Dreams can reveal things about yourself that you can’t easily discover in daily life.
To remember dreams there are a few simple steps to take:
- To begin with, be in the right state before you go to sleep. Try to be as aware as you can throughout the day, observing yourself. At night, try a practice of astral projection, so that you go to sleep concentrated and in an aware state, and have the intention of remembering your dreams.
- In the morning, when you wake up, lie still, don’t move, then you’ll remember your dreams better. When the first dream images appear, concentrate upon them. Try to remember a dream in detail, as though you’re actually in it, so it’s as though it’s really happening. Follow the dreams through until new ones appear—when they do, get into those, and concentrate upon them. In this way, more dreams will appear.
- When you’ve exhausted that process and you can’t remember any more dreams, recite the mantra Raom Gaom as its sound and vibration stimulate inner parts of the psyche that affect dream recall. Pronounce it in an elongated way: Rrrrrrraaaaaaaooooooommmmmmm (breathe) Ggggggaaaaaaaooooooommmmmmm (breathe) and repeat.
- Once you’ve remembered all your dreams, write them down in a dream journal or diary. Make a note of them—this will help you to think about remembering dreams and will help you to build an understanding of what they mean.
Another little tip is when you wake up and you feel that you’ve had an important dream, concentrate on that dream and see if you can go back into it. If you have enough sleep left, you should be able to just drift into sleep and then you’ll continue that dream. If you’re aware enough or concentrated enough, you’ll continue that dream and be self-aware in it, which means you’re having an out-of-body experience.
~ Taken from a talk given by Belsebuub in 2009
