I still don't really understand.

**RubyDoo** · 07-19-2014 09:10 PM

So when someone has an LD, when you wake up in the morning, how do you remember the feelings? Do you just remember it like a normal dream, just lucid? Or do you actually feel like you were just there in the dream like reality? When I've had mine I don't remember being in it or feeling after waking up. All I remember is I had one and controlled the dream.

**LDman** · 07-19-2014 10:03 PM

Originally Posted by RubyDoo

So when someone has an LD, when you wake up in the morning, how do you remember the feelings? Do you just remember it like a normal dream, just lucid? Or do you actually feel like you were just there in the dream like reality? When I've had mine I don't remember being in it or feeling after waking up. All I remember is I had one and controlled the dream.

It depends on wether you wake up straight from an LD or wake up after maybe another non-LD. When I wake up from an LD in a second it's as clear as a wake memory from several minutes ago.

**Higat** · 07-19-2014 10:22 PM

Yeah same here. Also for me it depends on the dreams' level of lucidity and how vivid it was.

**GalMutzafy** · 07-19-2014 10:44 PM

I had some too where I remembered it as a normal dream, I think the more you will get a better memory of actually being there.

**Rothgar** · 07-20-2014 01:24 AM

Yes to the above. Mine are always like real memories. I was just there one minute and really did those things in real time, then don't really wake up but just see it go black and transition to a non-dream state.

**Laurelindo** · 07-21-2014 12:52 PM

I usually wake up immediately from a lucid dream, and to me it literally feels like "teleporting" from the dreamworld to my bed.
I feel when the lucid dream is ending, then I wake up and I am like "wow, another lucid dream, that was fun! <3".

**Hukif** · 07-21-2014 01:56 PM

Oh, this one generally answers itself when you ask someone "Do you remember what happened 2 years go in this same day exactly?" just as we have "cool" days that are remembered for years or a life to come, most memories don't make it to that long term memory and will soon vanish so depending on the person and how they remember their past is how they will remember their dreams; whether they are lucid or not.

Obviously memorable ones will remain in your head, so don't count those.

**KestrelKat** · 07-21-2014 10:32 PM

This is confusing me. I usually remember normal non-lucid dreams the way people are describing remembering lucids... I remember both LDs and non-lucid dreams the same way, usually... is that weird? I don't remember mundane days of my past, though... I remember way back (to age 3), but not like every-day-to-day happenings...

**RubyDoo** · 07-21-2014 11:03 PM

Ok wow I agree with everyone now, last night I had a very vivid dream and I was waiting for my teacher to meet me in a community, I was pretty aware but I wasn't lucid. I felt like I was there.

**Rothgar** · 07-21-2014 11:11 PM

Kestrelkat...I agree that some of my non-lucid dreams are about as vivid as far as remembering when looking back. But being fully conscious and interacting in the "now" moment of an LD is different for me...do you feel that sense of actually being there in non-LDs? I guess I can experience that briefly in a non-lucid, but usually only in a "near-lucid", where there is a dream sign that makes me think "this is weird" but I don't quite go lucid. Then I can be "in the moment" for those few seconds. But not minutes, like in an LD.

**RubyDoo** · 07-21-2014 11:42 PM

Well looking back at it, I can feel life I was somewhat there, maybe something was going to make me turn lucid, the dream changed though. When I woke up I remembered it like I was there acouple minutes ago. I think I just had a lot of awareness in the dream, maybe it was the Carmel macchiato I had before bed! 😆

**KestrelKat** · 07-22-2014 12:37 AM

Originally Posted by Rothgar

Kestrelkat...I agree that some of my non-lucid dreams are about as vivid as far as remembering when looking back. But being fully conscious and interacting in the "now" moment of an LD is different for me...do you feel that sense of actually being there in non-LDs? I guess I can experience that briefly in a non-lucid, but usually only in a "near-lucid", where there is a dream sign that makes me think "this is weird" but I don't quite go lucid. Then I can be "in the moment" for those few seconds. But not minutes, like in an LD.

Yeah, for quite a few of my non-lucids (almost all of the longer ones, and a fair number of the shorter ones) I really do feel like I am there. It's actually been one of my main issues with LDing so far: I am so in-the-moment in a normal dream that it's hard for me to realize that something is off; It seems too real, like I am actually there.

I mean... hmm. There is an added level of... something... in an LD, but I feel just as in-the-moment in normal dreams. It's hard for me to explain.

**Mellanhavande** · 07-22-2014 04:51 PM

Originally Posted by RubyDoo

So when someone has an LD, when you wake up in the morning, how do you remember the feelings? Do you just remember it like a normal dream, just lucid? Or do you actually feel like you were just there in the dream like reality? When I've had mine I don't remember being in it or feeling after waking up. All I remember is I had one and controlled the dream.

I think you just need to improve dream recall. I had similar problem in the beginning, but now I remember almost everything perfectly.