Dream recall

My dinner party hostess, who happened to be a descendent of Mary Arnold-Eoster, sent me home with her copy of Studies in Dreams, where the technique of lucid dreaming and its psychedelic delights are described in detail. I was as attracted by the idea of flying in my dreams as I was by the power of self-hypnosis, so I followed Arnold-Eoster s prescription. I simply put a notebook by my bedside, so as to be able to record my dream recall, and told myself, before going to sleep. I ll pay attention to my consciousness, which I would know to be dreaming because of the bizarre discontinuities and incongruities of time, place, and person. 

When we awaken from REM with vivid dream recall, we carry over the subjective experience of dreaming into subsequent waking. But is that all there is to it Do we not, perhaps, carry over some of the physiology, too How complete, and how instantaneous, is our conversion from REM to wake We would almost certainly be wrong if our awakenings were... 

One reason for Huxley s denial of the adequacy of brain mechanisms in accounting for such imagery may be the very same kind of poor dream recall that hindered my recollection of the flower, the ski run, and the maze. Huxley was agreeing with Calvin Hall when he said, Only one dream in three is colored, or has some color in it. If Huxley had tried harder to overcome his poor dream recall he would have realized that intense, preternaturally brilliant color was not the unique hallmark of... 

Both Mr. A and his wife had been frequent dream recallers since childhood and had been interested in the psychology of dreams for some years. As a result, they had decided to tape-... 

Frequency of dream recall and some personality measures. 3. Consult. Psychol., 1962, 26, 467-470. 

Review of D. Cohen, Current research on the frequency of dream recall. Psychol. Bull., 1970, 73, 433-440. UCLA Brain information Service Sleep Bulletin, 1971, No. 82, 8. 

If dreaming is not interrupted by awakening, it is rare to have recall. Poor or no dream recall by many people is a function of the abolition of memory during these brain-activated phases of sleep. As the chemical systems that are responsible for recent memory are completely turned off when the brain is activated during sleep, it is difficult to have recall unless an awakening occurs to restore the availability of these chemicals to the brain. 

They increase recall and the naturalism of the dream recalled. 

Night terrors are pure emotional experiences that occur on awakening from sleep. Typically, they are associated with non-rapid eye movement (NREM) sleep, as are the recurrent dreams of post-traumatic stress. Together with the arousal from NREM sleep, there is intense activation of the heart, the breathing rate increases, and the blood pressure may rise to extremely high levels the person awakens drenched in sweat and terrified, and often has little dream recall whatsoever from these awakenings. 

Review of D. Cohen, Current research on the frequency of dream recall. Psychol. Bull,... 

Frequency of dream recall and some personality measures. 

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