Are there any tips on how to remember your dreams? Are there any exercises for this? I often only know the last fragments of a dream...
Hi Mililea,
Probably sounds dumb but instead of 'trying' to remember a dream (which usually just ends up making me mad and super awake) alternatively maybe just try to fall back into that lovely hypnagogic state while using whatever you 'can' remember as a 'seed' - sort of like a beacon so that you can return to wherever you were.
Exactly like meditating upon a single image / sound actually - takes a little bit of practicing but seems to work for me
I woke up with a song in my head... It was running in my head, I could hear the melody and lyrics and I knew the song (see link
) below ... very funny dear high self
(although I found the lyrics quite fitting as a message to me)
Funny you should say that, much of the time the practice is deployed is often trying to pick up on a chorus or some lyrics so that a 'dream' song can be identified too. Coincidentally 'Islands in the Stream' cropped up once or twice a while ago for me as well (which seemed odd not having heard it for who knows how many years) - and thankfully the 'sail' bit eventually gave it away;
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, ah ha
From one lover to another, ah ha
Sail away
Oh come sail away with me
Islands in the stream
That is what we are
No one in between
How can we be wrong
Sail away with me
To another world
And we rely on each other, ah ha
From one lover to another, ah ha
...years ago I tried to maintain a dream diary and to be honest it was an incoherent mess in terms of the flow.
And yeah, it certainly takes a bit of work but can be surprising when you get in the groove.
As a brief example - if the 'Sail' lyric was what happened to be repeating in the 'dream', one may end up somewhere like this on trying to decipher it?
Sail or
Saille (ᚄ) is the
Irish name of the
fourth letter (
Irish "letter": sing.
fid, pl.
feda) of the
Ogham alphabet, meaning "
willow".
And corresponding to 'the 4th' letter etc. might lend a bit of a 4D vibe to "Sail away with me,
to another world"?
The etymology and kennings unambiguously confirm the meaning "
willow" for this letter name. The
Morann mic Moín kenning is a reference to the sallow grey appearance of the bark of this tree, while the kennings referencing
bees and honey are due to its being commonly pollinated by
bees.
en.wikipedia.org
Or 'willow' or 'tree', as symbol, might be relevant ?
Or 'grey';
Q: Another funny thing is that, a few days later we bought
this book about the Holy Grail and it talks about dreams
of people switching between being black and white, and
about birds that represent this concept such as the
magpie, the balance between good and evil and so forth.
A: Theme presents itself in balanced cycle. Search for grey
middle ground when tempted to choose either black or
white.
Q: Anything else on this?
A: No.
Or bees...the song originally written by the '
Bee Gees'?
A: You have other "true" children to create the defense. All should think of the "Queen Bee"
Released on a Kenny (
Ray) Rogers album called 'Eyes
that see in the Dark'
ken (kĕn)
n.
1. Perception; understanding: complex issues well beyond our ken.
2.
a. Range of vision.
b. View; sight.
v. kenned or kent (kĕnt), ken·ning, kens Scots
v.tr.
1. To know (a person or thing).
2. To recognize.
v.intr.
To have knowledge or an understanding.
[From Middle English kennen (influenced by Old Norse kenna, to know), from Old English cennan, to declare; see gnō- in Indo-European roots.]
And an interpretation of 'Rogers';
Rogers is a patronymic surname derived from the given name Roger, and meaning "son of Roger." The given name Roger means "famous spear," derived from the Germanic elements hrod, meaning "fame" and ger, or "spear."
If added to 'Dolly' - apparently a shortened form of Dolores or
Dorothy!
The Dolorous Stroke is a trope in Arthurian legend and some other stories of Celtic origin. In its fullest form, it concerns the Fisher King (King Pellehan or Anfortas), the guardian of the Holy Grail, who falls into sin and consequently suffers a wound from a mystical weapon (often the Spear of Destiny from Christian eschatology). He becomes the Maimed King, and his kingdom suffers similarly, becoming the Wasteland: neither will be healed until the successful completion of the Grail Quest.
Might seem the basis of a theme?
Alternatively;
sail (n.)
Old English segl "sail, veil, curtain," from Proto-Germanic *seglom (source also of Old Saxon, Swedish segel, Old Norse segl, Old Frisian seil, Dutch zeil, Old High German segal, German Segel), of obscure origin with no known cognates outside Germanic (Irish seol, Welsh hwyl "sail" are Germanic loan-words).
In some sources (Klein, OED) referred to PIE root *sek- "to cut," as if meaning "a cut piece of cloth."
Could be another starting point?
Ra: I am Ra. Firstly, let us establish that both before and after the veil the same conditions existed in time/space; that is, the veiling process is a space/time phenomenon.
Secondly, the character of experience was altered drastically by the veiling process. In some cases such as the dreaming and the contact with the higher self, the experience was quantitatively different due to the fact that the veiling is a primary cause of the value of dreams and is also the single door against which the higher self must stand awaiting entry.
And as mentioned by others, just starting to journal / investigate may accelerate recall
) to just jot down a few words about my dreams when I wake up, even if it's just one word that helps to cement the dream in my mind. After a few days or a week or two I start to remember more and more details.
But today is not every day... and I already had the thought that there might be nothing to say at the moment. I will just relax and read the thread about the dream work AND I will take the notebook with me tonight 
Thank you for your thoughts 
