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The Dreams of a Man Asleep for Three Weeks

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This was a really enjoyable read - thank you for posting. I've always had difficulty remembering my dreams after waking, so I'm almost jealous of the amount of detail and realism he was able to retain, but then again, I guess 3 weeks of nothing but dreaming would do that

Everyone is different. When I was young, I was a natural lucid dreamer and had substantial recall. I wrote tons of my dreams down. There wasn't a time I thought this was unusual until many years later in school after my recall declined. When I reached high school, a teacher had explained the concept of lucid dreaming to a class that seemed skeptical. There was one other student aside from me that experienced them. In…

It's interesting that you mention your recall increases when you're learning things.

I've recently started learning and practicing new music, and when I focus, fragments of old dreams just randomly appear in my head.

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