Night sleep consists of two phases - a phase of slow sleep (slow wave sleep, synchronized sleep, sleep without fast eye movements) and fast sleep phases (paradoxical sleep, desynchronized sleep, sleep with rapid eye movements). These phases differ in many respects from each other in many physiological and psychological parameters.
Falling asleep, a person sinks into a phase of slow sleep. This stage is necessary for the body to fully recover - it was found that during the slow wave sleep, antibodies are actively produced that fight with various kinds of infections, that is why during the illness doctors recommend more sleep.
Approximately one and a half hours after falling asleep, the fast sleep phase begins. It is while in this phase that a person can see a dream.
So, back to our question - how to learn to remember your dreams?
Esotericists believe that the ability of a person to remember his dreams directly depends on the attitude of the person himself to them. Here is a list of recommendations of "dream specialists" that will help you not to forget your dreams immediately after awakening:
1) Learn to appreciate and love your dreams, try to treat them with the utmost care.
2) Start a "dream diary". Write down every dream you see in it, describing everything as you see it.
3) Do not discard any dream, even if it seemed ridiculous to you or you remember it fragmentarily.
4) Learn how to memorize the remembering of dreams. Before you fall asleep, promise yourself that this night you will certainly remember your dream. Fall asleep with the inner certainty that this will happen, but without any psychological strain. It can not come from the first time, so be patient. Perhaps you will begin to wake up right after you see a dream - do not be too lazy to immediately write it down in a diary.
5) Draw parallels between what you saw in a dream and the events that happen in your life in reality. More often re-read the earlier entries in your diary and look for associations with real life events.
6) Do not blindly trust the dream-books, learn to feel your dreams, intuitively guessing their meanings. Nevertheless, look for confirmation of your guesses, write down your assumptions in the diary and note which ones were justified and which ones did not.
7) Learn the vocabulary of symbols. Esotericists believe that the higher powers prefer to communicate with man in the language of signs.
8) Pay special attention to repetitive images or situations - psychologists believe that it is in repeated dreams that all our internal fears and problems are encrypted.
The ability to remember your dreams is a good "gymnastics" for the brain and an effective exercise for the development of willpower. In addition, such regular concentration on one's inner world is akin to meditation, which makes a person more balanced.
Having learned to remember your dreams you can try to start mastering a more complex skill - the ability to control your behavior in a dream.