Thread: I think I am missing some awesome things..

Here's a hopefully helpful tip, Mimi:

When this happens to me (and I think it happens occasionally to lots of dedicated dreamers who care where their mind went all night, BTW), I try to quickly do a DEILD and return to as quiet and plain a dream as I can conjure (i.e., an empty room, or maybe underwater) and then sit/float quietly, carefully remembering the night's dreams as far back as I can go.

You'd think this wouldn't work because, in theory, your dreams from early in the night should already be gone, especially if they were NLD's and your more recent dreams were more interesing, but I've found that scanning for recent dreams during a dream seems to work quite well, and generally far better than trying to remember from a waking-life perspective.

It probably has something to do with waking-life mental machinery still being turned off, or maybe because access to these gossamer memories is simply done more easily during a lucid dream; I don't know. However, it has worked for me, many times, so it might not hurt to give it a shot.

You can even do it if you have to get up for work or school, too, because it only takes a couple of minutes to either gather memories of your night's dreams or realize they just aren't there (or never were; sometimes I wonder about that feeling you describe, whether it represents actual awesome dreams or just the impression of them, but I guess that's for another thread).

I hope this helps, or at least gives you an interesting new thing to do, and that you can be assured that you are not alone in this feeling...