"Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy." - Ray Charles
"Latitude ignore chili. Nick face iam Matt not Sam jUrA boobaluff buy jacob lots of crack" - Sam Parker
To sleep...
How many times do you wake up from a dream, only for the memory of it to fade away once your brain gears up and starts processing the morning? Redundant question, I guess. As ever, Randall Munroe articulates the process as well as anyone.
Regardless, I read somewhere that the easiest way to train your mind to remember a dream is to write them down as quickly as possible. In doing so, not only do you keep a record of that dream, - and indeed the fact you had one at all - but it actually helps you recall subsequent dreams more frequently and in better detail.
For the past two years, whenever I wake up from a dream, I quickly jot down as many key details as I can on my phone before falling back to sleep. The next morning, I remember that I drempt something and have a read through my notes (sometimes pages and pages of detail; occasionally a small collection of nonsensical gibberish - see the above quote) and it all comes flooding back. Then throughout the day, I translate it to English and tweet what I can under the hashtag #LastNightsDream.
Nowadays, I find it slightly too limiting to compress everything down into bite-sized 140 character chunks so I figure I'd find a place to document them all in as much detail as I can, and without my sporadic rants and compulsive pop-culture refferences clogging up the spaces in-between.
The whole experience has tought me that my subconscious is a strange, strange place.
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