Thread: layers of thouhgt in LDs

Recently, i have noticed in my LDs that I cant think deeply. Like i have add and thoughts are all like as if i were talking in my head (it is hard to explain, but you know what i am talking about hopefully) I also have trouble remembering recent events and sometimes even my name. It almost feels like my brain in in a fox as though i just drank 20 energy drinks. calming down does not seam to help noticeably.

Will this ever change so that i can be fully aware and able to remember everything in my LDs, or is this just how the mind works in dreams

There are different levels of lucidity, from just vaguely awareness that you are lucid, to full awareness and access to your mental faculties.

Originally Posted by sheogorath

Recently, i have noticed in my LDs that I cant think deeply. Like i have add and thoughts are all like as if i were talking in my head (it is hard to explain, but you know what i am talking about hopefully) I also have trouble remembering recent events and sometimes even my name. It almost feels like my brain in in a fox as though i just drank 20 energy drinks. calming down does not seam to help noticeably.

Will this ever change so that i can be fully aware and able to remember everything in my LDs, or is this just how the mind works in dreams

No, I believe that with experience you will be able to achieve that "full" awareness. In your next few lucids just practice with your memory a bit. Walk around and notice the details and actions taking place around you. Remind yourself within the dream that you will remember this upon waking. Make a mental note, if you will, of your surroundings. I believe that this problem is just a small control issue and alot of new LDers have problems with control. Control will get better over time through experience and practice. Just keep working on these issues, and I believe they will be fixed rather easily with time. Good Luck to you! If you have any further questions, feel free to ask .

I have to agree with KingYoshi. This isn't uncommon at all. If you consider any level of awareness in a dream as a lucid dream, then by the that definition, I have lucid dreams every night. They are usually just very very hazy dreams, in which I know that I"m dreaming, but for whatever reason, I can't focus, and I seldom remember much detail.

I think you just haven't had a full-blown lucid dream yet. And you will have one. It's only a matter of time.

I can't speak for LDing per se, but I know that I often find myself worrying or thinking about Lucid Dreaming in dreams... I've failed to become lucid as a result of this, however. For example, last night I was sitting on a bus thinking that, as the bus was about to crash, my mother wouldn't grieve as much as I'd experienced the world through LDs. I felt sad because that wasn't true. (Irony).

Anyway, yes, I have many layers of thought, I can often 'hear' the little voice that questions reality and then finds a reason for weirdness.

Originally Posted by sheogorath

Recently, i have noticed in my LDs that I cant think deeply. Like i have add and thoughts are all like as if i were talking in my head (it is hard to explain, but you know what i am talking about hopefully) I also have trouble remembering recent events and sometimes even my name. It almost feels like my brain in in a fox as though i just drank 20 energy drinks. calming down does not seam to help noticeably.

Will this ever change so that i can be fully aware and able to remember everything in my LDs, or is this just how the mind works in dreams

To me, thinking deeply is quiet, directed, thoughts, not scrambled ADD thoughts. Which do you mean? both at the same time?

What do you mean by "recent events"? Waking life events or dream events? Why do you try to remember your name? What do you mean by "my brain is in a fox" How do you calm down in a dream?

Originally Posted by WakingNomad

To me, thinking deeply is quiet, directed, thoughts, not scrambled ADD thoughts. Which do you mean? both at the same time?

What do you mean by "recent events"? Waking life events or dream events? Why do you try to remember your name? What do you mean by "my brain is in a fox" How do you calm down in a dream?

Crap, i cant believe i said fox. i mean fog. and I WANT to think deeply, but instead 20 things pop into my head. Also by recent events i mean in real life. Like i get the dream timeline confused with real life's. The time i tried to remember my name, i was trying to calm down and remember stuff that i could do in a lucid. i thought that maybe i could start with my name and slowly work my way up to memories and goals, but that plan was ruined when i couldn't even remember my name. Why did i put fox? x isn't even close to g...

sometimes i am quite "lucid" in a lucid dream, more aware than i am in waking life... which is part of the fun of being in a lucid dream.

i can do whatever i want. talk to my dc's. find out all sorts of things that are profound. have amazing experiences i could only dream of heretofor. create universes. travel to galaxies. build the palaces of my dreams.

could this actually become a training ground for being lucid in waking life?

yes some ld's are more lucid than others. fortunately (i tell myself) i have the rest of my life to wake up and practice! (both in dreams and in reality).

beachgirl

I agree, I've had some LDs before where I wasn't thinking clearly, like I just couldn't. In a recent one I was kinda "goin with" what was happening, but could still think basic thoughts and contribute to my dream in this kind of way, but I didn't, for whatever reason, do what I really wanted to do, I did know it was a dream, I could feel that "I" was thinking and talking, not my subconsious...know what I mean?