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Hello everyone, Well I thought I would post this here since you guys are familiar with the spiritual as well as the bodies energies. OK so I have been taking hormones estrogen and progesterone plus I take sleep aids and amitriptyline. I am a guy so I think that has something to do with it. So I have been feeling great. And am able to make more jokes. The other day I was feeling good, and went to sleep, and had this dream of this young lady that was around me and my friend. I kept making her laugh. And she kept doing things. She eventually got naked and was running around. And I didn't say anything. I just ignored it. Then she came back. And I was joking around saying. Did you see that girl, she was just running right through here naked? Can you believe that? Of course I was just joking about it, and she was laughing. Knowing full well that it was her. Then I was minding my own business and she came over to me and whispered in my ear and said: "lets have sex". I got a hard on then in the morning. Meaning a threesome with my friend. And I told her that she would have to ask my friend. Knowing that he probably would not want to do that. Then i woke up. Now I have never had a threesome. Or sex with any lady. I use porn. But I have always felt that women were out of my reach from my highly Conservative Christian background. I am a funny and smart guy in real life but I have been bogged down by a pretty bad health condition. So I am wondering if any of you as Taoists have insights into this. Note I don't think any of this would have happened if I didn't take the women hormones estrogen and progesterone. Which make a women and women. They estradiol is so powerful it can even make a man grow boobs. So I can only imagine what it does to the brain. BTW estradiol is what I am taking. The way we were playing around in the dream is so like the female energy. All the things were in place for make for the perfect play of the famine. There was no just plain out sex. There was joking. And in the end she came to me and whispered in my ear which is the feminine way of initiating sex. I am not trying to sound all brag as much as I want to learn from this. I have also been feeling this really noticeable feeling of love and compassion. I have also been hearing this very subtle but beautiful music in my mind. God...... I can want for scientists to open up our hearts with real medicine that heals the soul. And no wonder Suzanne Somers says she loves hormones so much. LOL This dream was definitely out of the ordinary for me to have. Any thoughts as Taoists. about the feminine energy manifesting like this in this guys body, with my beliefs? This is very fascinating to me. Perhaps I should post this on the dream forum too.

Seems to me that trusting your self often means going with your programmed imprint/ the aquired not self. I don't think the dream about the navel is about people and stomachs in general. No body part or section of the body is "bad" with "bad" chi. The belly is where you breath from, where you were fed in your mother from, and the location of your enteric nervous system/abdominal brain where intuitive matters are computed, and even where dreams come from. There is nothing disgusting about the stomach as a rule, it is almost like its own being.

_/\_ a fix to the extra syllable in the second line is humbly suggested -- e.g., "anyone? no one? time, tell!" Dream of a dark well, with dark fish on the bottom, means you are pregnant.

A few further thoughts... One of the aspects that seems to particularly strike your waking self in relation to the dream is the kind of sociopathic quality of the murders. You don't feel guilty. Interestingly, sociopathy itself is itself a kind of numbness. A person should feel something--guilt, remorse, etc--but instead feels nothing at all. It's very common for people to treat themselves with less concern than they treat others. We often do things to ourselves, ie murder, that we'd never do to other people. Is there a way you are hurting yourself, perhaps even killing off parts of yourself, that you haven't, until now, been aware of? Are you numb to your own self-harming tendencies? Just a thought to explore. Liminal

Hi Mantis, The part that really stands out to me is the numb feeling that you say has some relation to your waking life. And how the murders seem motivated by the desire to feel, the desire not to be numb. I'd start there. Perhaps do some journaling or active imagination of sorts (reenter the dream as kind of a daydream in waking life and see where it takes you) focusing on the numbness. Numbness is interesting because it represents a kind of psychic edge. There's a defensiveness there. You feel numb because a part of you, anyway, doesn't want to feel. The big question, of course, is what lies beyond the numbness. What would you feel if you were willing to feel into the numb areas? You might be numb, but at least you aren't numb to your numbness if you get my meaning. You are willing to be aware of the numbness. Dreaming about the numbness seems to suggest that you are ready to go beyond whatever this numbness is in your waking life. Several people have alluded to the idea that you might be murdering parts of yourself. One of my favorite ways to look at dreams is to imagine that all the parts are parts of ourselves. In other words, it's all you. Can you see a part of yourself that's the korean girl, the mother figure, the voice, powerful mother nature figure, etc? As well, of course, as the murderer and the murdered. Can you locate these parts of yourself? What associations do you have with each of these characters? Do you see yourself in any of them in your ordinary life? Are any of these characters, perhaps, hidden--up till now--aspects of yourself that your dream is asking you to develop? To be...um, less numb to? And who, in particular, is that Korean girl you morph into through the process of rebirth? Perhaps you don't need to wait until you die for the rebirth to take place. Just a thought. Liminal

