Prospective Memory Importance

**LouaiB** · 07-31-2014 07:58 AM

If there is something that is underrated, it is training the prospective memory.

Basically, we get LDs mostly by intention. Intention works using the prospective memory.

If there is something that we know is surely a basis for becoming an expert LDer, it's the prospective memory, because it gets used to the intention to get a LD, like when you get used to taking a pill at 8pm, it becomes almost automatic remembering each time.

Also, prospective memory is what makes us remember DSs in dreams, making us lucid.

There are other factors to LDing, like uping the schema of dreaming possibility so you would become lucid next time in doubt in a dream, and thinking about LDing and RCing so they would happen in the dream, but prospective memory is the main one.

The great thing is that you can train the prospective memory so it would become stronger.

Really if I would label something as the key and way and tool in becoming an expert, the thing that improves and makes you an expert LDer, it's the prospective memory. Don't forget, experts' INTENTION to LD is very powerful! One mantra and they get a LD.

Also will power is important, because it allows you to put more effort to your work. Sensei explains very well how will power works with motivation and expectation. You should check out his thread (at least the part where he explains this): http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...s-secrets.html
The great thing about will power is that you can train it too! It can get more powerful, just Google how.

Please if you can add something, or pose a problem in my post, please comment about it

**Memm** · 07-31-2014 07:37 PM

Pretty much what LaBerge ended up with in his MILD method basically.

Also mindfulness is linked to prospective memory (or just any memory) and recall, so yeah, more or less, I agree. There are other things you can do on top of that though to make it easier like falling asleep with the right state of mind.

**Laurelindo** · 08-02-2014 09:32 AM

MILD is indeed in a way the foundation of everything else, because that's the kind of technique that motivates you to "keep a lookout" for the dreamstate and remember to become lucid.

I wish more beginners could practice this naturally;
some people seem to like to over-complicate lucid dreaming and talk about "binaural beats" and "sleep paralysis", when really all you actually need to do is to firmly decide to recognize the dreamstate.