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I like how organized you are with your entry.Encourages me to put a little more effort into organizing mine .

I would be scared too if I saw a spider jumping around. ^^" Good thing there aren't flying spiders.haha

I like how you have side notes called inspirations. xD

A lot of day residue makes it into my dreams! When I start a waking journal I might be able to pick out more.

That must have been really scary. O w o

You could say that! XD

A tiger was peering at me from under the door…

That must have been really scary. O w o

I like how you have side notes called inspirations. xD

Somehow I just 'knew' about the werewolf aspect but we were all in human form. I wonder what it would have looked like if we were in wolf form?

Were you a werewolf in wolf aspect for part of the dream? That sounds fun either way.

That's hilarious. XDD You were hot by association. *nods*

I had a dream with a village that only hot people could live there, lol... not even one non hot person in there... all much hotter than me hahaha, but they accepted me lol.

Thanks! I've done that a few times before, usually to do with computer work. Once, I froze some water cupped in my hands with the F8 key. XD

This was pretty cool. I noticed that you were non-lucidly working a bit of dream control there with the colour changing.

Hahaha niiice. I've done some F8 key-smashing myself on my own (not so new) computers.

2. Cupping water in my hand and freezing it with the F8 key (after trying out other keys). I held up a chunk of ice and was showing it to someone.

Heh, this one struck me as funny because yesterday or the day before, my (very young) children did weird stuff to my fancy-schmancy new(ish) PC and I was having to F8 like crazy on boot-up to fix what they'd done.

Given what you experienced, I am amazed by this key's versatility.

Hey, thanks so much for the great reply! That is immensely helpful. Very timely, too, since I used the method of loci last night after my WBTB, to great effect.

Those links look great as well. The "broom" technique (for erasure) will be particularly important to me because I plan for these dream notes to require no more than a 24-hour lifetime. After that, it'll be a new night and hopefully I've written everything down more permanently!

During my awakenings, I seemed to have enough time to walk through the portion of the palace I'd filled and then scratch out a peg. Some of them are quite poor in retrospect but seem to be good enough. I threw in a lot of cheap tricks like imagining myself bashing my knee on the object as I walk by, etc. I had this sense like I was on the clock and didn't feel very clever or fully awake.

But I remembered the dreams I noted down this way, and that's what matters! Hopefully I'll get better at the encoding aspect with practice. I need to get really good at wiping, too. Nothing improves you faster than practice, though, so I'm going to try to use this every night if I'm able.

Thanks again for all of this great info. If you find some time later, I would definitely love to hear the names of your favorite e-books on this subject. But no obligation there, obviously -- you've already helped me a great deal! Good luck with your own dream recall using this technique... you are sounding much much more advanced with it than I am currently!

Awesome. I am very interested in how this experiment goes for you. A while back I'd had the same idea myself, but I'm still painfully slow at building a Memory Palace. The technique's amazing though -- I used my childhood home to build a grocery list a long time ago (months and months) and I can still remember just about all of the items on it.

Did you decide to forego using your home because you wanted to have a palace blueprint or two that was strictly for dreams and nothing else?

I just had to give up building a memory palace from a game because I just couldn't grasp it. It didn't help that my references were videos that didn't focus on the architecture, and the lighting wasn't great and I just knew I was going to carry that over to my mind. Maybe I'll try again someday when I can play the game again myself and take better references. Plus it's huge, it'd take me a while.

I actually do use my home since I know it very well, but until recently, I was using it to store a bunch of items to test how much I could hold without strain. I ended the experiment because it turned out I had no trouble. I also have some definitions stored in it.

I too am really amazed by these techniques - I remember a few items I put in there months ago when I first started out and then stopped for a while. Sometimes it can actually be annoying when the stored stuff never leaves, because I find myself remembering them when I'm trying to remember other stuff even though they're no longer relevant. x_x

I just really liked the idea of having a separate place for dreams, especially because I'd planned on storing more than a few at the time. And it seemed especially fitting to use the 'dream bubble' maps from Homestuck. Now I have a lot of empty space, since I decided to just store one night's worth at a time. XD I don't know, maybe I'll have some dreams I want to store more permanently later.

Do you have any sense for how quickly you can populate your memory palace? My presence of mind during brief awakenings isn't always the sharpest and I often don't have a great deal of time before I slip back under. I'll also need to read up on how you go about deleting stuff. My childhood home is still occupied by that darn grocery list.

Anyway, this is quite exciting. Thanks for sharing!

It took me around a week to fill up my house with 16 pegs and 72 items. I also have 6 definitions stored and a few other things (transportation devices, a whiteboard of reminders, memories).

I was worried it was going to start getting full, but then I read an article about finding nooks and crannies which made me realize that I didn't use a lot of spaces that I could.

My dream palace is pretty empty - even when I had three chunks in there in the main room, I still had two corners free plus the other map and two other little areas if needed.

I'm the same way about brief awakenings. I'm worried I won't get myself awake enough to store something well enough to wake up again later and remember. The problem right now is that I'm taking sleeping pills, so that makes it worse. Hopefully I can stop taking them soon.

Two links for you:
Nooks and Crannies in the Method of Loci | The Blog of Michael Corayer
Wiping Your Memory Palace, Sealing Important Data Permanently & Layering For Incredible Recall

I also have a small loci where I store phone numbers, small one I made for more definitions, and two separate bigger ones for learning Esperanto.

It's really awesome to see someone else who uses the method of loci! Best of luck to you.

P.S.: I have a few ebooks on this if you're interested. I was going to name a couple off but I'm too tired!

Awesome. I am very interested in how this experiment goes for you. A while back I'd had the same idea myself, but I'm still painfully slow at building a Memory Palace. The technique's amazing though -- I used my childhood home to build a grocery list a long time ago (months and months) and I can still remember just about all of the items on it.

Did you decide to forego using your home because you wanted to have a palace blueprint or two that was strictly for dreams and nothing else?

Do you have any sense for how quickly you can populate your memory palace? My presence of mind during brief awakenings isn't always the sharpest and I often don't have a great deal of time before I slip back under. I'll also need to read up on how you go about deleting stuff. My childhood home is still occupied by that darn grocery list.

Anyway, this is quite exciting. Thanks for sharing!

I love Axis Powers Hetalia!!!!!

No problem. Do you mind if I subscribe? I like a good read now and then.

Yep! I love anime and manga.

And wow, I didn't even think about that play on words. I was thinking how my scenes kept 'hopping' and most of them were shoujo scenes so I went with that title.

Thanks for commenting!