Thread: Memory While Lucid?

Originally Posted by Vetuxo

I've never (that I can remember) have gone lucid during dreams, so I have a few questions.

The first that I can remember is: Memory. Is your memory the same while dreaming (lucid, of course)? Can you remember just like the waking life? Is your memory better while lucid, because of the relaxation and because you are sub-conscience? Or is your memory not as good because of sleeping?

Mainly I wanted to know this because I have a few things I want to do when I go lucid, and I don't want to not be able to remember them
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I know that I've been able to remember things just fine and I'm able to revisit the past , otherwords get vivid flashbacks in my Lucid Dreams, I dont think there would be a problem with memory in Lucid Dreams, everything you do or would do and react is based on memories.

Originally Posted by slothming

I know that I've been able to remember things just fine and I'm able to revisit the past , otherwords get vivid flashbacks in my Lucid Dreams, I dont think there would be a problem with memory in Lucid Dreams, everything you do or would do and react is based on memories.
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It works just like non-lucid dreams. You can remember some things, but you can completely forget some things and get other things a bit right but very twisted up. For example, I had a lucid a few years ago where I was "home", but I was at my grandmother's apartment from 20 years ago. I've never lived there in real life. I walked outside, and I was in Biloxi, where I have never lived. In other dreams, I have tried to remember what my real life is like and only been able to partially do it. I always get excited about waking up and finding out what life I really have. I can remember my city usually, and I have always been able to recollect the faces of people I know, but I also have ficitious characters I think exist in my waking life. I have also had pets that don't really exist. That stuff makes lucids even trippier than they already would be otherwise. The only downside is that I often can't remember what it was I was going to do in my next lucid. I will just look around and think, "Well, here it is. What was it I am supposed to do with it?" It's still really cool.