Thread: Color as a Dream Sign

So this thought just occurred to me after I noticed that a few objects in my dreams last night were the color blue. I had read that people had dreams that showed a prominent color but never really experienced it before.

What I thought of when I woke up was, could you use color as a dream sign? I don't mean something that's just out of place or weird that it makes you lucid, but just something that when you see it you RC or be aware.

I put this into practice for about an hour after waking by noticing everything around me that's blue. I realized there's so many things that I've not really noticed that are blue and thought that it would be useful if I tried doing it all day. Each time I saw it I asked myself if I was dreaming and observed my surroundings.

This seems more useful than using an object as a dream sign because it's so prominent. If you pick some object, you're waiting around all day for that object to come by, and even if it does you may miss it, ruining your practice. With colors, there's so many things that you can use that even if you miss one, another is surely to come by sooner than later and you can just use that. Also, unlike a chosen object that may NEVER show up in a dream no matter how much you focus on it, a color seems more likely to appear in a dream.

So with this, every time you see the color, you can use it like a regular dream sign with any day technique you're using. With MILD's you can recite your mantra, with ADA it can trigger you to be aware, or if you're just using RC's you can do a RC whenever you see the color.

My main concern with this is that it may show up too often that you end up just ignoring it after a while but I haven't tried it enough to know. I think as long as each time I end up wanting to ignore it I just force myself to focus on it anyway.


I'm going to keep trying it all day today and see how well I can keep it up but I'd like to hear what you guys think. Would this be useful, has anyone done this before?