Thread: To wake or not?

In my dreams, lucid or not, I often have false awakenings and in such an awakening my memory of my dreams is very good, so I write down the dreams on my left arm and then when I wake up I only remember the most recent dream, or writing my dreams down, and hence what i was writing, leading to the dreams themselves.

Another one I do uncontrollably is record (in dream) my dreams on my psp, every psp ownder knows there is no text editor avilable (non homebrew) but the dream me always forgets this, so seeing my psp triggers my memory.

Personally I'd enjoy the dream as long as it lasts and maybe if you do plan to wake up to recap the dream first, but then again I'm nt to experienced making myself wake up.

Good luck with the recall.
Happy dreaming, DD

Closing your eyes in your dreams and then opening is my way of waking at will. Often it will result in a false awakening instead of a real one, but keep blinking, eventually you should wake up for real.

When I want to be sure to remember a LD I simply tell myself right in dream, out loud, to remember it all. It's worked every time.

Vex Kitten: When I want to be sure to remember a LD I simply tell myself right in dream, out loud, to remember it all. It's worked every time.

If it didn't work you wouldn't remember it, so of course it seems to work every time. :-p

I've gotten pretty good at waking myself up. I just ride the dream until it gets to the point that it is fading, then I wake up. I keep a little notepad and pen next to me. I jot down major plott points and any names or details I'll probably forget. Then I go back to sleep. Usually I go into another dream that is similar to the last one I just had.

Generally when i gain lucidity it last through the entire dream, but i think you shouldnt wake yourself up, if you wake up too early, think about all the things you could have done.

I would say just stay in the dream as long as possible. Why lose the big experience to write a smaller experience down?

if you dont lose lucidity, and just wake up from the lucid, its much easier to remember. If you lose lucidity however, details seem to be lost.

thats how it is for me anyway

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Vex Kitten: When I want to be sure to remember a LD I simply tell myself right in dream, out loud, to remember it all. It's worked every time.

If it didn't work you wouldn't remember it, so of course it seems to work every time. :-p

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Originally Posted by freefire

if you dont lose lucidity, and just wake up from the lucid, its much easier to remember. If you lose lucidity however, details seem to be lost.

thats how it is for me anyway

And for me as well. The kiss of memory "death" is if I go straight from a lucid into a non-lucid dream without waking.. it's infuriating how much of my lucid is lost.