Remembering Your Way to Lucid Dreams

[FaatFaat]

If you could remember your dreams as well as you can remember your days, would you easily be able to lucid dream by simply intending to?

[AirRick101]

I can't prove it, but I believe it's a powerful catalyst to lucid dreaming. I'm not sure why, but you may be asking this because you are good at recalling but consider LD practice to be strenuous hit and miss...well, that's the way I am. My strength is more in dream recall and interpretation, and only occasional LDing. The more you remember dreams, it activates the part of your mind to be more aware of what happens in dreams. So in general, I think it's logical to make you more likely to catch yourself awake in dreams.

[MarthaM]

I believe that the ability to recall and personal intent increase ones ability to have lucid dreams. However, it is not absolutely necessary. This forum is repleate with examples of all kinds of dream recall and lucidity induction techniques. I don't know if you are looking for a perfect technique. So, no I do not believe that there is one tried and true method for having LD's.

[Barbizzle]

I have excelent dream recall, and the intent to be lucid, tbu i still have to work at it, im nto lucid all the time

[dreamtamer007]

Originally posted by FaatFaat If you could remember your dreams as well as you can remember your days, would you easily be able to lucid dream by simply intending to? Good point Yes I do. There is a Russian psychologist who in his writings says he thinks that the memory is one of the most important parts of how the consciousness of the mind works. I don’t remember his name, ironically, but do remember reading something to that effect. I think your analytical abilities and awareness depend heavily on it.

[Kaimelar]

Yes, and an important XXth century philosopher named Miguel de Unamuno, says that memory is the very foundation of your personal identity. So you can see how it could be important when it comes to dreaming.

[Ex Nine]

I said no, because the question is very poorly worded. Simply remembering your dreams is not enough. You have to engage the analytical faculties of your mind to know what is a dream and what isn't. You have to come down hard on a judgment, "this is a dream."

[FaatFaat]

Originally posted by Ex Nine I said no, because the question is very poorly worded. Simply remembering your dreams is not enough. You have to engage the analytical faculties of your mind to know what is a dream and what isn't. You have to come down hard on a judgment, \"this is a dream.\" Don't you actually mean that it's a dumb question?

[Ex Nine]

Originally posted by FaatFaat Don't you actually mean that it's a dumb question? Well, no, because the question seems to take what I just said implicitly. For example, if I remember a dream, I am implicitly remembering that it was in fact a dream because of certain dream qualities. So, if I see something else of like qualities, then it is implicit that I consider it a dream, and begin lucid dreaming as it is happening. Or maybe I read it poorly.