How to Have More Lucid Dreams with Prospective Memory

Having good prospective memory is like hearing an alarm going off inside your head just when you need it. It shouts with an inaudible voice: REMEMBER TO DO THAT THING, NOW! It appears to come from nowhere, but in reality this is your unconscious returning a pre-arranged memory cue. Remarkably, as I'll show in a moment, it is often linked to an internal brain clock which boasts an accuracy that is almost to-the-minute.

Here, I'll show you how to improve your prospective memory and make your lucidity induction come more naturally. First, let's look at some common examples of prospective memory and see what you may already be doing.

 

Prospective Memory in Daily Life I think that a natural prospective memory is more powerful among people who are highly conscientious and organized. The more you consider or worry about the consequences of forgetting to do something, the more motivated you are to remember.

We inadvertently train ourselves in prospective memory when we make formal appointments without writing them down, plan to catch a plane which requires good time planning, or do the weekly food shop without a shopping list (with those pesky sporadic purchases we have to make an effort to remember).

Here are some more examples of prospective memory in my daily life, and what I've observed about the nature of this curious mental trait.

Taking a contraceptive pill - A lot of women are well practiced at this. At 6pm every day (or often just before) a mental alarm goes off in my head which reminds me to take my pill within the essential 3-hour window. I never programmed this alarm intentionally, it just happened after years of having a real alarm go off on my phone. Eventually I began pre-empting the phone alarm so I no longer needed it anymore. "Take your pill!" Says the little voice in my head. Sometimes I wake up in the night thinking "S

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