Who are annoying? anyone? no one? time will tell. dream of a dark well

If it were my dream (how I was taught to approach talking about anyone else's dream, since you are not me, maybe DP was in my class hehe) I would think it was me killing off a bunch of unneeded ego aspects. Then eventually I had done enough for now, and then "I" had to die. If I had been doing extra spiritual work lately this might be the case. If however I was really angry lately, I would interpret it more as me trying to destroy aspects of myself which anger me, or perhaps illusions.

Im no certified expert, but I do spend alot of time watching my dreamscapes while semi-awake. I think the murder plot line was borrowed from some t.v. show that you watched, but the wily, kind of sociopath is an aspect of yourself. If it were my dream, I would be concerned about the type of wrangling and slipperyness to get away with the behavior. In society, we can get away with things, we can be bad or selfish and get away with it, but in "reality" we dont get away with it. The cultivation path takes you from insincerity to sincerity, and this entire dreamscape is a kind of negative karma resolving itself with the mother's voice and the rebirth. But there is some pretty strong karma exhibited in this dream, so it will likely need more resolution in the future. Maybe there is some aspect of your life you are requiring a resolve to more sincerity, less self-serving dealings.

For starters, we all already can. If we confidently feel that the sun shall rise tomorrow morning then that is predicting the future. Seeing the future is all about understanding how things change – from what, into what. That is all it is. So why can’t we do it all the time? It’s because we have got it into our heads that we are all imperfect, vulnerable beings that need certain things to happen in the future. We think we can’t be well or happy unless things that we lack come our way. We see these amazing things come to other people, we look at the sequence of events that led to the success and we think we can replicate them. We think that we can simply lift the ingredients out of that person’s unique circumstances and apply them to ourselves. This is magical thinking, pure and simple. But these kind of illusions fill our head. We spend 99.97% of our mental energy on trying to orchestrate outcomes that were never going to happen and don’t even need to happen. But there’s something even more tragic… Every now and then we imagine something amazing and desirable. And this time, we are right, it really will come our way. The dream job, the love our lives, really are our destiny and ours for the taking. We all know this feeling. But because we think that we are the aforementioned individuals with our own wills, we don’t realise that it’s OK to be passive We totally ignore the fact that we just need to be patient, that the time isn’t quite right yet. We don’t believe that time itself will help us a lending hand. So we rush blindly on, cause upset and strife…and end up delaying what is rightfully ours. So we needlessly chase what we won’t ever get. And then we push away what was almost ours already. This is human suffering in a nutshell. So how do we know what great stuff will really be ours? How do we see the difference? You can’t know, not logically – the solution, as always, is spiritual. All you can do is have the confidence to know that what you really want and desire, you already have. Through meditation and prayer you must get to know the serene self that is pretty much OK whatever happens. When you get to know this inner guy, you are in a position to discern the following: If you want something really badly but you see that it will cause others or yourself pain or anxiety…then the time is not right. You have a vision for the future, but others do not share it. If they shared it, your plans wouldn’t cause them pain. For to have pain and anxiety is to fear the future. And we only fear the future when we are unable to predict it. You don’t know who is the better prophet, you or they. Have you divined something they can't see? or can they not see, it because it is just you chasing fantasies that aren't going to happen? So you must sit right back, and what for time to show you. One of two things will happen: 1) Your desire will remain constant and adverse circumstances will change in your favour. 2) Adverse circumstances will remain constant and your desire will fade away until you are adjusted to them. Either of these processes brings you peace. The peace that comes when your desires and reality are no longer in discord. Repeat this for as many times as you need to, after a while your erroneous inauthentic desires for the future will cease. Each time you learn to lean back and rely on your serene inner self, you strengthen him and weaken the fearful guy who imagines things wrongly. From now on, the only thoughts you have about the future will be what will actually happen. Now you can see the future!

