Losing/Regaining Consciousness within One Dream

So I am sure it has happened to quite a few of you, and I have read some of the accounts on this site. I am curious about how you classify those lucid dreams where you become lucid (or maybe even start out lucid), then forget that it is a dream, and then later on within the same dream recall that you are dreaming and once again become lucid.

I'm just trying to decide if that should be classified as another successful and separate DILD, or if it's simply a continuation of the previous lucid state. Has anyone ever read anything about memory while in the lucid state? If you lose and then regain lucidity, is it because your memory has been modified since the last lucid and you are remembering that you are supposed to be in a dream, or are you just getting better at LDing? I find that when I lose lucidity, it completely evaporates from my mind so I doubt that theory.

Even if you haven't read anything scientific, please post your accounts or opinions, I'd love to read them :)

I do think it's a lapse in memory that helps cause it. In dreams, the mechanics of memory work differently than when awake. We don't really know how.

I think the difference between 2 DILDs and relucid is that if it's a separate DILD, you find a new reason to deduce that you are dreaming, while relucid would be remembering that you already know it's a dream.

Agree with Abra. I'd say that it would depend on the level of connection. If you drop out of lucidity and then 5 minutes later, arrive at the dream location you were lucid in and remember being lucid, then the second realisation is pretty much a direct result of the first. However, if you notice a dreamsign or something, then I'd count it separately.

I see what you are both getting at, and I agree with what you've said! I also like the term "relucid" haha In the dream I had last night, I gained lucidity in my backyard, lost it in some dream restaurant, and realized it was a dream while I was trying to write something over and over and it wouldn't write (so I guess a dream sign/reality check of failed writing.)

Now the trick is that after I woke up and fell back asleep, or however it is that one ended (there is a gap in my memory), I ended up back in my backyard. I realized it was a dream and became very excited for a 3-in-1-night. But I don't know if it's because I remembered being lucid in the (literally) same location a few minutes earlier, or if it's because the backyard is becoming quite a dreamsign for (7 lucids and counting from that spot!) :tongue: