Thread: Train your memory, who wants to join?

Originally Posted by ExoByte

May I ask though, would this be more suited for the Research Team section? You're doing this as a memory exercise more than a lucid air correct? It works both ways, so its your call!

Great idea!

Well, it is an exercise from EWLD to improve on your prerequisites for MILD and that's my main reason for posting it here. Also, I think more people read it when it's in this section than in the research area. Therefore I would prefer when the topic stays here

Originally Posted by Clairity

This is going to be harder than I thought! I do remember to do RCs.. they just aren't done the FIRST time I do/see the object.

My results from today:

I scored myself 2 out of 4.

Well done and thanks for the report.
I see you scored the same targets I did

Here are the targets for today, Wednesday:

I'll do an RC next time:

• I turn on a television or radio
• I see a vegetable
• I see a red car
• I handle money

Good luck!

Originally Posted by roguext22

lol .. you didnt understood my idea, sara... shame on me...
nevermind..

Please, explain me more if you can, I'm interested in what your idea really is! (maybe via PM or in a new thread?)

Extra info from LaBerge about this exercise:

"To successfully induce lucid dreams with MILD, you need to have certain capacities. First of all, if you can't reliably remember to carry out future intentions while awake, there is little chance that you will remember to do anything while asleep. So before attempting MILD, you need to prove to yourself that you can indeed remember to do things while awake. If you are like most people, you are used to relying on external reminders (e.g. grocery list, notes) and therefore need practice in remembering intentions using only your own mental power. This is an exercise to help you acquire the necessary skill to perform the MILD technique." (ELWD, p. 75)

I did those exercises a while ago, but only for 1 or 2 weeks... Well, I wasn't very good !
(I know, I should have kept going; I stopped only because it was quite easy for me to WILD, so I didn't really need to train another technique aimed at DILD)
There are some targets that are easy because they are "external": seeing or hearing something around you. If it happens when walking in the street with basically nothing else to do, it's easy to be aware.
But when the target is linked with yourself and your reactions: "the next time someone say my name" for example, I found it was very hard. I would reply and say hello automatically, and could not be "aware" until I was left alone again...

Yesterday, I did the traffic light one and the music one while driving. I must have looked like an idiot driving through traffic counting my fingers, plugging my nose, and still trying to steer.

So, how's it going with your memory?

I failed most of them today

• I turn on a television or radio --> only turned off consiously the TV several times (flat mates turned it on) but when I turned on my own radio, I forgot...
• I see a vegetable --> only on second view, 3 seconds after I realised that a tomato was also a vegetable
• I see a red car --> disputable, was unaware when walking outside, when I finally saw a red car and looked back, I had already passed 3 others.
• I handle money --> read 'dollar bill' in a book and did an RC instantly, but I guess that didn't count. When I paid for my groceries, I forgot about the money task.

Pff, this is really more difficult than I thought. I'll post tomorrows targets again in the morning There are some nice ones on the list (one of them is already a common RC though)

I Turn on a Television or Radio: I remembered to do this one.
I See a vegetable: This one, not so much.
I See a Red Car: Fortunately, there was one in the parking lot, and I happened to remember.
I handle Money: Believe it or not, I handled no money today...odd...

I turn on a television or radio:got it
I see a vegetable:failed I was eating a piece of broccoli and I forgot and didn't realize it untill 20 minutes later
I see a red car: got it
I handle money: got it

I would like to do this, though my internet access is limited. I will do them/report when I can.

That's very clever!!

I'm new to this forum, but i've been lucid dreaming since i was about 6 years old (that i can remember) but decreasingly trhough the years.

I've tried to do RC, but found no motivations. And this is totally cool! Thanks!

Appart from that, last week i got a watch that sounds every hour, and i keep that on even at night. Will do RCs whenever i hear it, even if i sleep (at least i'll try). So far i haven't heard my watch in any of my dreams, that i can recall.

I did all those things today and failed to RC at any of them I only remembered about RCing when I got home

perform a long reality check for 15min... not for few seconds.. lol
that would be little task..

and you people just do rc for few seconds and you forget about it for a day..

I'm so in!!! Can I suggest when you write the targets each day, to put them in bold writing or a different color... It's going to get hard to find them.

I always get funny looks when I do a nose RC

I tried this a while back, and it worked really well. Then I stopped (can't remember why)

A funny dream when doing this- I kept RCing in the dream, but lost lucidity. I was still doing the nose RC, however, and went around showing all my friends that I had this new ability to breathe through a plugged nose! XD

Originally Posted by Kyhaar

I always get funny looks when I do a nose RC

Hahaha yea.. I always wonder if people notice all these little things that I do through-out the day. Like plug my nose and try to breathe ?! and rub my hands and poke the insides all the time. I bet some people think I'm nervous or crazy or something! That's just hilarious Think I'm gonna make a thread about this actually..

Haha ive been meaning to copy those tasks out of EWLD, this is perfect. Thanx
~Lucas

Slacked off today, and managed a whopping zero out of four...

Damn...

I find it difficult to select the targets because I can't think of any specific objects I am likely to run into in my Dreams. Only scenes at best, but my Dreamscenes vary incredibly from night to night lately.

When I pick target objects I want to be sure that these objects are ones I am most likely to encounter in my Dreams.

- see a flower (complete)
- turn on a light (complete)
- see a pet or animal (half- took me 30 seconds to realise it)
- see myself in a mirror (failed)

2.5/4 (IMPROVEMENT!!!)

I am in for sure! My prospective memory sure could use a boost! I think this was a really good idea to organize.

I'll give this a shot for sure. It's nice to see some people have had dramatic success. Just to clarify though, An RC when you first see the target, failed if not noticed at first, thinking of doing an RC any other time you encounter the target after the first? Heh, I made it sound confusing, just want to get it right.

Originally Posted by bro

I'll give this a shot for sure. It's nice to see some people have had dramatic success. Just to clarify though, An RC when you first see the target, failed if not noticed at first, thinking of doing an RC any other time you encounter the target after the first? Heh, I made it sound confusing, just want to get it right.

Yeah, well, I'm 'cheating' a bit on that one too. If I miss the target the first time, I remind myself to hit it the NEXT time it occurs again. Usually with a stronger reminder in my head (usually some focussed visualisation about the target).

What counts for me, personally, is that the idea of doing an RC is triggered INSTANTLY from seeing/hearing/doing the intended actions. Like with the stairs, I had to re-do it 2 times yesterday, but finally it was so imprinted I got lucid on that one

Maybe it's a good idea to post your own 'how to improve' tips with your daily score, to get from a 2/4 to a 4/4 and eventually to a 10/10 or so

This technique really sounds like it would work. Especially the little detail of only doing an rc the first time you see the dreamsign! This is brillaint. I've read alot of books about memory and stuff and I really think this will be a very effective method to remember doing rc's in dreams. Because with this technique you seem to associate an object with a task, and that task is part of your global daily routine, gathering 4 dreamsigns. I'm going to try it out for sure and let you know on my progress.. thanks for the info.

im in!!! this sounds great! anyone got any lucid dreams so far with this?

Oh goody, I'll start this.

man this is harder than it sounds! Good practice though. let me think... how about...
next time I see a red car
next time I hear the doorbell ring
next time I talk to someone on the phone
next time I hear a song come on the radio