I don't mind the length of your writing but seen as its late for me and I haven't been very active anyway, I will probably be short in my reply at the moment.

The way you tried to induce dragons into dreaming is very similar to my successfully induced dream sign; incidentally, the only one to ever be successful. I think besides being mentally invested in something, we also have to be emotionally and symbolically invested in it too. Though the appearance of my artificial sign is not particularly common, how common it is fluctuates based on the media I've recently seen or made that is related in context but again my primary issue with it is that, besides how uncommon it still is and however likely I am to RC to it, it doesn't necessarily guarantee that I succeed in realising that I'm dreaming.

And reading that bit has made me realise that I have perhaps allowed myself to be too casual about my sign.

It was very interesting to read your experiments and especially what you said about memory and forgetting made sense to me. I really appreciate how you shared so much detail, too.

As I might have said previously on the thread, I don't have much of an expectation that I can get this type of stuff around totems to work, for me personally, but I don't think it's a waste of time for trying stuff out. I would say your experiments around the subject have had more structure than mine in general, which is probably a contributing factor to some measure of success; as you said, being mentally invested seems particularly relevant.