 So this is my friend Anthony from the Magnetic Memory Method. He's a memory expert and I will switch to him. He's going to be giving us some tips on, you know, how to remember dreams better, how to improve your memory and just memory in general. So yeah, why don't you just go ahead and introduce yourself, I should say, and tell everyone who you are what you do. All right, well, hello everyone. Thanks for having me here, Stefan, and really appreciate the opportunity to speak to you all. I'm a memory enthusiast, a memory student myself and a teacher of memory techniques at MagneticMemoryMethod.com. And one of my fascinations in how that I got to know Stefan is that I'm really interested in dream recall as a life development practice as something that is a memory exercise and something that enables you to develop more creativity. And that comes from maybe something we can talk about basically quite a long period of personal research in how can I remember lots and lots of dreams so I have lots of cool ideas and novels to write and just better insight about myself and even some problem-solving tools without a lot of the woo-woo of dream interpretation. Not that there's anything wrong with dream interpretation, of course, but there's you know some pretty kooky ideas out there and then there's some real substantial things that you can do. Yeah, yeah, I guess it's really subjective with dream interpretation. Cool, okay, so I've put together some questions that I think will help you guys just with dream recall and stuff. So the first one is for improving your dream recall, what would you say if you had to distill it into a sort of a basic idea? What should people practice on a daily basis in order to recall their dreams better? Well, the first thing I would say is intend to recall your dreams, which is a pretty common technique, and then actually write them down, get into the habit of intending to write them down. So a lot of people, they'll just say, I remember my dreams or I will remember my dreams and so forth. But what I did that had the most impact for me and for a lot of my students is I remember my dreams, I write them down. And so one thing you can do is have an actual journal that's dedicated just for that, date the night before, and have that intention. And then the first thing you do when you get up is start writing in the journal. And within a couple of days, you should start to see not only more dream recall, but greater depth of dream recall in terms of duration, and also multiple dreams or, you know, you just see a greater connection to them. So that's very important. Cool. Is there any way that we can remember dreams that have happened sort of more than a few days ago, not just, you know, yesterday, but more than a few days ago? Right, yeah. Well, the writing will help with that. Also reviewing the writing that you do. And you can also use a memory palace. And I wouldn't necessarily recommend getting into a memory palace right away. But when you have reliable dream recall, you can use a memory palace to remember certain episodes, certain symbols, images and so forth. And then you'll have much better recall geographically back into the past. There's something called a mnemonic calendar or a magnetic calendar that I teach, and it enables you to actually remember the exact numbers of days. So, you know, it was June 25th that I had a dream where I was with my business partner and great friend Jonathan Levy, and we were on the roof of this building, and we were just talking there about all our business stuff. The important thing was the symbol of being on the roof of this building for so long. And I remember that it was May 25th. I remember it was that day, because I have an image for every day. And when I still write down my dreams, but I don't really like the effect so much anymore of like getting up and writing down the dreams and then going back to sleep and then getting up. So what I'll often do is use my bedroom as a memory palace and just create a core image up in the corner of the ceiling and just stick it there. And then I'll remember later when I wake up and I'll just jot down my dreams and so forth. And then it's the 25th, because there's a giant nail that I associate there. And there's really good to the reasons why it's a nail. But anyway, 25 is always a nail. It could be Neil Ferguson, if you're in the UK, like you are. Yeah, that's really interesting. So with them anchoring things, like you say anchoring into the corner of the room, how would that work? How would I go about doing that? Just if I knew nothing about memory or anchoring, what would I do? Well, it really helps to know about the basics of memory, memory techniques and memory palaces. So just take a step back. A lot of how we learn is through association. And so when you're able in your brain to connect different things through strong, powerful associations, then you're going to be able to actually direct your neurochemistry, like you really literally are doing, doing that. And it helps consolidate memories with much stronger links between the neural pathways. That's all the science talk. But basically, it's just associating one thing with another. One way to think about how that might work is if you think about a movie like The Matrix, right? Yeah, and you remember that it's Keanu Reeves as Neil, well, you're associating Keanu Reeves with Neil. Right. And then if you think, well, who was Morpheus? Well, who's associated with Morpheus? Lawrence Fishburne, right? So our minds learn those things as associations. Then if I want to remember on the 25th of last month, that I had a dream with Jonathan, well, I need to use an association between a dream image and a corner in my bedroom. And I need to wind them together in an associative manner. So I built a memory palace out of the bedroom. And then I can just get that image. And because I want to remember it as the 25th, I have an image for 25, right? And then I just stick it up there and can work in my mind throughout the day, these images together. And then I'll be able to tell Jonathan, hey, I had this weird dream on the 25th about you and I, we were up