Methods to use during the day to achieve awarensess in a dream ?

[Hontoni]

Hi, i was wondering what method could be used during the day to achieve awareness in a dream ? So far i only heard of Reality checks,but is there another one ? Thanks! H

[Martijn0162]

All day awareness. You can read something about it on this forum too

[Forg]

http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...roach-ada.html

[Hontoni]

Thank you both for the techniques

[CNGB]

There are several different techniques you can use to "wake yourself up" during a dream. I'm a big believer in reality checks, but I also believe that you should combine them with other techniques--WILD, MILD, DEILD, WBTB, etc. You can find tutorials of them on here, or you can search them on Google or Bing or whatever you prefer. Recently I've been increasing my self-awareness, which is pretty fundamental anyway. You should find ADA (All Day Awareness), which has already been mentioned on here, and have a go at that. Or you can figure out your own way. Remember that just because something works for everyone else does not mean that it will work for you. A popular RC, for example, is to push your fingers through your hands--but I've never had much luck with that one.

[Hontoni]

There are several different techniques you can use to "wake yourself up" during a dream. I'm a big believer in reality checks, but I also believe that you should combine them with other techniques--WILD, MILD, DEILD, WBTB, etc. You can find tutorials of them on here, or you can search them on Google or Bing or whatever you prefer. Recently I've been increasing my self-awareness, which is pretty fundamental anyway. You should find ADA (All Day Awareness), which has already been mentioned on here, and have a go at that. Or you can figure out your own way. Remember that just because something works for everyone else does not mean that it will work for you. A popular RC, for example, is to push your fingers through your hands--but I've never had much luck with that one. what method do you recommend if i cant do WBTB ? that one is a pain in the ass for me, i for some reason cant do it, sleep 4 hours and then wake up and hang around for even 5 minutes is too much.I just go back to bed every single time. Ive tried the MILD already,with no success so far i know that one takes a while to program the mind.

[Forg]

WBTB till you can do it. Lucid dreaming without WBTB is really hard when you just began with the skill, even a lot of quite skilled lucid dreamers need WBTB to have lucid dreams on a regular basis.

[Hontoni]

WBTB till you can do it. Lucid dreaming without WBTB is really hard when you just began with the skill, even a lot of quite skilled lucid dreamers need WBTB to have lucid dreams on a regular basis. Ok, but lets just say that one day theres no more electricity and for good, and theres no more alarm clocks and no more cell phones/ipods etc,what method would you advise ?

[VagalTone]

To understand that the way we react to our thoughts and emotions, and label our waking life perceptions is just the same mechanism that keeps us ensnared at night. Imagine if we were always dreaming, how would we know we were dreaming?

[Forg]

Ok, but lets just say that one day theres no more electricity and for good, and theres no more alarm clocks and no more cell phones/ipods etc,what method would you advise ? I would WBTB with a mantra/autosuggestion . You could use the Gravity RC, mindfulness or ADA.

[FOATL]

dude....start taking a random nap on your day off...... and practice strengthening your prospective memory by giving yourself tasks to remember to do later in the day.... then when you get ready to take your nap, give yourself the prospective memory task of: I need to do a reality check in a ten minutes...... when you dream....you might remember you need to do a reality check in ten minutes.....you might then look at your watch and not be able to read the time....lol.....have fun!

[Hontoni]

dude....start taking a random nap on your day off...... and practice strengthening your prospective memory by giving yourself tasks to remember to do later in the day.... then when you get ready to take your nap, give yourself the prospective memory task of: I need to do a reality check in a ten minutes...... when you dream....you might remember you need to do a reality check in ten minutes.....you might then look at your watch and not be able to read the time....lol.....have fun! Interesting method. Thanks ill try that.

[PercyLucid]

All day awareness is great, indeed. Reality checks are important and dream incubation will help. Daydream your dream and visualize it clearly, especially at night

[Hontoni]

All day awareness is great, indeed. Reality checks are important and dream incubation will help. Daydream your dream and visualize it clearly, especially at night how am i supposed to daydream ? I read a little about it but i dont remember ever doing such a thing.

