Quote Originally Posted by Fuzzman View Post
I feel like these exercises are going to be fairly difficult for someone who doesn't have any experience with their dreams. I've had a few LDs and for me it's pretty challenging to convince myself or get in the right mindset of things being dreamlike, but I guess maybe with practice it would get easier.
That's part of the reason I started with "realer than real". You don't need to have become lucid in a dream to just get really interested in and amazed by an object. Then when you add in the concept that all reality checks can ultimately fail, we're slowly creating the lucid mindset. By day 4, I'm hoping that a non-dreamer will have a pretty good idea of what lucidity feels like. Then on day 5, we find out what we're actually doing. In theory, we should be able to build the whole thing from scratch, because as someone pointed out in yesterday's thread, we already have the pieces somewhere in consciousness.

Can you say anything else about the experience of disorienting? When did it begin, how long, did it go away, etc? I believe that too is part of the process. It tends to happen very quickly in a lucid dream, but there's a certain amount of disorientation and reorientation that occurs. I think false awakenings are reflections of that.

These exercises don't have to be done one at a time either. After you know them, do a minute or two of one, hit the desired mindset, go to the next, hit the desired mindset, and then you can start the new one already at a lucid "peak".