Thread: Feeling after a Lucid Dream

I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes you can't depend on how it makes you feel later on during the day, you have to focus on how it feels when you realize you're dreaming even though you were certain you were awake doing completely real things. You realize that even though it isn't real....you're really there, you're really somewhere. It's an amazing feeling. The problem is comparing waking life to your dreams without even realizing it. You wake up and it's automatically not as special because nobody was there with you, you have nobody to talk about it with. Think about your favorite memories that happened during waking life. Isn't it still fun to sit around and talk to people who shared those memories with you? Also, you compare the realities. In a dream...you can really fly, it's not fake. But when you think about that while in a state where you can't fly, it seems very imaginary. Now I feel like I'm rambling so take it for what it's worth...I feel your pain though. All I know is that it's worth it.

Yea, you are probably right. Maybe it will be better as my recall becomes sharper too. Tnx for the reply

Your recall WILL become better as you practice. Keeping notes in your journal is also a great way to help recreate the feeling. I've reviewed notes left about LDs from a years ago and was able to recreate a lot of the dream memory and feelings.

Well, this is good news. I will be more determined with the dream diary in the future, and not just go to sleep right away. I mean, I know I'll forget a lot if I dont write it down right away, but soooo often I manage to fool myself to think that I will remember

Thank you for the input Seeker

Yeah, Dream Journal is one of the things that motivate me greatly to continue Lucid Dreamin'. And I have had one already, this night I'll have another. If I do recommend anythin', that is: Keep Dream Journal. It is maybe most important thing that Lucid Dreamer has(If you do not count Reality Checks, and even then I would continue to wonder if my Dream Journal is more important... Anyway).

I actually have the opposite feeling. I remember my LDs and smile to myself in the real world because I've done something that the people around me can't do like fly. To me, LDs are amazing because they set me free. Waking life is mundane, same routine, different day. But in LDs, every day is different, it's like going into a holodeck and not knowing what you're going to get. It's probably going to be great, but it might be twisted, you never know. And I think that's what makes it so amazing.

If I'm ever in any doubt, I just play back the recording of the first lucid dream I ever had and listen to the sheer excitement in my voice.

Originally Posted by MisterHyde

I actually have the opposite feeling. I remember my LDs and smile to myself in the real world because I've done something that the people around me can't do like fly.

I felt like this after i woke up from dream where I set people I know on fire! Pyromaniacs dreams rule. And no, no one was hurt. After they were on fire I used my powers to extuingish them. I know, that was kind of me.

It's not as great when you're remembering it as when you're doing it. When I had my first LD, I was having a great time during it, but woke up and said, "that sucked!" Then I had a second one, and I remembered how fun they are. It seems kind of bland if you forget about it, so I found DJing good for remembering the good parts.

If i have a lucid dream that is followed by a normal dream, I usually dont get excited recalling it. But if I wake up after the LD and write it down, it gets me really excited. Also, LD isn't ALL about the excitement, its also the understanding that you accomplished something awsome. The latter is a more subtle reward but its useful to recognize it

I always get that feeling but i remember myself saying in almost every LD something like "What the fuck, this is more real than life" and it is, my dreams are more vivid and real than life most of the time. Its a little wierd.

Write them down right away, and include as much detail as possible. That's what I suggest, because that is what I practice. And usually, I'm ranting and raving about a good lucid dream for at least a day.

Yeah that appens to me too. I had my first lucid dream since last night (yeah!) and when I woke up It lost it's 'awesomeness'.

I just thought it was like any other crazy dream I had before. i guess i didn't think anything of it

I think that's true with non lucid dreams as well.
We wake up from an awesome dream and as we trudge through the day that dream slips farther away as do the feelings we experienced in them. Doesn't mean we should just give up. I'd rather have those fleeting awesome lucid dreams than to have had none at all.

Originally Posted by Abra

Write them down right away, and include as much detail as possible.

I totally agree. If I don't write an LD down as soon as I wake up from it I lose so much detail and recall it's depressing. I've learned that I'll never fully remember my dreams (lucid or non) if I wait til later to write them down.

can't say ive ever been unexicted about a lucid they aways feel real and awsome/great to me