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When you have an LD, do you actually feel like you're in the dream, or do you just remember it in the morning? Like do you really experience it as if it were in real life? Because sometimes I've had dreams where I feel like everything is really happening (not lucid though) and I remember them very well but about 99% of the time I don't remember anything.
They feel like they are happening in real life. even more real then real life sometimes ( you know what I mean once you have it, its like a connection between everything in the dream world) You are conscious when You Lucid Dream just as you are now. So that's why it will feel as real as your feeling in this very moment.
Then why do we forget our LDs and need to develop dream recall to remember them most of the time?
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Originally posted by Zoifazz
Then why do we forget our LDs and need to develop dream recall to remember them most of the time?
in my opinion, without developed dream recall of non-lucids, chances are one isn't familiar enough with how their dreaming mind works to become lucid.
by this i mean- if you can remember 4 or 5 dreams every night, it is highly unlikely you'll forget any that are lucids.
and on the other side, if you only remember one dream every couple nights, chances are none of them were lucid anyways.
frequent recall of non-lucid dreaming is virtually essential to learning how to master lucid dreaming.
Although ive found lucid dream memory storage to be better then normal dream memory its still far from normal everyday waking memory. Its actually very frustrating sometimes... your aware and taking everything in in the lucid dream yet it seems to enter your long term memory fragmented sometimes. The more aware i am and the 'higher' the lucidity the easier it seems to be to remember, to the point where its as easy as a normal waking state.
Even if the memory of the LD is fragmented the peices are there and stored in memory, it just takes you to notice them and put them back together.
So yeah, i guess the answer is something to do with how dreams are stored in memory (even lucid dreams). Id imagine its a defence mechanism to stop people confusing dream memory with waking memory. It would be bad for instance if you were to dream you could fly by jumping off buildings and got that confused with reality. Maybe because of this dreams are stored in a different part of memory or stored in a different manner that makes retrieval harder. It could also be that its just harder to store memories when not as concious, so the more aware and concious you are, the more chance you have of remembering.
>RooJ
Ah, I understand now, thanks. So when I LD I'll be conscious inside my dream but memory will be pretty bad.
Every now and then I'll have a dream where I'll feel like I'm in the dream (but I don't recall ever realizing it was a dream inside the dream). I'll really feel like everything was happening, and my recall of the dream in the morning will be very very good (and the dream is usually the last one I have). What's the deal with these?