Thread: Finding forgotten memories

Have anyone tried to see or experienced an old memorie again that you had completly forgot? From what i have read over the years the mind "cleans" out memories that it does not find important.
When you delete something on a computer it isn't really gone because it can still be brought back with special tools. The only way to be sure of destroying something secret on a computer is to melt it down. What if this is true with our brains to? Maybe it's stashed away where we can't reach it without a special tool that's in this case is lucid dreaming. Things of testing to see this old memories again could be to imagine a door with the text "My 1 birthday" for example and then walking trough it to see if you would go there.

Do you think we have more access to our brain in the lucid state?

Originally Posted by Immortaleagle

Have anyone tried to see or experienced an old memorie again that you had completly forgot? From what i have read over the years the mind "cleans" out memories that it does not find important.
When you delete something on a computer it isn't really gone because it can still be brought back with special tools. The only way to be sure of destroying something secret on a computer is to melt it down. What if this is true with our brains to? Maybe it's stashed away where we can't reach it without a special tool that's in this case is lucid dreaming. Things of testing to see this old memories again could be to imagine a door with the text "My 1 birthday" for example and then walking trough it to see if you would go there.

Do you think we have more access to our brain in the lucid state?

Your mind doesn't delete memories they're just forgotten so they are still there. So it is totaly plausable that you could access those memories through lucid dreaming. But it may be hard or the memories could be faulty so if you succesfuly do this i advise you confirm it with someone that was there. what a great idea

Awesome idea! Unfortunately, you may never know if it had worked or not. Your mind could easily create a false memory/situation/event. it may seem real, but then again, it may be completely different from the true memory. It would still be very cool to see what your mind could come up with.

Originally Posted by KingYoshi

Awesome idea! Unfortunately, you may never know if it had worked or not. Your mind could easily create a false memory/situation/event. it may seem real, but then again, it may be completely different from the true memory. It would still be very cool to see what your mind could come up with.

Like i said confirm it with someone that was there

Ok, here's an idea. I've been meaning to do this for a long time, but sadly, I'm having difficulties with my lucidity.

I'm sure there is at least one really old photo album which you haven't looked at for a really really long time.

Relive it! This could be your birthday or whatever. Recall one detail to induce the whole atmosphere around you. It requires high lucidity and concentration. But be aware you are communicating much more easily to your subconscious mind. Now, think of a person who you know was there and invite her in, concentrated on her... precise appearance at that time - most importantly clothes. Remember several details and well, after wakin' up, blow off the dust of that photo album and enjoy.

I think it's possibly that we might have more access to our brain while in the lucid state.

I've relived two memories before through dreams, but I wasn't lucid. They were memories from when I was around 3 to about 5. I described to my mother what happened in my dreams and she confirmed that those events that I dreamed of really happened. It would be pretty interesting to see if I could intentionally relive an old memory. I might try that as one of my lucid tasks even. I would like to try using a tv and switching through the channels until I found a memory I wanted to experience again.

This is one of my main goals! There was another thread a while ago where people said they'd managed this- and found a missing item.

we might have more access to our brain while in the lucid state.

I agree. Old memories can be accessed through hypnosis. Having never been hypnotised, I have no way to compare it with lucid dreaming, but I suppose it seems like a similar state.

Some theories about memory are that we remember everything that we have ever experienced. Why we can't always "remember" things isn't that they aren't in our brains, but that we can't retrieve them. In other words, it's all there, we just have to find it. So, if that theory is true, then it would make sense that we could recover memories that we hadn't been able to access before. It's an interesting thought!

i've remembered some forgotten memories whilst on DXM, but not in a lucid before. I might try it.

Beware, though, because you might have supressed a memory of a traumatic event and it might cause pain when you access it.