alright, this may or may not be the place to put this but my journal is dead so... i had a very interesting dream last night in which i murdered several people, over what appeared to be several life times (i gauged this via the method of killing - grenades, machine guns, strangulation for the last one). a recurring theme throughout the dream was that i was killing people because i couldn't feel anything, i'd become completely numb (this has some bearing in reality) and hoped that maybe killing would make me feel something, anything, other than the bleak numbness. i never got caught for any of the murders and felt nothing, incidentally. i recall in vivid detail actually attending a kind of police-city meeting in which the police decided homicide was highly improbable in one of the people i killed for various reasons etc and feeling completely unaffected. i obviously saw myself attending this meeting and was in a rather birds eye perspective. this led me to killing others to live for the thrill since i felt nothing else. something interesting to note was that i told my mother i killed someone and was crafty enough to rationalize it so that it didn't really bother her, i don't know if this is showing me a part of me i don't realize exists. near the end of the dream a voice told me i had gone too far, it was a female voice, and that i must die. the following sequence was of me standing in front of an extremely vast sea without a single wave and some kind of female figure, presumably mother nature or something of the sort, reassuring me as i died. i don't know exactly how i died but it wasn't a bad thing, very natural feeling, and i didn't wake up startled at all but actually felt overjoyed and calmed. i reincarnated or something as a young korean girl in school but kept some memories and ideas of my past, nothing of the murders however. my mother was telling me she'd let me have a boyfriend and i was helping her prepare food (as the school girl). can anyone who is well versed in dream theory etc give me any idea what this is inferring? i found it a bit odd that i dreamt of killing people in a reasonable quantity and woke up relieved, mostly at the fact i was killed (?)

I Love Eckart Tolle. I have most of his books, DVD's, CD's and podcasts. I love his sense of humor, his clarity, wisdom and calm. I must admit, Eckart does not have a regimented practice routine and it was hard to find something to practice, but his book "Practicing the Power of Now" has very powerful practices which I think he 'borrowed' from ... Buddhism.. This next practice is one which I practiced for an hour a day for two months a few years ago. Towards the end I had to stop because I would go to bed at night and although my body went to sleep, my awareness remained alert throughout the night. I got tired of watching myself sleep, listening to myself snore, and watching the cloud of the mind have dreams. I had become a 'point of view', separate from the world of forms.. This practice even brought on huge kundalini eruptions by practicing samadhi on the feeling of the inner body.. I would compare it to Goenka's practices as described in "The Discourse Summaries".. The second practice that Eckhart mentions is also very powerful practice, and it is similar to what the Dzogchen practitioners refer to as 'fresh awareness'. It is the awareness that occurs when you first see an object, before the conceptual mind has time to grasp it, before the conceptual mind applies its labels.. This type of awareness is clean, clear, crisp and pure. The practice consists of moving your line of sight every split second or so so that you are looking at a different scene every split second. The mind has no time to label or grasp. Once I did this practice as I walked in the woods, shifting focus every 1/2 second. Well, about 20 minutes after stopping the practice, I suddenly found myself looking at the outer world like it was a dream. My consciousness had receeded into an area about 5 feet behind the body and it felt like I was sleep walking or something.. Personally, I found his talks about the pain body a bit of a chore as I prefer practices, not self-psychology, but I still rate Eckart Tolle as someone worth listening to. I am grateful that Eckhart took the time to share his knowledge with the rest of the world. TI

Sifu Terry, I can see how the name 'Vedic' might spur a lot of charlatanism. I own a textbook on 'Vedic Mathematics' that is, according to seemingly objective fact-checkers from India, not Vedic at all - just a set of clever but useful tricks invented by a modern Indian mathematician. The author claimed to have taken a set of 16 mathematical sutras from 'the Vedas', the source of which he can no longer produce. I would like to know your opinion on Vedic knowledge that is demonstrably Vedic - like certain mantras from the Rig Veda. I have been chanting the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra, mostly while working and before bed, for the last month. The first night I did this, I had a very profound dream in which I was forced to confront my fear of losing attachment to my body. Would you include this type of practice in the context of your comment, or did you mean specifically Vedic (and Buddhist) elements that have turned to book-learning and lost their substance? Forgive the ignorant question, as I haven't really delved much into the world of mainstream/degraded/modernized Buddhist/Vedic religion, and your comment was a little surprising to me.

