Thank you for the welcome, fogelbise. Good to see you again. I will definitely try to work on dream recall, although I also want to try to work on achieving lucidity - it always took me quite a lot of effort to achieve it, so might as well start the effort now.
My dream recall as I say almost non-existent: a couple of weeks ago I recalled a dream in which I had a sink in my dream home office, left the water running, and left the room. When I returned the flood was too much to just mop up. I cried for help, but nobody came, and I did not know what to do, so I woke up.
A more recent dream fragment: I joined an ultra leftist political organization, and apparently I could shape shift to stay in disguise when going to meetings, so my dream face contorted into a different shape. That's all I remember.
Interestingly sometime in 2017 I had a memory during waking life which I am pretty sure was a dream memory and an opportunity lost to become lucid in a dream. I remember thinking "hmm, it's weird that I can operate my iPhone in these gloves, never knew that worked." After recalling this memory and realizing what it probably meant, I went home and tried operating my phone in those gloves, and sure enough it did not work, so dream memory most likely.
Edit: It occurs to me that just because lucid dreaming has always taken me a lot of effort to achieve does not mean that has to be the case again and setting up my expectation that way is counterproductive. The one thing that has changed meanwhile is that I have learned to exercise every single day and have been doing this for over a year, so one could argue I am not the same person I used to be, and thus my dream success expectations should be a blank slate. With exercise I have had great success starting easy and progressing steadily over time, with more stress on consistency than on intensity. Now that I have the flu I am taking it easier of course, for example this morning just worked out for 15 minutes, but that's 15 minutes more than I would have done two years ago.
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