While I agree that this prospective memory thing may have a lot to do in lucid dreams, I'm not sure it's just all about that.
I have some repeating dreams, that no matter how many times I tell myself that I will recognize them, I still I'm unable to do so. It's true that it's been months without them now, and who knows if now, that I managed to have some small frequent lucids, I would become aware...
One is the building I lived until I was around 20. I moved to another building then for 1 year, then to another one for some years, and finally I've been 4 years in the one I live now. But anyway, I still dream with that first home, a 17 floors building. The dream is mostly always about going "home", opening the mailbox and find lots and lots of advertising, envelopes.. (well obviously, as I've been out for years!), and also going into the elevator. Usually dream stops soon, but I'm once and again entering the hallway and opening the mailbox.
On this same building I also had lots of nightmares when I was a kid, while living there. In fact, one of my first lucids was some years later thanks to this (didn't happen again in years). I just wanted to go to the 17th floor (my home) and the elevator would stop at 7, or go down again, then up, then go to 19th floor (non-existant)... if I reached 17th floor my door wouldn't exist... it was a nightmare, as it was stressing and oppresive, and always the same... And the first lucid happened when I didn't live there anymore. I suddenly said "what am I doing here??.. oooohhh... the nightmare... well, lets have some fun...", and I just did that, exiting on every floor the elevator would leave me and check what surprise had my head for me.
There's also another repeating dream, not nightmare, but almost. When I was a kid and until I was around 26, I had two turtles. They eventually died. Last one was possibly by starvation, an infection, or maybe both, my fault I think, because I didn't take all the care I should... so my conscience decided to not forgive me.
I have this repeating dream from time to time, where I'm in my room and when opening a wardrobe, or a drawer, I find both turtles there, forgotten, and I go pick some food fast to the fridge. On another one I was going to clean it puting it under the water tap, and it melted like ice on hot water, in my hand... another time I found it on the balcony, and it just jumped as I was going to grab it... Also some "pleasant" ones were I see they are not so bad and I manage to feed them... or just that I them almost dieing, I try to feed, but they won't eat... It's always the same, me finding the turtle in a bad situation, wanting to fix it, but not able to (like in real life I guess, where I spent the last days giving vitamins suplements, etc. with no results)...
No matter how much I say "next time I'm in my old house, or next time I find my turtle... I'll realize it's a dream". It doesn't happen.
Not related to topic, but you know something I would love to do? Ask the turtle what it means, what it wants to tell me.
Maybe it only works if I tell it myself everynight... but honestly, I rather not dream about that. Maybe prospective can also be heavily trained to work in farther distance in time.
I'm thinking on doing some experiments, like "at 11am I will remember to.. whatever", and see what happens.
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