Thread: Memory: the Forgotten Fundamental

Just a data point to add: I just had a LD where I was at my childhood house. I went in the bathroom, did a RC for some reason, and became lucid. I thought, “Oh, a dream—no point in trying to use the bathroom, then” and went back to my room to try to remember where I was sleeping.

I correctly remembered that I was sleeping in my room at my current house. I compared that to the location my dream was currently presenting, and I recognized this as my childhood house, different from where I was sleeping in WL. (I added the second step because the last time I had a LD like this, I simply thought “I'm sleeping in my room” but didn't seem to consider what “in my room” actually meant in the context of my dream location.)

My first attempt to fly/hover failed (it normally works), so I stopped to recall something I did yesterday—reading the DV forum. I looked around my room and the house a bit, saw that things were present just how they might have been back in those days, and then I attempted telekinesis on objects and on my cat to observe its reaction, but didn't have success this time (I managed to use it on my cat once before so far). I was going to try to pick it up and toss it into the air, but I woke up as I was picking it up.

My dream control still needs work (and since the majority of my LDs seem to be only a couple of minutes long for some reason, it's difficult to do anything substantial very quickly), but there you go.