Just keep practicing your "just got lucid" ritual while awake. It just took me a few times of doing this before I did it in my next LD. I need to return to doing this since it always has led to longer, more stable LDs. |
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The majority of my lucid dreams are spontaneous DILDs, despite putting my main efforts towards WILD in the past and SSILD in the present day. In 95% of these DILDs, even the most basic stuff is forgotten. Reality checks? Not a single one(except in the case of becoming lucid due to a RC), let alone my routine. How does one combat this? |
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powder
Just keep practicing your "just got lucid" ritual while awake. It just took me a few times of doing this before I did it in my next LD. I need to return to doing this since it always has led to longer, more stable LDs. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
What are your goals for LDing? I recently have been putting a heavier emphasis on goals and it has helped a lot. Of course I use a lot of incubation for goals as well as making my main goal to "slow down". This helps to make me lucid as well as to help me remember my goals. Here is a thread I made about it. |
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RCing is extremely important when it comes to me--it's how I get everything started. Once I RC, I immediately begin my memorized routine from habit. Once this routine is done, I remember my objectives from there. So basically, No RC ~ incomplete experience. And that's the thing; I only occasionally remember to do an RC. |
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powder
I had the same problem. What helped my was thinking about doing an RC as soon as I will become lucid, after doing an RC in waking live. |
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How much visualization do you do of your just got lucid practice? |
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Wait, you go to sleep in the dream when you become lucid? can you elaborate some more on this because I did this once and went into a new lucid, then when that lucid ended I was back in the previous lucid where I had gone to sleep. It created a sort of buffer zone from waking up IRL - would be curious if this happens to anyone else? |
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Jacob I would suggest creating a lucid routine if you don't have one already. |
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I have a routine created already, but I appreciate the suggestion. I also practice it during the day to keep it fresh in mind. |
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powder
it can create a buffer zone, but i have also been like 4 layers deep and just woken up. :p important to remember that it is just a scene change, but also, if you think of it as a buffer zone and you feel yourself "waking", instead of waking yourself up, your expectation sends you back a level. i think that a lot of times people feel the "dream ending" and wake themselves up by thinking that. |
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That's where prospective memory comes. Prospective memory is more important than lucid dreamers give it credit for. It's the memory which allows a person to remember to remember a task. I suggest that you work on prospective memory which tackles what you want to remember. In short, practice or act becoming lucid while awake and doing those "basic" stuffs you forget. |
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