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The advice with less behind it
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You will have been told that keeping a journal increases how much you recall, and it gets repeated so widely that it reads as settled.
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It is not settled, because a paper in Consciousness and Cognition points out that most of the evidence compares what people write in a log against what they had guessed beforehand, and people guess badly, so some of the effect is the measuring rather than the remembering.
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I am going to tell you to keep one anyway, since the honest version is that it seems to help the people who start out remembering least, and it costs a notebook.
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That is roughly where most dream advice sits, useful and thinner than advertised.
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How to actually do it
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Keep it within reach of the bed so that you do not stand up, since standing up is where most of it goes.
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Write in the present tense and start in the middle, at whatever image is loudest, because the beginning comes back once your hand is moving and it never comes back while you lie there waiting for it.
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And write the mornings you have nothing, where one word will do, since the record of the empty nights is what tells you later whether anything actually changed.
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✦ WRITE BACK
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Of those three, one is the one you already know you will not do, and that is the one worth telling me.
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TELL ME WHICH ONE
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Give it a week before you decide it does not work for you, since a week is about how long it takes for the waking part to shift.
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P.S. My sister keeps hers on her phone, which I have told her is a mistake, and she has remembered more than me every month this year. If you have a method I would disapprove of, tell me what it is. She was very pleased to be told.
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