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How do you wake yourself up from a lucid dream, write down your dream, and then enter back in? I had a LD last night and can't remember a bit of it but I know it was quite long.... Is it a bad idea to wake up and write down your LD for beginners in fear of not being able to get back into your dream?
In my experience my lucid dreams are memorable enough to recall them after the dream. I think that waking up in the middle of a dream will make it hard to get back into the same dream scene.
I agree with oainac — this is often my experience. When I wake up from a lucid dream, I take some memorable key words and string them together. Then I go back to sleep. If i journal them there and then, I can't go back to sleep.
I recall the string of words I memorized, when I finally wake up in the morning, and luckily it usually brings back the lucid. This works well for normal dream recall as well :)
In addition to above, LDs can be waaaaay too lengthy to record on short notice to go back to sleep
Keywords is the way to go :)
Sounds good =) I know lucipedia talked about waking up to write them down so i'm not coming out of nowhere with this, but you just remember the string of keywords when you wake up and write them down right away? Or do you actually wake up write down a few words and re-induce yourself...
Well, you have a choice.
Do you wanna have a nice, detailed record of one cool lucid dream, or do you try having another one and taking a chance of not remembering them too well.
Some people prefer to write it down, because it can happen, that you just fall asleep and don't have another lucid and you won't remember it in the morning. Why risk it, if you already had a nice LD? If you don't remember having it, than it's like it never even happened.
So try to have a DEILD, but if it's not happening, get up and write you LD.