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Ive been triyng to LD for a couple months now but have seen little results which has been very discouraging i stopped thinking about LDing for about a month and here i am again!=] I have found many posts and have been intrigued by the ADA method or technique, just curious what steps and the way you have been approaching ADA.
Thanks in advance for any replies! ( I have already read KingYoshi's post on ADA, just looking to expand!)
Well, expanding on that post is hard because it tells you everything you need to know.
Starting ADA is very difficult as you usually have like 5 minutes of awareness every 2 hours. Just do it more and more and you'll get the hang of it :D
Yeah. There's only 1 additional tip i can give: don't get too obsessed with the level of awareness. Being able to keep it up all day long is at least as important. So try to find a level of awareness which you can maintain for a long time, then try to make that level higher by practicing it and by taking sessions of high-level awareness.
ADA itself could do with some clarifying. ADA is not really at first about noticing everything around you. When you are beginning you don't have to notice what everyone is doing, where shadows are, how lights casts across things, smells, how your clothes feel on you, how gravity is affecting you, what you are thinking, what you are holding, where you are, how you got there, etc.
It gets too much, and eventually discourages you when you can't do it all and it feels like too much, and then you give up and forget it.
What I was told to do, and what is working for me so far, is just doing things related to your body. Be aware of your position: are you sitting or standing up? Is anything touching your body? Next, feel the cushions in your shoes, how they feel when you walk. Then your clothes, how they rub against your body and how loose/tight they are. The notice your breathing, how the air goes in your nose, down to your lungs, feel them expand, then breath out.
Notice these for as long as you can for about 4 days to a week, then upscale it. Make sure you do it often enough, then upscale, don't just wait 5 days then upscale.
I am aware for about 10 minutes each hour, spread out into 1-2 minute segments, as I get distracted or I have to do something. Just do it as often as you can, it's only a good thing, you can't overdo it, but not doing enough only slows your progress.
So far for me, I have been at it for 5 days, and my dream vividness has gone up, as well as the amount of dreams.
Basically, the idea is to make it a habit, so you do it often enough to do it without thinking or having to remind yourself. Eventually you will not exactly do this in a dream, as reality checks work, its more, when you get into a dream you will feel the difference to waking life.
This is why ADA is better than RCs. They rely on you remembering to do them, while dreaming. ADA only needs for you to enter a dream. We all feel in a dream, all the time, thus we will insta-realize the difference.
I like to take notice of where my center of awareness is. Where am I carrying my point of view? Am I in my eyes? Am I in the computer screen I'm looking at? When I am trying to be extra aware, I try to carry myself right behind my head, almost like I am standing behind myself watching everything I do.
I also like to try to push my awareness outward around me. I try to think of my surroundings as an extension of myself or my body. I think of my chair as part of my body. I can feel it from the inside out. I think of the air around me and the room the way I would think of my skin. It is a shell extending out from myself.
It is hard to explain. You really have to try it to understand.