Good observations ! Yeah, if you try to remember your previous thought it becomes really weird ! Do we fall asleep because our memory shuts down and we lose temporarily our mental frameworks ? |
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Sometimes I can catch my thoughts and they don't make any sense. This is one peculiarity; another one is that sometimes I find it difficult to remember what I was thinking in a previous instant. The latter makes sense for we have no memory of when we fall asleep. |
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Good observations ! Yeah, if you try to remember your previous thought it becomes really weird ! Do we fall asleep because our memory shuts down and we lose temporarily our mental frameworks ? |
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Check your memory, did any suprising event happpen ? does the present make sense ? visualize what you will do when lucid, and how. Reality check as reminder of your intention to lucid dream tonight. Sleep as good as you can; when going to sleep, relax and invite whatever comes with curiosity. Grab your dream journal immediately as you awake and write everything you can recall (if only when you wake up for good). Keep calm, positive and persistent, and don't forget to have fun along the way
Actually, I had a very different experience recently. During the day I tried to remember the name of a song I really liked. It had a rather exotic name though and I couldn´t remember. At night, at the verge of sleep I recalled how I tried to remember the name earlier. But this time I could remember the name within seconds. I felt like I was in a state of mind where my memories were a lot more “within reach” than usual. |
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You cannot defeat the devil with his own weapons, you can only replace him that way.
Violence is for those who are too weak to solve problems with words.
I think that memory in general begins to operate in an altered manner during sleep onset, just as it typically does during dreams. Conscious access to waking-life memory during dreams normally seems to be filtered and “filled in” by the dreaming part of the mind, so that everything we think we recall is fabricated. It often appears as though we have poor cognition and judgment during dreams, but in reality, it may just be that we aren't able to remember that our current situation isn't actually the case or is inconsistent with our experiences, and we're just applying the best reasoning we can with the limited (or false) information we're able to access. |
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Personally I use this to let my mind wander and slow down in order for it to quiet down enough to allow me to sleep. A meditation of sorts. |
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I think what you describe is part of the hypnagogic state. Part of my WILD technique is to count incrementally with each breath. I can always tell how close to sleep I am by when I start losing track of the numbers. It's like I can feel my conscious awareness beginning to shut down, and it takes real effort to continue to focus on the numbers and keep counting in order. Sometimes I actually can't remember what number I'm on and have to guess, or start over. As the mind gets closer to sleep, irrational thought patterns also start to emerge. It's hard to notice them unless you're trying hard to maintain an element of conscious perception, so if you're experiencing this, it means you're doing a good job paying attention! |
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