Ways to remember dreams

HalloweenJack

I frequently have dreams that are like films.

They are stories and they are always a bit different. I'm certain they are not replaying pieces from actual films I've seen before or books I've read as I've never thought that the themes or characters are familiar.

My idea is that it is my brain giving me inspirations for stories to write (I would consider myself fairly imaginative and I like writing). I even hear my mind telling me that it would be a good story and to write it down when I wake up, etc.

My only problem is I can never remember it exactly and I feel like the story in my dream is always better than what I jot down.

Anyway, I'm wondering if there's anyway to fully remember these dreams.

komodosp

I once had a wierd dream and as soon as I woke I wrote it down... It stayed in my mind for a long time (even though I never read what I wrote down) whereas usually the dreams fade from memory after less than a few hours...

So keep a pen and paper beside your bed!

marvin_spazz

you should watch the film '' the science of sleep'' its a french film but alot of english and rest subtitled.... very funny and odd. everyone dreams so i doubt u have some calling in life. its when u confuse dreams with reality.. thats when things get a bit f'd up. i have filthy dreams sometimes, maybe my calling is a porn star. makes as much sense as your point kid. watch film though good laugh.....

koHd

The thing to remember is how you interpret things in dreams isn't the same as real life.

Your stories feel like they're the best stories ever and everything seems to make perfect sense, because its your dream.

For example I have dreams I can speak French & Spanish fluently. I can understand the people talking in those languages and communicate perfectly.

But in reality I can't understand those languages, so in the dream it was probably jibberish that was being spoken.

But to me int the dream it is definitely French and Spanish.

I've also had dreams where I made a great tune (I produce music as a hobby). The tune does be the best thing I've ever made and it's so real I can hear every element perfectly. But again, it's just messed up perception in a dream and what I'm hearing isn't real.

If you get me?

It confuses me, just trying to explain it heh

lil_lisa

I kept a dream diary last year online, just emails about what happened in my dreams as soon as I woke up. I look back on them now and I can still remember having that dream and what was going on. Its really effective. It makes me wonder of all the dreams that have disappeared out of my head!

honest_dan

thats was a class arty film alrite.... french eh, mad yolks! that think with the giant hands and thrown tv away were my brief highlights. I would not knock original poster though because down through the ages people who have done great things or in most cases just memorable achivements have confessed to having premonitions to them. Maybe though for example if u made some life changing discovery like cure for cancer and in the press conference u were asked did u dream such a thing was possiblle?....one wud probably say they had known and dreamed of it. martin luther had a famous dream but did he really.. do u think he had that dream or was it merely a speech. I think he had that dream and maybe just maybe I will too have a dream. Mad buzz lost my run but had a point somewhere .... if only i could remember. keep on dreaming. what kinda of people look in such threads i wonder. I had a dream and it was ****. I must make up a dream every day and tell it to the same person to piss them off. that wpuld be fun. rant over. bad rant...........out with u...sccwaaann!!!

CUCINA

Anyone have stories involving someone they know who sleep-walks?
My wife and I were in prague for a few days recently, stayed in a very nice hotel.
I was awoken with a knock on the door during the night. I was putting on my trousers and there was another knock, so whoever it was, they seemed a bit impatient.
Anyway, I opened the door and to my disbelief there was a girl (late 20's, early 30's) standing there with her arms folded STARK NAKED!
I looked at her, she looked at me, I looked back...so I said the only thing I could say, "sorry, wrong room". She casually said "Oh!Sorry!" and slowly walked away...I closed the door not knowing what to think!
Afterwards, we speculated on what it was all about and my wife suggested that she must have been sleep-walking...
One way or the other, this goes down as the most bizarre visit I ever had.