Daily Dreamsign: Can I Have Your Attention Please?!

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Originally Posted by Elis D.

What do you mean by that?

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Often times in a lucid dream you get so excited that you take off to do something, and end up in a very unrealistic, unvivid, crazy dream that you can wake up easily from or where you end up losing lucidity :( So before you do anything, making sure to 'stabilize' the dream around you, or to stabilize your own lucidity (to make sure that you don't forget it's a dream and get caught up in it again), will usually keep you in a dream longer and with more vivid, intense experiences with a more lucid and aware frame of mind. This also REALLY helps with dream control, so when you can't get something to work you just remind yourself "it HAS to work, because I AM DREAMING, I am LUCID DREAMING, and there's no reason for it NOT to work!" :D

So to do it during the day is just practice to make sure that you associate reality checking with remembering to stabilize, so that when you DO RC in a dream and find out you are dreaming, the first thing on your mind is "I HAVE to stabilize before I rush off!"

well sed

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of GRASS! 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.

Thanks to 12g951ad for today's DDS, if you have any suggestions PM them to me and I'll consider! :)

okay! will do!
stabilizing is good. made my dream very vivid :D

I failed miserably at the light RC. I think I only did it once, when the sun blinded me through my windshield.

I don't come across a lot of grass, so today I'll try to keep up on the music task, too. That one gave me tons of RCs.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of BUTTONS! Clothing, computers, elevators, etc! 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.

I'm still slacking :(

The light one was great for me, grass not so much, I only noticed grass once walking home from class.


Should we only focus on one of the items, or should I keep it in my head to do this with light, grass and buttons now?

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Originally Posted by Elis D.

The light one was great for me, grass not so much, I only noticed grass once walking home from class.


Should we only focus on one of the items, or should I keep it in my head to do this with light, grass and buttons now?

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Whichever you feel good about. Whenever you DO think of/the need to reality check, you should ALWAYS reality check. The whole exercise is just to work on memory, so you can make it as hard as you want with as many tasks as possible, or as easy with only the one day's. Really customize it to whatever you feel is achievable. If you find that it's getting easier and easier, throw in other tasks. You should also be keeping an eye out for dreamsigns and etc. so if it becomes too much, use this exercise with your dreamsigns.

reality checks are good, my dreams are so vivid i have to use them a lot - "oh yea, this is a dream, cool..." and when i wake up i have to ask someone who happened to be in the dream if i did something or i said something to them which was in the dream, just to make sure i wasn't recounting a previous situation...sometimes it is a memory though...

in my head i still think of the ones before. I'm sure I'll go:
o hey look its grass! o thats right, that was yesterday...
then I think about what todays one is and eventually I have to do a reality check anyway... :/

Scary. As I clicked on this thread, I had the other hand on my shirt, fiddling with a button on my collar. Reality check time, for sure!

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of HAIR! Your own, others', animals', toys', whatever! Brushes, even bracelets! 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.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of FOOD! Including hunger! 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.

Spring break is over, time to get my ass back in gear!

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of WRITING UTENSILS! Pens, pencils, tablet pens, quills, chalk, markers, whiteout, whiteboard markers, the need to find something to write with, everythign! 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.

I didn't do too well with yesterday's task... It took me ten minutes before I realised I was having lunch (enough to think of the task) haha I hope today's one will turn out better :D

Same here :( I've been pretty good today, though. Within an hour of being awake I've RCed 5 times. Once when I remembered that every day there is a task, and then I RCed, then I remembered what the task was, RCed again. There is a box of plastic eating utensils in my room, and when I saw it I thought of utensils, and then when I came back into my room after seeing it I thought of utensils again. And now I'm RCing again because there is a little cup of pens above my laptop :D

todays task will kill me.

Is anybody making progress?

I am well not very well considered the music one but hmm... life goes on

I've been checking this thread every morning in the last week. It helped me in improving my waking life awareness.

Here's one thing I noticed: I tend to to better during the day if I start the day by visualizing all the situations where I might encounter the daily dreamsign.

So something pretty hysterical just happened to be regarding today's task. I've caught utensils a few times throughout the day, and I have been RCing mostly to eating utensils than writing utensils, as the ones for writing never stand out but when I see the forks I suddenly think "OH! Utensils! Like writing utensils! Reality check!!!"

I was just getting my dinner, and had gone to the cashier to checkout. I had the food container in my left hand, my fork and knife in my right hand, and I had slipped my credit card into my pocket. When she rang me up, I was so out of it I tried to pay by handing her my utensils :oops: But needless to say after laughing, I suddenly realized it was a good time to RC :tongue:

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Originally Posted by SnakeCharmer

Here's one thing I noticed: I tend to to better during the day if I start the day by visualizing all the situations where I might encounter the daily dreamsign.

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Ooooh hey, now there's an idea!!

This was a bad weekend for me. I don't think I did a single RC. Wait, I take that back, I did one when everyone yelled "Surprise!!!"

I'm on this writing utensils task. This should give me plenty of chances to forget :lol:

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of WINDOWS! 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.

As always if you've got ideas or want your dream signs to be used, PM me! :)

I was really concentrated yesterday and tried to notice all my pencils, pens and stuff. It was an intense day but this has finally paid of, I had a MILD just this morning!!

yeah the pencils was good idea

Sorry! Slackage :oops: Time for some oldschool tasks ;) This might overlap if you're already doing it...

Today's task: Become aware every time you go through or think of DOORS! 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.