oooh! you're right. thanks! i'll try that this weekend.
If I want to remember a dream and try to choose what I dream about there is only one way that I know how to do it. I'll set my alarm for a few hours before I have to wake up, turn the alarm off after it sounds, and then intensly think about what it is you want to dream about and go back to sleep while thinking about it. The reasoning for this is because:
1. You will very easily and quickly go back to sleep and into a dream state.
2. After you wake up from the alarm and then go back to sleep, your chances of remembering the dreams that happen in those final few hours of sleep go up dramatically.
Have you ever noticed the dreams you remember are almost always from the morning? and when you do remember them it is because something woke you up prematurely and you went back to sleep?
This will most likely take practice and patience.
i've read up on it, but i just don't get how to DO it, you know?
I'm surprised no one responded to this, so much is written on the subject.
Try a web search on "lucid dreaming" for starters. Check your library for "The Art of Dreaming" by Carlos Castenada (1993).
There's no limit to what you can dream. No boundaries, no guilt.