The plot with the statistics is shown here below (for a detailed explanation on how it is constructed, see this page).

This month again, I managed to increase the number of dreams I remembered (20->24) and the total of days on which this happened (11->16). I am now back at the same level I had when I first started to see the momentum that was generated from starting this blog.
This actually makes me very happy. The more since I know discovered a few pitfalls and how to avoid them. Last time I got over enthusiastic and this led to a over heating, which then resulted in a steep decline.
This time, I took the more gentle approach and tried to improve little by little. This works better for me and I feel much more in control. I just need to keep up with my practices and this is apparently enough to make progress. By this I mean that I did not intensify my practices in any way.

I hope that next month, I will have even better results to show.

To the astral.

Since a year now, they started to divide their content in sites that cover a certain topic. I think that is a great idea. Their newestadition is a site devoted to dreams and astral projection. Check it out. it is really worth it!

My last post on this site dates from some time ago and we announced great news then: I increased the number of dreams I could remember every month.
I argued that making remembering dreams an important issue (like starting a blog about it) was a great help to keep the momentum going.

So, what happened?

I got too ambitious and burned myself. Yes, I wanted to crank up the statistics, show a steady improvement, and then …

Got scared!

I was afraid that by remembering as much dreams as I did, I would never be able to show great improvement. Month after month.
I stopped posting. I saw the number of dreams I remembered go down. I stopped doing my exercises …

The result is easily guessed and I show it in the plot above (to read the plot, please see this page in which I explain it in detail). The trend is upward from the very low 5 dreams I wrote down in March to somewhere around mid Mai, around the time I posted my good results here.
June was terrible! Less than 10 dreams remembered on a whole month! And then finally, I started to crawl out of the downward trend with a total of 20 dreams on 11 days!

I seem to be back on track with two important lesson learned:
First: I remember my dreams for myself and not to impress others. The statistics are a useful means to illustrate that the techniques do word! And that any body can use them to remember a lot of dreams in a short while (a few months).
Second: Due to all the prior exercises I did, I can rapidly recover my previous level of dream recall. It takes 6 to 8 weeks when it was a long time ago I did the exercises (first peak), it takes 1-2 weeks when it was not that long ago (second peak).

For any body starting, this could be a good guideline. One should be able to start remembering dreams in a few weeks of intense training and then start improving.

I hope my experience can be helpful to all the people trying to remember dreams.

To the astral.

1) Failing to remember to do the exercises in the morning.

This is a thing that I even now struggle with, after so many months of practicing. One wakes up and forgets to do the exercises. This is especially the case when one starts out with this kind of exercises.
Do not worry! With persistence you will remember to do them. And you will start doing them regularly.
Why then do I sometimes forget? Well, I sometimes get a rough awakening from my kids: 1-5 year old do not wait to get up, they make you come to their room within the next minute or … . But do not worry, once dram recall becomes a habit, they will come back without doing the exercises. Or when doing them only one day out of two like in my case.

2) Being tired.

All of our memory is affected by our lack of sleep. Everybody knows this from experience. And dream recall is just a special type of the use of our memory: bringing back what we experienced during the sleeping ours. There is no real cure for that except getting more sleep. Go to bed one hour earlier and you will have more success.

3) Lack of faith in your abilities

Nothing impedes progress more than a lack of faith in you own abilities. The most used quote in this respect is: ‘Whether you think you can or you can’t, you are always right’.
Unless you have a severe (and very rare) medical problem, everybody dreams and thus everybody can remember his or her own dreams. This is a very important point. Everybody can. Yes you too

4) Lack of motivation

Dream recall is not that complicated at all, but if you do not try it whole hearted, you will soon give because the lack of success. It is a simple procedure that everybody can learn, but one needs to be persistent to do it. It will probably not work in the first week, or even the first month. But once you get the hang of it, you will see that you can recall as many or few dreams as you really want.

5) Not making it an important thing

Remember that in the case of dream recall, we need to tell our sub-consciousness to commit the dreams to memory, for us to remember them in the morning. But the sub-conscious has many tasks to perform and moreover is not used to perform this one. So, at least in the beginning, you need to tell it that it is a big deal. That it is important to you. I explained how to do this is this post.

6) Not writing everything down

Write all of your dream in a diary. That makes them important (see previous point). But this one is special. It will allow you to track you progress and once progress is made, it will encourage you even more, and before you know, you will remember almost all of your dreams.

I hope you enjoyed this post. If you have found other things that impede your dream recall, please share them with me in the comments section (which is dofollow btw)

To the astral!

But now all this has changed. I can now change profiles with one simple click. This will save me lots of time.

