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      need to boost recall BAD --> having lucids I can barely remember sucks

      its really weird, i've mastered having crisp clear long vivid lucid dreams, but I can't remember them

      When you masters have really long LDS do you remember the whole thing? I know i need to sharpen up my recall, I guess my dream journal isn't that detail-oriented, but perhaps because I have super long LDs that its hard to remember them? is that a thing?

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      boy do I have a good method for you! I had this problem a while ago and I really hope this method brings you as much success as it has brought me:

      Intermittently, throughout your lucid, take a second to come to a complete stop, and list out keywords to yourself.
      These words should be the most basic phrases that refer to chunks of your dream. The longer you dream, the longer your list will be.

      These words will be breadcrumbs that you can follow back after you wake up to remember the entire dream.
      How often you need to stop, and how many keywords you need to use, is just something that you have to figure out for yourself, but it has worked wonders for me. If I have a very long lucid I wake up and immediately scribble down the list of words I had been repeating to myself throughout the night. After I do this I should be able to come back, even after a long day, and recall most of the dream just from the list.

      This is a real list of keywords I wrote down after a lucid, a list this long has lead to dream journal entries over 5,000 words long for me:

      FA's
      Voids
      Snake of Marbles
      Eye
      Kid Mask
      Walls
      MC
      Lucy
      Voids
      DG
      "your human?"
      Turkey dream
      Black ghost cat
      "why?"
      Fight
      Icy
      Apology
      Toy bucket
      Hold on
      "Don't you know?"
      Rock Star Thief
      Portal
      Wake

      These things don't seem to be able to flow from one to the other, and I switch from things like dialogue, to location, to feelings (it's fluid, like dreams themselves). What's important is to really identify what each part of the dream is defined by and make that the thing to remember.

      Hope this helps!
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      ahahhaha.. just woke up from a shorter lucid, started recalling events, scribbling then down onto paper having the dream come back to me in pieces. then I woke up for real! and remembered every detail BECAUSE I had just dreamt that i was dream journaling it !! wahooooooooo
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      i good tip is getting used to write your dream down, after some weeks you can remember your whole dream! (if you are lucky!)

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      ^ _ ^ congrats Kel!

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      Im having recall problems as well, but to the point where I dont remember anything when I wake up...even when I lay there and think, I cant remember a thing. Its pretty frustrating, but I assume its because Ive only been getting about 6 hours of sleep a night. Guess we will see, I have a vacation coming up lol
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      Quote Originally Posted by kel View Post
      ahahhaha.. just woke up from a shorter lucid, started recalling events, scribbling then down onto paper having the dream come back to me in pieces. then I woke up for real! and remembered every detail BECAUSE I had just dreamt that i was dream journaling it !! wahooooooooo
      I've done this in FAs but then completely forgot because what I journaled wasn't what my dream was about. :/

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