Extra8hours

In this episode I talk about how basically it is important to remember to remember (lol) your dreams as soon as you wake up in the morning.   One way to facilitate this is by setting up a primer near your bed so as soon as you wake you look at this primer and remember that you need to remember your dreams from the night before.   One example of a good primer might be a poster about dreaming that you see as soon as you wake up.   Another good way to set primers is to change something in your room. For me, I was going to clear off my cluttered desk, because that is unusual to my morning habits so it will give me a pattern interrupt and I will remember that I am trying to remember my dreams.   The other thing I talked about in this podcast is how do cell phones affect our dream recall in the morning. Basically they are good and bad because they are easy to take notes in for your dream journal but they often present a distraction.

I have just gotten back into Lucid Dreaming really. Now, I will go hard into the tactics behind it and show you my learning process. As well, I will be looking to have other lucid dreamers on the show!!!

I talk about some of the foundations of lucid dreaming and dream recall in this episode. Being dream journalism, setting intentions and reality checks.  First it is important that every day we take the time to write out our dreams from the previous night. This gives us a way to crystallize our dreams and store them into our long term memory. Because the truth of the matter is the problem is we tend to store our dream into our short term memory and not our long term memory. Next setting intentions is a great habit to have, because when we make it the last thing we do in the day to tell ourselves to remember our dreams, this aligns our unconscious mind with our conscious motivations and makes it much more likely that we will remember to even try to remember our dreams the next morning. Lastly making it a habit to perform reality checks in the waking state so that we carry the habit over into the dreaming state is a very effective way to induce lucid dreams. Think of it, if we did a check in a dream to see