 so we spend allegedly a third of our lives asleep. that is if you are lucky enough to achieve the ideal eight hours of sleep every night. and for the most part we write off our dreams like they don't mean anything. and this could be for a number of reasons. we don't remember them, they don't make sense to us, we just write it off like oh well you know i saw a black cat yesterday so that's why i dreamt of a black cat last night. but i am here to tell you that is just simply not the case. if you're new here i'm sara and i help teach people how to find inner happiness through fitness and spirituality. and today we're gonna talk dreams. huh dreams. give us such insight to our subconscious mind, to the spirit realm, to thoughts, to feelings, ideas, all kinds of things. but that's only if we pay attention to them. that's only if we analyze and not just once, not just twice, but consistently. you know a lot of times it's not just one dream that occurs that you can analyze and figure all these things. a lot of times it's kind of a stream of dreams. so a pattern of dreams and where you can kind of start to almost like string them together and come to a bigger spiritual meaning, a bigger insight, a bigger idea. and from talking to so many people what i believe is the biggest inhibitor to analyzing our dreams is just simply the fact that most people don't remember them and those that do just don't really think anything of it. so that's what we're gonna talk about today. now the one thing i want you to keep in mind is this does not happen overnight. no pun intended. but it does take time and consistency. i have done enough experimenting over the past year plus to know what does and doesn't work and now i remember my dreams pretty much every night. i mean i want to say every night but i know it's not a hundred percent but pretty much and sometimes even multiple dreams and that is if i don't disqualify myself from remembering them. so the first thing you want to do is to set an intention that you want to remember the dream. i do this by putting my dream journal, yes a journal dedicated only to dreams because that's kind of part of the whole intention setting part right next to my bed with a pen. this is my dream journal. i made it super like abstract because like you know dreams you know yeah just thought it was kind of funny. it may not happen for you the first night or the third night or the fourth night but i promise it will work if you do these following steps. so what do i mean by disqualifying yourself? i'm talking about doing things during the day or right before bed that's going to prevent you or highly contribute to preventing you from remembering your dreams such as alcohol or smoking the green and that's because substances can often prevent you from getting into the REM sleep cycle which is where most of dreams not all dreams but where most dreams occur. sleep disorders such as sleep apnea or anything like that can also disrupt your sleep patterns or if you get up a lot during the night there are so many things that can prevent you from getting into that deep REM sleep however you can also dream outside of being just in a deep REM and also just because you remember your dreams doesn't mean you're getting a better quality sleep than someone who can't remember them it's not like a mutually exclusive thing. other things that can contribute our anxiety before bed other medications that you may be taking or even just too many liquids before bed i'm a big water drinker i drink close to a gallon a day i usually drink tea before bed however even as much as i get up during the night i still remember my dreams so no matter what you're doing this is going to kind of help you achieve that. okay so you have your dream journal you have your pen ready to go now what do you ever notice that like when you do remember your dreams they slip away pretty quickly like sometimes in a matter of seconds so what you want to do is as you're transitioning out of sleep whether it's naturally or with an alarm you want to capture that right away and one of the experiments i did was writing directly in my dream journal and sometimes this is even in the middle of the night when i wake up to like use bathroom and doing it a different way which i find works way better way better way better so what you want to do as soon as you wake up grab your phone and bring up the little voice memo app and talk into it it doesn't matter if it makes sense talk about colors you see people you see in your dreams and what i believe is the most important thing is how you're feeling when you're going through the dreams you want to tap into like okay well when this weird thing happened not that just that it happened but how was i feeling when that happened if this person is in your dream how are you feeling when they're around you and that doesn't necessarily mean anything about the other person like say i you know there's a joke out there that um you know a woman in a relationship will fall asleep and have a dream with her you know husband next to her cheating on her and she wakes up and she gets mad at him but that has nothing to do with the husband it has to do with her subconscious mind and what she's feeling about the husband how did she feel in the dream and it's it's more about going inward in your own mind in your own conscious and subconscious than actually like what the other person or people in your dreams are doing so i want you to grab your voice memo app record everything you can remember and sometimes throughout the day like something will happen it'll it'll trigger a quick flash or a quick memory is something i had in my dream and immediately what i'll do is talk into the voice memo thing again and i want to say the reason for not writing it down and actually talking is because our hands like we physically cannot write as quickly as our mind goes and our memory recalls so because dreams fade away so quickly you want to speak into it and capture as much as the dream is possible each night even if it's like two words even if it's just like a second and it will snowball and it'll accumulate another thing that i would highly suggest is not going directly and you know you can do this it doesn't really matter you know you experiment with what works best for you but what i have found that works best for me is if i talk in the voice recorder thing i'm like super groggy you know it is what it is it doesn't make a lot of sense and then what i was doing was immediately copying what i was listening to into my dream journal but then what you want to do is what what i found works better for me is actually going throughout my day like normal after i do the voice recording and then somewhere later in the day in the afternoon or in the evening i'll go back to my dream journal and then i'll listen to the recording and write everything down and what this has done for me is give me more insight and realizations because typically by the end of the day i have already forgotten most of the things that happened in my dream the night before so what happens is is i'm listening to the voice recording i've got my pen in my hand i'm writing stuff down and it starts to kind of connect the dots on specific feelings or colors or people or instances in the dream whereas if i just go right from the voice recording to writing it down i kind of lose some of that interpretation so you want to get a dream journal have your phone nearby voice record into the phone anything you can remember and don't get frustrated because at first like you might not remember a lot but the repetitive pattern of this the repeating intention setting that is what is going to get into your subconscious to continue to remember more and more and more i bet you that if you do this for 30 days you'll be remembering an astronomical amount more about your dreams and being able to use them to help you in your current life and to help you decipher different feelings and things that you're going through in your like waking hours than you did 30 days before so just stick with it and i promise like it's been a game changer for me and i can look back you know to a week ago and i'm like holy crap now that makes sense or a month ago and like wow that makes so much sense and it's not always going to right away like for example i had a dream actually it's probably around this week a year ago and it was a very profound dream even though what i could remember was maybe 15 20 seconds and it didn't necessarily click or make sense to me until a month ago so this is something you want to do that's ongoing continue doing it continue learning and figuring out what works for you and i promise like watch it change your life watch it change how you interpret things how you decipher things and allow a third of your life to help you with your life instead of waving it off like it doesn't matter understand that like it does matter and there's a lot in there that you can get out of so i hope you guys really enjoyed this video i think dreams are so important and so interesting and as you learn about them and learn about yourselves through them you'll get to know yourself on a deeper level and be able to assist yourself with current day-to-day problems that you're going through i love you guys so much don't forget to like and subscribe this video and don't forget be limitlessly yourself