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title: Remembering Your Dreams, Made Easy - Limitless Mindset
description: "Recently, with the help of a technology lifehack I've discovered a fascinating new side of myself, I'm a damned creative dreamer."
author: Jonathan Roseland
url: https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/life-hacks/635-remembering-dreams
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# Remembering Your Dreams, Made Easy

| Ⓒ By Jonathan Roseland |  |
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Applied Neuroscience Strategist, K-Selected Biohacker, Tantric husband, Promethean peaceful parent, Adventuring philosopher, Raconteur & Author. He spent +14 years researching the intersection of human performance enhancement and advanced personal growth in his obsessive quest to find real-life "NZT-48."

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With the help of a technology lifehack I've discovered a fascinating new side of myself, I'm a damned creative dreamer.

I always had a feeling that I had very adventuresome dreams, but until now, I have never been able to recall them in such detail.

Like just the other night, I had a vivid dream where...

*I was the dictator of an underwater society that lived in a giant submarine (with skyscrapers on its hull). Our submarine was hit by a torpedo dropped by a Japanese WW2 zero. So the people of the underwater society decided to depose me as their Dear Leader, and they condemned me to death by giant manta ray. So I put on my mask and snorkel (similar to the mask and snorkel I used years ago in Nicaragua) and went for a swim next to the mega submarine, in the blue depths beneath me I could see the Manta Ray, it shot me with a dart (apparently Manta Rays can shoot darts!) but I was still able to swim, the Manta Ray closed in on me and began to thrash me with its massive wings (which didn't hurt very much). I could see its glistening fangs.* Then I woke up.

This is just one of my nighttime adventures last week...

*I battled stormtroopers while escaping from a version of hell that would put many a video game designer to shame, and I experienced zero gravity traveling to the center of the Earth.*

I'll share one more that was particularly vivid (and fun)...

*I was walking down the street in the urban center of some city. Everybody was tense about something. Then, in the sky appeared two UFOs that sort of looked like SR-71 Blackbirds or MIG-25s, but they were flying backward. This shocked, astonished, and terrified everyone. Then I ran up to an apartment building where my brother Alex lived. The apartment building was trashed, like some sort of a catastrophe had occurred. My brother and I frantically organized supplies for survival. Around this time, I became aware that I was in the midst of a lucid dream. Then I found myself in a different setting; some sort of camp or resort near the ocean. People were having fun. There was a diving board for jumping into the ocean. I went to go jump in, but someone warned me that the board was not long enough to make it in. I got up on the board, and it was indeed too short. So I jumped off from the side of the platform into the ocean - I pole-vaulted in. The ocean bottom was rocky. I bounced off the bottom and flew up into the air above the camp. Then, I was flying above models of civic buildings with national flags behind them.*

Indulge me in a little **dream analysis** of this last one; in the current year, the [civilization is in shoddy shape](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/597-winter-solstice-civilization), and the public is held in a state of terror and paralysis by the mainstream media's nonstop COVID fear-mongering. Everything is so *backward -*that's the way I see it, at least, and I'm doing everything I can to*survive* the intensifying Absurdistan of modernity. The second half of the dream, when I was in the fun place - I don't know what it signifies. The final part, me flying over flags and civic buildings, probably signifies my anti-authoritarian, anti-statist leanings. I'll add that this dream occurred while I was listening to a [holosync-style sleep induction track](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/books/657-rewiring-tinnitus#holosync).

## **I remember them with****voicenotes...**

1. When I sleep, I charge my phone within arm's reach.
2. Before I go to bed, I turn the brightness of my screen completely down and put it in airplane mode. 
3. When I awake from a dream between 4 AM - 8 AM, I record a voice note with as many details as I can recall from the dream. If you *voice journal* your dreams within about 10 minutes of waking up, you'll recall many details - if you wait until the morning, your recall will be very vague.
4. Install the **voicenotes widget** on the home screen of your iPhone or Android, and it takes all of about three seconds to open a voice note and start recording.

**Important**: When you start recording, don't stare directly at the glowing screen - turn it away from your face - as it will hurt your sleep quality.

![Recording Dreams](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/media/reviews/photos/thumbnail/1500x500s/f2/c8/8b/polishing-communication-style-85-1696313176.jpeg)

**Update**: I used to use Evernote voice notes for this, but recently, I broke up with Evernote (it wasn't me, it was them!) because they jacked up their full-featured premium plan to $130 a year (I once paid $25 for it!) Sorry Evernote, you're fancy but NOT that fancy! Any voicenotes app is fine, although my favorite is Miidio Recorder with its sleep-friendly black background.

Like a lot of people, I've tried dream journals before, but by the time I had found my dream journal, a pen, and turned on the lights, I had forgotten some or all of the dream, which kind of defeats the whole purpose of doing it. **Now, it takes me just a few seconds to begin recording, and it doesn't disturb my sleep.**

Have you ever had a lucid dream? If not, you're missing out on a lot of nocturnal adventure. Check out [*Inception in Real Life: 24 Lifehacks for Lucid Dreaming*](https://www.limitlessmindset.com/blog/limitless-lifestyle/667-inception-in-real-life-lifehacks-for-lucid-dreaming)...

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