How to Remember Your Dreams —
6 Tips for Dream Recall
Dreaming is a unique experience for everyone. Some people remember all of their dreams, and others have a harder time connecting to the sacred dream-space. Dreams communicate to us of beginnings, endings, premonitions, healing old memories, and sometimes even nightmares! Your dreams are always sharing with you through your subconscious. It’s where your mind can be at ease and the deeper truths of your being, your desires, or your fears come to surface.
Conscious dreaming and lucid dreaming is a beautiful way to tap into more of your potential and who you are at your core. There is so much to decipher and decode from the dream world that can support you in your waking life!
Here are some top tricks for enhancing your dream recall. Give them a try!
Tips for Remembering Your Dreams
Meditate before bed or listen to a guided meditation track with binaural beats. This prepares the subconscious mind to do some dream work while sleeping. It’s a great time to listen to a track that focuses on a specific goal, like building wealth or abundance for example, or just pick something that you know will help you get really relaxed. You can even listen to a longer track that you can let yourself fall asleep to!
Set the intention to remember your dreams. You can’t receive, if you don’t ask! If there is something troubling you, or you know you are working towards a certain manifestation, ask a question you’d like some clarity or support on and see if you get an answer either through your dreams or upon waking. Dreams can be working their magic, even if you don’t get woken up by a dream or you don’t remember the details...but if you wake up and something feels like it has shifted or altered you in your sleep there's a good chance you were busy dreaming and working in the astral planes.
Keep a notebook and pen beside your bed for journaling. If you ever wake up from a dream in the middle of the night, or remember your dream upon waking in the morning — write it down! If you remember something throughout the day, any little detail — write it down. This communicates to your subconscious mind that you are listening, making connections and being receptive. More pieces may come to you throughout the day. Often when you are doing something meditative where your mind doesn’t have to think too hard, it can make it’s way back to you. This can happen often while washing dishes, making breakfast or even cleaning the house.
Place an amethyst crystal near your bedside, or around your head. Some of the best crystals for supporting lucid dreaming and dream recall are amethyst, moonstone, and clear quartz. Use all three to really super charge your night-time visions.
Drink an herbal dream tea blend of Blue Lotus, Mugwort, and Passionflower. These teas are known for activating psychoactive properties and enhancing the visual parts of your brain. When you drink a nice cup before you head up to bed, you are priming your body for an even more open minded approach to dreaming.
Trust and acknowledge what you receive. The art of dreaming is a practice, and so the more that you engage with your dreams, and trust them the more you will deepen your intuitive connection and open up to new dream experiences like astral travel, and past life recall.
Another thing to note as you practice your dreaming, is that it is important to shield and protect yourself energetically before you sleep. This is important, because although we want to be open and receptive to the magical wonders of the night we also want to be protected as there are a lot of various energies, and spiritual entities active at night-time. It’s important to imagine and visualize a strong shield of protection around your entire energetic body and aura. You can use the colour violet for a strong shield and then see a strong copper pyramid or another metal of your choosing, surrounding you and keeping you safe.
Pay special attention around New & Full Moons, as it is likely that your dream-space will be more active at these times.
Make it a normal thing to honour and respect your dreams, to listen and hear each other’s dreams. With your friends, or your lovers. If you’re a parent, ask your children about their dreams daily. You’ll help them discover so much, and help them feel more confident to keep dreaming! This daily dream conversation is also super helpful for decoding, healing and working through night terrors with young ones. Happy Dreaming!
By Vanessa Faria