Thread: Train your memory, who wants to join?

I only got 1/4 of my targets yesterday (monday), I took the ones from LaBerge, since I didn't have internet in the morning. Even without too much success on my targets, I have the feeling that this exercise helps. So, I'll just continue it for a little longer

Targets for Tuesday, 11th of December

I'll do a thorough reality check the next time:

• I see a traffic light (this was a difficult one, I remember)
  
• I hear a commercial on radio or TV
  
• I walk up or down stairs
  
• I handle money
  

Good luck everyone!

As this topic is growing (and I'm slacking on posting the new updates every morning) I guess there are enough targets to pick your own if I forget them one day

Didn't see tasks for Monday, so I reaatempted Sunday's

I see a television- Complete
I drink/eat something- FAILED
I see that 'peanut butter jelly time' banana - Complete
I hear someone laugh- Complete

3/4

well done Kyhaar!
I'll do these today and Report back later.

I turn on a light
I hear a commercial on radio or TV
I walk up or down stairs
I use a pencil


I just thought of something, is everyone doing reality checks like nose pinch, finger through palm etc? Because I think it would help to do something with the object because you are then increasing your awareness of your surroundings. For example, if you have the walk up or down stairs one and you get to the top of the stairs look back and see if it is still the same amount of steps. If you are doing the handling money, a reality check could be to see if the notes were still the same and not changing, like the numbers, colour etc.

I see a traffic light - Complete. Though I suppose it would be a lot harder if I was actually the one driving the car...
I hear a commercial on radio or TV - didn't hear/see any commercials
I walk up or down stairs - Complete.
I handle money - FAILED. We were doing this activity in class using pennies, and I didn't realize that counted as money until about a half hour later...

2/3. Not bad.

I got 3/5 today, I messed up my targets I really thought 'drinking something' was on my list and I got a perfect 'hit' on that one. I guess there are now so many targets around, I'm going to mix them up

So, traffic light, commercial and drinking completed, money and stairs failed. Too bad, cause stairs caused me to become lucid last time

Targets for today (generalised from my personal dream signs), if anyone is still interested:

I see a friend
I drive a car
I hear a loud noise
I eat a cookie

see a traffic light (this was a difficult one, I remember)- Complete

I hear a commercial on radio or TV- 0.5 (listened to music in a shopping mall, did RC after a commercial had finished)

I walk up or down stairs- Complete

I handle money- Complete

3.5/4

EDIT:

I'm going to slightly alter your tasks, Sara, since I don't have my driver's liscence and I have no cookies to eat.

I see a friend
I drive a car- I ride in a car
I hear a loud noise
I eat a cookie- I eat chocolate

Originally Posted by Zoink

Hi, I'm new to these forums and all this lucid dreaming thing. I read through your topic and it seemed kinda cool, but I kinda don't know what a RC is : \
Could you explain what it means?

Ps: sorry to post such a newbie question, but I kinda don't know where else I can get an answere to it :p

Thanks

RC = reality check

4/4 today.

I changed the targets slightly though:
I see a friend
I ride in a car
I hear a loud noise
I eat something sweet

I turn on a light - Failed
I hear a commercial on radio or TV - Failed
I walk up or down stairs - Didn't happen
I use a pencil - Failed

OMG the horror!

Ok I'll do these ones now

I will do a thorough REALITY CHECK the next time:
I see a dog (I wont see friends today)
I see someone in a car
I hear a loud noise
I eat chocolate

Yesterday:

I see a friend- failed
I ride in a car- failed
I hear a loud noise-failed
I eat chocolate-failed

0/0 (I was stressed out that night)

Today:
I see a friend- Complete
I ride in a car- n/a (I won't be in a car today)
I hear a loud noise- failed
I eat chocolate- complete

2/3

I see a dog - Yes
I see someone in a car - Didn't happen
I hear a loud noise - I kept hearing fairly loud noises and remembered I had to check my reality but I wasn't sure whether it was loud enough to be considered a loud noise, anyway I finally did RC on a relatively loud noise from Supernatural. So, Yes lol
I eat chocolate - Yes

3/3 I think

Well done guys!
And thanks for keeping this thread alive with new targets and all

I've been off for two days, but will start again. Here's my targets for today (mostly dream-sign related). You can use them if you like, or make your own.

See a train
Go down stairs (yes, again, cause it's a rather frequent dream sign)
Eat my desert
Push against a door

Yeah, 3/4 today!!

Only missed the stairs. Should change it to 'going up stairs'.
The first time I went up/down stairs today was actually in a dream. How ironic... (didn't get lucid though, cause I forgot all about my target )

Yeh, it's even harder to remember to do it in a dream than it is IRL. lol
Well I guess that's why we're here!

