Help with remembering dreams

[Thirteen Ravens]

For the most part I don't remember my dreams, or just vague impressions.
I'm sure there are exercises/methods to help remember dreams. I don't know if they need be done before or after awakening.
Any advice?
"In order to dance the rattlesnake, a little bit of grace is required."

[LittleCrow]

AS SOON AS YOU REALIZE YOU HAVE BECOME AWAKE, LATCH ON TO ANYTHING THAT YOU GET OUT OF THE DREAM -- EVEN IF IT IS ONLY AN IMPRESSION -- HOLD ON TO THAT IMPRESSION THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE DAY.
BE CONSTANTLY AWARE THAT YOU HAVE TWO LIVES. DURING THE DAY SIDE, BE CONSTANTLY AWARE OF YOUR NIGHT SIDE, AS IF IT WERE A PART OF YOUR BODY LIKE A LITTLE FINGER, AND YOU SHOULD RECEIVE TRIGGERS FROM THE ENVIRONMENT WHICH WILL CALL FORTH MORE DETAILS FROM THE DREAM.
IS THIS ADVICE ACCEPTABLE TO THE CARLOS FOLLOWERS?

[Thirteen Ravens]

Isn't there a chance that the dream will be blurred by the events of the day? I have a feeling that if the dream isn't captured within an hour of awakening, chances are that it will corrupted by your awake life - interepreted into a form that is no longer comprehensible from its original state.
But I've only remembered a few dreams in my life, I will try your advice and see where it leads me.
"In order to dance the rattlesnake, a little bit of grace is required."

[explora]

keep a pen and paper beside your bed.. write little snippets of the dream as soon as you wake.. quickly attempt to think about the main themes, what they could be to do with.. keep them in mind till next morning..
um.. and also try intending a dream on a particular topic.. could be somethign as simple as 'having a fun dream' or a 'healing dream'. practise this, and dream recall is boudn to get better..

[hdoll]

Sleeps are of four type: 1. delirious loops 2. usual 3. bright (lucid) 4. controlled. If you do not remember your dreams, then in you the failure of the subprogram for operational memorization goes. There is a simple method of the restarting of system - hehehe. For this the type of dream that dreamhackers are called "delirious loops" is used. These are sleeps with the repetitive monotonous subject. Here there is few actions, the content is very schematic. Recall your delirious states. Now you must generated this form of sleep. Ready?
The best method for the generation of delirious loops is computer games such as Quake or Doom - game, where many corridors, rotations, doors and so forth. These games have at the basis a labyrinth. They immerse us in the state of the matrix - a matrix of labyrinth. Person, who is found in the state of matrix, in the sleep sees delirious loops. Thus, if you want to learn to memorize your dreams, then to you is necessary the powerful restart of your dreaming program. Do want you that I would continue its instructions?

[Nagual LoneWolf]

I would like you to go on Hdoll. The idea of turning the tables would help me. I am the type that finds what I can use in something and then make it my own.
In a open mind will knowledge flow-wolf-flow-wolf

[hdoll]

The dreamhackers use delirious loops not only for the work with the labyrinths and the diseases, but also for the special purpose. Let us assume you placed to yourselves problem, but cannot solve it. Assume you are close to the discovery but cannot formulate him. Assume you it is desirable to devise the new original subject of the book or to find a answer to the situation in the life. This can be made in the dream which corresponds to the type of delirious loop. The delirious loops differ from usual dreams in terms of the increased level of awareness. Here you can conduct internal dialogue, discuss, recall about the stated goals. Therefore we use this property. In the second place, delirious loops were called their name because of the repetition (cyclic recurrence) of one and the same subject. I.e. we deal concerning the virtual generator, which cyclically twists one and the same task (question) and will carry it into the analytical block of consciousness. Usually people introducing no questions. The program of delirious loop works by default. And we see delirious cyclic sleep.
If you are dreamhacker, then you must learn to use this dreaming subprogram. Thus, we artificially cause the delirious loop (at least with the aid of videogame). Then we attempt to aware ourselves in the dream and advance specific problem - two or three cycles of the repetitive dream we accomplish tuning interrogator system. And everything! Further we remain observers. Our question enters the analytical block of consciousness. As it works, this can say only the creators of human consciousness. But this block works ideally, if we raised our question for it in the correct sequence of actions. The generator of the delirious loop repeated our question. Analytical block works. Finally, we obtain a answer.
Men. It is necessary to learn everything. This method also requires several attempts. But if you try it and will achieve success yourselves, you obtain understanding how hackers work with the programs of the consciousness.

