Fleeting glimpse: Mind split memory re-call.

[wisp]

Sampson,
I know exactly what your talking about. I've had "essense" of dreams before I began having fairly regular dream recall.
Just before dream recall started happening for me, this "essence" factor seemed to be like a cloud or mist at a higher plane in my mind, or maybe in the atmosphere. I have a feeling it's connected with the aura or some kind of energy form.

I get this sense or essense from the time I wake up. The feeling fades, but I've been able to hold on to it a little longer with practice. This practice has paid off in the same way you have described. I will get glimpses through the day.Only on occassion will anything come to me in memory, but the sense or feel is there.

One thing that has helped is I don't write my dreams down immediately anymore. I hold on and ponder them for longer periods before getting them on paper. I take the chance of losing them that way, but it seems jotting them down limits the added detail that can be remembered later.It's like the notion it's "in writing", therefore,binding. It's a little block I have on it, I know. I'm always looking for memory recall techniques. It seems the more I relax with it, the better the result.So far,the best thing to do is talk about dreams with others. For instance, in this forum, and.. if I have a dream with someone in it, I tell that person.

It has to do with an emotional or feel response for me.For instance, a consistent thing I have in dreams is a feel for a place in time. Another one, is a feel who this dream character is in the dream, though the character doesn't look the same as in waking life.

One instance of spontaneous recall was when someone on the internet wrote her dream. It involved a black box falling down from the air. While reading her dream,it was as if an aura or cloud came down and planted my previous night's dream in my head. My dream wasn't similar to this woman's.

[Jarthur]

hey Sampson,

The experience you had is something familiar, I think, with a lot of people. If you examine the dreams you recorded the morning of the day you had it, I think you'll find one that is an odd, downgraded version of the same experience.

Personally anyway, I found that when I diligently recorded dreams, regardless of how silly or insignificant they seemed at the time, it will sometimes cause what seems to be a subconscious chain reaction. You're mulling it over unconsciously until at some point, eureka,your mind comes up with a more accurate version of the originating experience, possibly set off as you say, by a trigger.

In fact, if you're really good at remembering and recording dreams, you'll notice there are several versions of the same original experience dreamed sequentially, each one a more downgraded or metaphoric version of the previous one with the most recent one, just before waking, seemingly rediculous and almost completely unfathomable as far as meaning goes. I say most recent because that is how they are remembered.

In fact, what's happening, I think,  is that several levels of yourself are simultaneously dreaming these progressively downgraded versions of something that is happening at that "moment". It's as if the self is trying to hide and reveal at the same time. Though of course it's a matter of necessity. Something that is happening in a relatively timeless zone where there is no sensory input as understood by the physical self can't be understood or interpreted directly.

Yet still, it seems as though the dreaming, physical self is deliberately making a mockery of an experience that was originally suffused in light or possibly very important in terms of understanding your everyday life, while at least conserving a remnant of it. This in itself seems to, potentially, have a lot of meaning.

[Sampson]

Hi All,
Have any of you ever had that feeling during the day when for just a fleeting moment you get a glimpse of a dream memory from the previous night or past?

I occasionally have moments during the day when for just a fraction of a second I remember a splinter of a dream that I had no re-call of upon wakening, it's as if I get the full essence of the dream condensed into a tenth of a second and no sooner has it impressed itself upon my memory it is gone.

The feeling I am left with afterwards is one of frustration at not being able to fully re-call the dream or memory and great surprise and curiosity at the fact the memory just seemed to pop up and make itself apparent without any prompting.

I consider my own dream re-call very good, I keep a dream diary and am able to remember what I think is everything that I have dreamt the night before, that is until I managed to dredge up and hold onto one of these surprising distant and murky dream memories a short while ago.

About three weeks go at the weekend I had gone shopping with my wife, as we made our way around the various parts of the supermarket we came to the frozen section where they keep all of the vegetables, chips and seafood etc, and it was here that something caught my eye.

There were some frozen squid in one part of the freezer unit, as soon as I saw them the memories of a dream I hadn't remembered up until that point came flooding back into my head in picture form.

Bear in mind that I had made my dream diary entry for the day and thought that I had re-called everything that I could remember.

What this actually dredged up was as follows; I remembered being in what looked like an empty shop looking outside, the shop had large glass windows, in fact the whole of the walls appeared to be glass, I could see a bland street scene outside where there was no activity.

In one corner of this room hovering about three feet above the floor was what I can only describe as a huge mass of light pink tentacles?

The tentacles were quite short and were writhing about in a slow hypnotic way, the size of this thing was quite large and in comparison to the room I would have estimated that it was about four feet high with a depth and width of about two or three feet, it's overall shape was oval.

I remembered not being afraid of this thing but being quite entranced by it whilst at the same time feeling nauseous and quite sick, there didn't appear to be any communication between either of us.

The longer I looked at it the more I felt drawn to it until I could eventually see that the tentacles were in fact fractals swirling and spinning about, I seemed to be getting closer and closer to this being, that was the last thing that I can re-call from the brief vision.

I was really surprised that I managed to actually hang onto this one fleeting glimpse and manage to see every part of the memory for what it was, furthermore and as I previously mentioned I thought that I had re-called all of my dreams for the previous night, and this one had almost slipped by unnoticed?

The only explanation I can think of for the moment is that it could be down to the mind split effect (something I have experienced before) I believe that it could have been an astral projection that I wasn't wholly conscious of, the memories were downloaded to the brain but weren't strong or vivid enough to be re-called immediately the following morning.

This is where the 'Trigger' comes in, in this case the squid at the supermarket. This all leaves me thinking that the brain probably harbours huge amounts of these experiences but it is just not possible to re-call them all due to their hazy and deep rooted nature.

The mass of tentacles could have been astral wildlife or a Neg perhaps? I'd probably go with the astral wildlife idea, the being did not seem to be too threatening and I have read that some astral wildlife often take on the form of squid and octopus like creatures as well as spiders, insects and snakes.

Anyway thanks for listening, I'd be really interested to hear stories from anybody else who has managed to capture and re-call any of those fleeting dream memories.

Cheers

S