Thread: Train your memory, who wants to join?

Have to run for the bus, but here are the tasks for today...

Targets for Monday 26th of November

I will do a thorough Reality Check the NEXT TIME:

• I write anything down
  
• I feel pain
  
• I hear someone say my name
  
• I drink something

Imprint this list into your prospective memory and remember to check the FIRST time you hit each target.

Good luck!

PS: this is the last day I didn't put online, so maybe tomorrow I'll start with some extra targets not from the book... (see if I can find some dreamsigns from people who join this exercise )

In. Great idea!

Originally Posted by Sara

Targets for Monday 26th of November

I will do a thorough Reality Check the NEXT TIME:

• I write anything down
  
• I feel pain
  
• I hear someone say my name
  
• I drink something

I also have bus running to do in the mornings, so I'll see how it goes but for tomorrow I'm going to stick with this list if nobody minds

Targets for Tuesday 27th of November

I will do a thorough Reality Check the NEXT TIME:

• I see a traffic light
  
• I leave a building
  
• I hear music
  
• I wash my hands

Imprint this list into your prospective memory and remember to check the FIRST time you hit each target.

Good luck!

Two old ones (the ones that were the hardest) plus two new ones. Ideas for next days (e.g. your favorite dream signs) can be posted here

I see a traffic light FAILED

I leave a building- FAILED

I hear music - COMPLETE

I wash my hands - COMPLETE

2/4

Very cool thread. I won't be able to check the posts in the morning, so I'll be doing the one the day before. I saw this thread yesterday and decided to go for it:

-I write anything down: Failed
-I feel pain: Failed
-I hear someone say my name: Completed
-I drink something: Completed

Nice to see that so many people are joining!
Sorry, I have very little time to spend online (visiting friends) so the only post I make is the new targets of the day...

Targets for Tuesday 4th of December

I will do a thorough Reality Check the NEXT TIME:

• I open Google
  
• I go up or down stairs
  
• I hear someone say 'hello' (or any other greeting that is common at your place)
  
• I smell perfume

Imprint this list into your prospective memory and remember to check the FIRST time you hit each target.

Good luck!

Oh, my own results for yesterday:

2/4: clock and door.
Phone didn't ring all day and I forgot about the clothes.
However, I remembered instantly to RC when I unlocked my car and later when I looked at the stars! (targets from some time ago)

I open a door: Complete
I change clothes: Complete
I hear a phone ring: n/a (no phones rang)
I see an analog clock: Complete
3/3!

GOOD NEWS- Guess who completed the regular lucid task of the month? Moi!

Apparently, my dream name is Jheraerea, told to me by a blonde waitress. During one part (near the end) of the dream, I was thinking of whether it was time to do a RC. So I did one, became lucid, and did the task. This is the... second night in a row (third to have done a RC in a dream) in which I have had a LD. This is great!

Wow, congratulations on the TOTM! Nice dream name! Does it have a special meaning for you? All your effort in practising RCs is paying off

I hope it wil too for me, I got 3/4 today, I only missed Google and I think that's because I didn't give it a lot of thought in the morning.

I open Google - Complete

I go up or down stairs- Failed (did it right after I read this, too)

I hear someone say 'hello' (or any other greeting that is common at your place)- Failed

I smell perfume - Complete

Only 2/4 today. Oh wel

@ Sare: About my name? Not sure, but I think I could use it as a character's name at one point.

Completed 3/4. I remembered the stairs one about five minutes afterward. My record has been much better than when I first started this exercise.

I'm ill today and probably won't be leaving my house, so all 'indoor targets' for today :-)

Targets for Wednesday 28th of November

I will do a thorough Reality Check the NEXT TIME:

• I hear the sound of the door bell
  
• I sneeze(don't know if this is possible to happen in a dream...)
  
• I pick up a book
  
• I smell food

Imprint this list into your prospective memory and remember to check the FIRST time you hit each target.

Good luck!

Wow. I really was so out of it today.

-I see a traffic light: FAILED
-I leave a building: FAILED
-I hear music: FAILED
-I wash my hands: FAILED

Failed all- didn't see any of the tasks before I had to go for the day. I'll see if I can do some during the two hours left I am awake.

EDIT: Nope. Still failed all.

I really wanna join this, but I have trouble picking targets. My targets should be Objects that I am likely to encounter in both Waking and Dreaming Life. I can't recall any specific objects I freqeuntly encounter in dreams, cuz lately my DreamRecall has dropped to just above 0 (can't put dreams to words) and my last memorable dreamscenes were a party in a forrest, A huge school/mall-like public building, the Airport and Distant, sunny rocky Islands. There's not 1 scene or object of which I can expect to encounter it again in a Dream anytime soon, so that makes it difficult selecting targets.

Maybe I need to simplify it. I'll try.
I will RC:
-When I encounter a Road
-When I see Trees/Forrests
-When I'm at School/Mall/Public event
-When I find myself Traveling.

I'm King Chaos, A scatterbrain 1st class, so I will most likely forget all 4 goals all together the first days. I''ll report back.

What are the next tasks?
If I don't hear from you before I have to go, I'll do Wednesday's

EDIT:
I hear the sound of the door bell- complete

I sneeze(don't know if this is possible to happen in a dream...)- n/a

I pick up a book- failed

I smell food- 0.5 (Might have smelled some, but didn't notice. Did remember when I was holding good-smelling candy, though)

1.5/3 or 1.5/4- your choice

Well done, Kyhaar!

Due to illness, I was too tired yesterday and this morning to write down the new tasks. Will catch up with it tomorrow morning, cause I really feel that this exercises helps me.

Today is a special day for the Dutch
Sinterklaas has come, he loves kids so much
Sinterklaas was born 1600 years ago
He was a bishop that became a saint or so
So long before the existence of Santa Claus
This nice man came by to visit our house

He gives the young ones presents and sweets
That's all what a little kid needs
Their harts are filled with joy
When they receive a new toy

The grown-ups have their own part of fun
Starting late, when the kids are dun
Wrapping presents in a funny way
Accompanied with a poem in which they say
Nice or naughty words about the one who receives
Sometimes joking that they are little thieves
Or saying the truth about habits not so good
But always with a smile, to lift up the mood

In the tradition of writing in rhyme today
Here are the targets, go out and play!


Targets for Wednesday 5th of December

I'm sure these will be easy to remember!

I will do a thorough Reality Check today
The next time I hear a christmas song play

And before you go to sleep or nap
Remember to RC when you open a tap

Next time you see a number or date
Make sure you critically check your state

To complete the list with number four
Ask yourself 'Am I dreaming?' when you open a door


Imprint this list into your head
and report your results in the thread!

Good luck and sweet dreams

Sint and his black petes

This is my first poem in English
I hope it doesn't sound too 'Dunglish'

That poem was awesome.

I'll be doing them all like a day late coz of time difference probably, or at least at weird times compared to everyone else.

I open Google - Yes

I go up or down stairs - Didn't happen

I hear someone say 'hello' (or any other greeting that is common at your place) - Yes, very soon after so maybe not

I smell perfume - Yes

I'll count that as 2/3

Hm, Dutch christmas today? Wonder why my dad didn't say anything....
Lol, your poem was ..errrr.. good?
lol, nah some was and others just don't rhyme if you sound them out but it was funny! lol so it will help me remember

I hear a christmas song play - Complete
open a tap- Complete
see a number or date- Complete
open a door- Complete

Yay- 4/4!

I cant believe I just followed your link today lol

Im def in on this although I will wait for the next days exercises as its already 23.10 so its a little pointless to start now