Thread: Memory: the Forgotten Fundamental

^^ Yes. The act of remembering your sleeping body, of adding something that you know to be true to the fictitious timeline your dreaming mind has created, is enough to reassociate your self-aware dreaming self with its memory. It isn't that you are creating a memory of your sleeping body, but that you are thinking about something obviously real from your recent past -- and present -- that defies the memory implanted by the dream. This defiance, this need to clarify the juxtaposition of the false or missing dream memory with an actual event, can be enough to re-engage your link to your memory... and this engagement further empowers your self-awareness because now you can remember where you really were a few minutes ago, where you really are right now, and that this dream body really isn't you.

So remembering your sleeping body is not about creating a memory, but about actively reminding yourself, with an event that's actually going on right now (your sleeping body) but is not included in your dream schema, that there is actual memory available.

... I hope this post made sense, as I wrote it very quickly...