Thread: What makes a LD vividly realistic?

Interestingly, the "wake up after every dream" intention worked for me right from the start, as did "I remember my dreams". I also used LaBerge's "I have interesting and meaningful dreams." . You have to *really* want that waking one. However, I let it drop a bit, and I believe that my progress has stalled a bit due to that.

The competitions really helped since you get points for any recall, so there is strong motivation to reach for the DJ upon every waking.

There's no doubt that waiting until morning to do recall causes detail to seriously suffer.

As a middle-ground, if I'm just too wiped out to actually record, I will remain still and do recall, and try to maintain a running list of dream keywords from waking to waking. Sometimes they all seem to make it to morning, sometimes not. But I think that's better than "sleeping through".

If possible, you may want to try some daytime naps to take off the edge of your deep sleep at night. Or alarms, even, if you sleep that deeply.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Interestingly, the "wake up after every dream" intention worked for me right from the start, as did "I remember my dreams". I also used LaBerge's "I have interesting and meaningful dreams." . You have to *really* want that waking one. However, I let it drop a bit, and I believe that my progress has stalled a bit due to that.

The competitions really helped since you get points for any recall, so there is strong motivation to reach for the DJ upon every waking.

There's no doubt that waiting until morning to do recall causes detail to seriously suffer.

As a middle-ground, if I'm just too wiped out to actually record, I will remain still and do recall, and try to maintain a running list of dream keywords from waking to waking. Sometimes they all seem to make it to morning, sometimes not. But I think that's better than "sleeping through".

If possible, you may want to try some daytime naps to take off the edge of your deep sleep at night. Or alarms, even, if you sleep that deeply.

Here's the case, literally 30% of the time, I don't even remember turning off the alarm, and I have the alarm far from the bed so I have to vet up to turn it off! Lol
The recall intention works wonders for me, but it's just this waking up after each dream that is pretty impossible lol. I'm seriously gonna buy the REM Dreamer, cuz less than 20 LD during my first year isn't satisfying me.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Interestingly, the "wake up after every dream" intention worked for me right from the start, as did "I remember my dreams". I also used LaBerge's "I have interesting and meaningful dreams." . You have to *really* want that waking one. However, I let it drop a bit, and I believe that my progress has stalled a bit due to that.

The competitions really helped since you get points for any recall, so there is strong motivation to reach for the DJ upon every waking.

There's no doubt that waiting until morning to do recall causes detail to seriously suffer.

As a middle-ground, if I'm just too wiped out to actually record, I will remain still and do recall, and try to maintain a running list of dream keywords from waking to waking. Sometimes they all seem to make it to morning, sometimes not. But I think that's better than "sleeping through".

If possible, you may want to try some daytime naps to take off the edge of your deep sleep at night. Or alarms, even, if you sleep that deeply.

Yeah I found Laberge's affirmations very effective.

Imo one of the most successful LDers here, Brandonboss, recalls around 10 dreams a night, and can have nearly as many lucids, because he is so in tune with his micro-awakenings.

Also, I found a paper on dreams and memory. It's not the same one I was thinking of, but it's certainly relevant: http://apsychoserver.psych.arizona.e...ent%202011.pdf

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Imo one of the most successful LDers here, Brandonboss

Now known as Sensei if you wanted to check out his threads.

Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

Now known as Sensei if you wanted to check out his threads.

Huh.

Who else namechanged while I was gone?