Thread: Trying Gravity RC for several weeks

I've only been using the alarm for 1 hour at a time. Found an app that would do 60 repetitions of a 1 minute timer (2 minute timer today). I still try to keep the RC as constant as possible though, just not always with the timer.

Originally Posted by Zangetsu

I've only been using the alarm for 1 hour at a time. Found an app that would do 60 repetitions of a 1 minute timer (2 minute timer today). I still try to keep the RC as constant as possible though, just not always with the timer.

I did something similar like this. I had an alarm go off with a minute snooze. I wasn't trying to RC every time that I heard it go off, but have thoughts about dreaming every time it went off. It was working well, but I got a consistent headache after 3 weeks, and then my sleep schedule went to crap. It has been a while, but I think I am going to try that again. I got to a point where I could move the timer to 5 minutes apart and not lose thoughts about dreams at all, and I think it has helped me a lot since then as well. My mind sort of reverts back to LDing at all times and is always thinking about it somewhere.

Originally Posted by Sensei

I did something similar like this. I had an alarm go off with a minute snooze. I wasn't trying to RC every time that I heard it go off, but have thoughts about dreaming every time it went off. It was working well, but I got a consistent headache after 3 weeks, and then my sleep schedule went to crap. It has been a while, but I think I am going to try that again. I got to a point where I could move the timer to 5 minutes apart and not lose thoughts about dreams at all, and I think it has helped me a lot since then as well. My mind sort of reverts back to LDing at all times and is always thinking about it somewhere.

I actually got the idea for minute timers from your Secrets thread (btw merely reading that thread pretty much broke my lucid dry spell a month ago, thanks!). Honestly your way is probably the best way to do timers i.e. the dream thoughts (ideal would probably be smallest amount of LD thoughts that you could have and still produce an effect). I know what you mean about how taxing it can be on your brain, almost even stressful. I think the bad thing about the way I was doing it was that my RC would've probably ended up being predicated on the existence of the timer, although I did kinda get the fluid dream thoughts between the timer like you describe. It's definitely an interesting thing to consider, may even be worth some experimentation (did I hear someone say Timer Induced Lucid Dream??? )

Also, brief update on my Gravity RC status (not that anyone cares, this is mostly for me ): I've more or less got an idea now of what to observe when doing the RC. I usually fixate on any normal force I'm currently experiencing, and I've also been trying to get an idea of my arms' gravity since they are usually in the air or holding something. Today I also was able to somewhat perceive the gravity of my head and how much effort it was actually taking to hold it upright (no big head jokes thank you ). Hopefully this combination of different 'expressions' of gravity will give me a more diverse RC.

As for consistency, it's getting more and more frequent that I remember to RC, at least when I'm doing something in my normal routine. When I do something engaging or different from normal, I rarely remember to RC at all, but I'm thinking that's normal for this stage.

No more interesting dream activity so far. I'm still doing small WBTBs on my sleep-in days, and I'm hopeful that will increase my chances. Not that it really matters, since this RC is all about the ingrained unconscious RCing, but a gravity-induced LD could only help my chances even if I kinda cheated for it, right?