Thread: Poll: How good should dream recall be, before trying to achieve lucidity?

Originally Posted by Puffin

I have to disagree; I've went through some patches of (really) rough recall, and would end up waking with the slight memory of a lucid, maybe remember doing one small thing... I'd have this nagging feeling, knowing the rest of the memory is there but I just can't seem to access it. When I'd go to bed that night, I might get another small fragment or "half-memory" but nothing more.

I suppose one's opinion of whether recall affects the ability to remember lucids is affected by their own experiences.

Well as I said, I'm pretty sure it depends on the person. Different humans can have drastically different types of memory, that counts for pretty much all possible aspects of memory. I had a big share of scientific knowledge as well as personal experience and the observation of others before coming to this conclusion.
I agree that most people might risk losing an lucid dream through bad recall and that under any circumstances it's worth it to improve recall, but I think that the risk might be higher for some than for others.

Nearly always when I recover a few vital parts of a dream I'll be able to recall it from start to end, not in awesome detail because my memory is generally lacking quality but the rough story is always there. Except of course when the dream simply is as short as it seems. For any odd reasons I usually always know things about my dreams that didn't even appear in an indirect way inside of the dream. Not always but often enough I will as well simply know where the dream started and where it faded.