Re: Forgetting lucid dreams
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Originally posted by kajizabam
Could I have had a lucid dream and just forgotten it?
kajizabam, the answer is yes.. unfortunately. Below is a previous posting of mine on the same topic:
Around 4:00 am I had the first of 4 episodes of hypnagogic imagery (HI).
I always get so excited when HI first starts that I instantly feel my heart start to pound. I tried to calm my heart and not concentrate on the HI but it stopped and I fell asleep. :zzz:
I woke up and the HI started again.. I tried once more to not focus on any particular image but it stopped.. again. :(
I fell asleep and woke up a THIRD time and the HI started again! Sooo here we go.. little blobs of color, images coming and going, yada yada yada and... we're fading out... :?
By now I'm really getting tired and I'm not sure I even have the strength to try for lucidity when the HI starts yet again! I lay there for a minute trying to figure out what to do when I decided to try a reality check and it failed! :shock:
Hot diggity I'm dreaming! :yumdumdoodledum: I roll over and stand up. I decide to go through the ceiling and I think "up". I float towards the ceiling and its covered in a bluegreen goo that's about 6 inches thick. I start clawing at the goo and finally think I've broken through but underneath the goo is the actual ceiling! :doh:
I start punching the ceiling and finally break a hole through it big enough for my body to fit through and think "up!"
I shoot up like a rocket and think "higher". I fly straight up and feel the wind whipping my face and hair and feel the drag on my clothes.
I recall thinking that this was going to be a good LD and that I want to remember this.... but NOOOOOO!
I woke up scanning my mind for a trace of something/anything that would bring some or all of my LD back but there was nothing there. I felt/feel so cheated!! :cry:
I recall only that it was a long LD but nothing past my getting out of the house!! I do unfortunately remember most of the long NON-lucid dream that I slid into directly after my lucid dream!
What good is a lucid dream if you can't remember it?!?! :hrm:
I guess I need to really stress to my subconscious that I must wake up after a lucid dream so that I will be able to recall it.
Has anyone else experienced the loss of a lucid dream? :morecrying: