I'm back, and with a fairly serious issue

[metcalfracing]

... I suffer from a very poor memory, horrifically poor. My problem is, I often times get my dreams confused with real memories and it gets me trouble, half the time I spend my waking day trying to correct conflicts that only exist in my dreams. Also, my dreams tend to be very down to earth in a lot of ways, it makes it hard to differentiate for me. I was hoping some you may have a creative solution to this problem, or any advice on what I should do.

[Mes Tarrant]

Hehe, that sig of yours is brilliant. Anyway, that does sound like a serious problem. Frankly I'd get some kind of medical advice on this. Otherwise, you could get really good at doing RCs throughout the day.. hopefully that will also transfer into your dreams, and you will be able to tell real life apart from the dream world.

[metcalfracing]

haha, I was thinking of keeping a notebook and outlining my day lol

[Mes Tarrant]

Hey, that's not a bad idea! Go for it!

[Elite]

Hehe, that sig of yours is brilliant. Anyway, that does sound like a serious problem. Frankly I'd get some kind of medical advice on this. Otherwise, you could get really good at doing RCs throughout the day.. hopefully that will also transfer into your dreams, and you will be able to tell real life apart from the dream world. I might but they might they you are a physco and you might go with the men in white.

[LucidDreamGod]

Hey, welcome back, it's been awhile. I have practiced a few memory techniques throughout my time here, mainly memory chaining, but I'm not sure if that really helps in the long run, when I wanted to learn to visualize, I visualized thats the best I can suggest, so just try to stretch your memory by using it alot. I know I got loads better at visualizing.

[Robot_Butler]

Just write everything down. I would take a short pencil over a long memory any day.

[dasein]

One of the most popular methods to improve memory is a sort of Recall at the end of the day. When you're all ready for bed (or the day is sort of 'done' as it were) take a few minutes to go through and recall your day in reverse order (i.e. Now, 10pm, 9pm, 8pm ... 10am, 9am, 8am, Waking-up) I've heard this is an excellent therapy for those that suffer from memory issues, and seems like it could be perfect for your specific issue. I use a similar method when I'm doing my dream-journal in the morning; I always go from the most recent event, backwards. It works pretty well for me. Hope it helps