on this roof. And, you know, Jonathan is already an association, but roof I need to think about. So to remember it, it wasn't in the dream, but to make sure I remember that it was on a roof, I see him just pushing his feet through the roof and it's really kind of, I change it a little bit to make it more striking and impactful. So yeah, stuff like that. It's just layers of association. And if you can get a little bit of sense of sound, like hearing his voice, hearing the sound of his feet, pushing through the roof, feeling what that would feel like. It's not just visual, it's pushing through all these things, maybe a smell, a taste. It really, really helps to make it much more memorable. That's really cool. I've just thought, I think, I don't know if he made this technique up, but I read this book by Darren Brown and he was saying about the linking method. And that's pretty much a similar thing where, you know, you link things one to the other by using all your senses. So like, you smell what it would smell like, you see it. Yeah, that's really cool. And it does work as well, because I've tried that as well. Brown has great stuff. Tricks of the mind has some good stuff. Nobody made this up. This has been with humanity since the beginning of time. And we know that it has, because we have archaeological and prehistoric records of Aborigines, for example, really, associating imagery, right, with the location of plants that you could eat during a drought, right? And they would pass this knowledge on to each other in order to help future generations survive, right? So there's a survival advantage to memory techniques. The book to read on this is called The Memory Code by Lynn Kelly. She goes deep into the prehistoric origins. It's in the Buddhist traditions. It's in the stations of the cross and Catholicism. It's in remembering the fire alarm in elementary school. Association to location, to imagery, to things that you need to remember is just part of how humanity has survived. And the more you get really, really strategic about how you use it, the better your life becomes. And you don't only survive, but you become more competent as a human being. Yeah, I suppose it was necessary to know where the right plants are to eat. And what about memories that we maybe don't know we have, if that makes sense. So memories that we, they are there, but we don't know them because obviously we've forgotten them. Is there any way of accessing those? Well, I don't want to speak too certainly, but yes, I imagine that there are. But we have to be careful about that because we know that when we recall information, we actually change it. So we can be very inventive and we can be remembering things incorrectly. And we can be remembering things that never happened at all. And we'll feel very convinced that they happened. So we want to be careful about that. And everybody has heard about false testimony, false witness testimonies and the danger that that creates. But I'd rather put it in the sense that if you, I mean, I just I had a YouTube video that I just put out the other day with a young woman named Olivia from the UK, actually, here in Australia. And I put the camera on and asked her if she wanted a quick memory exercise. And I asked her, you know, do you remember grade five? How old you were and so forth? Or she asked me if she could help recall memories from when she was 10 and she was a grade five in the UK. And I said, well, get out a piece of paper and draw a square that represents the school and then start to draw the squares of the classrooms in the school and then start to ask yourself questions like what was my teacher's name? What did my teacher look like? What was my favorite novel? What were my favorite music albums? And I share with her some of my examples so she could understand. Yeah. And then you can say who was my best friend? What was their favorite album and so forth? And you're maybe not necessarily recalling memories that you've forgotten that you ever had, but you're strengthening your connection with your own life. And these all become the path to strengthening your memory for the future of your life and the health of your brain. And so I imagine that that's a way that you'll recall things that you don't remember. And I've gone and done these memory experiments and I have some recordings of demonstrations where I've gone to my friends from elementary school and just done this. Who was our teacher in grade three? And it was like Mrs. Debra Reiswick and who was your best friend? And it's amazing the vast amount of information that's in your head that you remember if you just ask. That's really amazing. Excuse me. Yeah, no, I actually sort of see roughly the same thing with Dream Recall, where to remember them like more details of a dream. You should just start by the basics, you know, where was I and then ask series of questions like what was the temperature, you know, which season was it, what was the weather like, where was the other people. And you start to build up a bigger picture of the whole thing. If people only had 10 minutes a day to dedicate to improving their memory, what would you suggest they practice or do? I'd suggest, well, if you're interested in remembering your dreams better, I'd suggest that you practice recalling your dreams and try to work up to a memory palace approach to recalling dreams so that you can have the best of both worlds. You still want to write your stuff down, but you can actually not have to get up all the time, because you'll be able to just wake up and you'll say, oh yeah, I remember this dream, you'll stick it in this corner and you have another dream and you put it over there. And you know that in effect, I'm sure you've had this where you have like these cluster of episodes and you actually can distinguish them in your mind, right? And you can recall them all just using your room, like take four dreams and just boom, boom, and then behind you and then get up and then write down what you remembered. But here's the thing, this is what's really going to give you memory improvement as well as more dream recall. Before you write anything