Forgetting lucid dreams

[kajizabam]

I think i recently had a lucid dream but then again i can be wrong. In the beginning of the dream i felt as if i had no control. I just went with the flow of the dream without being able to question the situation. In this dream i was at a mansion with a beautiful girl, and i remember telling myself to kiss this girl and i felt as if i was in full control and stood up and walked over to her and began kissing her. I began talkin to this dreamgirl and i felt like i had normal thought.The dream was quite long but when i woke up i totally forgot the rest of this dream. Could I have had a lucid dream and just forgotten it?

[TygrHawk]

Originally posted by kajizabam Could I have had a lucid dream and just forgotten it? Yes, that could happen. That's one of the reasons that improving your dream recall is so important when trying to dream lucidly -- what's the point in succeeding if you're not going to remember it? I had a couple LDs recently where my recall was pretty fuzzy after I woke up (my dream recall has been pretty bad lately in general). I knew that I had been dreaming, and had realized that I was dreaming, but I couldn't remember much else about what happened.

[Wayward Oneironaut]

I guess it has been said a million times - the quickest and surest way to improve dream recall is to keep a dream journal, and to challenge yourself each morning to put down as much as you can remember (including what was perceived by all five senses, not just sight). I know from experience that when I slack on the journal, I can go months without remembering anything, but maybe a week of journaling later I find myself writing down dream after dream after dream, remembering them while writing down another dream. Good luck, though! And TygrHawk, what is with that god awful picture of the Big Daddy kids?

[Clairity]

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. 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! 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! 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!! 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?!?! 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?

[dreamtamer007]

Control does not have to be present to be Lucid. Did you at any point in the dream think “I’m Dreaming” in so many words? Being aware as you are now while the dream is taking place is being lucid without total control. Actually the act of not taking control can be controlling in itself. But it is not what constitutes a LD.