Q&A

[Golden Son]

A question for you in my workbook Luminous if you wouldn't mind 

[Luminous]

A question for you in my workbook Luminous if you wouldn't mind 

Answered! 

[Hazel]

I noticed something very interesting last night. I already knew that your sleeping position could affect your dreams, but I wasn't exactly sure which position would be best. Normally I try to sleep on my right side, but last night I made a special attempt to sleep on my back. I ended up remembering 5 dreams total, 4 of them being fairly lengthy. So my question is, how do each of the sleeping positions (left side, right side, back, stomach, and fetal position) affect recall?

[Luminous]

I noticed something very interesting last night. I already knew that your sleeping position could affect your dreams, but I wasn't exactly sure which position would be best. Normally I try to sleep on my right side, but last night I made a special attempt to sleep on my back. I ended up remembering 5 dreams total, 4 of them being fairly lengthy. So my question is, how do each of the sleeping positions (left side, right side, back, stomach, and fetal position) affect recall?

No one knows. It might be individual, or it might not make a difference. I usually sleep on my left side or on my back. But it looks like sleeping on the back did the trick for you!

As Naiya and I mentioned in the Dream Yoga workshop, the Lucidity Institute is running an experiment similar to this, but they are trying to find out if sleeping position affects dream content or lucidity.

[pj]

I do seem to have a correspondence between sleep position and chance of getting lucid, but it never has seemed to affect my recall.  I'm going to have to give that a try and pay more attention.

[Luminous]

I do seem to have a correspondence between sleep position and chance of getting lucid, but it never has seemed to affect my recall.  I'm going to have to give that a try and pay more attention.

Please let us know how that goes!

Maybe we could do some sort of MM study on this, like we have done before?

[Baphomet]

I seem to recall someone suggesting that if you slept on your right side the blood would pool in that hemisphere and your dreams would be more right brained, or vis versa. Kind of a non issue for me though, if I need to roll over to fall asleep then I need to roll over to fall asleep.

[dallyup52]

Does that mean the blood pools in my a$$ all day?

[pj]

Does that mean the blood pools in my a$$ all day?

I was thinking that, Sam.  Thank you for voicing it!

[Baphomet]

 

[Zhon]

 

[pj]

Not exactly a question, but something recall-related I stumbled on this morning.

I woke with no recall, and gave up after about 45 minutes of effort.  Later, I was thinking about my day and evening, which led to my wife and I going to dinner and me having a pulled pork quesadilla - which led to remembering there was something about pigs in one of my dreams, which led to recall not only of that dream but of a couple others.

Seeing as the events of our days sometimes have a way of sneaking into our dreams, perhaps reviewing the events of the prior day and evening might be a good last resort when no recall is forthcoming.

[gruffydd]

Seeing as the events of our days sometimes have a way of sneaking into our dreams, perhaps reviewing the events of the prior day and evening might be a good last resort when no recall is forthcoming.

A lot of the content of my dreams does seem to come from events that are in my short term memory and that happened in the few days (maybe up to a week) before the dream. For example last night I dreamt about being on a tour bus with Radiohead. Yesterday evening I was reading about all the tour dates Radiohead will be putting on this year.

Reviewing the events that happened in the last few days is a cool idea indeed, and one I will be trying. However I imagine it can be a bit difficult when such tiny things in real life (spending 30 seconds checking a tour) can become such massive dream elements, whilst much more memorable or important events of the day can sometimes never come up at all.

[pj]

That is a good point indeed - and yet just brushing past the evening's events led me to the pigs.  It wasn't like I singled out "pulled pork" and then tried to remember my dream.  I'm thinking that a quick review just might shake something loose.

[gruffydd]

I'm thinking that a quick review just might shake something loose.

Absolutely. I like the technique, and the more recall induction methods we have the better!

PPIR - Pulled pork induced recall