Revisiting Topic: Dreams

A while back, during our dreams unit, one of the TED presentation mentioned keeping a record of your dreams in order to increase the frequency of lucid dreaming. I had started one, kept it up for a couple months, and decided to see how the months of recording compared to those where I was not. During the recording stage, while I had only experienced one lucid dream in those months, my dreams had become more logical, and I often had some level of awareness within them. While the first week had seemed a bit rough, after a while it was much easier to remember the dreams I had when I woke up each morning, and quickly fell into a rhythm. In addition to this, I began to see parallels between my dreams, such as reoccurring people, ideas, or places. However, when I had stopped recording, most of this had disappeared. While I was often aware that I had dreamed when I woke up, I could very rarely remember what of, or if it was anything I had seen before. Also, the awareness that I had in dreams in much rarer now, and they seem to be more disconnected than before. While this does vary from person to person, it was interesting to see how it had changed my dream cycle, and how quickly my mind had reverted back to old ways once I had put a pause on the record.