Thread: The "how The Hell Did I Get Here?" Method

What do you mean by "being aware in the present moment" exercises? They sound good, can you elaborate on that please?

I think Kaluc's referring to the idea that you pay more attention to real-life. For instyance, stop for a moment and listen to the many sounds and background noises, or notice the colours and objects you can see, etc... Just, pay more attention to your surroundings, and contemplate how different they'd be if you were in a dream.

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I think Kaluc's referring to the idea that you pay more attention to real-life. For instyance, stop for a moment and listen to the many sounds and background noises, or notice the colours and objects you can see, etc... Just, pay more attention to your surroundings, and contemplate how different they'd be if you were in a dream.
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Ok that's pretty much what I thought it was. Thanks.

Originally Posted by The

I think Kaluc's referring to the idea that you pay more attention to real-life. For instyance, stop for a moment and listen to the many sounds and background noises, or notice the colours and objects you can see, etc... Just, pay more attention to your surroundings, and contemplate how different they'd be if you were in a dream.
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Yeah. Here's another way to put it:
You know how when you're walking around in waking life, you're just kind of drifting, perhaps thinking about what you're going to have for lunch, or thinking about the paper you've been writing, etc? In your dreams, however, you're focused. You only worry about what's immediately at hand- the present moment. The idea is to give that kind of attention to your waking life. So basically you treat your waking life as a "waking dream" (as the Dream Yogis call it). Ideally you would do this 24/7.

However, it is still helpful to do "concrete" reality checks, as I call them, in certain situations. Like the ones you described. So combine the two techniques and you should be setting yourself up for success, I think. That what I do anyway .

BTW, how has it been going so far?