And more good new: the people at entrecard also released a free ebook in which they give a few tips on how to get the best out of the network.

Let’s remember dreams!

Today I would like to illustrate this point with hard facts: numbers!

I keep a dream diary since some time and so I can just count the number of dreams I remember.

I will give you the numbers for March, April and May 2008 up to now.
Why?
Because it illustrates my point perfectly :-). I slacked in my effort to remember dreams and I needed some new impuls. That would have been March. In April, I started thinking about a new blog. I bought a new book on remembering dreams and did my first post on April 17. Since then, I work on it continuously. And now for the numbers:

March:
Remembered Dreams: 4
April:
Remembered Dreams: 9 of which one was a lucid dream
May (up to now)
Remembered Dreams: 11

And May is only half gone! I think that this is a clear proof that the system I use works. I plan to make these numbers available each month, for the same reasons: they are important to me. I will put them in a nice graph, because then upward and downward trends can be easier spotted and remediated if needed.

To the astral.

Use the law of attraction.

The law of attraction states that we attract whatever we think about. The technique is in essence simple: just visualize yourself doing whatever you want to do or have, and it will come to you. In practice it is a bit harder. I have an other blog where I post on this kind of matters. I now run a series detailing the 7 laws of attraction, that detail this.

Use gnostic techniques.

This is actually one of the most potent formulas to remember dreams I know of. Mind you, it is not scientific, but I use this every day and it works wonders.

I use a mantra. A mantra is a phrase that has magical powers. Actually, it imbues the consciousness with the correct vibrations in order to make the magic work.

The mantra is RAOM GAOM.

How to use?

When waking up, again, do not move and mentally repeat the mantra RAOM GAOM in the folllowing way:

RRRRRRAAAAAAOOOOOMMMMMMM GAAAAAAOOOOOOMMMMM

So elongate the words and let the R roll like in Spanish.

That’s all for today, next I will try to make an overview article.

To the astral.

Tada! I thinks it looks awesome and really matches with the theme.

So am I bragging about my own work here? No, it was designed by Samsara from the really nice blog “Living within Samsara“. On this blog you will find all things spiritual like dreams, astral projection and even a section about gnosticism. I invite you all to go over there and check it out. I promise you will find it an interesting read.

To the astral.

But this night I went over the top! As you know, My main aim is astral projection and/or lucid dream induction. And last night it happened. I was dreaming and I thought to myself: “this is not possible. This must be a dream”. And indeed, I was right. Moments later, I was floating in the air!

I tried to reach the moon, as this is a long time goal of mine, but unfortunately, I got a bit over enthusiastic and woke up. I was nevertheless thrilled about this experience, since it has been a long time since I had a lucid dream.
Off course this success is the result of thorough preparation. I did not become lucid just like that. Like remembering dreams, it is a skill that needs to be learned and practiced. I will talk about the hows and whys later, but for the impatient, you can check out this guide or register at gnosticweb for their free courses on astral travel, that include a section on lucid dreaming.

Let me finish by saying that for me this is my ultimate goal: to go to the astral plane with full lucidity.

To the astral.

Yesterday I also produced a squido lens about the 7 laws of attraction. You are welcome to visit it.

In my case I have several reasons. I’m trying to see if I can make my living completely online. But that alone will not do the trick. One needs something more: a subject that one is passionate about, like this blog on dreams and astral projection, or like in the case of my other blog on the law of attraction, a subject that I wanted to study and know better.

In this case, a blog about dreams, it is different. I know the subject rather well: I have been studying it for several years. Actually, I’m interested in gnosis (modern gnosis in the tradition of Samael Aun Weor) and theosophy and through these, I naturally came to doing exercises like meditation, dream recall and astral projection.

Why start a blog on dreams then?

Well, in my last post on remembering dreams, I left out a few clues. Dream recall is actually very simple. And once it starts, it becomes more and more easy. I was able to remember a few dreams per night in my high days.
But as with any skill, one needs to keep at it. For various reasons, I started to practice less, and so I remembered less and less dreams. I was even at a point where I could remember only 1 dream per week or less!

So what is the extra clue to dream remembering?

Make it important!
Yes, that is right. The clues I gave about repeating to yourself to remember your dreams until you fall asleep conveys the following message to your sub-consciousness: “This is important!”
So what better way it their to make this message clear that to start a bog about the topic? Almost none I would say
So the purpose it to be thinking about dreams very regularly via the need to post regularly. And hence this blog was born.

And the results?

I started to do the exercises again, which is already a step in the right direction. I also recorded 3 dreams last week. And this to me is a big success!

To the astral!