My recall sux - forgot a lucid dream

[mysterious dreamer]

So there I was this morning, trying to remember some bits from my dream - I rarely remember more than just bits - and, suddenly, out of nowhere I remembered I had a lucid about 10 minutes after I couldn't remember nearly anything about some other unrelated dream (I forgot everything about it now). In the end all I could remember was this: I was talking to my friend and, remembering that I often dreamed of him, I told him how it would be funny if I was my dream guide. He asked me "well, are you dreaming now?". We started laughing, but then I realised I am dreaming. I had a coke in my hands, I tried drinking it and it felt almost real. I had something else I ate/drank and it too was almost real. I asked myself what should I do now, sex or task of the month but I don't remember what I did next (wasn't sex, I'd remember that ). I only remember that I asked my self a few more times "am I still lucid?". So the problem is when I remember one dream, it pushes out an other one. Writing down is usually the last thing on my mind and even if I did, I keep reading that lying motionless is essential for recalling dreams. Help would be appreciated.

[ClouD]

Try engaging as many senses as you can within the dream. Tactile and auditory senses I find help with memory very much. Also when you're actually lucid, try to remain aware. Be as aware as you possibly can, don't get distracted this way or that. When you are highly aware in the dream, carry that with you whatever you do, it can easily get to the point of feeling more real than waking life if you ground yourself first, and your memory of dreams will start to be very vivid. Try to unwind first thing in the morning too. Before writing in a dream journal, or even opening your eyes. Just be as you are, and rewind the events slowly. Go as far as you can, but don't get caught up elaborating on ideas of what happened. You'll find it reinforces the memories, and day by day you'll be going further and further. If you can do the same before going to bed, with what you did in your day, you'll find that helps rewinding when you wake up too.

[mysterious dreamer]

Try engaging as many senses as you can within the dream. Tactile and auditory senses I find help with memory very much. Also when you're actually lucid, try to remain aware. Be as aware as you possibly can, don't get distracted this way or that. When you are highly aware in the dream, carry that with you whatever you do, it can easily get to the point of feeling more real than waking life if you ground yourself first, and your memory of dreams will start to be very vivid. Try to unwind first thing in the morning too. Before writing in a dream journal, or even opening your eyes. Just be as you are, and rewind the events slowly. Go as far as you can, but don't get caught up elaborating on ideas of what happened. You'll find it reinforces the memories, and day by day you'll be going further and further. If you can do the same before going to bed, with what you did in your day, you'll find that helps rewinding when you wake up too. Thanks, that's some cool advice. The main problem is, I think, I wake up by an alarm and that usually messes things up. I tried waiting for it to stop and turning it off only when it starts the second time, but it's really hard cause it's a reflex I got with years to jump up as soon as I hear it. I manage about once or twice a week not to jump.

[DreamQueen]

I don't know how long you've been having LDs for but when I first started having them as soon as I became lucid I immediately walked away from DCs. I felt that interacting with them would draw me back into the dream and distract me and I'd be at risk of losing lucidity. Now however I can do whatever I want and I never lose lucidity. If you stay lucid until you wake up you won't forget the dream. I find I stay lucid naturally. It's just not an issue for me. Once I'm lucid I am so focused on enjoying my lucidity and achieving my goals that I never seem to lose it.