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Instructions
The tally sheet is a daily log of dream recall.
It has
two purposes: 1) It is a means
for you to discipline
yourself to pay some attention to
your dreams each
morning. 2) It is a simple tool
to collect data about
fluctuations in dream recall, data which can
be used to
gauge improvement in memory for dreams or to detect
factors which affect dream recall.
The tally sheet
was conceived and devised
by
dreamers. As a result, the tally
system represents a
natural, "phenomenological," or subjective,
system for
evaluating dream recall, and has
a validity for the
dreamer. It has also proven of value
in stimulating the
dreamer to notice certain aspects
of dreams which
might otherwise be overlooked, thus helping to develop
a memory for dreams.
The tally sheet
asks you each morning to make
a
series of simple judgments about
your memory for
dreams— how much of your dream did you
recall, and
how vividly. It will take a few
minutes to familiarize
yourself with the scoring system of the tally sheet,
and
the first few mornings may require a little extra
time in
order to be sure that you are using the system correctly.
Other than that, the tally sheet
will prove to be a very
simple and rapid record-keeping device,
requiring no
more than one minute each morning.
To explain the
use of the tally sheet, we'll first go
over the scoring systems, and then explain how
to use
the tally sheet itself.
Quantitative
Recall
This first system is concerned
with how much of a
dream you recall; and each dream is rated separately. By
how much, we do not mean
how long a dream, but
instead, a measure of the relative completeness of your
memory for the dream; in a real sense, it is
a measure
of the degree of the dreamer's
satisfaction with the
recall for a dream, a measure that only the dreamer
can
provide. The rating system is subjective,
but there are
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