down, recall it, right? Some people they will link writing with remembering, but actually bring it to mind first and then write it down. And that'll give you great memory exercises to improve your memory across the board and you'll get more out of dreams. Yeah. And you only have 10 minutes a day every morning, you're going to have a great impact from that over the next 10 weeks or so. Or you know, I still do this years and years later and it's really powerful. Yeah. I mean, I suppose in an ideal world, you're dedicated more than 10 minutes a day. But I get a lot of emails from people saying like, I'm too busy, you know, I don't have time. But yeah. Well, you know, we can be sympathetic to that. But when it comes to memory, you do have time. Yeah. Because you use your memory all day long. Yeah, it's just change how you think about your memory. Then you'll see that you can do memory exercise from sunup, sundown. Yeah. Yeah. And you can do it every day. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Can you sort of to finish up here? Could you maybe give some tips on how to just general tips on how to improve memory and be able to recall things faster? Right. Well, in terms of just generally, yeah, let's start with the foundations. Okay. So sleep, better sleep, better diet, better hydration. Notice you're getting nice and hydrated there, which is policy and more fitness. If you just start with the body first, your brain is part of your body, it's physical, it's built of chemicals. And the more optimized that is, well, here's a couple of things. First, you're going to pay attention better, you're going to be more pain free, right? Especially if you're an older person, because pain is the way not paying attention to what's happening to you. If you're not paying attention to what's happening in the world, you're not going to remember it. And so that's the first thing with foundations. Then learn the memory palace technique. Make sure you learn it from someone who really knows what they're talking about because there's a lot of bad information about it out there that'll cause you lots of struggles with it. And then learn something called the major, sometimes you'll hear it called the major system. I call it the major method because it's not really a system until you build it as a system for yourself. Yeah. So understanding the methods and the principles, get those two things working together, you'll be able to remember anything you want very, very fast. These are skills. Sometimes you got to think of it like push ups. If you can't do a full push up from the floor, start from your knees. If you can't do a push up from the knees, start from the wall. There's no shame in it. The only shame is if you don't do it. And even then, you know, don't beat yourself up about it, but there's no free will, right? So but if you if you feel the calling to do it, just get the memory palace nailed and learn the major method and you will have so much more advantages than anyone else because you'll be able to memorize any number, any name, any foreign language vocabulary or phrase, anything that you want any list of instructions, but you need those two techniques as the foundation on top of better health. Yeah. That's really cool because I always say pretty much the same thing. It's a holistic approach with health, mind, sleep. It all works together because the body is intelligent and you give it what it needs. Who would have thought? You don't want a two legged stool, you want definitely that stool to sit normally, and you'll be able to be able to accomplish anything that you want. If you just surrender yourself, you know, my mentor or Tony Buzin from the UK there, he went and I trained with him and had dinner with him and he said something so impactful. It's just that the rules will set you free and the memory of every person works exactly the same according to fundamental rules that are in the brain structure in the brain chemistry. Yeah. You just understand what those rules are. You will be free to learn as fast as you want as much as you want. So that I pass on directly from him to you. Yeah, that's amazing. Cool. Thank you very much. I was going to say we are planning something special for how to do.com email subscribers. But for now, I mean, all of this stuff, you know, there's so much to talk about, so much to learn. You have actually got several courses, right? Yes. People that just they have no idea where to start, right? They just want to improve their memory, probably more towards dream recall. Where would you suggest they go? I'll put a link in the description. Yeah, well, follow that link that you're going to put there. And here's the thing. Avail yourself up the free training that you'll get and the material that you'll get because one of the things that makes the difference here is that you actually take it one sip at a time, which SIP stands for study the techniques, implement the techniques and practice the technique with information that's going to improve your life. Dreams will improve your life. The more you can remember your dreams, the more you'll be able to use them as tools of life improvement. And then go from there. If being able to study for your exam better means memorizing numbers better, then study the techniques, implement the techniques and practice the techniques with numbers or names and so forth. But just take it one sip at a time, SIP, and we'll hook you up with the material for that down in the link below. Cool. Yeah, guys, go and check out the link below. But more importantly, make sure you subscribe to the email list on howtolucid.com because we're going to be doing a special discount offer for you guys. It's going to be really exciting. There's going to be some giveaways and all sorts of stuff. So yeah, make sure you subscribe to that. I'll put the link for that in the description as well. And yeah, thank you very much, Anthony. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for the tips. Really appreciate the time and to everyone. Just get into this world because memory is so beautiful and the quality of your life really comes down to the quality of your memory.