Searching Buddha

For those of us that are dream-deprived, I just wanted to share some reading I've been doing on how to remember your dreams:

Practical tips without religious stuff (but New Agey links on the left)

E-How's tips

Warning on one suggestion on the e-how link - they suggest melatonin. I used to use it when I worked a night shift to help me sleep during the day and while I certainly did sleep more (and I dreamt very vividly!), it was always accompanied by a really uncomfortable period of being awake, but just way too physically tired to move my body for the first half an hour or so. So that one might be best avoided. :)

I don't remember where I read it, but one technique I used to have a lot of success with was to use a (I believe it was) Aborigine meditation when you're falling asleep. It goes like this:

Imagine yourself at the edge of a lake (mine has a floating dock on it, which I like to imagine myself sitting on). A large black swan floats up to you. This swan protects the Dreaming (the dream land). Ask the swan to take you to the Dreaming and to help you remember what you've seen.

What happens after that is between you and the swan.