Is it possible?

[Clidu]

I tend to have about 1 LD a week if im lucky and i was wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that my dream recall is poor.Is it possible that i can have LDs during the night that i have full control over but im not remembering them? I know alot about LD'ing and i know 'my way' now but before i start fully getting into it i want my dream recall to be alot better....ene thoughts? Thanks

[ezzolucid]

I tend to have about 1 LD a week if im lucky and i was wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that my dream recall is poor.Is it possible that i can have LDs during the night that i have full control over but im not remembering them? I know alot about LD'ing and i know 'my way' now but before i start fully getting into it i want my dream recall to be alot better....ene thoughts? Thanks Hi, whenever i have a great lucid dream, i always intentionally wake myself up after a while after i have had some fun. When in a lucid dream its very easy to wake up on demand. The downside to this is that the lucid dream has now ended but the upside is that it will be really fresh in your mind, get up and write it all down and relive it / think about it the next day. This way it will seem just like a normal memory which you can look back on as if it happened for real Cutting a lucid dream short on purpose sucks but at least it will stay with you. What can happen otherwise is that you have an 'ok' lucid dream that is short and 'dark' but then turns into a normal dream or you simply forget it totally. Get lucid, have fun, wake up, write down - relive forever! Ezzo

[Chewnie91]

I tend to have about 1 LD a week if im lucky and i was wondering if it has anything to do with the fact that my dream recall is poor.Is it possible that i can have LDs during the night that i have full control over but im not remembering them? I know alot about LD'ing and i know 'my way' now but before i start fully getting into it i want my dream recall to be alot better....ene thoughts? Thanks Hello Clidu, To answer your question, yes, it is possible to have a lucid dream and forget about it. It's easy if you are not careful, to become lucid in a dream, and then slip back into a non-lucid. Dream recall is always a great skill to practice no matter how new, or how skilled you are at lucid dreaming.

[Sensei]

There is no limit to recall. It is possible to forget a lucid. Lucid just means you we're aware that you are dreaming. How many times have you been aware that you are waking that you forgot it? I always tell people to work on lucidity, sleep schedule, and recall and they will keep improving forever. I would recommend checking out the dream signs and recall subforum it is jam packed with ways to remember your dreams. Dream journalling and wbtb being the two that effect recall the most (in my book). I recommend micro wbtbs, small wibtbs throughout the night to do a little journalling and then go back to sleep. It is very effective, since the easiest dream to remember is a dream that you just woke up from.

[martakartus]

There have been times when I've woken up feeling certain I had had a lucid dream, but not remembering anything about the plot. I just recall having become lucid, maybe RCing even, but before or after that, blank. It's weird, but it can happen.

[TravisE]

I also agree that it's possible to forget a LD (since it's possible to forget anything, including waking life stuff). In my experience, though, dreams with a decent level of lucidity are much less likely to be forgotten completely, especially if they're important (though low-level LDs and the initial non-lucid portions of DILDs can be a bit fuzzy for me at times). I've had nights with virtually no non-LD recall at all but several LDs that I remembered fine. There are occasions where I wake up feeling like I just had a LD that I can't remember at all. In some cases, I have managed to remember the dream, but I usually found that I didn't really have a LD after all—it was a NLD about LDs, for instance, or merely a false memory in that dream of having had a LD, or something like that. So I just assume that if I were truly lucid, I would remember it. Good recall still isn't a bad idea, though.

[CoffinCakes]

Yes, it's very possible. I speak from experience. I once had a lucid dream where I "woke up" in the dream because there were six moons in the sky, but I didn't remember my dream until late that night. There are several reasons why lucid dreamers keep dream journals, and this is one of them. Look at it this way: LDs really aren't that different from normal dreams, and if you can forget your normal dreams then of course you can forget your lucid ones.

[Sageous]

Look at it this way: LDs really aren't that different from normal dreams, and if you can forget your normal dreams then of course you can forget your lucid ones. Consciously speaking, LD's are in fact very different from regular dreams (NLD's), including how they are remembered. LD's, being actual waking-life consciousness moments (and often very interesting, exciting, and basically memorable moments at that), tend to be retained by memory just as memorable waking-life events are retained. This makes them much more likely to be remembered than NLD's, which generally are not retained by memory at all. There are exceptions, of course, like vivid nightmares, but NLD's are tend to be discarded by memory almost immediately upon waking while LD's tend to be remembered fairly easily. As Travis already sort of noted above, this memory aspect of LD's is a good way to confirm that you actually were lucid, instead of just dreaming that you were lucid: If you can clearly remember being lucid, you likely were.

[CoffinCakes]

Yeah, that's definitely true; I could have worded that better! So, re-do: You are less likely to forget your lucid dreams, but yes, it's still possible to do so. I think that's better. ^^

[Redrivertears]

Heya all, I think its possible yes, Sometimes, I'd have a lucid dream, then fail to wake up afterwards, and have another dream. When I'd wake up, I would remember the second dream in detail, but not always the first. I'd know I had a lucid dream due to some vague images and memories, but little to no actual detailed recall. Because of this 'experience', I assume there are instances where I've had a lucid dream and forgot about it completely, just as there's times where I've had a lucid dream, then another dream, and wake up remembering both. Seems to only ever happen for me when a later dream 'superimposes' itself over the previous (lucid) dream. -Redrivertears-

[Alric]

You can definitely forget lucid dreams. One of the biggest killers of remembering lucid dreams, is when you are lucid and you have a false awakening, and in the second dream you lose awareness and it becomes a normal dream. In fact when lucid dreams become normal dreams, that can hurt recall in general. Anyway, the best way to improve dream recall is with a dream journal. When you wake up, just write down as much detail as you can about your dream. Keeping a dream journal of all your dreams massively improves your recall very quickly. The downside is that if you stop using a dream journal your recall often degrades very quickly, until you have your normal recall again.