Before you go to sleep, write down an intention for your dreams. Make this a juicy intention – eg “I would like to be healed” or “I want to meet my soulmate” or simply “I want to have fun in my dreams and remember.”

Have pen and paper ready so you can record something whenever you wake up. Write your dream in a journal later, give it a title and see if you can come up with a personal motto or “bumper sticker” distilling the message or quality of the dream.

You don’t have much when you wake? Be kind to fragments. Even a wisp from the night – a word, a color, a snatch of music – can provide interesting clues.

If you try this and don’t remember anything from your dreams, don’t fret or tell yourself you’re a bad person. Write down whatever thoughts, feelings and sensations are with you. We all have a dream hangover even if we have forgotten the dreams that gave it to us. Sometimes we find the night has given us guidance and direction, and a certain kind of energy, even when the dreams that delivered this have flown.

And remember, when you step out into the daylight world, that what is going on all around you will speak to you in the manner of a dream – through symbolic pop-ups and the play of synchronicity – if you will pay attention.