memory

[Nebulae]

i am interested if anyone here has short or long term memory problems and how they overcome them to lucid dream. its my major obstacle. Ive had a blank journal next to my bed for two weeks now and im getting plentiful sleep and it still remains empty. xx neb

[Lowercase Society]

It's probably the weed. Anyway, on a more serious note: Do you keep a dream journal, this can help your memory in many ways with the events occuring in the subconscious. I'm sure there are some things you can do for memory in waking life, such as tests and stuff, etc...

[Alric]

Do you normally have trouble with you memory? If not I bet you just got lazy. Same thing has been happening to me. You just don't feel like getting up in the middle of the night or whenever and writing it down. Its really a matter of motivation. If you tell your self before you go to bed you will write down the first dream you remeber, no matter how little your remeber or how stupid and boring the dream was and then when you wake up, even if its still early in the morning and do it, I am sure you will remeber something. Then you keep doing it every night and you will remeber them a lot better.

[Alric]

Also don't fall into the trap of thinking "Oh I didn't remeber much so its not worth writing down". That will kill your recall, plus if you remeber anything and you sit there and think about it for a bit you can normally remeber more of the dream.

[Howie]

Stess & anxiety can dramatically decrease your memory. Your brain uses up its memory power to store not imperitive data. And can obscure what is important to remember and what is not. I am not saying you have this problem, but I know it has an effect on memory.

[Kaniaz]

You always need the motivation to write in it. So much as a scrap of a dream you remember (eg: "I think there was a shady looking man in it"), and suddenly the dream begins to "flood" back into your memory, triggering chain reactions revealing the dream again. If you don't write it in, you will lose your recall very, very quickly, and it can be hard to get back. If you can't write in it early, scribble down something to help you remember it later, for example if you were flying in the dream write "I FLEW IN THE DREAM". When you have time, sit down, look at it, and with a bit of luck you'll begin to remember the dream. It is always better to write directly into the diary with as much detail as possible, however.