feeling, anything at all. Did you wake with a song in your head? You can use what you’re feeling and thinking as your "In". Often the act of writing itself is the best way to connect to your dreamspace. Even writing down what’s going on for you, now that you’re awake, will work, because this has you writing and thus creating the friction between pen and paper. The body understands this vibration. Lightly allow your thoughts to linger in curiosity about what you were dreaming, rather than struggling or grasping for it. Ease is what supports and encourages this approach and with a little practice, it will bring that quality to other parts of your life. This is the difference between forcing and allowing or inviting.
Another practice is to wake and write out a brainstorm.
For example, one morning I wrote out 13 good ideas for dream courses and workshops. As long as it’s creative or approached with curiosity as an exploration, have fun allowing yourself to stay in the space between the dreaming and the waking for the writing, to invite unexpected directions of discovery to emerge. The Dreaming is a far wider field of energy than you may think.
Why remember your dreams?
Recalling your dreams is a way to heighten your over-all sense of self-awareness. The more you connect with what you're up to, both asleep and awake, the more conscious you become in both. It's through this that you begin to truly be able to answer questions like: What do you want and why do you want it?
Your answers will most likely change over time, by small and large degrees, every time you ask and it's the asking of it that prompts you to dream into your new, constantly evolving truths. And still, beneath, your core is unchanged. This journey is about shining ever more light of your conscious awareness into the shadowed and hidden parts within so that you can claim every bit of who you are. From there, you can choose what you want to do. Deny a piece? Embrace it? Explore it and shift it if you wish to? There is a limitlessness here and always, when you drop back into trust, into trusting who you are, trusting in your connection to and expression as Source, you open yourselves to brilliance and quantum potentiality. You're then able to surrender to a greater knowing and from there, the choice that supports your highest good and truest evolution is revealed, often through the simplest of choices.
Dream Recall is about fun, exploration and adventure. It's also about courage, multi-dimensional consciousness and self-awareness. It's about willingly, intentionally unleashing yourself as you truly are - an expression of the universe; Infinite, varied and immeasurably powerful. And it's a key facet of your ability to genuinely co-create your reality.
I only go on like this in the hopes that you don't underestimate the value of this skill. The more attention you place on remembering your dreams, the more of them you will. More scenes, more nuances, more details and then, without warning, you'll begin to recall memories of travels, of places you went while sleeping, of people you spoke with, of things you saw that are actual, of messages coming through from so many different places and times, and an entire dimension of dreaming becomes real and accessible. This is when you really begin to tap into a what's possible. There are multiple dimensions, realities, time-lines, planets, and more with whom and with which you're already in contact. The value in this, if it's not already apparent, isn't simply a widening of how you define your reality. You begin to see evidence and indicators of it all through your waking life.
I'm here to tell you that it's not good, bad, right or wrong, whatever has been the case. You've done as you've needed to, doing the best you've been able to, in each moment. I know this because it's what you've done and we, by our nature, do the best we can in each moment. This is inescapable. The moment you 'improve' your life by any degree, is the first moment, due to any number of reasons and conditions, that you were able to.
In this age of 'knowledge is power', developing your skills of dream recall is the nurturing of a limitless resource, with effects throughout your life, sleeping and waking - just watch the quality of your daily memory become sharper, keener, and enduring.
So, how do you amp up this magnificent ability?
Journaling is one step. Setting Intention the night before is another.
Click here to learn about Intentional Dreaming
