How is remembering our dreams supposed to help us lucid dream?

[Beccawhilley]

Most of the websites say to keep a dream journal or to remember dreams in order to lucid dream. How does this help me lucid dream?

[Typho]

Well, the truth is it doesn't. You seem to be getting techniques for Attaining Lucidity and your dream recall mixed up. Your dream recall (Witch for some reason is referred to as a noun, I find that very strange) Is basically your Ability to remember what happens in your dreams. I have been a member to this site for about a month and a half now, and my dream recall has gotten pretty good. I've been able to recall a dream that seemed to last about a half hour. But dream recall is essential for lucid dreaming. Because, some people who struggle with being lucid can remember long, vivid dreams, but never become lucid. Essentially, you can have one without the other, but If you have a lucid dream, and your recall fails, then you won't remember it when you wake up, and what's the fun in that? If you already have a good Dream Recall, then your ready to start with induction techniques. These are the strategies that you can employ to get lucid (Consciously aware that your dreaming IN a dream.) this is because with a dream recall, you will remember your dreams, but you will still just go though them without being lucid. There are three biggies DILD (Dream induced lucid dream) MILD (Mnemonically induced lucid dream) and WILD (Wake induced lucid dream) You have probably heard alot about doing Reality Checks and stuff like that. So if your recall is already good, look around the forums on Induction techniques etc. If you have any ?'s contact me somehow.

[Osmodin]

IN my opinion it helps you get to know your dreams better. I think that when you remember you dreams in great detail, you just develop a feeling of the dream and recognize it better and become lucid more often.

[Ndm]

Whats the point of lucid dreaming if you can't remember what you did?

[Reclypso]

You are recording your dreams in your Dream journal so you can establish dream patterns, dream patterns are what you commonly dream about. If you write in detail about a dream that say has a friend that you haven't seen in a while, and you see this friend in a lot of your dreams you notice. You can count this as a dream sign, dream sign's help you have lucid dreams because you will say "hey I remember I dreamed about this before" and will then snap you into a lucid dream Sorry I just woke up didn't have the best wording on this answer but I hope I helped.

[IAmCoder]

Also, consciously thinking about a dream automatically establishes connections with more lucid areas of your mind.

[ebullere]

Because the more you think about dreaming, the more likely you'll be to have a lucid dream. Plus what's the point of having lucid dreams if you don't remember them in the morning?

[faceonmars]

Because the more you think about dreaming, the more likely you'll be to have a lucid dream. Plus what's the point of having lucid dreams if you don't remember them in the morning? IMHO, if you do not remember you had a lucid dream, being they are extremely vivid and exhilarating, then you did not have a lucid dream.