Not sure if this is anything signifcant.

Two days ago, I had a short lucid dream where I saw my dreamsign, a bus, and said, "THIS IS A DREAM" and became lucid. Two seconds later, I lost lucidity. Then I saw another bus and became lucid again. A couple seconds later, I lost lucidity.

And last night, I received a nice backrub from a friendly DC. Rewards for my efforts?

Lmao- been lazy on the tasks, though.

Wow, cool lol.

I really want my dreams to tell me I am dreaming. *cough* subsonscious *cough*

I think I had an LD yesterday/last night/this morning. Lol I can't remember because I slept since about 12 yesterday afternoon to 12 this afternoon.
So MASSIVE LOOOONG dreams. Good thing is I remember a lot of them. Two major ones anyway. But I swear in one of the shorter ones I became lucid and I was going hey look mutha f#$^s I can fly or something like that lol. Yes I remember more now.... I wasted a lot of time trying to get them to realise I was dreaming or explaining stuff to them. I then was like dam, why in the hell am I wasting all my dream time telling them what I can do, why don't I just have fun! So I walked off and I'm pretty sure I lost lucidity then.... lol
I can't remember how I became lucid and if it was because of these RC's but if I remember that I did one of the ones from here I will report back.

Memorise these for the day and perform a reality check (don't write them down! Memorise them!):

The next time I see a traffic light
The next time I hear music
The next time I throw something in the garbage
The next time I hear laughter

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.

Can someone help me understand? If for example you have 4 targets a day, differen't each day, and your goal is to RC upon the 1ST sight of target, that means if you only preform a RC for that unique target once.

If thats the case, I don't see how this will be effective. Honestly one time, one RC, for one unique target(then never using that same target again), is not enough to train my brain to remember in a dream: "I'm walking down a street, theres a stop sign! Ok 2 weeks ago on monday my target was a stop sign, I now remember to do a RC!".

What im trying to get here is yes, on the day i was assigned stop sign target, I looked for it, remembered to do a RC. But thats beacue that was 1 of the 4 targets of the day. 5 days later, if i see a stop sign in a dream, i won't ness remember to do a RC b/c 1)i have 4 new targets im focused on today 2)I only RC'd that target once, and 3)didn't make it a habit

The idea is to train your memory, and increase your awareness while doing it. Your targets are just to get in the habit of remembering to do something dream related. They are not supposed to be new dream signs. The reality checks are just so you will get in the habit of questioning your reality at least 4 times a day.

I find that reality checks, in general, don't help me by randomly appearing in my dreams. Rather, they keep me aware by helping me stay in the habit of questioning my state.

Great thread. Can I attempt to start halfway through my day? Sure I can! I say so. Ok, here's my list:

1. When I make/have my first tea this evening
2. When I have a shower
3. When I feed my kitties
4. When I eat dinner

...or do they have to be things that have the possibility of occuring multiple times throughout the day? In which case, I should change my 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones.

Originally Posted by Robot_Butler

The idea is to train your memory, and increase your awareness while doing it. Your targets are just to get in the habit of remembering to do something dream related. They are not supposed to be new dream signs. The reality checks are just so you will get in the habit of questioning your reality at least 4 times a day.

I find that reality checks, in general, don't help me by randomly appearing in my dreams. Rather, they keep me aware by helping me stay in the habit of questioning my state.

Nice, thank you for clarifying that.

Originally Posted by kichu

Great thread. Can I attempt to start halfway through my day? Sure I can! I say so. Ok, here's my list:

1. When I make/have my first tea this evening
2. When I have a shower
3. When I feed my kitties
4. When I eat dinner

...or do they have to be things that have the possibility of occuring multiple times throughout the day? In which case, I should change my 2nd, 3rd and 4th ones.

The object is to recognize your target THE 1ST TIME, so reoccurring targets aren't necessary

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

Originally Posted by dtrevinofl

The object is to recognize your target THE 1ST TIME, so reoccurring targets aren't necessary

Yeah, I understand that. But I thought maybe the reason that there should be a possibility of it occurring multiple times is that it will be harder to recognize something if it's only going to happen once that day. If there are several opportunities for you to recognize it, that might make it too easy, and therefore won't challenge your memory.

Having said that, I didn't remember to do an RC at dinner (but I kind of just snacked on crap, I didn't actually have a proper, sit-down dinner), I didn't remember during my shower, didn't remember when I was feeding the cats (I'd had a couple glasses of wine by this point), and I didn't have any tea tonight, so that opportunity didn't present itself.

Huge, monstrous fail for today.

Oh well. There's always tomorrow.