Thread: LD'ing without recalling: my stupidest experience ever

Do you keep a dream journal? It's really important to have good recall... Otherwise, like what happened to you, you could go lucid and have no recollection of it.

Yep, I've got a digital dream journal. I always mentally pass through the dream when I wake up and then go to my computer to put in the journal.

I've had that happen. Infact, I think I have forgotten two LDs, possibly more as a result. I can't exactly remember how I can to the conclusion about those 2 possible LDs but I was pretty sure at the time that it was 2. Anyways, trying to recall is key. My recall is pretty bad but I'm putting the effort in now to get better recall to get more LDs, remember more dreams, etc....

...make dreams more vivid
I'm also having trouble with recall but I believe if you keep a journal it will improve over time

I just don't understand how one can forget a lucid dream.
it happened to me that I woke up, and I recalled rubbing my hands together in the dream, maybe to increase lucidity. so when this happens, I don't care, If I can't remember a lucid dream, then probably I didn't have a lucid dream.

I know this happens to me waaaay to often :/

Originally Posted by Mariano

I just don't understand how one can forget a lucid dream.
it happened to me that I woke up, and I recalled rubbing my hands together in the dream, maybe to increase lucidity. so when this happens, I don't care, If I can't remember a lucid dream, then probably I didn't have a lucid dream.

Hmm... so why would you have rubbed your hands together to increase lucidity if you didn't have a lucid dream

Maybe he dreamt that he was lucid dreaming. The Mind does weird things sometimes ^^. It have happend to me to, I recalled that I hade a lucid dream but I was just dreaming that I was dreaming, sounds weird I know, but I was dreaming that I knew that I was dreaming. I was not aware of it.