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For all those who haven't tried, go a week without any TV at all. The world starts to seem quiet.

Yet you begin to hear so much more . . .

I have been trying to live as much of my life as possible without a computer and T.V.
Other than the West Wing and the Sopranos i don't feel like watching ANY TV now. I still want to go on my laptop ( which was also in the shop and that's why i started trying to go without everything.)
For all those who haven't tried, go a week without any TV at all. The world starts to seem quiet.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone.

Oh, and on the subject of dreams, I've been having quite a few semi-lucid dreams, where I can move things like the jedi's do in Star Wars, I am only able to manipulate things in the dreamscape, moves things towards me or away, semi-flying and quick manifestations.

I kinda miss full lucidity now, instant manifestations along with environmental control and sometimes even character creation!

Whoa.. can't wait to dream tonight!

Just keep your eyes clolsed and breath slowly and deeply. Stay still and relax. This works, and after a week or so you will have yourself conditioned just nicely to recall your dreams. Remembering dreams is very important.

There is much to be learned by ones dreams as we all know.

Also, try to have the room as dark as possible in the morning when you wake up. Again, its the light that brings your thinking to the forefront and away from the dreamstate.

best regards

So for plain old dreaming this might work wonders:

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Another thing I've noticed is that EMF's interfere with remembering dreams, one inexpensive thing you could do is wear an open ended copper bracelet to bed.   They sell them with magnets on them too these days, but either just the plain copper bracelet or the one with magnets is fine.   The plain copper goes for about 5 dollars.    Open ended copper bracelets cut way down on EMF's either when you are awake or asleep.   The bracelet I use is great, and I almost always have more vivid dreams, and for me it's very easy to use, just put it on my left wrist and fall asleep.

* try to fall asleep an hour earlier than your normal time

* wake yourself up after 4-6 hours, stay up for an hour, then go back to sleep.

Also, when coming out of a dream, see if you can quickly think of several keywords or a couple phrases relating to the dream you just had. Hold on to these as you open your eyes and reach for the paper to jot them down. Then you have a set of anchors to jog your memory as you write a more detailed version. I think the attitude of wanting to catch them before they disappear, of finding dream recall to be a precious thing and acting on this by consistently writing down what you remember  - that in itself will improve your recall. Intent built up over time helps your self-awareness survive the sleep-wake or wake-sleep transition.

I'm trying to 'catalogue' if you will supplements which I can feel do something.  So far I've got:

- zinc: overall 'robust' feeling.  take with vitamin b6 to help it absorb
- vitamin C, echinacia: upon feeling first effects of a cold, i take one or two good doses of both.  The key is, don't take high doses all the time... just when you start feeling it.  Usually only works if combined with a positive attidude that it's working.
- green "phyto" powder: balanced feeling mentally, when i take 1 tbsp a day with water.  a lot of vitamins and minerals in this veggie powder.
- iron: may provide me with an increased mental clarity
- vitamin a: feeling of better functioning of the eyes... less fuzzy

After reading some of the dream posts I started to get the urge to write my dreams down again.  Only problem is that they quickly disappear from consciousness upon waking.

I read somewhere, a long time ago, that taking vitamin B6 helps in remembering dreams.  I can confirm this.  I started back on it about a week ago and was able to remember multiple dreams from one night with great detail.  Not only that but I had the first lucid dream I've had in about a decade.  Not sure if the lucidity was assisted by the vitamin but the coicindence is there none the less.

Figured this could prove to be of assistance to some as it has to me.  I just take a 100mg tab sometime after a meal.