Dream Recall gets in the way of my chances for lucidity!!

Looking at my dream journal online, and from personal experience, I can safely say it's one or the other.


Last week, and for a week, I've tried WBTB + MILD every night. I had no dream recall, and no lucids either.

Then I slept for one night, and had full dream recall.


Then for the past few nights, I've been trying MILD (which didn't work too well, I woke up continuously only one night), with no lucids either. I had no dream recall either.

But last night, I just wanted to sleep, and did nothing to get lucid, no WILD, WBTB or anything, but I had full dream recall


:embarrassed::embarrassed:




It's weird!!


I either have the choice to get lucid (which i'm still working on), or have dream recall..


It's just one or the other!:(



Oh, and I'd like to thank mylucidworld, he's helped me alot:)

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Originally Posted by rookybeats

Looking at my dream journal online, and from personal experience, I can safely say it's one or the other.


Last week, and for a week, I've tried WBTB + MILD every night. I had no dream recall, and no lucids either.

Then I slept for one night, and had full dream recall.


Then for the past few nights, I've been trying MILD (which didn't work too well, I woke up continuously only one night), with no lucids either. I had no dream recall either.

But last night, I just wanted to sleep, and did nothing to get lucid, no WILD, WBTB or anything, but I had full dream recall


:embarrassed::embarrassed:




It's weird!!


I either have the choice to get lucid (which i'm still working on), or have dream recall..


It's just one or the other!:(



Oh, and I'd like to thank mylucidworld, he's helped me alot:)

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Thats strange, it's as if doing nothing is the best induction method for you. :?

Btw thank you for thanking me rookybeats. :content:
Glad i could help.

nah, you have drawn incorrect conclusions.

for a start...you dont have to wake up continually throughout the night for MILD. Its just as effective with only 1 awakening for WBTB

And your drop in recall is most likely caused by

1- interupting regular sleep schedules (ie...lots of awakenings leaves you tired and highly unmotivated to write in your Dreamjournal)

2- stress of "trying to get lucid"

3- wake back to bed attempts EVERY night are never a good idea. (especially if you failed the previous night...) because you follow a low quality night sleep...with another...


as soon as you sleep the whole way through, its no surprise that you saw a recall increase

That might be how you chose to recall it...
Why? ...

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Originally Posted by james_jlc

nah, you have drawn incorrect conclusions.

for a start...you dont have to wake up continually throughout the night for MILD. Its just as effective with only 1 awakening for WBTB

And your drop in recall is most likely caused by

1- interupting regular sleep schedules (ie...lots of awakenings leaves you tired and highly unmotivated to write in your Dreamjournal)

2- stress of "trying to get lucid"

3- wake back to bed attempts EVERY night are never a good idea. (especially if you failed the previous night...) because you follow a low quality night sleep...with another...


as soon as you sleep the whole way through, its no surprise that you saw a recall increase

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Hmm I suppose you're right.



At the moment, I'm just working on sleeping hehe

No attempts until tomorrow night again:)