Thread: Switching to different approach: will question reality more

I do at times dream about work, although more often lately it has been about a new job not my current one, which makes sense given my job search. Alas my major problem right now is dream recall. That also makes sense given the amount of stress in my life, among others leading to less sleep. Even when I remember dreams they tend to be more often than not from the first or second sleep cycle and only rarely from the longer REM later in the morning. I do seem to be making good progress on awareness front throughout the day, although being hard on myself means that I tend to be disappointed about not checking at times when I should and going on autopilot or getting distracted. However, there are a lot of successes also: I just a moment ago was sitting in the cafeteria and focusing on food and my iPhone, when I remembered to be more aware, and actually study my surroundings for a while looking for anything weird, and that's good.

EDIT: Interesting thing that happened Saturday - yesterday - today: On Saturday I walked into the living room and saw that my younger son was progressing in the Wii exercise game using my Mii. I got a bit upset about that, telling him to not use my Mii because I want my progress to reflect my progress. My husband was there, and he took the Wii remote and exited the game. Yesterday I exercised with Wii, but noticed that my progress did not reflect the place at which I had noticed my son having left off. This made me question whether this was a waking memory or a memory of a dream. Today I remembered, and called my husband during lunch break to verify. He confirmed that this had actually happened in waking life, so the Wii must just not have saved that progress (which was good that it did not). It was interesting to me that for a while there I realized that this memory could just as easily have been from a vivid dream, and that the only way to differentiate whether it was a dream or waking memory at this point was to verify with my husband who had also been there if it was a waking memory.

Edit 2: I wrote in a reply to a dreamviews thread about a mirror metaphorically, and moments later I found myself making faces at myself in a mirror above the sink in the bathroom. Was this a dream mirror caused by association to previous mirror comment? I check reality. No the mirror is real, and I am really weird making faces at myself - posh! It was worth checking though.