5 tips for better remembering your dreams

Have something to write on hand

This advice follows from the previous one. The memory of the dream is very evanescent, so you have to mobilize quickly after waking up to keep track of it. Have a notebook or dictaphone handy to write down the images, the main elements of your dream. A few sentences, even a few keywords may be enough if you then have the time during the day to reconstruct the dream as a whole.

Writing down a dream correctly can be very time-consuming, because you have to recompose it, put it in a timeline. Often, he does not have one: it is by writing that one creates it.

Stay open-minded during the day

Start a scan

While dreams can be great material to work with in therapy, having trouble remembering them or not remembering them at all can be a reason to start therapy. Indeed, some people do not remember their dreams because the contents of these are disturbing. Their superego censors them and the unconscious fails to convey messages that could help overcome blockages. Therapy can help in other ways to release these blockages.

Thanks to Tristan Moir, psychoanalyst and orinotherapist, for his advice and explanations.