Intense Memory whilst Dreaming

Hello there, some people know me as the 'frustrated Wannabe LDer'- failed attempt after failed attempt.

Anyone, I've realised recently that memory during dreams and probably Lucid Dreams is intensely more powerful than normal waking memory.

I realised this when I was having a normal dream and asked myself 'is that F*%# from Twilight the same guy from Harry Potter?'. (keep in mind I saw Harry Potter only once and never seen Twilight [but his pictures are ev-er-y-where!]).
Anyway, the next day I paid little attention to it before deciding to google a few things and sure as hell there he was on both films.....pretty boring.

Much more recently though I saw 'The Pacific' and noticed someone in the background and for the life of me couldn't remember where I'd seen him before. So that day I slept.....and sure as hell I realised he was the co-star of 'Eurotrip' (a movie I'd seen once or twice only and the actor barely made much appearance in The Pacific).

There are other instances where memory has been given a burst of adrenalin, like being able to recite a movie's theme song note by note and similar.

Has anyone else noticed this? Please Post (also welcome internet junkies who want to tell me how 'wrong I am' :cheeky: )

Have a good one,
Frustrated LDer

I think Stephen LaBerge discusses this in ETWOLD. I was reading about it last night. I haven't learned the information in enough detail yet to discuss the information there, but if you haven't already read ETWOLD then this may provide some insight.

Yes indeedy - apparently the subconscious mind is able to retain just about everything, whereas the conscious mind - that feeble little flickering candleflame - can barely remember your own name most of the time!! That's what they say anyway. Weird that we can't access that buried infodump except when we're dreaming or in a heightened state of awareness.

Seems almost cruel don't it.
To know about things but not know that you know.....I think :/
Anyone else experiences something like this?

Well, not necessary dreaming but I've been able to play whole songs in my head with words and all but when I tried to sing them, I just couldn't do it, I would be missing sentences and words and could only remember the tone or music :P Darkmatters is bang on in terms of the idea that the subconscious remembers pretty much anything and everything while your conscious mind doesn't. Like you mentioned, it does seem cruel but doubt that was the idea :lol: Imagine if you could remember every little thing that happened, you saw, etc.... it would make it harder for you to live your life. Reason is, with a conscious mind, you are selective, but, you MIGHT have a harder time remembering thing that you want to using a subconscious mind :)

That is simply the archetypal nature of dreams. Everything in dreams is an archetype, which is simply a series of associations, links, or connections to any given element you focus on. Thtt's how we learn, by making associations.

So for instance, the actor from harry potter/Twilight, you form connections from that person to both movies he was in. Same with the guy from Eurotrip/Pacific. Like neural networks if you're familiar with the concept.

When you focus on an archetype in a dream, random association will manifest according the your own person archetypes. If you hadn't seen Eurotrip, you couldnt have formed that association.

As long as you focus on one archetype, it's associations will manifest, until one of those new associations captures your attention, becoming the dominant archetype, and it's associations will begin to manifest. That's all dreams are, one long chain of archetypal associations.