Thread: Trouble remembering lucid dream details (hard to explain)

Well I've had many lucid dreams, most of them quite short like a couple of minutes and not all that vivid. Just recently some of them have become a lot more vivid and longer due to me taking Galantamine and choline a couple of times a week. The problem is still the details though. They are good in the dream sometimes, like this morning I remember it was a long dream and parts of it were really vivid. I was looking around the landscape and noticed how vivid it was-I only remember thinking this though, I can't remember what the landscape looked like now, just the memory that it was good at the time.

Now whilst this is still a great dream, instead of just remembering something was good, I want to remember why it was good, if you know what I mean. I want to see something in a dream and remember exactly what it looked like, what it felt like etc. Instead, when I wake-up I seem to forget all of this, I just remember that it was good at the time, but I don't remember the actual experience very well. Does this make any sense at all? And does anyone know how to make the memory of it better? Or is this just something that happens?

Maybe try to improve your recall or start a DJ if you haven't already. Write down your dream as soon as you awaken

My recalls pretty good, I have a dream journal and mostly I do write down my dreams as soon as I awaken. It's not my recall really that's the problem, but I'm having trouble explaining it. I remember what I did in the dream well, I just don't remember what it actually felt like to look around the landscape or touch something or taste something. How can I explain this better...erm it's like if in real life you ate a cake and at the time it tasted delicious, but later on you can't remember what the cake tasted like at all, just that you ate it and at the time it tasted good, but now you can't remember. Does anyone else have this problem or am I just crazy? Lol.

You mean you remember experiencing the dream, but not doing the actions? That's a somewhat common complaint on the forums, but I don't really know what you can do about it. I would try to increase your lucidity and vividness of your dreams if you can, but someone more experienced should probably chime in.

Yeh that's basically it, I just have the outline of the dream action-like I ate a nice cake, but not the total details, like what it tasted like. i'm going to try and increase vividness some more and see if some autosuggestion whilst in the dream will help such as "I will remember all of my dream details upon awakening" or something. Thanks for the advice.

I have the same problem. Everything feels super vivid at the time, but fades quickly. Like you, I will only remember how I remarked to myself how vivid everything was.

How does this compare to your normal memories? It is hard to remember anything clearly unless you are really trying to memorize. I think I expect more from myself when it comes to dreams. I assume that since my mind created it from nothing in a dream, I should be able to recreate it in a memory or visualization. Sadly, it doesn't work that way.

Yeh that's exactly it Robot! It's really frustrating as well. I was going to mention about real life memories in my original post, but I didn't want to complicate it any more than it already was! But yes real life memories upon reflection aren't that clear either! Somehow it feels different in real life though, maybe it's just the fact that we know it really happened so it seems more memorable.

Perhaps because you can talk to other people about what happened the day before whereas you can't do that with a dream it makes it seem different. I'm still chasing that amazing lucid dream where I remember every single detail-if you think about it, you probably pay more attention to details in lucid dreams than in real life, you are kind of on auto-pilot in real life, so that makes me think that I can achieve that lucid I'm after, that's even better than a real-life memory!

I have the same problem exactly. I have trouble remembering the actions in the dream.
Agreed ^^

-CV

this is how all memory's work, take this for example look somewhere in your room now look back to the computer screen. try to remember wat u saw mayby a chair. it had 4 legs. it was red. sure but no realy try to picture that chair and u wil see if u focus so hard on a certain spot it wil dissapear. so you only remember like 00,1 % but imagination makes the image complete.

actually i think that memorys dont exist but to explain that i wil be typing here for a long time