Ok hey everyone, Im relatively new here. I think this is one of my first posts. So I think I have had 5 lucid dreams where I knew about the subject and only one which I can remember when I was young. Anyway, I’ll give a quick rundown of what happened last night. So it was late, when I went to sleep as it was my summer holidays and I had two lucid dreams. The first I think I remember saying to myself, wow this is a lucid dream. Its so realistic. Then I did a rc (breathing through closed nose) and had my LD. Then it stopped and I was in darkness. Then I remember watching a youtube video of some sort that told me to count to 5 and as I had i sunk backwards into my bed and experienced a second LD. Again I remember saying how realistic it is. Now im convinced I had them, but I only remembered parts during the morning. How, apart from keeping a dj can I help my dream recall. Are these the signs of having a LD; im convinced that i had one and remember that i was convinced in the dream. Iv been practicing WILD for i suppose a year or two but have only accomplished shifting of consciousness occasionally due to lack of patience. How can I improve this? Like are there any patience exercises.
I’d say you’re lucky you can recall your dreams without a DJ. I can do the same, but usually only one or two a night without my DJ. If it were me… I might keep thinking about the dreams throughout my day or such. Sometimes I can remember the feeling of being lucid but I can’t remember the dream at all.
As for your WILD question, when are you attempting it? It’s much harder to do at night. It’s often recommended that you try WILD in conjunction with WBTB instead of trying it at night. That doesn’t mean you can’t succeed at night, it’s just much harder. I don’t know of any patience exercises… I myself am also impatient.
Anyhow, it’s good to hear you’ve got some LDs and DR going! Keep it up!
You’d be surprised what a dream journal can do for your dream recall. I think everyone has their blackout periods, but if you do it right, I think your mind associates writing in the journal with remembering dreams, making them easier to remember.
However, if you do that and are still looking for better dream recall, there’s been a lot of talk about milk and honey around here recently. I haven’t tried it, but they say it increases vividness and, subsequently, dream recall.
As for WILD, as it’s been said before, it’s easier to do after having had some sleep. Additionally, a lot of people have recently commented that the falling asleep aspect is more important than the keeping awareness part (meaning you shouldn’t let one get in the way of the other). I personally have only had success with it on accident though, so take what I say with a grain of salt.
When we’re asleep some parts of the brain are less active, this we can tell mostly when we wake up from a lucid dream thinking we didn’t act truly rational in it.
By doing things like simple (to advanced o.O) math and trying to remember things about You (or someone else o.O) you can activate the other parts of the brain.
This technique is mostly used to activate the brain so that you become more “You” and can think more clearly, but I theorize that it will also help the brain store the memories of the dream if we work the proper areas. Possibly trying something like remembering what you did yesterday and what you will be doing tomorrow (today?) when in the dream. I haven’t tried it before but sure will in my next LD, but I can’t recommend it fully since it’s not sure to work as a dream recall aid.
Hmm. So your saying doing maths or thinking about what you will do the next day or what you did in the previous day will activate parts of the brain. This will result in an increase in dream recall? I dont think that doing maths will help because when asleep, the logic centre of the brain is inactive and that allows the ability to do what ever you want in your dreams. Atleast I think so.
Not inactive, just Less Active, and that’s exactly why trying to do simple math tasks would help. You’d be making that part more active again.
So basically my assumption here is that if we reactivate the parts of our brain that handle memories and past events, this could make the memory of the dream itself stronger. Again, it’s just a theory.
I could suggest awareness meditation: either during ordinary events, or in some dedicated time period, just sitting upright and being aware of all senses, thoughts, emotions, and the like, just being there and enjoying the moment, that’s all that’s required. It does wonders, believe me ^^ in a similar fashion, you will be able to watch yourself falling asleep and enter a dream while conscious, effectively giving you a LD.
Good luck to you
