I was chatting with a friend (and potential future MM member) the other day about recall and how to strengthen it / start remembering more and more of your dreams. So I thought,my MM friends must have their own tricks that work for them, let's pile them into a thread!
So... what tricks do you have up your sleeves?
For me... if my recall is really, really bad, and I wake up remembering nothing, I start with feeling. Am I sad, happy? Can I think of why? If that's all I can remember is a feeling, then that is my journal entry. If I can get a scene... a room, a color... that's en entry. I might remember what happened in that room or what sparked that feeling.
If my recall is hazy, I run through a list of possible dream signs, typical dream plots. Sometimes that sparks a memory.
If I can remember the last scene before waking up, then I start writing notes backwards. I try to remember the dream in reverse, going as far as I can go. I can make sense of it in my official post, later.