Forgotten Lucid Dream

[Wasatch]

I found my old dream journal from 2009, back when I first got into lucid dreaming. And it turns out that there's an extra lucid dream that I had forgotten all about. D'oh! So I've had four total lucids and not three. It's too bad that I can't remember it, because my journal entry makes it sound pretty interesting. I was in a playground, and I had asked a dream character what the difference between the dream world and the waking world was. She replied that people in the waking world are limited by their own knowledge and experiences, but in the dream world, we're all connected to a sort of mass consciousness. She called this the "language" of the dream world. So I focused on this idea of a so-called dream language, and immediately the playground scene around me dimmed to expose an entirely different landscape hiding just beneath the surface. I stopped focusing, and everything snapped back to the way it was. The dream character smiled approvingly at me and said, "See what I mean? It's all about the language!" I ended up using this technique again later on, when I wanted the dream scene to change to something random, and it worked then too. But then again, the changes still came from my own memories, so I'm not really sure what a mass consciousness had to do with it. Lol. Silly dream character.

[Tygar]

So, when you read your journal entry about the dream it didn't trigger you to remember it? I've made the mistake of not writing down a couple of LD's, and then completely forgotten them. I also had one experience where I had a lucid dream, and then a false awakening. In the FA I woke up in my bed and wrote some notes about the LD. When I woke up I couldn't remember anything about the LD part of the dream. Very frustrating.

[JoannaB]

I once woke up with the thought "yes, I did it! I had a lucid dream!" But I could not recall anything, so I do not know whether or not I actually had a lucid dream. In another dream I dreamed that I was trying to write down a lucid dream but people kept disrupting me, and so I never did write it down. Upon waking up I could not remember any contents of any lucid dream, and I suspected that I actually did not have a lucid at all, but rather a nonlucid dream about unscuccessfully trying to write a dream journal entry about a lucid. You are lucky that you have a dream journal from years ago. I do not have my dream journal from 20 years ago, and I remember only 3 of those lucid dreams contents although I remember being a fairly regular lucid dreamer back then and I remember keeping a dream journal then, but I do not know what happened to it in the meantime.

[Wasatch]

So, when you read your journal entry about the dream it didn't trigger you to remember it? The latter part of the dream seems familiar, but otherwise no. Just based on the tiny amount of lucids that I've had, it feels like my recall for those is a little weaker than for my non-lucid dreams. With non-lucids, it's like watching a movie, so the plot sticks in my mind better. But the lucids get subjected to my usual bad memory from waking life. An awareness issue?

[Tygar]

The latter part of the dream seems familiar, but otherwise no. Just based on the tiny amount of lucids that I've had, it feels like my recall for those is a little weaker than for my non-lucid dreams. With non-lucids, it's like watching a movie, so the plot sticks in my mind better. But the lucids get subjected to my usual bad memory from waking life. An awareness issue? For me it is the reverse. Because I am not conscious in my normal dreams they are rarely vivid so I have a hard time remembering them. But once I become lucid I have much better recall...unless I don't write it down when I wake up. Then, just like most dreams, it fades away.