It's just my experience that bad qi comes out of the navel. I experienced it once in a dream, visibly like a fog pouring out during practices and filling the entire room...and in waking life I feel that it happens as well, but not visibly (at least to me). It's like a detoxing of the body and mind. For a more reliable source of this information (it's hard to trust the experience of someone who is just a fellow bum)...Mantak Chia teaches Chi Nei Tsang. In that method, you open the "wind gates" to release stagnant qi, by massaging gently around the navel. At a higher level of it, the practitioner puts their elbow on the wind gates, and the sick qi travels from the elbow up the forearm, and shoots out through the fingertips. So that's also saying sick qi leaves through the navel. About age. Imagine going to a nursing home, and putting your head near the navel of someone there. It's just kind of a disgusting feeling, I think, for anyone (especially if you've been to a nursing home before, yuck)...that feeling you have is reliable! Nothing against old people...everyone ages. Their bodies just aren't working optimally like a young person's. Over 50 isn't elderly by far, but I think most people that age will admit their bodies don't work as well as they used to...unless they're really masterful in their self healing. Trust how things feel to you.

I have been listening to Elvis most of the day : Amazing grace A little less conversation All shook up Stuck on you The devil in disguise The impossible dream

All deeper considerations aside, vitamin B-6 deficiency interferes with dream recall. Take it on a regular basis half an hour before going to bed and you may see an improvement. It is safe to take MUCH higher doses than the RDA, so experiment with what works for you. For synergistic effects, make sure you take a multi-B with this too. Good luck.

Dream Mahasiddhi travelling players have come, lantern shadow show. The girl 'Emptiness' beckons from by the curtain now it's time to dance. I have three good friends bodhisattvas all, we drink! forgetting ourselves. A bead of red wine On your lip, gives all away we are lost, my love.

Looking at the taobums time, this post occurred around the time I had my dream last night. Weird.

I personally can remember dreams without much trouble. If I wake up while dreaming I always remember the dream. If I wake up after the dream already finished I normally find when I relax in the bathroom or read and relax my mind, one word or thought that pops into my mind usually does the trick of remembering the dream. I find I rarely dream with my usual optimal 7.5 hours of sleep unless im stressed or excited. When I sleep for more than 7.5 hours I usually dream. The more I sleep ie 10 hours the more likely I will dream. I have also found through trial and error that if I sleep say 7.5 hours and then wake up and then go back to sleep for another couple of hours I always dream. The most realistic dream I had recently was after I had been doing some night Yoga and meditation I was completely relaxed and went to bed. In my dream I could see myself lying on the bed, so I tried to reach my hand down from near the ceiling to touch my head that was sleeping. As I got closer to touching my sleeping head I had a feeling/thought not to touch my head otherwise if I did I would not wake up from my sleep ie die. So I pulled my hand back and didnt touch my sleeping head. I knew that I was dreaming in my dream, but when I woke up I remembered it straight away and it felt so real. The reason I couldn't touch my sleeping head in my dream because I would die seems to be connected with what I had previously heard my mother say about dreams that if you die in your dream it means that in real life you have died. For some reason the touching of my sleeping head reminded me of what I heard about dieing in my dream and it confused my dreaming mind/consciousness. After thinking about it now I wish I had of touched my head from the third person view that I had while dreaming just to see what, if anything would have happened. My experiences Peace

hey not my cup of tea personally. I have a different theory that says that the 'masters' of certain traditions who claim to have stopped dreaming, have become so 'unbalanced' in regards to their emphasis of waking consciousness over all else, and so certain of the primacy of their 'conscious mind' over the unconscious, that they just stop dreaming as they have completely devalued and detached from any content from within. I think there is a great deal of hubris in many traditions with their obsession and prioritisation of the conscious mind, which is really only a blip produced by the magnificent unconscious... In my book, the genuine older traditions were a journey into the world of the Inner, which is why trance work, dream states, oracular teachings and so on were mastered.