[Sageous]

^^ You've never daydreamed, Hontoni? I'm not sure that is even possible... surely your mind has wandered off to other places now and then? Daydreaming is not a skill to be learned, but a state of mind we all regularly encounter, and a state that you ought to be able to tap as PercyLucid mentions above without trying very hard. You might be attaching more definition to the term "daydreaming" than you need to, I think.

[Hontoni]

^^ You've never daydreamed, Hontoni? I'm not sure that is even possible... surely your mind has wandered off to other places now and then? Daydreaming is not a skill to be learned, but a state of mind we all regularly encounter, and a state that you ought to be able to tap as PercyLucid mentions above without trying very hard. You might be attaching more definition to the term "daydreaming" than you need to, I think. Maybe i do daydream but i may have misunderstood the term and definitions.how would you explain it in a simple way ?

[Sageous]

^^ Hmm. This is no slight on you, I promise, but describing a daydream is to me akin to describing a sunny day. I guess a daydream is simply your mind filling in the doldrums of life's down-times with something interesting, that something being the product of your imagination. When you daydream, you are simply letting your imagination wander. That wandering could be as minimal as simply listing things you'd really like to be doing other than listen to the unending drone emanating from this boring teacher/boss/loved one. It could be as complex as inventing entire worlds to which you can escape when waking life simply becomes to dull to endure. What, functionally, is a daydream? It is the invasion of your unconscious (fueled by your imagination) into the quiet, mundane moments of your waking-life day. In a sense, it is a visit by your dreaming mind, often with your conscious permission or assistance, to your waking-life existence. You can certainly daydream at will, but it really does work best when you let go and allow your unconscious to create on its own. So, when PercyLucid suggests that you daydream your dream, he might be suggesting that you open the door to your dreaming mind, during waking-life, to give your imagination a boost and create -- with unconscious input -- an image of the dream you are hoping to have tonight when you are really asleep. So, functionally, a daydream can just be anything from an intellectual sidebar from daily minutiae on your part all the way up to a full-blown-Walter-Mittian intrusion by your dreaming-mind into your waking-life, bringing you to imagined places and events that are certainly not happening in your waking-life reality, but you wouldn't mind seeing them occur. I hope some of that made sense. If it didn't, I hope someone with a clearer sense of this stuff climbs on board...

[Hontoni]

^^ Hmm. This is no slight on you, I promise, but describing a daydream is to me akin to describing a sunny day. I guess a daydream is simply your mind filling in the doldrums of life's down-times with something interesting, that something being the product of your imagination. When you daydream, you are simply letting your imagination wander. That wandering could be as minimal as simply listing things you'd really like to be doing other than listen to the unending drone emanating from this boring teacher/boss/loved one. It could be as complex as inventing entire worlds to which you can escape when waking life simply becomes to dull to endure. What, functionally, is a daydream? It is the invasion of your unconscious (fueled by your imagination) into the quiet, mundane moments of your waking-life day. In a sense, it is a visit by your dreaming mind, often with your conscious permission or assistance, to your waking-life existence. You can certainly daydream at will, but it really does work best when you let go and allow your unconscious to create on its own. So, when PercyLucid suggests that you daydream your dream, he might be suggesting that you open the door to your dreaming mind, during waking-life, to give your imagination a boost and create -- with unconscious input -- an image of the dream you are hoping to have tonight when you are really asleep. So, functionally, a daydream can just be anything from an intellectual sidebar from daily minutiae on your part all the way up to a full-blown-Walter-Mittian intrusion by your dreaming-mind into your waking-life, bringing you to imagined places and events that are certainly not happening in your waking-life reality, but you wouldn't mind seeing them occur. I hope some of that made sense. If it didn't, I hope someone with a clearer sense of this stuff climbs on board... Thanks Sageous for the explanation.Yeah maybe i do daydream,but its extremely rare,maybe once in a blue moon,my mind is always occupied with something,reading studies projects cooking for food and cleaning after myself and whatnot. Anyhow, ive found a few guides on how to daydream and ill follow them.

[Forg]

When you're cooking, you're not thinking about anything else? You're mind is only with cooking? I think that a lot of people would want a piece of your ability to do that .