We have all had dreams that make us feel good, but we are disappointed to wake up from sleep.You may try to get back to sleep as soon as possible.By using sleep meditation techniques and focusing on the right imagery, you might be able to return to another version of your dream that allows you to experience it again in profound new ways.
Step 1: Don't move.
If you wake up in the middle of a dream, lie down.When you wake up, the sensory stimuli of your surroundings interfere with the dream remnants in your mind.This will cause the dream to go away quickly.
Step 2: Keep your eyes closed.
If you keep your body in a sleep- ready state, it will be easier to return to sleep.Your eyes should be shut and you should remain still.If you want to have a chance of replicating a dream environment, you have to do it fast, because light has the effect of waking up the brain.It's a good idea to keep your room dark while you sleep.
Step 3: Slowly and deeply breathe.
Keep your breathing under control.Take the same slow breaths you would when stretching after a workout.The better chance you have of falling back to sleep is if you return your breathing to the rhythm of rest as soon as possible.If it takes you a while to get back to sleep, regulated breathing techniques might help.All you have to do is inhale slowly to the count of 4, hold your breath for 7 seconds and then exhale completely.The body will become more receptive to the hormones that induce sleep as the brain is oxygenated.Many people claim that they can sleep in as little as one minute by regulating their breathing.
Step 4: Do not forget the last impressions of the dream.
Try to remember as much as possible about the dream you had when you woke up.What was happening?The players were involved.What did the environment look like to you?What did you think about it?You can lie in that unthinking, emotionally receptive state until you get back to sleep.Dreams are random combinations of sensory reactions, feelings and thoughts that come from waking life.It is more likely that your next dreams will contain the same images and events if you stay focused on resuming an aborted dream while falling asleep.The emotional response is believed to be the most important factor in determining how much we remember of dreams.
Step 5: All you can do is remember.
If you have been thrust back into consciousness and there is no chance of sleeping, you should have a dream.Take a look at the most important and memorable details of the dream, as well as our place within it.It is important to remember to grasp as much of the dream as you can.When you dream, the part of the brain that forms and stores memories is not active, so the details will quickly disappear.Zero in on it if you don't know whether you remember a certain detail or not.It will help you resume a dream that is close to the original, with missing details provided by your own creativity.
Step 6: The dream's ideas should be solidified.
It is possible to turn each remembered impression into a real thing.Focus on how things looked and sounded, what the setting was like and any other sensory aspects you can remember.This will give you images of substance to fix while you try to get it back to the dream state.A good way to get as much detailed memory as possible is to quiz your dream memory on the six basic questions that journalists attempt to answer when investigating a story: who, what, where, when, why and how.
Step 7: Write down what happened in the dream.
Write out what happened in the dream from the viewpoint that it happened.Put it down from beginning to end if you can remember an entire scene.If you only have fragments of the dream, order them with as much continuity as you can so that your brain can get back to normal.It is important to record the content of the dream accurately, like giving a description of a suspect to a police sketch artist.What you remember from a dream should be written down immediately.It is easy to think that you will be able to recall the dream later, but it is not.Don't worry about spelling,grammar, or writing in straight lines when you write an entry in your dream notebook.It's on your mind so make sure you get it all out.
Step 8: You can create sketches of the action.
On a blank page next to your description, draw the action that happened in the dream.If you want to return to the dream, you should give characters and occurrences more of a visual foothold in your memory.Think about the illustrations in the storybooks you read as a kid.Every phase of the dream should be included in your dream notebook.You can color your dream sketches or create a kind of progression of drawings like the storyboard for a film if you wish.The more details you can record, the better.
Step 9: Prepare to sleep.
You may be trying to continue or revisit a dream that you had several nights or weeks before.Start by getting your body ready for sleep, with eyes closed and breathing under control.Allow your breath to start a natural rhythm.Keep your thoughts unrelated to the dream you are attempting to access.If there is a television or radio in the room, it might make it hard to fall asleep or wake you up.If you keep a dream notebook, it is helpful to review it before you fall asleep so that the images remain in your mind.
Step 10: The experience of a dream.
You should think about the way the dream made you feel when you first experienced it.It's time to put yourself back in that emotional state.Think of your dream as your destination when you pass into sleep.
Step 11: Play through the dream many times.
Imagine if you could relive a scene from a movie on repeat in your mind.If you want to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of the dream, you need to work through each section painstakingly.Before you wake up, the most clearly remembered details from dreams are usually taken from the end of REM sleep.Try to time the cycling of the dream so that you can fall asleep with the most vivid details fresh in your mind.If you combine your dream visualization with calming regulated breathing techniques, you can play through the most memorable parts of the dream slowly in your mind.
Step 12: Try to forget the dream and fall asleep.
You will pass successfully into sleep during the process of recollecting the details of your dream and you will find yourself in a kind of variant of the original dream, complete with the same basic features but different in the way that it plays out.You can gain more control over the structure of your dreams with practice, as you can revisit the same type of dream multiple times and choose what to dream about.Don't get discouraged if a certain dream does not work the first time.It can take a long time before you can recreate a dream.The practice of training oneself to moderate one's dreams is known as "lucid dreaming", which is thought to be a little-known way of exploiting the unconscious processes of the mind that take over when we're asleep.