Thread: Why do we not realize the randomness/weirdness of our dreams.

I agree that we are not used to question our reality in waking life, we just accept it, and then we do the same in our dreams.

Adding some daytime awareness training, where you do question your reality should help. Throughout the day, you stop whenever you remember and do ask yourself how you got there, trace your path to that point, think backwards what did you do just a minute ago and just before that and so on.

You also look around you and you notice details of your surroundings. You ask yourself if everything looks like it should, or if there are any differences from last time you looked.

You ask yourself "wow, is this a dream?" and you genuinly consider, that it could be a dream and you don't know for sure, untill you do a few reality checks. After this I usually say a little mantra "next time I'm dreaming, I realize I'm dreaming." I used to say "Next time I'm dreaming, I look at my hands and realize I'm dreaming", which is a classic mantra+RC from Castanedas book.

This genuine belief that we could be in a dream is easier to do after you have already experienced some vivid lucid dream, but it may work on excitement, enthusiasm, and wondering alone, as it did for me with my first few DILDs.

It also helps to think, that our reality could be just another dream, as Aborigines of Australia believed, and I think budhists believe that, or at least some of them.

RE: dream recall
if you write in your DJ everything, even if it's just a sentence or a fragment, your mind will get the message that dreams and remembering them is important to you and will help you with recall.

WILD class for awareness
Dream yoga by Sivason
classic RC+awareness technique + DJ

Happy dreams