Progress
How things have changed in less than a week. I went from not remembering any dreams in a night to remembering three dreams last night! I am making good progress with the dream recall.
I attempted to do MILD again last night, but found myself unable to fall asleep while repeating my mantra or visualizing a lucid dream.
MILD revisited
Which brings me to what I want to talk about today. I covered MILD earlier in this post. MILD is a form of prospective memory.
Prospective memory is a form of memory that involves remembering to perform a planned action or recall a planned intention at some future point in time.
-Wikipedia
Prospective memory works by linking a certain place, event, or time with something you want to remember to do. In our case we want to remember to ask ourselves if we are experiencing reality. By repeating a mantra and visualizing we are trying to place a trigger in our brains that goes off when we encounter a dream. In my previous attempts at MILD I have not been emphasizing the part where I do a reality check and realize it is a dream enough. I was missing the point of the exercise and spending too much time recapping the dream or visualizing what I would do once lucid.
It is important to visualize yourself doing a reality check and realizing that you are dreaming. The reality check could be triggered by a dream sign, someone in your dream telling you to do a reality check, or anything. I'm going to try this out tonight and see if I get better results.
| Date | Dreams Remembered | Lucid Dreams |
|---|---|---|
| 7/26 | 0 | 0 |
| 7/27 | 3 fragments | 0 |
| 7/28 | 1 fragment | 0 |
| 7/29 | 1.5 | 1 partial |
| 7/30 | 1 | 0 |
| 7/31 | 3 | 0 |