Thread: Memory: the Forgotten Fundamental

^^ WILD sounds great, but there are some of us for whom it remains just a theory . In my personal experience, one has to give up so much awareness to be able to even hope to approach sleep, that there is barely any difference between the awareness left when you enter the dream vs. being in a non-lucid. Some day perhaps I'll see the light and have this experience…maybe…for now, it's DILDs to the rescue.

p.s. I almost forgot (haha) to mention: success! I had what was to start with probably a hazy/fuzzy/vague lucid waking moment, barely more than HI, that I was able to salvage into a full blown lucid dream with great visuals, pulling myself away from the flow to take a moment to recognize that my body was asleep in bed, and that this entire experience was a fantasy! In contrast to the other recent reports, this did not end the dream, if anything it strengthened it, because I realized I had the ability to control/change the experience, and so for the first time in a dream commanded the dream to get "brighter," "brighter," and upon each statement of the word it was like the lights got turned up a bit more until I had full, clear visuals. Lasted about a minute, it was fun, it included a tightly-packed conga dance line of about 20 identical little girls in identical red dresses snaking their way through the room.

Simply having this active goal, the strong intent to connect with waking memory, is already a bonus to lucidity, actually completing the full realization of it lead to a indisputably superior experience. So, I'm sold!