Thread: Memory: the Forgotten Fundamental

Sensei,
Instead of increasing your lucidity in the dream, I wonder if this exercise is creating a sense of detachment from the dream. I could see something like that resulting in false awakenings, or even real ones.

Travis,
I've had LDs in the past where I suspect that my waking awareness had actually impaired my dream control. In those instances, I wonder if perhaps my waking preconceptions of what is and isn't possible had somehow snuck their way into my dream as part of my waking awareness? After all, some of my most controllable LDs have been ones where I've had little-to-no waking awareness...like there were no waking presumptions to counteract my will. Or maybe this inhibition of dream control only occurs when you have partial waking awareness? I need to experiment more with this memory thing to find out if my dream control increases, decreases, or stays the same.