The Dream List

[Dreamchitect]

A concept that i first discovered when i was a beginner-beginner, like the very beginning of when i started dream interests. The reason is as follows: I had a set of dreams and as i was dreaming them, my subconscious created for me a list. The list finally came apparent when i had a false awakening. The list consisted of all the dreams i had the night before and in the false awakening i wrote them down. Then when i woke up i vividly remembered the dreams and what exactly the list looked like. It was amazing and I want to look into turning this into such a reliable method that i can coin it as a technique. Hopefully i can use it, and maybe some other people can try it, too! Tell me your thoughts on this and what you think about the effectiveness of the technique.

[Arra]

I guess its effectiveness would depend on how exactly the method would work. Maybe your experience was a fluke, and it isn't likely that someone will remember all of their previous dreams, even during a false awakening.

[The Sandman]

The idea sounds flukish to me too, but--I think intention is very important here. Let's say it doesn't work, but it is your intention...your personal recurring task of for the year. The goal here would be to get it to work once. Now, when I say that we want to get the technique to "work," I don't even mean that you would actually see a correct list of the prior nights dreams. I just mean that you would intend to see the list, and you would be successful. There is your success in my opinion. If all goes well, you will actually see a list of your previous nights dreams. Even one recalled dream would be a super success. On the other hand, if the dream list were a new figment, then you still have an answer to whether the technique is going to work for you. OK, granted, you could keep trying, and eventually it may work, but for my purposes, if I should become lucid and remember this personal task, I see the list...and find that it didn't work, I'm going to take it has having gotten my answer. It didn't work. It would be very interesting. You make the list appear, but the dreams on the list, if not the previous nights dreams, would be unintended--not specifically purposeful. One more thing: Whether actually the previous nights dreams or not, if you could read one of the entries, you could try to enter that dream. I hope I didn't get too in to this for anyone. I like the idea.

[Dreamchitect]

Now that i think about it, a better application for the technique, i think, would be for a WILDer. They could commence there method of WILD and dream. Then near the end of their dreaming (Assuming they have optimum control and the ability to tell when they will wake up, and assuming that their recall isn't already advanced enough to even NEED the technique) they could make a separate dream, write the previous dreams down, and go over them over and over again in the dream, then upon awakening if they remember anything at all, it could just be the list dream, and all the other dreams would be remember transitively. So they will either remember the dreams themselves, or remember the Dream List Dream and THEN remember the others! Personally, this might help me, and could be a possibility for others, but everyone is different and everyone has different techiniques that work for them. Thanks for the feedback though!