Techniques to Improve Dream Recall

Since one of the steps to dream control involves remembering your dreams, you can use these tehcniques to improve dream recall.  Like any project, moving forward requires you break your goal into steps and tackle them one at a time.

Dream recall is different for everyone.  You supposedly dream an average of 5 times a night but many people will go months without realizing they've dreamed at all.  Dreams are really a great window into your subconscious and if you don't remember them you're missing a lot of messages that could be useful for self-improvement, decision making, and problem solving.  By problem solving, I don't mean you can use your dreams to give you the answer to that riddle your kid asked you the other night...I mean those day in and day out, fork-in-the-road kinds of problems that we you can't avoid when you're an adult.   You know, these kinds of problems: