Thread: how to remember what I want to do?

I just try to remember 1 or at most 2 things that I plan to do. When I'm going to sleep I keep repeating those tasks to myself in my head.

My problem is that almost all the times I planned something to do, I didn´t get lucid. I got lucid long after I planned something. Once I got lucid I was thinking more in the context of the dream than in what I wanted to do. I don´t exactly remember what I planned to do and I go on with the dream context or I lose lucidity trying to remember.

I would suggest making a habit of, upon attaining ludicity, making a point of stopping whatever you are doing, and trying to remember your plans.

If you are doing reality checks while awake, each time you do so, you could note to yourself that if the reality check had've shown you to be dreaming, you should have stopped to remember your plans, in order to build an association between reality checking and remembering your plans.

If you are able to make a habit of this, then hopefully you will not have to do much to remember your plans for LDs beyond simply affirming them to yourself before sleep.

I second archdreamer's suggestion. Incorporate those questions into your reality check process. Make it into habit.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't need to remind myself what I wanted to do. The one lucid-ish dream I had last year (basically, I knew it was a dream, and I could do some stuff, but couldn't really make what I wanted to happen happen) it was the first thing I thought of!

after reading your answers I started to think about my plans as I used to RC during day (I'm not performing RC's by now since I just started to realize I'm dreaming)
What happened was that the first LD I had after doing that, I remembered to do a thing I wanted to do a very long time ago because of the dream context! The next one, I was not able to stabilize myself into the dream because of I decided to RC by flying due to the dream context again!
anyway, I will keep in mind during all day what I want to do, may be next dream I will finally remember what I planned.
thanks for the answers

I agree with conncecting the thoughts of your wanted actions with your RCs. That is a supurb idea.

For me, every time I think of LDing, I think about what I want to do in a LD. More times than not, I can remember them almost as soon as I enter the lucid state. Now actually performing them is an entirely different situation *sigh*

Unless you have a monthly achievement you want to accomplish, I wouldnt worry about it. Whatever you think of during the dream is going to be 100x better than "pre-meditated".