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I've noticed that when some people are recording dreams in their DJ, some write in present tense and others write in past tense. For example: past tense = I leaped off the ground and began soaring through the air, versus present tense = I leap off the ground and begin to soar through the air. |
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"If there was one thing the lucid dreaming ninja writer could not stand, it was used car salesmen."
I write mine in past tense. It's already happened, so past tense seems fitting to me..This is a cool topic, Burns. |
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Shine on, you crazy diamond!
Raised: The Blue Meanie, Exobyte
Adopted: MarcusoftheNight
hmm, i actually had to check my DJ in order to see. i use both, and sometimes a sort of hybrid between the two... |
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
George Bernard Shaw
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin
I use past tense as I am remembering a dream. |
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"we may accept dream telepathy as a working hypothesis." Stephen LaBerge, page 231 Lucid Dreaming 1985
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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” (or better yet: three...)
George Bernard Shaw
No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin
I actually do a bit of both depends on the dream, mostly past. |
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"There are two types of people in this world, people who think there are two types of people, and people who don't."
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Cheis. Dailo.
It's tough to bring someone back that never really lived.
Past tense, usually, but I may try doing it in present to see if it has any effect on my recall. Thanks for the idea, Burns. |
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Dream Journal: Dreamwalker Chronicles Latest Entry: 01/02/2016 - "Hallway to Haven" (Lucid)(Or see the very best of my journal entries @ dreamwalkerchronicles.blogspot)
Past tense, but occasionally if I am recording a really exciting or interesting dream, I switch to present tense without realising it. |
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Wayne
Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti...
I almost always record mine in the present tense. Occasionally, I'll flip to past tense for a sentence (that usually happens when I forget to mention a detail or get events out of sequential order and have to record the new info and/or corrections). And I agree, this is a cool topic. Hmm, is anyone interested in making a research experiment out of it? We could have present tense recorders vs. past tense recorders and each group would record how many dreams they recall each night. At the end of a few weeks, we could tally them up and see if there's a significant difference. |
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.
- Mohandas Gandhi
^^ It would be important to make sure everyone uses the same recalling method in the morning (that is, for example, staying in bed for 2 minutes or so then getting up and writing their dreams) as well as the same level of detail recorded. |
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I vote for making it into a research experiment. I actually thought about posting this topic in the Research Forum, but I thought it'd get more responses in General Discussion. |
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I actually switch back and forth, but I clicked present tense because that's the one I use most. |
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If this becomes a research project, we could also record information such as age, gender, occupation, and frequency of lucid dreams. Whatever you think would be pertinent to such a study. |
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"If there was one thing the lucid dreaming ninja writer could not stand, it was used car salesmen."
I record my dreams in the past tense but have decided to change it to present in order to help my recall. |
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"dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be
quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."
-William Dement
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Past tence, mostly. |
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“What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'” -Hume
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