Memory Does not Transition Easily from Waking World to Dream world?

**voByJunior2013** · 12-01-2013 11:10 PM

I'm just wondering because in my waking life i keep doing Reality checks and telling myself "When i dream i look at my hands and realize i'm dreaming"

But i've had several dreams since i started practicing like 2weeks and a half so far. ANd in my dream I never ever remember to look at my hands.

So how come in my real life i remember that Yesterday i practiced reality checks alot but in my dream world i don't remember that at all and i don't remember me saying "When i dream i will look at my hands" so I don't do reality check in my dream world.

Seems like memory doesn't transfer easily from waking world to dream world.
Will it eventually happen? I"m doing all i can in the daytime: Meditationn, Awareness, mantras, visualization.
So far all the dreams i had continue to be like passing movies that i just watch , i'm not lucid.

**brenthinds** · 12-02-2013 01:28 AM

How do you do your reality checks? I have read a lot on here and it has happened like this in my limited personal experience that you will question if you are dreaming and then reality check to affirm if you are, not the other way around. What I do is I become very aware of my surroundings and try to remember how I got where I am. I will then Reality Check although most of the times before even Reality Checking I know it's not a dream because of my awareness. This is just in my experience.

I have also read how, in a way, you have two minds: waking and dreaming. You must familiarize your conscious waking mind with your dreaming mind by way of dream journaling and your waking awareness will carry over into your dreaming.

**Superadam051** · 12-10-2013 07:38 PM

You seem to have my problem. No matter what we do nothing sticks in the dream world xD. The way I see it, as brethinds does. Is that to carry over that memory is to actively do it yourself. However because you don't recognize it or automatically have it, getting it can be hit and miss, improved with practice of course. It can start as a small intention, like waking up. If you set a plan to do something when you woke up you must first get past all the distractions of waking up and the general fogginess, and then realize what you did / wanted to do. Applied to a dream world. That's the point of reality checks, getting past the distractions to ensure you have awareness.

**Hitokage** · 12-21-2013 09:32 PM

Try to put more concentration into RCs in a real life. Like stop your mind and feel the present moment. Feel your body and yourself being awake. Feel the reality. This helped me in the beginning. It's not enough just to look at your hands and say "mmm not dreaming".

**LouaiB** · 12-24-2013 11:52 AM

Improve your prospective memory(memory for remembering to do things in the future), and do a lot of reality checks throughout the day, so eventually you will automatically do a RC in your dream. I had 2 of my 4 LD induced by a random RC then realizing I'm dreaming.
Good Luck!!

**DreamHighlander** · 12-24-2013 12:11 PM

I find that our memory in the dream world is kinda like when we're drunk. We can remember bits and pieces but it's all a little fuzzy. In my lucid dreams i can remember what my goal is, what my mantra was prior to fall asleep, what i did that day in waking life... heck, i always remember your tips from the forum and all, but it takes a great amount of concentration. I guess because i'm so amazed and so into the dream world that i don't want to think of my waking life with fear of waking up.
I guess our minds are in a "different mode" than in waking life.