Wonderful thank you. I already incorporate this for the most part but I do not want to touch entheogens any further, at least for the moment. Since it seems to stir up anxiety of loosing compeltey grasp to "this reality around me" which leaves me with an aftertaste of wanting to jump off a bridge, althou I must say here that I had suicidic thoughts once in my youth but never again. Maybe I just conceive so much of the mess around me that I think it's all me... well part of me anyway but too much of... me. They reveal such beautiful, wholesome and for some reason very female parts of me and at the same time a sense of falling or crumbling away in a vortex of unmanifested "something" ... that feels so unpleasant. I guess I should incorporate more mediation into my lifestyle, not touch sclerotia or mushrooms ever again due to their sinister nature and look more forward to higher/denser DMT-components. In my eyes it's a very good start for someone who wants to remember dreams if they are interested why they wake up and suddenly feel exhilarated or with an utterly comfortable and warm feeling in the stomach or chest region. This interest in wanting to know more is fuel to the fire that will bring one in a deeper understanding. To be honest with you Seth, I personally want to experience dreams as vivid and as clear as my waking life and I know it is possible. Doesnt it, right? For me the same. It's like the manifestation of our thoughts into matter, words on paper brings them out of our "heads" and makes room for new experiences, while at the same time this does not make us forget, rather lets us recall that information easier. At least for me. Also and alternatively when I speak it out loud. I can recall things easier this way instead of keeping it all in my head. We are not far away from this level. It is really easy. Easier than one would think. This has a certain term in india and asia I believe aswell. It is the deepest state of relaxation one can achieve. Consciously! You simply lay down on the floor, best not on a bed. You can get a cushion for the head. Then you rock yourself into "sleep". You breathe in from your toes up to your head and breathe out from your head into your toes, while you observe any stiff parts in your body and clear them. When you are starting to feel you are completely relaxed, you solely focus on the breath and get yourself as calm as humanly possible. When you are new to this, the next steps might be super unfamiliar to you and you might bring yourself totally out of balance. At least that is what I did in the beginning and heard many many others did so aswell (since it's is so foreign): Your body starts to vibrate. From what I know this does our spirit to bring our energetic body in a certain vibrational state, preparing it literally for lift off. Like said this is the part where most fail, because this also lets your heart rate increase and you must be with your breath and calm yourself down. For me several times at the beginning the heart rate was like it wants to jump out of my chest. Remember also that the heart is the gateway to higher dimensions. My uncle has said similar in his practices. So much seems to go out solely from the heart, it's fascinating since we think only our brain could be capable of it... not at all. The next step is also know as the next obstacle. Two huge obstacles before everything starts your body starts to stiffen up. This also can happen before going in a deeper state of meditation. Our body seems to do this because shortly before waking up in the morning again, our consciousness must find an easy way to land and re-attach itself into our physical body. Aswell as this helps the body to completely relax. While in this stage, your breathing feels like something very heavy lies on your chest. This feeling can be very unpleasant at the beginning because one tends to panic because the mind thinks the body does not get enough air. You can consciously only breath very, very shallow. But this is basicly what your "body does" by itself all night. And then when you continue after this stage of consciously falling asleep, at a certain point you feel yourself in another body. Not breathing and very light. Like being in a "liquid" lighter than and less denser than water. Which can be quite scary for some people and that again, flings you right back into your bodily consciousness easily a third obstacle. After this you are most likely already in your astral body and can travel what we call the astral plain or the astral dimension. In the outmost layers not different to our physical world. You can meet your neighbors, they mostly dont see you, or you can interact with other astral travelers. You can fly and I heard you can also "teleport". Switch locations via thought, thinking it up. This is a normal way of travelling in any higher dimension, since there is no "physical distance". And then, the deeper you go, the deeper you "dream". This is apparently what we do all night. Can we meet God/Tao/Source in this way? I am pretty sure, with enough training. Training? Yes, training because to get into higher dimensions and that means closer to Source/God/Tao means having a higher vibration. The physical realm vibrates rather slow and each time you have to accelerate your vibration to get into higher places of conscious waking. Much of this can already be done during your day. Prepare yourself for the night, so to speak. I personally believe by mastering this, one can achieve bodily immortality. Since you regain so much from it. You and your body can regenerate in such complete ways, it is truely something we have to bring to a broader audience at one point. And yes, energy cultivation like Qi Gong or Tai Chi and other forms help wonderfully to get one further. Like it is said in Taoism: To grow as spirit and become (in my terms: realize one is) immortal. And with this, all western illusionary ideas or thoughts of "death" dissolve, naturally and effortlessly. All the best and thank you very much all of you for sharing your experiences! Let us all wake up!

