478. How I Trained Myself to Remember My Dreams | Tips for Dream Recall & Spiritual Awakening

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Speaker: Hi. Welcome to the Soul Elevation Podcast, guiding your ascension to new heights. I'm your host, Kara Goodwin, and I am excited today to talk about. Dreams. And there was a point in time where I really couldn't remember my dreams. If you've read my book, if you know my awakening story, you'll know that for several years I had a, a spiritual mentor named Michael Massey.

He's is, he is still my friend, but, um, not, not so much of, not the same kind of mentor mentee relationship anymore. I remember when I first met Michael and when we first started kind of working together, I was talking about how I really couldn't remember my [00:01:00] dreams.

I felt like when I was younger I could remember my dreams easier, and it just seemed like I never remembered them and I actually was inspired for this. This livestream topic because I got a message from somebody who was asking about how to remember dreams, and this person may actually watch this recording, so I wanna say hello, but I also don't wanna call you out because some people aren't comfortable with that.

So anyway, you would know who you are if you are watching this. Um. But this person was talking about how they really don't have a lot of dream recall and And it made me remember, oh my gosh. I was like that. And that was something that Michael and I would reflect on over the course of the time that we worked together.

He would say, remember, you used to never. Be able to remember your dreams. And then I was getting all of these insights and asking [00:02:00] him for his thoughts about what different dreams meant because there were such strong symbols coming through and, and things that just even felt like maybe they were more than dreams.

So I wanted to share how you may be able to increase your dream recall. So reflecting on my own journey. Some of the things that changed for me, one is a meditation practice that does help. However, when I started working with Michael, I had been already meditating for probably three years, I think. Three years by then.

Two or three. Um, yeah, I think about three years before I even met him. So that was even, you know, when I met him. Then it took a little, little bit of time before I started working more closely with him. But he, um, so I had been meditating for. [00:03:00] For at least two or three years before I was talking with Michael about how to increase my dream recall.

And so the meditation in and of itself hadn't necessarily on its own increase my dream recall, what did help was, um, a few things. One being. Intentional about it. So when I go to sleep at night, I always ask, I, I kind of pick, I have a conversation in my head with God, with my higher self. I ask God my higher self to bring as much God light, pure source light as I can possibly hold to anchor that into my body as I'm sleeping.

I ask for my consciousness to be used for the highest good. If I know somebody who's going [00:04:00] through something hard or somebody who's transitioning or about to transition, I may ask that if it's appropriate, you know, my consciousness be used in the highest way to help them. Um, I ask to be. Um. I specifically ask for God to speak to me through my dreams, to deliver messages to me through my dreams, to help me remember my dreams.

So I specifically ask before I go to sleep, help me remember my dreams. And I also ask for my divine team to appear to me and to to be with me in the dream space. And so. The results of that. It's not always black and white. It's not always like, okay, well I asked to be with my divine team, so I saw this angel and I saw this ET and I saw this ascended master.

Our dreams are [00:05:00] very encoded with symbols and so I, most of my dreams don't really feel like. Uh, oh my gosh, this wizard showed up and gave me these codes. And you know, it's, they're, they're very symbolic. So there are a lot of times where people show up. And it may be like, last night I was dreaming of an old teacher, an old cheerleading coach that I had, you know, years and years, decades ago.

And, um, so that being, you know, that person to me, um. Was showing up as somebody from my past, but I believe that there's the possibility that behind that image, behind that figure, who showed up in my dreams, maybe that was somebody from my divine team who was using the disguise of that teacher, of that coach in order [00:06:00] to help me in the dream state.

So, you know. Don't be too let go of your expectations in terms of what will show up in your dreams. But that intentionality, that's a big part of remembering your dreams, is asking to remember your dreams when before you fall asleep and do that. I, I say do that every night. Be intentional about how you wanna use your dream time from a consciousness perspective.

And like I told you, I, I ran through everything that I tend, a lot of the things I tend to ask for nightly. So don't feel like, you know, you have to keep it confined to your dreams. You know, you may be able to use your dream time to invoke healing for yourself or somebody else. Um, use that intentionality.

In, in whatever way suits you and don't feel limited. [00:07:00] Another thing that has helped me to remember my dreams more easily is. To write down whatever I can remember about my dreams as soon as I get up. There have been times, and I've been doing this for years, I have many, many journals and they're just notebooks, so you don't have to have anything fancy.

