Thread: Anything else i should start practising?

Originally Posted by tasinios

in order for DILD to occur you need to do RCs in waking life and have a dream recall.

The purpose of the reality check itself is to check whether you're dreaming or not. You don't need to check if you're dreaming during the day in order to become lucid.

What the reality check technique figures is that the RCs will make you pay attention to your dreams and will transfer into your dreams because doing one is more important than anything you're dreaming of at the given moment. It's designed to work based that you'll make a very strong, specific intention to do a reality check while you're sleeping which most seem to miss.

The more important something is the easier is to remember. The problem with dreams is that they're highly suggestive, keeping your attention away from doing an RC unless doing one is more important than what you're dreaming of. The trick is, to get the dream to remind you to do an RC but associating your awareness during your dreams with dreaming. I'm still figuring out myself how to force these associations without them occurring naturally. It's a learning process. Some LDers like myself get their start by having a nightmare occur over and over again until finally they associate the nightmare with dreaming and become lucid, just like Pavlov's dogs associated the bell with a treat.

What you're recalling is what you were conscious of during the dream. So, in order to have dream recall you have to be conscious during the dream. Some say that it's possible to forget a lucid dream. This is possible, but only if the lucid dream didn't mean much to you. The more important something is, the easier it is to recall, so if you become lucid, it'll be easy to recall. So, dream recall is more a concern for remembering the dream you just had than becoming lucid in the future. Dream recall comes naturally with dream consciousness. So, don't worry about dream recall, just try to pay attention while you're dreaming.

Originally Posted by tasinios

For example you said that i have to pay attention while i am sleeping/dreaming.How can i achieve this.?

It's possible to have consciousness while you're sleeping. If it wasn't, then 8 hours of sleep would seem like a few seconds. The more you pay attention, the more conscious you are. The more conscious you are while you're sleeping, the longer the sleep will seem.