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The Prospective Memory Course:
A Multisensory Approach
by: ThreeRainbows
5/29/16
I. What is Prospective Memory?
Prospective memory, quite simply, is the ability to remember to remember. For example, if we need to take a pill at 5:00 PM, we use our prospective memory to remember to take this pill at the correct time. It is future-oriented, where as typical memory is past-oriented. In lucid dreaming, we use prospective memory to remember that we are dreaming, or to remember our RC triggers. However, in a society that relies on phones for alarms, GPSs for directions, and computers for everything else, we have very little "need" to do any of this remembering ourselves anymore. It is unfortunate, because this skill is pivotal for the success of lucid dreaming.
II. Purpose: Why does the lucid dreamer want to build prospective memory, and why should there be a course devoted to this topic?
Building prospective memory empowers the lucid dreamer on many levels. Useful for the beginner and advanced dreamer alike, developing this ability sets a foundation that directly increases the liklihood of DILDs (often the first stepping stone for the new lucid dreamer), as well as MILDs (a more advanced technique). Prospective memory affects our ability to have a DILD by aiding us in the performance of successful reality checks, both inside and outside the dream-state. By questioning our reality in real life through the use of prospective memory-based RCs, we are more likely to do the same in a dream - thus increasing our chances of a DILD. It also improves the success rate of the MILD by enhancing our ability to remember to remember. This will allow us to remember the MILD mantra we can use while falling asleep: "I will remember that I am dreaming," during the dream-state - causing lucidity.
Furthermore, building prospective memory allows us to increase our effectiveness at achieving lucid dreams by increasing our all day awareness. When we perform a list of well designed reality checks, we engage all of our senses. We may trigger a reality check visually (everytime we "see" something), aurally (when we "hear" something), kinestetically (everytime we "do" something), etc. This increases our chances of becoming lucid by giving us more opportunities to trigger in-dream RCs than usual (we will have practice at RCing in response to a sight, a sound, a feeling, etc., where as the typical reality check often focuses only on seeing a trigger). We can even create RCs that appeal to our most proficient way of learning (visually, aurally, etc.), thus helping our personal ability to remember. Additionally, our RCs do not have to be limited to the traditional "5 senses." We can push our reality checks to include emotional or mental pre-requisites, or just about anything that enters our field of perception.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, prospective memory is essential for building what Stephen Laberge and Howard Rheingold call, in their book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, a "critical-reflective attitude" (1990). This is the questioning mindset that allows for genuine and meaningful RCs, and it is this skill that truly affects our ability to lucid dream regularly. By specially planning RCs to include unusual, but not completely uncommon, criteria, we fight against our natural inclination to think we are always awake, and push our boundaries of what we consider to be "awake-only" material.
A course on developing our prospective memory can help in our pursuit of lucidity, and much moreso than without such a resource. Performing typical reality checks may get us only so far; guidance can help us to learn what makes reality checks effective, how to design them uniquely for ourselves, and offer us an organized approach to building up our skill. This way, it is not so much of a one-time course, but a sustainable, routine-based method of incorporating reality checks, and the critical-reflective mindset, into our daily lives.
I'm not sure where to post this. Or if you even want to use it. But... I wrote it. So... here you go!
The Prospective Memory Course:
A Multisensory Approach
by: ThreeRainbows
5/29/16
I. What is Prospective Memory?
Prospective memory, quite simply, is the ability to remember to remember. For example, if we need to take a pill at 5:00 PM, we use our prospective memory to remember to take this pill at the correct time. It is future-oriented, where as typical memory is past-oriented. In lucid dreaming, we use prospective memory to remember that we are dreaming, or to remember our RC triggers. However, in a society that relies on phones for alarms, GPSs for directions, and computers for everything else, we have very little "need" to do any of this remembering ourselves anymore. It is unfortunate, because this skill is pivotal for the success of lucid dreaming.
II. Purpose: Why does the lucid dreamer want to build prospective memory, and why should there be a course devoted to this topic?
Building prospective memory empowers the lucid dreamer on many levels. Useful for the beginner and advanced dreamer alike, developing this ability sets a foundation that directly increases the liklihood of DILDs (often the first stepping stone for the new lucid dreamer), as well as MILDs (a more advanced technique). Prospective memory affects our ability to have a DILD by aiding us in the performance of successful reality checks, both inside and outside the dream-state. By questioning our reality in real life through the use of prospective memory-based RCs, we are more likely to do the same in a dream - thus increasing our chances of a DILD. It also improves the success rate of the MILD by enhancing our ability to remember to remember. This will allow us to remember the MILD mantra we can use while falling asleep: "I will remember that I am dreaming," during the dream-state - causing lucidity.
Furthermore, building prospective memory allows us to increase our effectiveness at achieving lucid dreams by increasing our all day awareness. When we perform a list of well designed reality checks, we engage all of our senses. We may trigger a reality check visually (everytime we "see" something), aurally (when we "hear" something), kinestetically (everytime we "do" something), etc. This increases our chances of becoming lucid by giving us more opportunities to trigger in-dream RCs than usual (we will have practice at RCing in response to a sight, a sound, a feeling, etc., where as the typical reality check often focuses only on seeing a trigger). We can even create RCs that appeal to our most proficient way of learning (visually, aurally, etc.), thus helping our personal ability to remember. Additionally, our RCs do not have to be limited to the traditional "5 senses." We can push our reality checks to include emotional or mental pre-requisites, or just about anything that enters our field of perception.
Lastly, and perhaps most importantly, prospective memory is essential for building what Stephen Laberge and Howard Rheingold call, in their book Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, a "critical-reflective attitude" (1990). This is the questioning mindset that allows for genuine and meaningful RCs, and it is this skill that truly affects our ability to lucid dream regularly. By specially planning RCs to include unusual, but not completely uncommon, criteria, we fight against our natural inclination to think we are always awake, and push our boundaries of what we consider to be "awake-only" material.
A course on developing our prospective memory can help in our pursuit of lucidity, and much moreso than without such a resource. Performing typical reality checks may get us only so far; guidance can help us to learn what makes reality checks effective, how to design them uniquely for ourselves, and offer us an organized approach to building up our skill. This way, it is not so much of a one-time course, but a sustainable, routine-based method of incorporating reality checks, and the critical-reflective mindset, into our daily lives.
via Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views - Attaining Lucidity http://ift.tt/1TRxZrk
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