Another Incredible Lucid Dream?

Hi,

Lucidity has to do with awareness in that context. If you become aware in a dream and have enough cognitive function to know you are dreaming, then that is a Lucid Dream.

Remembering dreams is good when we can't become lucid in them. I have never had a problem remembering them, it's as easy as remembering waking life for me but different people struggle with different things. No one's brain chemistry is the exact same.

That's really good that you remember what you were dreaming about. I noticed that sometimes dreams make sense when we are having them, but when we recall them from memory they don't always make sense.

Do you know the RAOM GAOM mantra? I never need to use it but if you think it works then try it and you might find you recall dreams a bit easier. After awhile you might be used to recalling them and probably won't need the mantra. But nothing is a sure thing until we do it.

Thanks for sharing you dream experience. I don't know if you write your dreams down but in my case it can reveal alot when you study them and push me to keep doing it.

soo, ive had a clear dream, more clearer the realistic, i knew i was dream, but i wasnt in control, is that still a lucid?

Andrei,
As Apakhana indicated the defenition of a lucid dream has to do with the consciousnes. This means that in order for you to have had a lucid dream there need to be some level of consciousnes (wakefulness) which involve the knowledge that you are dreaming when it is occuring.

Now of course there are dreams which can have a higher and lesser degree of awareness while still not having pushed and crossed the edge of reaching consciousnes. The clearer a dream is, the better as it indicates less submergion in the subconscious and higher awareness in it, which means higher degree of objectivity (though being subconscious you cannot expect it to be objective, but what I said is a "higher" degree of objectivity compared to a less clear dream).

It is for instance possible to dream that you know you are dreaming, but without really knowing it... This is then a dream without consciousnes. To have consciousnes in a dream means to be awake in it, to a higher or lesser degree.

As for the memories, this also has much to do with the consciousnes and awareness. The deeper and more submerged you are in the subconscious, the stronger hold does it have and hence it can take more efforts to keep the memories of the dream (as the subconscious kind of try to keep hold of what has occured). As the level of consciousnes in the experience increases, there is naturally a higher degree of wakefulness, which means the subconscious has less of a role to play in the experience. This means that you also naturally remember the experience and what you have gone through.

Now of course memory is a tricky thing, and there are of course more things to keep in mind. Such as if you consider something non-important you have an easier time forgetting it (applies to non-physical and physical experiences), while if you find something very important you are probably not able to forget it even if you wanted to.

Perhaps you also might want to think of times you are walking on the street and begin daydreaming, you then react to something on the street and only a few minutes later you have forgotten what you were daydreaming about... The daydream is a matter of the subconscious, and also considered totally non-important a few minutes after having come out of it, so you are not likely to remember it for long... If on the other hand you were almost hit by a car, that event is likely to stick in your mind for your entire life, since it could possibly be a life changing thing.

But again, the more consciousnes (which means the more awake you are) during a specific out of body experience, the more likely are you to remember what you go through. You tend to with some experience learn to maximize the usage of your available consciousnes in the experiences, so early on lucid dreams are likely to be not so clear, but having had a number of them you manage to use more of your natural consciousnes, and be more awake in them.

Hope this helps.

For me it is lucid when I can take full control in the dream. Like I can think conscious of something and it happens as I focus on it.
Like a simular awareness as in daytime (when I am not day dreaming:)

With interfearing thoughts it can become a normal dream again. So focus / concentration is needed.
By concentrating on just what you are doing, you can also push subconscious (egos) away.

Peter