Dreams

I have always been fascinated by dreams, but as I have gotten older I haven't been able to remember them as much. When I was a teenager I dreamed of a small town for years. It was a magical place. The only store was a gas station, but anything I ever wanted was there. There were only a few people, but all of my friends lived there. In fact anything I ever wanted was in this tiny town.
Trying to remember dreams has never really helped. I knew when I woke that I had dreamed but I forgot them so quickly it didn't matter. I had read in the past that if you wrote down your dreams it helped you remember but I had never really taken it serious. I was already trying to remember them and there was no way I was going to be able to read anything that I wrote down before I was awake enough to have forgotten my dreams.
That last part at least was completely true. I now have several pages of writing with only a couple words that I can remember, but there is something about writing it down which has triggered my memory. For several days after I stopped writing down everything I still remember large parts of the dreams and only now after four days without writing down anything have I had a night without remembering my dreams.
I will begin to record them again and see if that triggers the memories again, and I suggest that if you want to remember your dreams try keeping a dream journal next to your bed. It seems silly but at least for me it works.