And the USA which is said to be a Democracy? (Though suppose to a be a Republic?)... and Capitalist? Just word games really... USA is also a Communist Totalitarian /Welfare State / Wealth distribution which is only enforced on the majority (communism keeps the masses suppressed while the ruling elite (capitalist) suck the life out of the land and people. ^ So as per image... with slight amendment // The top is capitalist and the bottom is communist/ slavery The capitalist are parasites and the masses are brainwashed into being communist host. Capitalism is the "American Dream"... it's that small glimmer of hope that keeps the masses into thinking one day they will break free if they work really hard.... but the capitalist elite parasites trapped the masses into a communist system taking the wealth of the individual by force and redistributing either to themselves or into fruitless projects... keeping the masses and the state in perpetual debt (slavery). Ahaha... sooo, you could say that Communism is a Capitalist system?? yeh?

*** The tunnel, the train, the plane crashing into that, the alarm clock... Dream... *** Birds of paradise Hushed garden of evermore Amber persimmons

I find it easy to remember dreams if I have an interest in them. One sure way to remember a dream or two a night for me is to read up on lucid dreaming.

Your welcome. There are aspects of existence that go beyond research and comprehension. Belief is a bandaid we place over our ignorance to give ourselves the illusion of understanding and security. Fine details explaining how meditation can be helpful in this matter - That's something that could fill quite a few books but I'll try to be very concise. Most of our lives are spent looking at the world through our thoughts. When we do that, we are subjecting the world to a very sophisticated and very biased and programmed algorithm that's rooted in our conditioning. It's a product of our ancestors, our society, our culture, our teachers, our government, and so on. That algorithm is a complex filter that applies labels, preferences, and judgments on everything that is taken in. The system is a self consistent story that is essentially the story of our world as we experience it. The story and the algorithm are completely contained within our heads. They have virtually nothing to do with reality. So when we look at the world outside (or inside) we are really looking at an image created by our programmed image of that world. And that image is a very poor approximation that cuts off any possibility of deeper understanding. One example - I see something small and brown fly past the window and make a particular noise and I say to myself - sparrow. Oh, that's a sparrow - I know all about that. Next.... But how much do really know about it? How much do your really know about that particular, individual living creature? Do you know anything about it's life, it's experience, it's physiology, it's consciousness? Do you know what distinguishes it from other "sparrows"? Is it possible that there is more there than we can find in an encyclopedic entry? Another example - I bump in to someone I work with. Oh, that's Dave, I don't like Dave - he bumped me out of that promotion last month.... What do I really know about Dave? Is he happy? Is he ill? Is he a concert musician or a rapist? If I gave him a chance, he could turn out to be my best friend. But I know Dave, I don't like him... nothing will ever change. Same with everyone we meet. We make a quick assessment and judgment, based on the algorithm, slap on a concise label and the we "know" that person. And that "knowledge" sticks with us forever, unless something dramatic happens to shake it loose (which is extremely rare - how often do we markedly change our impression of a person?). So our intellectualization and "understanding" of the world inside us and around us is a sham. It's a very sophisticated story that we continually tell ourselves over and over and it forms the basis for our entire life. It's useful from a practical point of view but it's extremely limiting and it is what separates us from reality and Nature. It is our fall from grace. We never interact with the world, just with our image of the world. We never interact with other people. Our image of our self interacts with our image of the other person... It is an ongoing dance of thoughts, preconceptions, assumptions, and expectations. And the narrator never lets up. It's always there narrating our story because without the narrator the story would fall apart and we would have no security. So meditation gives us the opportunity to see the narrator for what it is and to possibly open ourselves up to what is rather than sleeping through life wrapped in the dream of our story. It takes enormous patience and dedication and the only way a person comes to see this for themselves is if they get dissatisfied or disillusioned with the status quo. And they have to be deeply dissatisfied because it's usually a difficult and slow process of breaking down the story. This is why it tends to occur most often in people who have been through profound and serious trauma. And all of those words are just about worthless. The only way to have any idea of what meditation can teach is to sit down and do it, preferably with some expert guidance to make sure you're on the right track initially. And there are plenty of excellent resources out there for the Buddhist methods, not so much for the Daoist methods...

If your not resting in awareness in the waking bardo then there's not much chance of doing it in the bardo of sleep and remembering afterwards. Forget about dreams and dreaming. Work on your waking state, your daily practice. Once this is strong, the dream practice comes naturally and effortlessly. Not only will you have recall, but you will start to become aware that you are dreaming while you are dreaming which will start to open up a whole new world of practice and exploration.