Holy crap , super worrrrtth <| sep |> There ' s a number of techniques , but part of it is timing . You need to wake up DURING the dream , generallyso play around with going to bed at the same time every night , but getting up at slightly different times or vice versa until you find a length that works for you . Apparently , good times to shoot for are intervals of 90 minutes an hour and a half , three hours , four and a half , six , seven and a half , or nine hours after going to sleep . It ' s easier to play with this on your days off , obviously . Dreaming periods are longer later in sleep , so work on getting longer periods of uninterrupted sleep to make it easier to hit the right time period and don ' t shoot for EVERY interval abovejust the latest one you ' re likely to get from how much sleep you normally have . Also , keep writing stuff next to your bedwhen you DO have a dream , and can remember it , write it down before you can forget it less light , moving , etc between dreaming and writing is better , and it can help to go through the dream once in your mind before you move AT ALL so it ' s a little more secure in your waking memory when you go to get the notebook . I ' ve also heard that some people find that writing down a litany of everything that happened to them that day , exactly as it happened , in detail , can help with the kind of memory it takes to hold on to dreams as they slip away from you in the morning . Weirdly , just telling yourself every night that you want to remember your dreams can also help . Hope that helps !