You don't have to go look for a dream journal. You can, if you want, they might give you some prompts or something. I haven't really looked into it. Um, but writing down. Before you do anything, before you even get up and go to the bathroom in the morning, very first thing, write your dreams. And so I just put the date at the top.

I write down whatever it is I can remember. And if you can add into that or, or at least maybe evolve it into it, maybe something that's hard to do at the [00:08:00] beginning if you're just trying to remember it, you may just wanna get the details down. But if you can think about how it made you feel like, were you feeling defensive?

Were you feeling combative? Were you feeling optimistic or hopeful or loved? Or whatever it is. So if you can get to the emotion behind it, then that's really helpful too. But in terms of helping you, helping to train yourself to remember your dreams, that's been critical. So again, I've been doing that for years and it's really, really helped.

Um, it's not every morning that I can remember my dreams, especially if I have like a weekend day and I'm kind of slower to get up. So I may have a longer period between when I am ready to actually get up and when I have. Awakened from a dream, awakened from a dream. So in the weekend, I don't have to get up as quickly or as early.

[00:09:00] And so I may have that, I may be in that kind of limbo space for, you know, 15 minutes or something before I can actually, um. Get up out of bed and, and that's where the dreams may have slipped away from them. Also, when I'm on vacation, sometimes it's harder to, so when I'm out of my schedule, it can be harder for me to remember my dreams or to feel like I even am inspired to record them.

So, um, the oth another tip for remembering your dreams is. Think about your vitamin B intake. Vitamin B supplements are known to help with the dreamscape. So I take a B complex. A lot of people are deficient in vitamin B and there are all kinds of vitamin Bs. I, I'm not like a nutritionist, so I don't know the ins and outs of this, but I remember, I mean, I do get my [00:10:00] blood, um, analyzed every once in a while.

And they'll tell me what, what I'm, you know, need more support in. And over time, vitamin B was one of those. So I just take a vitamin B complex supplement every day, and that does help, especially that cumulative effect. So I wouldn't necessarily expect, like you go out today, you buy a vitamin supplement, you really have a hard time remembering your dreams.

And just by that one supplement, now you. Remember your dreams really easily. It may take time for that cumulative effect for the buildup, um, if you're depleted to be replenished within your body, but vitamin B can be something that will help support you. Another thing that can be helpful for remembering your dreams is again, going back to before you fall asleep at night.

It's remembering. A few things [00:11:00] from your day every night before you fall asleep. So it's just reviewing your day and use your memory to think about some of the things that happened in the day. So go back to your morning and see what you can remember. Go back to lunchtime. Can you remember what you had for lunch?

Go back to any, anything that shows up. And this may sound really easy, um, but when you get to the end of the day, and you're starting to get into that transitionary time of being tired and being ready to transition into that different state of consciousness, which is the sleep time and the dream time.

Flexing those memory muscles is, um, not as easy as it might sound, especially if you go down, go back to the start of the day. So [00:12:00] just, and you don't have to write it down. You can if you want, if that's helpful. Try to not always remember the same thing, you know, kind of stretch yourself. Whether you wanna remember three things from the day, five things from the day, but try to remember some detail about it.

You also, another exercise for that that you don't necessarily have to do right before you fall asleep. But, um, you can just look around your room and notice as much detail as you can. Just really drink in the visual of the, the environment that you're in, and then close your eyes and try to remember as much as you can about the environment that you're in.

How much detail can you remember from exactly where you are at this moment in time? Open your eyes again. And look around and see, um, any, any details that [00:13:00] kind of compare what it was that you could remember with what it is in your actual environment. You can do that a few times just as an exercise of trying to remember more and more and notice more and more.

And all of these things work with your ability for retaining information, retaining memory, and that will extend into your sleep time. So hopefully that's helpful. You can check out my book, your Authentic Awakening. I do talk about the dream time and how to improve your dream call dream. Recall that is one of the parts of the book.

It's a great guide to help you in your awakening journey in your ascension journey. And there's a lot more in there than just going into dreams, but dreams are an important part of our consciousness, so it is helpful to tune into our dreams and use them as a way [00:14:00] to understand ourselves better as a way for self-reflection, as a way to receive messages from the other side.

So I hope that you have a beautiful day ahead, or if you're watching the recording and it's evening for you, I hope that you've had a beautiful day behind you, and thank you so much for being here. I wish you many blessings and I'll see you on the next episode of Soul Elevation. 

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