Thread: My Introduction

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Welcome to DreamViews, Toni! Great to have you here.

Thank you very much CanisLucidus!

As gab said, no worries on not having perfect recall right away. There's typically a bit of a wall that separates dream memories from waking memories. When we're awake, it can be hard to remember our dreams. And when we're dreaming, it can be hard to call up certain waking life memories.

The best way to wear that wall down is simply to practice your dream recall via journaling. So by starting your dream journal, you are bang on course.

Oh wow it hadn't crossed my mind that there could be a wall between dream memory and waking memory. Hmmmm interesting. Well I'm just gonna have to tear that wall down with dreamwork.

What you'll find over time is that as you work to remember more and more details from your dreams, your skills will naturally grow. There will be ups and downs in dream recall (as there are for all of us) but our minds respond well to intent and effort. Keep grabbing every detail from your dreams that you can and after a while you'll find that there's more and more to grab.

"Intent and effort" is definitely highly influential to the mind and, yes, I can imagine, when they are applied to the dreamworld, how my dreamskills will grow. Okay! I'll grab details from my dreams every chance I get so I can grab more and more detail. Great thinkin!

You'll be there before you know it! Just keep learning, putting in the work, and believing in your abilities. You'll be amazed at what you're capable of.

Happy dreaming!

Yep okay I will give it my best shot. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience with me. Hopefully I can return the favor.

Sweet dreams to you!

You are very welcome, Toni!

Originally Posted by antoniastar

Oh wow it hadn't crossed my mind that there could be a wall between dream memory and waking memory. Hmmmm interesting. Well I'm just gonna have to tear that wall down with dreamwork.

There you go! Incidentally, it gets interesting approaching things from the other direction as well and learning to bring waking life memories into lucid dreams. It's interesting that you can chip away at the wall in either direction. Recalling waking life memories from a dream feels surprisingly similar to trying to remember a dream when we've first woken up. What that means I'll leave as a question for the philosophers!

By the way, recall of waking life memories is a frequent theme of the DreamViews "Task of the Month", which are in-dream challenges that dreamers on the forum try to complete for extra motivation and fun. Once you start feeling pretty comfortable with lucid dreaming, I highly recommend this as a great way to sharpen your skills: http://www.dreamviews.com/task-month...ch-2013-a.html

I started these Tasks of the Month well before I was much good at lucid dreaming, and it didn't do me any permanent damage.

Originally Posted by antoniastar

Yep okay I will give it my best shot. Thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience with me. Hopefully I can return the favor.

I have no doubt that you will! I learn a ton from discussing techniques, experiences and ideas with all of the dreamers on this site. You are actually coming to the DreamViews a good bit more experienced than I was when I joined, so I'll be shamelessly stealing all of your LDing tricks in no time.