My access to memory is often extensive, but is always limited, as if sculpted. |
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My usual lucid dream are very hard to maintain awareness in and I feel more like an aware zombie then actually fully lucid. Because sometimes I can valuate the dream task more important than something that is actual important. For example if you dream that you are going to get a very important bag to a friend, but then get lucid shouldn't you stop caring about that bag since you know it's only a dream? You feel completely aware and you can even think that oh my dream school looks exactly as it does for real. |
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My access to memory is often extensive, but is always limited, as if sculpted. |
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Now that is an interesting question! I know I've had many, many LD's in which I noticed that the dream scene bore little or no resemblance to the place (or people) it was supposed to represent, plus many non-lucid or low-level lucids where I did exactly as you and assumed everything was fine, only to realize later that memory had failed me (or failed, as it were, to fully turn on). |
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Last edited by Sageous; 06-20-2012 at 09:49 PM.
I was interpreting the question more in terms of remembering past events. So, for example, I could be sitting in the kitchen and it looks really, really, accurate, but then if I try to think back to the previous day I find that I can't reach it. Or I could be in a scene that has no waking life counterpart, but I can remember quite a bit from waking life. But always there are gaps in what I can remember. I recall one dream in particular where my memory went back about 30 minutes, then before that, nothing. |
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Oh. Well if that's the case, then my post is way less relevant, or interesting! |
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Thanks for the replies. As you might understand this experience was very exciting because I was as aware as I am right now. Because of that I considered the experience more than a dream while having it, since it was so much more vivid than my usual lucid dreams. I'll was hoping to hear from at least one person who have had a similar experience, because then I can be sure that this was just a dream and not an OOBE or something likely. Now I am just confused, I guess the only way to find out is to get there again |
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I also form a lot of memories in dreams which I can access more easily later in other dreams than I can later in waking life. Its common for semi-lucid dreams to take place in settings I have dreamed of before, though I don't remember these as often in waking life. In addition to these, there are extensive 'false' memories which are created as a sort of character and plot back-drop for a dream. I don't think I've dreamed those before though, I think I experience them the first time when I 'remember' them while dreaming. I say that because it seems that 'I' am aware of them for the first time during the dream, even though the image itself is placed in the past. |
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I don't think there's a clear distinction between a lucid dream and an out of body experience. I've had both, and I've had experiences that were a little of both. This seems to fit with other people's experiences in previous discussions. |
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With me it improved with time and practice. Early on I would get lucid and could not figure out where my body must be located. I am weird about training skills in LDs. I spent a couple of years doing this during my stabilization time. I would simply try to remember where I had parked my body. Eventually I was often able to remember that I was asleep in summer school vs safe at home. This allowed me to avoid sexy dreams while sleeping at my school desk, for fear my body would start humping or some thing. |
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I know the feeling you refer to. When I become lucid through a DILD, I then feel quite impulsive..... and act on carnal urges. You're aware that you're dreaming, but your control is more like: 'coming along for the ride', and you usually end up doing something. A real good indicator of being fully aware is that all action ceases. You just stand there, bemused, absolutely aware. Action is no longer an integral part of the dream script running independent to your wishes. |
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Last edited by Wolfwood; 06-21-2012 at 11:06 AM.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung
Try to remember a dream sign. One that that I used, was the theory that letters look like jumbled/hieroglyphics, and are changing always in dreams. So I looked at a book shelf in my dream, and noticed that the letters were almost alive. This was a conscious memory of what I was reading at the time, brought over into the LD. My memory was crystal clear. I pratice a great memory trick in reality, and I think meditation helps the memory as well. The below trick is great if you're an avid reader. And if you want to learn a dream recall mantra that's good, vist my thread: newbe lucid dreamjournal at the Introductory Zone. |
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Thanks for the tip Splice, although I thought about the letters in this dream as well. On the first awakening I wrote down the first dream with no problem, the letters didn't move it was completely stable, which was also one of the reason to why I at the time didn't considered this a dream even if I knew that this wasn't the physical. My hands even looked normal and they have never done that in all my other lucid dreams. |
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Perhaps. But it's not impossible for a brain to record and remember every detail of a mental image taken by looking at different buildings. Thus, I give you an excerpt on Savant Syndrome: |
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