the fragmenter

You do dream — almost everyone does, several times a night — but the bridge between the sleeping mind and the waking one is, for you, narrow. There are a hundred reasons for that, none of them deficiencies; light sleep, a busy first hour of the morning, an alarm that bypasses the slow-wake state, a habit of reaching for the phone before the dream has had time to land. The good news is that this is the most reliably trainable of all the dreamer types. A small ritual — a phone face-down, sixty seconds of stillness, one sentence into a journal before you stand up — will, within two weeks, start changing what you can recall. You may surprise yourself.