Remembering Your Dreams

Excerpt from Draw Nearer To God With Your Dreams
Copyright Gloria Fisher 2009. All rights reserved.

Has this ever happened to you? The alarm clock buzzer jars you awake and about the time you reach over to kill it with a slap, you hear the baby crying from an adjoining bedroom. So you grab your robe and hit the floor running. Sadly, all the dreams you had fly right out the window. Or maybe the clock radio awakens you to the 7:00 a.m. drive-time disk jockey or the highway helicopter announcer describing the back up at the intersection of Such-’n-Such and So-’n-So Roads. Somewhere in the back of your mind the name of the street registers as being on your route to work. You grab the radio knob and twist it up to loud. And your dream is long gone.

How many dreams do you remember nightly? One? Two? Some people remember three or four dreams a night. Others only remember one. Some, however, feel very frustrated that they don’t remember any. Fully intending to remember their dreams, they may place a pad of paper on the night stand before retiring. But unfortunately, as soon as the buzz of the alarm clock goes off, the dreamer’s slate is wiped clean.

There are several reasons why people don’t remember their dreams. Maybe your medication is affecting your dream life. Maybe you don’t want to remember your dreams. But if you do, it is important to understand that remembering your dreams is a habit. A habit that takes practice to establish, much like playing the piano or riding a bicycle. So, first of all, make the commitment to remember your dreams, tell yourself before going to sleep, "Tonight I will remember my dreams." Try to wake up without any noise. Lie awake for a while when you first wake up and try to recall and replay any dream or part of a dream you can remember. This reinforces the dream on your consciousness.

After 30 nights of practice you should be remembering at least one dream a night. Of course, if you also commit to recording your dreams, you’ll probably start remembering multiple dreams per night. When you begin to take your dreams seriously, your dreams will begin to take your commitment seriously, and more and more dream material will present itself to you. Remember that dreams have a purpose. Their purpose is to heal your soul. The more dreams you recall and the more understanding you have of your dreams, the more inner healing you will enjoy.