Some more quick comments:


Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
I'm also trying to train myself to really examine memories for accuracy, because I know sometimes they're false in dreams. Not sure how well that's going to come out in a dream, but it's something else to throw out for consideration.
You might be better off just assuming the "memories" your dreaming mind is presenting are either incorrect or incompatible with your current waking-life (i.e., the high school you are dreaming about is reasonably well-represented, but you don't go there anymore, so it should not be including in a memory of current waking-life). The bucket your unconscious draws from for dream schemata supplies is not concerned about accuracy or proper timing, so you will likely get yourself caught up in a flow of discovering false memories, which ironically might lead you toward less lucidity, and not more.

Try sticking to remembering where your body is sleeping, and things like TheUncanny used in his post... proving their accuracy might be trouble enough!

Quote Originally Posted by JustASimpleGuy View Post
I wonder if incorporating more interoceptive awareness into daily awareness practice might be of value? That is, not only focusing on what you see, hear, smell, touch and taste, but also how you feel about yourself, your physiological condition and how your relationship with experience shapes it?
That's a good idea in itself, and would certainly help with self-awareness, but I'm not sure it will do much to restore your link with your memory. This is because your DC body and dreaming mind will have an answer on hand to all those things you are focusing on, and you might not be led to assume that anything is wrong, or something else ought to be remembered (if that is where you were going).

So, this is an excellent here&now exercise, and I definitely recommend it, but the here&now is a place from which you want to briefly step away in order to access memory.. once memory is accessed, though, definitely go back to it!

If I misunderstood, please clarify, because this is an interesting idea, and if it could be used to link with memory, that would be very good.

Quote Originally Posted by Dthoughts View Post
So had a lucid dream. Flew around a bunch. Then as the dream was sort of fading already (a kind of knowing that it would) I remembered I am just messing around not really fully lucid. OR not really accessing my actual goals. So I did remember my dreaming body easily but I woke up seconds after that. Unfortunately, failed test.
I wonder if you were very close to waking up, when you tried to remember. When wakefulness is close, accessing memory might not be the best of ideas, because I would probably only hastening your return to waking-life. Should I have mentioned that before?

But somehow I have a feeling that this thread had something to do with my lucidity initially. I just felt at the start of the dream that I was not having enough energy to begin with.
That's pretty cool!

Quote Originally Posted by TheUncanny View Post
To be honest, I'm a little concerned about the impact my memory is having on my LDs because, even in my waking life, I've always suffered from poor memory -- well not 'poor' so much as inconsistent. I'm not sure if it's related to a lack of good sleep (mild insomnia), if it's genetic (my mother has the same spotty memory), or if it's just a general lack of paying attention. Whatever the cause is, I have feeling improving memory is going to be particularly challenging for me.
Here's a ray of hope: you can have poor memory (I sure do, and it seems to get worse every year) and still remember your sleeping body to access memory during a LD. This is because remembering your sleeping body (or the date and time) is not quite the same as gathering information to produce a memory.

Instead, what you are doing when remembering your sleeping body is making a self-awareness-driven conscious effort to reconnect with the memory that is already stored and established; it's the conscious effort that comes into play here, and not actually remembering something. So the sleeping body is a catalyst, and not an actual thing to be remembered. Seems contradictory that remembering your sleeping body is not actually remembering something, but what about LD'ing isn't contradictory?