Can't remember dreams

[ascension scout]

And if you remember any little details of a dream as you come out of sleep, condense whatever you remember down to a single word and focus on that word and remember it into full consciousness. You can use it as a trigger to open your mind back to those dream memories, like keeping a door slightly open with your hand before it closes and locks shut.

This is a lovely new trick! I can't wait to apply this one to my process.

I have been journaling for over a year now. And believe me, recall improves, slowly yes, but it does improve. I keep a list of questions/appeals to my higher self in my journal and re-read them after logging my dream. Recurring themes, rise and fade as catalyst and its resultant experience trickles down into the roots of the mind. There is a unending wellspring of inspiration, premonition, mystery and straight up weird s*** that can be accessed while dreaming. You won't get bored penetrating the dreaming mind.
Log it, reflect upon it and apply the themes within an archetypical framework. Below are some relevant quotes.

"Each relationship which you have gives you a mirror for yourself. Just as in your dreams, each character represents a portion of yourself. So, in the waking life each interaction with another entity shows you the mirror of yourself, in part, in the actions and behaviors, the thoughts and the concepts offered by that interaction. Consequently, you are constantly seeing portions of yourself mirrored in a somewhat distorted way by those who are in relationship with you." -Q'uo

Each character represents a portion of yourself!? Now think about that dream again....
It defies our cultural training to think of others as portions of ourselves. But I think that is the point and the key to 4-D awakening and knowing the Creator.

"Oftentimes there is the attempt within dreams of the self to come more into balance with that which is distorted either for joy or for sorrow. Images seen within dreams often give one clues as to the true nature of perceived experience or the deeper nature of that experience which has many layers, some of which you may not have seen." -Q'uo

Yes, YES the many layers, most of which we have not seen. Who doesn't want clues to the true nature of perceived experience? By learning how your dreaming mind attempts to balance and work things out, you can apply these techniques to your waking life as well.

"May we say to you that all things in your experience are very useful for your understanding, and this definitely includes dreams, for one third of your life, if you are lucky, is spent in garnering these messages from parts of your mind and spirit that are forced into quietude during your active, daily work-a-day world. Sometimes your dreams will simply attempt to work out frustrations in your daily life and are simply a means of helping you to adjust to a situation which is less than perfect. However, if you become a student of your own dreams, that is, if you begin to write them down as soon as you awaken, you will begin to understand things about yourself that you did not understand before. For you are, in your dreams, conversing with parts of yourself that are in touch with your higher self and with those whom we would call your angels or your guides." -Latwii

Dreams, what a wonderful mysterious gift! Have fun exploring, there are no limits.