[Guest]

What I do to remember my dreams is I either write them down or I tell a bunch of people afterwards. But, before, to remember I tell myself before I go to bed, "If oned oes not remember their dreams, they are but nothing."

[Nagual LoneWolf]

Has anyone have a memory that appears to be real but was discovered later to be but a dream?

[hdoll]

I propose one exercise to you. When you yourselves in the sleep, some theme of sleep will occur around you. You must recall at this moment that it was with you earlier - which occurred in the sleep before you awared yourselves in the sleep. I warn that with the successful result you test very strong shaking. Actually, this there will be encounter with the nagual.

[elvana]

Nagual LoneWolf,
last time that kind of thing happened to me freaked me out completely.
Two years a ago, I had a boss, that wanted to cheat me for the money I earned on the job I was doing for him. When I quit the job, I took a lot of written stuff with me in order to make him pay, just in case he refused to send me my last salary, I would have some private information that would make him pay for sure. I had the papers in my apartment and when the money arrived in fall I decided to throw out the papers. I was going to rip them apart before trowing them away, and even scatter the snippets to different garbage cans outside, since my neighbors are very nosy.
Well you know how things are. I threw out the papers, but I did not rip them apart, I only scattered them to different garbage cans outside. The following week I suddenly remembered to have thrown out the papers without being careful, and now maybe my neighbors had found the material and would inform my former boss, steeling the secrets of his business..... I got frantic. I rushed outside to search the garbage cans. Nothing to find. I recalled the whole event of throwing out these papers. I had stepped outside the house. It had been a lazy afternoon in fall, the leaves already falling down, no rain, no wind. I had scanned the ground with my eyes, had watched everything very carefully, remembered how my body had felt and my mood, remembered how I had scattered the papers to different trash cans. Just one afternoon out of thousands...
And you know what? It had been a dream. A dream as real as reality can be. After sensing there was something wrong with my memory, I turned my apartment upside down and found these damn papers. I freaked out. A dream only! I panicked. I only cooled after the voice of seeing told me, this dream had been a preparation for the next dreaming gate, that I would pass. And really, a couple of months later I awoke in a second physical body in my parent's garden, while the body was asleep in it's bed. A reality at least as real as our day to day world.

[explora]

What an interesting story elvana..

[Nagual LoneWolf]

This is a gate in changing the real from the imagined.
Is there that much difference?

[elvana]

Nagual LoneWolf,
I don't get it. Do you mean that this gate lets you distinguish clearly inbetween imagination and reality?

[Nagual LoneWolf]

There is no reality and its edges hold the gate to unreality. They both exist dreamers.
The voice of seeing always tells us what is real and it is our only guide unless you want to count me. Lone Wolf

[elvana]

Reality consists out of the conditions by which your being exists. Something that is unreal that is unreality, is not like my being, it is like something I don't understand.
The more dreaming gates a dreamer passes, the more real dreaming gets for a dreamer, when one thinks of the impact dreaming has on the life of the dreamer as a Tonal.
For the Nagual (your dreaming body or the Self) the world of the Tonal, the solid world out of matter, also becomes of greater and greater importance as the Tonal passes the dreaming gates. Passing the 3rd gate for example implies, that the dreaming body examines the solid world, the Tonal lives in. It literally means, that your Nagual is walking around in the Tonal's world without being made out of matter.
At forth gate you add the matter to the dreaming body, so to speak the reality of your existence in time and space without being bound to the laws of time and space. Every step constitutes a new reality out there though. It's all an evolving dream.

[explora]

Very itneresting elvana. and well put!
I'd love to do some of the gates dreaming; i'm just not quite sure if i'm ready for it yet..
Have you got any more similar stories, about your journeys through the gateS?

[elvana]

Yes I do, but my heart doesn't feel ready to write right now. But I will write some later on in this thread.

[explora]

OK thanks elvana,
nice of you to say so.. don't feel you need to post it - i was just a little interested that's all.. explora

[Guest]