Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
^^ 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.
I think I'm learning something new today. But I reread this thread a few times and am still not 100% sure I'm clear on what is said, so just to be sure: In a LD, if I remember to try to remember, say, where my sleeping body is, I still get the benefit, even if I don't actually manage to recall for sure where it is, or I come to the wrong conclusion/have a false memory?

But if doing this reengages the link to my memory, shouldn't I be able to recall this (in the cases where I don't)? Or is this “link” you speak of not the same thing as actually being able to flawlessly recall things, consciously, from WL during the dream?