Q: If your pen and journal are not by the bed, the odds that you will record your dreams are small. Even if you are diligent about recording your dream later in the day, you are less likely to remember the details of the dream, if you remember it at all. Keep your journal and pen on the nightstand ready to go so that it will be the last thing you see before you fall asleep, and the first thing you see when you wake up. You could also keep a dim light on the nightstand, or get a pen with a light built-in so that you can see what you're writing when you wake up to record a dream in the middle of the night. When you first wake, keep your eyes closed. Think about the last things you remember before you woke up, and try to follow what you remember backwards as far back in the dream as you can. Then, as soon as you've gotten as far back as you remember, open your eyes and start writing. If you do wake up in the middle of the night after a really interesting, good, or crazy dream, write it down right away. You may be certain you'll remember it in the morning, but you'll be sorry you didn't if you wake up in the morning and have forgotten everything. Your memories of your dream can fade quickly, so try not to let anything distract you. Get the main things you remember out quickly, and then try to remember more minute details. Writing dreams in the present tense may be helpful for remembering a few extra details that you had forgotten. If you are writing things in present tense (e.g. "I am feeling," "I am walking," "I am scared"), you're replaying the events of the dream in your head, kind of like a movie. You never know what new memories might pop up. If someone else in the dream is doing something, keep that in present tense as well, but stay in the first person. For example, if your significant other is in the dream, and he is running towards you, write down, "(Name of your significant other) is running towards me. He seems excited about something." If you end up going back through your dreams to look for patterns, knowing exactly when you had the dream might be helpful. Years down the road, when you think back on what was going on in your life at a certain time, you may notice that your dreams coincided with how you were feeling, even if it wasn't obvious at the time. You should also give your dream a title. The title should be a short summary of the whole dream. This will also help you find the dream later on. For example, if you had a dream about flying, and you were on a magic carpet, you could title the dream, "Flying Like Aladdin." You should write down any little detail that you can think of, even if it isn't a fully-formed thought. Writing it down might help you remember a few more details. If you consistently write it down, you might notice that this small glimpse is something you commonly see. For example, perhaps in your dream you remember seeing a small rainbow beach ball, but cannot remember where you are, where you saw the ball, or where the ball came from. Just make a bullet point in your journal that says, "I am seeing a small rainbow beach ball." If you want, you can make a note that you don't remember anything more about the context of the dream. You can even just write the words "rainbow beach ball," if you want. Although you may not be able to remember your dreams every single day, you should still try to be as consistent as possible. If you can't remember anything about your dreams of the night before, then maybe just spend a few minutes writing down any thoughts and feelings that you woke up with. Being consistent will help your mind understand that this is a habit, and may make it easier to remember your dreams over time.
A: Keep your journal next to your bed. Write down your dreams as soon as you wake. Write in the present tense. Be sure to write the date of the dream. Record where you were, the people in the dream, the things you saw, etc. Be consistent.

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