Thread: Memory improvement

Do you think improving your general memory would improve dream recall? How would you improve general memory? I bought this memory book to help me with work and its got great techniques for remembering things which really work but thats all it helps with - remembering specific things, the techniques have to be used with things, which you cant do in a non lucid dream. It doesnt increase general memory power so anyone know how to do this or if its possible? All I can think of is going over the day in your head as vividly as possible before sleeping.

Yeah...it can, but i think that the reverse option would help more:
The more you work on dream recall, the better your general memory woud improve...

good point! i think youre right, i just remembered theres that prospective memory training thing in EWLD too. I realised i can apply the memory techniques from that memory book to dreaming too, its pretty simple really, duh! Its basically what you would do anyway - associate dreamsigns with doing reality checks, nothing new really, but instead of just saying 'I will do a reality check next time .......' in your head, make a ridiculous mental picture which links a dreamsign with checking reality, I dunno what Id use as a mental picture for RC yet, maybe a watch? so..police appear quite often in my dreams, so maybe id picture a copper covered in millions of watches...really see the picture and go over it everyday to reinforce it. Its nothing original but i think it makes it stick in my mind more than just telling myself to RC when i see the rozzers. It can be applied to everything like remembering to lock the front door - picture sticking your head in the keyhole or something. I know this works really well with other things from personal experience, maybe it would work while dreaming too.

so was this obvious to everyone else?

Originally posted by Lowercase Society
Yeah...it can, but i think that the reverse option would help more:
The more you work on dream recall, the better your general memory woud improve...

I aggree ive been using this method ever since it has been pointed out to me and the first time i had it i remember a dream. Good luck friend.

I think just applying yourself in trying to remember your dreams will help you improve on remembering them. I read three books on improving memory, and the last one I read was the best one because it's based on scientific studies (I read about it on CNN, and downloaded an ebook version of it from amazon.com). It based on the fact that doing some mental workout helps your brain improve it's ability to remember. It sort of rewires itself and become better.


Take for example the game of Solitare or Free Cell, the more you play the games the better and faster you become at them. They require memory, and memory for those games does improve if you play them more often. I guess it will be the same for recalling dreams. I believe that I can remember my dreams better than I used to a month ago.

Good that someone else started this topic.
I was almost thinking of begining a new one about a similar thing as I too am wondering how I can improve my mem for dreams.
I did see a thing on TV the other night about a group of school kids that were at the bottom of their classes. Low concentration and general poor performance. Teacher says the usual thing "would do better if they just applied them selves"
These kids are given a pill 3 times a day and
Attention goes up, mem improves, and it's like they want to learn.
The pill was Omega 3... or was it 5. (you can see I need some ) Omega <insert correct number here> (fatty acid I think) That occurs naturally in oily fish.
Aparently this stuff realy improves the process of forming new connections between neurons. Learning becomes easier and faster and mem improves.
So has anyone heard of this before?
Tried it before?
Is it Omega 3 or 5?
because if I can get some of this I'm going to give it a go.

Sounds like a ploy to get your money to me. I bet the placebo effect is enough to make your memory better. I don't know...

btw... adopted by Truthbearer? Sounds like some sibiling rivalry is in order.

*clears throat* ahem

*sings/taunts*
I'm gonna get more lucid treams than yo-ou!

Well I even thought of using a kind of placebo.
like drinking a glass of water to help me visualise something that would realy make a difference to recall and lucidity, but I don't think it would work

No this stuff was for real. Was on a Documentary about how the brain works and developes. Kind of helps your mental spark jump the gap between neurons easier, so connections are formed faster, and reinforcement of those connections is easier.
I'm not saying its a miricle IQ booster, but it has a measureable effect aparently. Just thought it may help learn the new process of LD, after all everything we do and are and learn is just connections in the right place.

As for sibiling rivalry...
I'll see you on the other side

Originally posted by Elephantman
The pill was Omega 3... or was it 5. (you can see I need some ) Omega <insert correct number here> (fatty acid I think) That occurs naturally in oily fish.
Aparently this stuff realy improves the process of forming new connections between neurons. Learning becomes easier and faster and mem improves.

No wonder they are called schools of fish(ba dum dum tsss)

Anyway, as for you my newbs, there is enough of me to share*gifts* and I am not someone to play favorites*expensive gifts* and condone this sort of sibling rivarly for my attention*trust fund/savings*....

Oily fish are good, mackerel, sardines etc i think mayonnaise has that omega thing in it too. Ginkgo Biloba is supposed to increase memory and concentration too. That book 'The Memory Book' is amazing, if someone takes 1 card out of a pack of 52 cards and reads the others back to me I can tell them what their card is just by remembering the others! I should start playing poker... Havent really used it with dreams yet though, been busy revising for exams

i have been using mnemomics to remember my dream signs. occasionally i mistake my associated images with the dream signs i remember, but i attain lucidity all the same.

Lol a placebo won't work if you make it yourself.

LC is right. The memory is your concious mind, and its all interconnected. That's why mnemonics work for both dream recall and regular memorization. It's the same area you're working with.