The problem of memory

[Ghost94]

Hey, I´ve been thinking this for a long time. I once accidentally woke up in the middle of the night, after about four hours of sleep behing. And I could remember entirely normal dreams, that could have potentially turned lucid. If I wouldn´t have woken up, I wouldn´t have remembered those dreams in the morning. So, the problem is: When you get lucid, the chance is something like 40% that you´re in your last rem cycle before waking. So about 60% chance you wont remember this in the morning. So maybe we have had tons of lucid dreams that we just don´t have any idea about. It feels like we have lucids just in the morning, but is it just because we remember those lucids? That´s a real problem. I would be really glad if someone would link a study that says we actually have our lucids in the morning.

[frederom]

yes it can happen some time that we forget about a lucid dream. but I think they were probably semi lucid. because when I have a good lucid dream I remain lucid until the dream fade out and I wake up. From personal experience I know that my lucid dream occurred more often in the late morning but I have had some in the middle of the night. I'm training my self to wake up after each dream. The thing is that our REM sleep cycle get longer as the night goes on and so is our chance of being lucid. I also believe that when we reach a point were our body i close to wake up (after a full night of sleep) our frontal lob (logical part of the brain) gets partially reactivated witch would increases our chance of realizing we are dreaming. But the thing is that as soon as you are in REM sleep you can have a lucid dream... But it seems to happen more frequently in the morning. Keeping a dream journal is the best way to make sure you don't forget about a lucid you may have had in the middle of the night

[Ghost94]

Good points. I´d also like to add something I forgot in the first post. Doing MILD and WILD with WBTB makes the lucids happen just when we want them to, so that makes WBTB super good.