Daily Dreamsign: Can I Have Your Attention Please?!

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of EMOTIONS. Feeling or observing others' extreme emotions, or thinking or reading about them. Reality check first and foremost. Make an effort to become very aware of your settings, and, in the case of your own strong emotions, their causes. At the end of the day before bed, recount every instance you witnessed the event.

I didn't do too well on the water one. Halfway through my shower I remembered it and RCed. A few times I'd be drinking water and realize it a few minutes in. I must've washed my hands a million times today and missed it. In one of my labs today we used ridiculous quantities of water, the entire purpose of the lab, and I don't think I RCed once because of the lab :( Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

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Originally Posted by Shift

I didn't do too well on the water one. Halfway through my shower I remembered it and RCed. A few times I'd be drinking water and realize it a few minutes in. I must've washed my hands a million times today and missed it. In one of my labs today we used ridiculous quantities of water, the entire purpose of the lab, and I don't think I RCed once because of the lab :( Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

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Oh man. D:

As for me, I had the problem that it was raining outside, so every time I became aware that it was raining, I RC'ed. Which was like every minute or so. I kept worrying that if I didn't RC, I'd get into bad habits of thinking I didn't have to do it everytime I saw a sign.

And it just occurred to me that I had a sip of water before bed and forget to RC.

It's harder than you think to suddenly pay attention to things you always just let slide by you. :?

Will try the new task today!

Alternatively:
1. Always be aware, and don't bother with misleading, pointless efforts to be aware of your state.
2. Succeed.

No offense though, if this thread helps people, that's great. Just what I think.

The goal of the thread is to work on prospective memory, while simultaneously building up awareness.

Ah I didn't notice the prospective memory aspect. Sorry about that :D

Okay! I've been reading all day, so have been RC'ing quite often. I think I almost got whip-lash for the RC's I did in a row. 95 in all today. I know I missed some, but I'm pretty proud of how I paid more attention to the words I was reading in order to be aware of when I ran into emotions. Also proud that I didn't let myself get annoyed at having to be patient and be aware of my surroundings/study my hands. Only a couple of the RC's are from my emotions, usually when I busted out laughing at a funny part of the story I'm reading. XP

Sorry guys, I slacked for a couple of days there on updating the daily task. Hopefully like me that doesn't mean you stopped RCing altogether!

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of BIRDS. Reality check first and foremost. Make an effort to become very aware of your settings. At the end of the day before bed, recount every instance you witnessed the event.

This one ought to be a little easier, you almost always see birds and rarely notice it ;)

Ah! Shift, this is a great idea for a thread! How come I didn't notice this before? =]

Yay. :D I've still been RC'ing, not as much though. I won't be going out today so the chance of seeing birds is slim, bur who knows, maybe one of my webshots wallpapers that circulates around has birds on it, or I'll look outside and catch sight of some.

id like to mention a bird flew into our house yesterday
lol'd when i saw the task

it wasn't any old bird, its apparently worth a couple hundred bucks :P
like money flew in the window.. ha

oo fu.. its winter all the birds are gone

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Originally Posted by 12g951ad

oo fu.. its winter all the birds are gone

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You're right, even in Florida I saw like one bird today :doh: I managed to RC for the singing of birds that I could hear but not see, but :(

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of BLUE EYES. Reality check first and foremost. Make an effort to become very aware of your settings. Imagine you have just become lucid, and make sure to 'stabilize'. At the end of the day before bed, recount every instance you witnessed the event.

Posters, real people, animals, etc.
And remember guys- don't ONLY RC when you actually see the thing. Any time you REMEMBER the task or find yourself thinking about blue eyes, you should also RC. So, you should've just done one now ;)

I did 10 RC's for the birds task. I didn't see any birds, but I'd find myself remembering the task and I'd RC then. And I read the word in one of the stories I was reading.

The blue eyes one is kind of convenient, I'm about read some stories where one of the main characters has blue eyes.

:insomnia:

Have fun!

already seen plenty of blue eyes today, but i guess i'll do it tommorow, you seem to change it between 3 and 4pm

thats okay it still works out alright

hey shift i heard somewhere that you tried some apple juice trick (dream vividness?) how did it work


sorry if its a little.... much :offtopic:

Well, the day's not over yet, but I thought I'd check in anyways. :)

Hmm....I think I did a great job today. Sometimes a pair of blue eyes would pop into my head, other times the song "Brown Eyed Girl" would go off in my head. Either way I remembered to RC. There was even a time in 3rd period today where after I performed an RC, EVERYTHING that was blue in the room became more vibrant and more pronounced. :)

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Originally Posted by 12g951ad

hey shift i heard somewhere that you tried some apple juice trick (dream vividness?) how did it work

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Here ya go, if you want anymore just read the thread (there's some very good info but it was buried a bit on the middle pages) or PM me :)

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Originally Posted by Snowy Egypt

Well, the day's not over yet, but I thought I'd check in anyways. :)

Hmm....I think I did a great job today. Sometimes a pair of blue eyes would pop into my head, other times the song "Brown Eyed Girl" would go off in my head. Either way I remembered to RC. There was even a time in 3rd period today where after I performed an RC, EVERYTHING that was blue in the room became more vibrant and more pronounced. :)

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Yay, godo job!!! :) I actually didn't see a single person with blue eyes, or at least I didn't notice it. But I kept randomly remembering it anyway. I was also reality checking when a huge swarm of crows was flapping around outside my window, when I noticed water, etc. ... I keep finding the past tasks popping up in my memory, too, which means I'm remembering to remember them and to RC!!! :D Sounds like you guys are, too :) I also had a DILD again today, that's two out of the dryspell since I started this thread :)

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of MUSIC. Reality check first and foremost. Make an effort to become very aware of your settings. Imagine you have just become lucid, and make sure to 'stabilize'. At the end of the day before bed, recount every instance you witnessed the event.

Commercials, elevators, radios, cars driving past you, obnoxious roommates, other peoples' overly-loud headphones, singing in the shower, ringtones on your cell, grocery stores, restaurants... live, digital, mental, go for it!!! :) And if you wanna make it super fun, on this one jot down the songs so that you can post them here :D

thanks shift and YAY finaly music i like think of music every 3 minutes

I find myself remembering past tasks too and RC'ing then! It seems to be improving my recall in the waking life at least.

I'm listening to music right now. I'll probably RC when I let my focus on the story I'm reading slip to listen to a particular song that I like. And I tend to sing songs in my head even when the player is off, so hopefully I'll catch that!

Man, since posting the task I've already RCed to music like five times! Today is going to be INTENSE!

Im writing this in school been awake for 3hours and already more than 30 rc:s on music

Row row row your boat
up and down the
stream calmly camly calmly
now you are in a dream

This is good since I never do anything without headphones in my ears and music on all day while im at home, music in video games and music while im falling asleep.. this will be a fun day

It's only 1 PM and I've been RCing like mad :tongue: Right now there's classical/spanish guitar shit playing from the offices I'm near. In spanish class we were singing a song to help us learn verbs. Even my ringtone, which is not a song, has its own little tune and is music! Dayummm we are an inundated society, are we not?!

I think I'll join this RC-cult of shift's :) seems like you guys have had great success in remembering to RC...and I have been slacking off.

WOOOOOO LD's HERE I COME!!!
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