Thread: Can I have some help?

I'm not going to try this again, but I can at least tell you about my experience. When I was new to lucid dreaming I would spend a whole day searching google and DV for information of lucid dreaming. Within the next few days I would have a dream related to something I learned about. I then became lucid because it would trigger me to question things. It eventually stopped working for me though.

This is what happens to me, too. I have about a week's delay on my dreams. Most of my dream content seems to be delayed about 5-7 days. If I spend a day intensely focused on lucid dreaming, it will take a few days before it kicks in. I'm glad I'm not the only one.

This is common for a lot of things. You focus a lot on something, then you let it go, and it finally comes to you.

Your putting it into your long-term memory bank during the first day. By studying or reviewing dream related material all day will force it to be stored in long term.

By then recalling it a few days later your bringing it back to active memory. This technique is pretty much MILD. Your storing the information for later use. Then, you call it back into conscious memory before bed hence causing it to linger in your thoughts. As you fall asleep this thought is more prevalent than other unconscious ones. So it will be more likely to remain on your mind and in conscious memory as you fall asleep bringing forth the greater possibility of a lucid dream

However, this can fail because its very easy for other thoughts to be brought forth, forcing lucid dreaming thoughts out of the active memory bank and back to the unconscious.

I also have a time delay on stuff that I want to dream about. I'll have moved onto my next obsession, only to be dreaming about the old one, months later. grr.