Thread: Waking Habits?

I really question if I'm awake or not, based on the principle that dreams and reality both feel just as real as the other if we don't question it. I drink a glass of apple juice before bed some nights, just to help with vividness (although from my experiences, it doesn't help if you're trying to cram for exams or are really stressed out - it'll kill your recall even with the apple juice).

My goal is to do five or six reality checks a day, but it's been less recently, with school and all.

Oh, and I see you're relatively new, so welcome to Dreamviews! :3

I try to always stay in the moment of "now". I try to keep my attention on the task at hand and dont bother about other things. I get down to a really small scale when I mean "now" for example, when I am walking I keep my attention on walking and moving my hands and not on my destination or anything else. When I am eating, I keep my attention on the bites that I am about to consume and how I am holding it. This is how I increase awareness.



I also do the hand reality check.

Thanks!
So basically the message is to try to merge your conceptions of dreams and reality through questioning your surroundings?

Exactly.

In the shower and when I'm driving, I interpret my dreams from the previous night. I also plan and daydream about what I'd like to do in my next lucid dream.

Originally Posted by sisyphus

I also plan and daydream about what I'd like to do in my next lucid dream.

I've been daydreaming about the same thing I want to do for the past month... I can't seem to get lucid enough to do it at the moment.

Originally Posted by elucid

I try to always stay in the moment of "now". I try to keep my attention on the task at hand and dont bother about other things. I get down to a really small scale when I mean "now" for example, when I am walking I keep my attention on walking and moving my hands and not on my destination or anything else. When I am eating, I keep my attention on the bites that I am about to consume and how I am holding it. This is how I increase awareness.



I also do the hand reality check.

yeah narrating your life when you have the chance is very similar and helpful. 'i am walking through the woods' etc and just explain to yourself what your senses are doing at the time

Originally Posted by elucid

I try to always stay in the moment of "now". I try to keep my attention on the task at hand and dont bother about other things. I get down to a really small scale when I mean "now" for example, when I am walking I keep my attention on walking and moving my hands and not on my destination or anything else. When I am eating, I keep my attention on the bites that I am about to consume and how I am holding it. This is how I increase awareness.


I also do the hand reality check.

Definitely, being as in the moment as possible is extremely useful to me. Just turn off the autopilot, stop multitasking without even realizing it, and focus on one thing at a time. Just learn the feeling of waking consciousness, it is quite different from a dream. I often keep a mental log of where I have been and what I have been doing each day. Most of my LDs recently have occurred when I question how I came to be in a location and can't come up with an answer.

Also, I am a science geek as well. We have no idea why we dream. For all we know, dreams could be the just as real as "waking" life. Waking life is just more coherent, elongated, and seems more "real". I think a lot about how dreams could be reality, and reality could be a dream. A hot topic in the physics community today is parallel universes. Perhaps the dream world is a parallel universe, with different sets of physical laws. Right now, 4 known forces are effecting me (as well as two that we completely don't understand: the influence of Dark Matter and Energy): Gravity, Electromagnetism, and strong/ weak Nuclear force. Gravity can be overcome in a dream (i've flown =D) as well as strong Nuclear force (that holds atoms together) because you can breathe through you nose of pass your hand through your palm. I hypothesize that it could be a parallel universe where the physics are nothing like they are here, but can be manipulated to the liking of a conscious being (okay I am going to stop there, this is starting to get a bit out of hand).

Lastly, this was in a post recently, practice not only awareness during waking life but detachment from what you are experiencing. A dream is like a very enveloping movie. You are along for the ride and could easily never realize it.

Question EVERYTHING before you.