Thread: Dream recall is...

By increasing lucidity, we're trying to be make what was previously unimportant to us important to us. By trying to recall more of our dreams, we are also trying to make what was previously unimportant to us important to us.

Dream recall is an exercise of episodic memory. Events that are recorded into episodic memory may trigger episodic learning, i.e. a change in behavior that occurs as a result of an event. This learning can result in increased self-awareness in the future.

Very well said. I think we are returning again to the discussion on LD fundamentals, as Sageous likes to mention. May be we also have to find a role for waking life memory or recall in the "dream recall - lucidity relationship". But in a sense, self awareness and dream recall must also implicitly involve waking life memory, and vice versa, and it seems hard to separate one from the other, but i know someone could probably explain it better or have a different opinion.

I think some types of dream recall training might be more effective than others, though.

I think you are right here.It is challenging, but it would be interesting if you could elaborate it further.

Some dream features might be better to develop self awareness. I would say that paying attention to one´s emotions and actions in the dream would be more beneficial, but i am just guessing. It might be heavily dependent on the dreamer's dream.

And, although self awareness never hurts, maybe someone with persistent dream signs and recurrent dreams, can compensate for less self aware mind with a more externally oriented awareness ? And therefore better suited to pay attention to elements other than related to the self.