Originally Posted by PlanesWalker
I disagree. Dreams can be incredibly beneficial to Waking life, especially Lucid Dreams. Think of how many inventions have been created because of something a person dreamt. Or historical figures who followed meaningful Dreams they had and changed the course of history. Many people do not put stock into their Dreams and its because they don't understand the power they hold. The benefits of Lucid Dreaming are endless. Not only because of the good feeling it often leaves a person with after they've had one, but because being able to control your Dreams offers the opportunity for creativity and personal growth in ways the Waking world could never provide.
If you haven't found a way in which you can use Lucid Dreaming to benefit your Waking life then you need to keep looking.
I think it was implicit that lucid dreams don't fit into the lot, due their unique characteristics
Besides, you're assuming that the exception makes the rule. We certainly have people getting insight or moments of creativity or problem-solving with the help of their dreams, those people are getting insight of some dreams over the huge amount they have in their lives. Plus, the fact that the ordinary person recalls so low percentage of their dreams shows that they aren't designed to be a "tool" for anything, otherwise evolution would have something to say about it.
And the question which Matte87 and I were talking is "why our dream recall is bad" not "is lucid dreaming useful?"
Originally Posted by Lucidpotential
Do you guys think that dream recall, and keeping a dream journal is helpful to lucid dreaming?
Gordon
Of course. Lucid dreaming requires an improvement of recall, otherwise you'll just forget many of your lucids once you wake up, along with the fact that recalling a big amount of dreams helps you with certain things like getting a grasp of dream signs, getting used to dream scenarios, identifying re-ocurring elements, and that's pretty much it.
About dream journal, it depends. It's used to make sure you can analyse your dreams (dream signs talk all over again) and to remember them properly instead of just having them dwell in your short-term memory for some minutes, but there's many lucid dreamers that get away with minimal journalling.
Question#2 Do we fear to remember our nightmares and therefore just to be safe we instinctively don't recall any dreams?
Absolutely not. Just because anxiety and/or fear are the predominant emotions regarding dream content/plot, that doesn't mean that our dream recall is bad because we don't want to remember. Otherwise we'd remember all the good dreams.
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