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<\/a>1.\tSet an intention for the night<\/strong><\/p>\nBefore you go to bed, write down an intention for the night. This can be a travel plan (\u201cI would like to go to Hawaii\u201d or \u201cI would like to visit my girlfriend\/boyfriend\u201d). It might be a specific request for guidance (\u201cI want to know what will happen if I change my job\u201d). It could be a more general setting of direction (\u201cI ask for healing\u201d or \u201cI open myself to my creative source\u201d). You might simply say, \u201cI want to have fun in my dreams and remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
Make sure your intention has some juice<\/em>. Don\u2019t make dream recall one more chore to fit in with all the others.<\/p>\n Having set your intention, make sure you have the means to honor it. Keep pen and paper (or a tape recorder) next to your bed so you are ready to record something when you wake up.<\/p>\n Record something<\/em> whenever you wake up, even if it\u2019s at 3 a.m. If you have to go to the bathroom, take your notebook with you and practice doing two things at once. Sometimes the dreams we most need to hear come visiting at rather anti-social hours, from the viewpoint of the little everyday mind.<\/p>\n If you don\u2019t remember a dream when you first wake up, laze in bed for a few minutes and see if something comes back. Wiggle around in the bed. Sometimes returning to the body posture we were in earlier in the night helps to bring back what we were dreaming when our bodies were arranged that way.<\/p>\n If you still don\u2019t have a dream, write something down anyway: whatever is in your awareness, including feelings and physical sensations. You are catching the residue of a dream even if the dream itself is gone. And as you do this, you are saying to the source of your dreams, \u201cI\u2019m listening. Talk to me.\u201d<\/p>\n 2.\tPractice Conscious Entry into the Dreamspace<\/strong><\/p>\n You don’t need to go to sleep in order to dream. You can enter dreaming from a quiet place of meditation, from the twilight zone between sleep and waking, or through shamanic drumming. You may want to check out my drumming CD, “Wings for the Journey”. You can take a favorite picture and use it as a personal dreamgate. Imagine yourself stepping behind that line of trees in the landscape painting, for example, and having an adventure on the other side. Or take a favorite piece of music and let yourself flow with it into a series of dreamlike scenes.<\/p>\n 3.\tPlay with the Dreamlike Symbols of Everyday Life<\/strong><\/p>\n It’s fun to devote a little time every day to tracking the dreamlike play of symbols in everyday life. It’s also very interesting how, when we give more room to studying coincidence and random messages (in the vanity plate of the car ahead, or what comes on the car radio, for instance) we seem to unlock the nocturnal dreamgates and more comes through.<\/p>\n 4.\tBe Kind to Fragments<\/strong><\/p>\n Don\u2019t give up on fragments from your night dreams. The wispiest trace of a dream can be exciting to play with, and as you play with it you may find you are pulling back more of the previously forgotten dream.<\/p>\n<\/a>About Robert Moss:<\/strong>
\nRobert Moss is the author of “Dreaming the Soul Back Home” and numerous other books about dreaming, shamanism, and imagination. His fascination with the dreamworld began in his childhood in Australia, when he had three near-death experiences and first learned the ways of a traditional dreaming people through his friendship with Aborigines. Visit him online at www.mossdreams.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n