PSA: Ways to remember your dreams (the kind you have when you’re asleep)

Keep a journal or notebook next to your bed with a pen in the next blank page, uncapped -- it should be a ballpoint pen, as felt-tip pens dry out overnight, and the journal should be reachable at arm’s length from where you normally sleep on the bed.

When you wake up, lay perfectly still and let the bits of the dream you may remember drift around in your head for awhile. Don’t try to make sense of them. The goal is to re-experience them.

When you’ve rehearsed the bits of the dream you can remember enough to begin putting them into words, repeat them to yourself in your head, still without moving.

Keeping your descriptions in mind, pick up the journal and write them down.