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Yes, I like that!
What's the difference between making memory accessible and making a memory accessible? Is the effort of remembering one/a few memories the way to activate memory and make it accessible?
Well, in making a memory accessible you are, by definition, making memory accessible, don't you think? This is why I emphasize that the thing you choose to remember is irrelevant. Any memory you decide to recover is enough to bridge that gap between your consciousness within the dream and your storehouse of memories. It's not that my decision to remember the location of my physical body is of particular significance, it was only the easiest way for me to work back in my mind to retrieve a single memory. By that token, I could've attempted to remember the location of my car keys, or the name, breed and color of my dog, or the last known appearance of one of my relatives, etc. The content of the memory isn't the focus as much as the path to recovery of that memory, the process of remembering. In that sense, the only requisite to retrieval is that the process should be successful. With that:

Quote Originally Posted by Occipitalred View Post
If, while dreaming, I remember that my body is in a certain bed, I would wonder if I just created that memory because it's the logical follow-up to the knowledge that I am dreaming. And from my experience, each time, remembering I went to bed will follow the realization that I am dreaming rather than the opposite. I go to bed every day and it's not a very memorable event. For these reasons, I have been hesitant to spend much effort remembering if I went to bed and when I did, did I get out afterward.
Doubt shouldn't be an issue, if the process of retrieval resulted in success. The idea is to work backwards from your mind to your specific memory, any memory, but a true memory. Creating a false memory is proof that the link hasn't been established. You must be sure that the memory you've retrieved is a real memory you have, and only you can know that. When I work to remember the location of my physical body in a dream, the answer I come up with must be one obtained with careful thought. The process doesn't stop at the words spoken, but in the meaning behind them. In remembering, I use known images or the feeling of my body to give a validity and ensure the memory retrieved is real. I even trace my steps further back, not only stopping at a superficial location of my body, but about the place as well, whether it is my bedroom or not, in my house or someplace else, in what state (I'd been traveling lately, which is why I went that far back).

It's funny that when I first tried remembering in a lucid dream, I couldn't create any false memory due to my intention of retrieving something real. I failed that night only because I couldn't for the life of me remember where I had left my real body. I think that the more personal a memory is, and the more lengthier it is, the harder it is for one to misremember or misconstrue it.