 Originally Posted by seeker28
LOL!! Awesome quote!
I DEILD pretty much every night. I know exactly what you mean about loosing LDs early in a dream chain. I've dealt with the loss of recall by doing a few things.
First, I try to decide IN the LD if it is worth remembering in detail. This is because my reasoning capability when I wake up during the night is crap, but is pretty good in the dream itself.
If I decide it is worth remembering in detail I will make some short notes when I wake up from it. Then I just go back to sleep (or try to WILD).
If I decide the dream isn't worthy of interupting my chain I run through it at least three times in my mind when I wake up. Then I DEILD again.
Other than this I haven't come up with a sure-fire way to recall those early DEILD chain dreams. On another LD site someone suggested "anchoring" their LDs. By that they meant that in the dream doing something that you do during your morning routine. Like making coffe, or brushing your teeth. Or just looking at your coffee cup, so that it will help jog your memory when you wake up. I haven't tried this yet, but think it makes perfect sense. Hope this helps!
Yea, sometimes my DCs go and redeem themselves like that!
These chained lucids are often really hazy in general, and hard to stabilize and etc. I think you're right, next time I will try to stabilize and rational take a look around and make sure to memorize what's going on. I sometimes do this in RL and the memories last for years because I made an effort for them to.
I am also way groggy when I wake in the middle of the night. Add in that I can't WILD anyway, and I desperately try to keep my mind clear and just fall back asleep. But I guess it's not worth the price of a lost lucid. I'll see if telling myself while in the dream to remember helps out more, I think it should.
Hmm... my morning routine is really just to sit at the computer and check my email until my eyes are awake enough to put my contacts in. I have read in EWOLD that LaBerge recommends this, I never really use it because my recall is normally fantastic. But I'll start trying, it certainly can't hurt!!
Thanks, Seeker
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