Thread: Memm's Science Lab

Greetings and salutations fellow lucid dreamers.

I got into lucid dreaming over 15 years ago, and it came very naturally and easily. But life giveth and life taketh away, now lucid dreaming is harder than a diamond stuck up Arnold Schwarzenegger's ass.

The last technique I tried with both vigour and determination was SSILD, for a couple of months, I even documented it all in a spreadsheet. But WILD, DILD, MILD, prospective memory, WBTB, all-day awareness, dream signs, dream journaling, RCs... let me tell you, over 10 years of playing around with all of these has left me less than satisfied.

You might say, "but Memm, did you really try? Did you strain yourself to the point of haemorrhoids and frothing at the mouth?"

And to that I say, yes, my haemorrhoids are as big and bloody as of any lucid dreamer.

But I digress—

This thread is my experimentation lab as I search for the philosopher's stone of lucid dreaming. I will be using everything I know about psychology, mathematics, alignment of the stars and planets, and the amount of polar bears left in the world (from 5,000 in the 1950s to an estimated population of over 30,000 now) to get lucid dreaming again.

I will be posting theories and then testing them out, you can help by testing them with me.

Without further ado let's begin with experiment #1


Truism: any good story requires a "hook" to keep the reader's interest, one of the best is a mystery or answered question. Unresolved information sticks around in the mind far longer.

Experiment: When you go throughout the day asking "am I dreaming?" that question must not be answered.

Hypothesis: Often in LD tutorials we are told to check if we are lucid dreaming. But if you actually complete the check the idea that we might be dreaming is quickly forgotten. Hypothetically NOT answering the question should work much better than answering it, because the idea we might be dreaming will be kept around in the mind for far longer unconsciously.