Thread: Daily Dreamsign: Can I Have Your Attention Please?!

Good, now that I've got it I'll remind you that it's very important to be aware and pay attention to things if you want to catch the oddities and dream signs in your dreams and have a DILD. Unfortunately for us, it's not as often as we'd wish that a dream character or element screams at us to pay attention, reality check, and become lucid.

I for one have been slacking so I am starting a new regime for myself, to build up awareness and prospective memory. This is important for honing your awareness as well as training your prospective memory for MILDs. This exercise has been done a few times before, but threads have gone stale and people tend to ignore that entire section of EWOLD.

So I am establishing a number of daily tasks. I will make them as absolutely random as possible, both for novelty as well as to capture the random nature of dreams. I will update this first post every day, and add the previous posts to a spoiler. I have resigned as a DV staff member and so all subsequent tasks will have to be found on the most recent pages of the thread, sorry for the inconvenience!

Spoiler for Previous Tasks to 3/31/09:

Today's task: Become aware every time you see someone touch, blow, pick, scratch, etc. their nose. Reality check first and foremost. Take note of the time, and 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.

Today's Task: Reality Check and become aware of your surroundings every time that you see or notice FEET! Make an effort to become very aware of your surroundings. At the end of the day before bed, recount every instance you witnessed the event. Imagine what you would have done, had you realized you were actually dreaming.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of WATER. Rain, faucet, puddle, glass, etc. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of CUPS. Drinking cups, glasses, mugs, thermoses, 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.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of ILLUSTRATIONS. Doodles, diagrams, book illustrations, cartoons, cereal box creatures, signs, 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.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of TIME. Clocks, watches (especially digital!), appointments, the fact that you've slept in til noon! 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 MONEY. Electronic, physical, bills, coins, the concept of it, 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.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of LOCKS. Locking things, unlocking things, keys, the thought of things being locked, combinations, 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.

Today's task: Become aware every time you see or think of LIGHT. The sun rising/setting, lamps, headlights, sirens, any time you manage to become aware of light! 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 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.

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.

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.

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, everything! 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 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.

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.

Today's task: Become aware every time you use or think of KEYS! 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 use or think of SUDDEN NOISES! Things like slamming doors, explosions, even quiet noises like switching a light on. 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 use or think of WIRES! Phonecords, powerlines, chargers, plugs, you name it. 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.(Task compliments of Elis D.)

Today's task: Become aware every time you use or think of SCREENS! TV, computer, cell, ipod, window, door, etc! 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.(Task compliments of Odd_Nonposter.)

Today's task: Become aware every time you use or think of SEATS! Chairs, stools, car seats, swings, couches, finding yourself sitting or wanting to sit, benches, etc.! 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 use or think of THE FLOOR! 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 use or think of CLOTHING! Getting dressed, if it feels uncomfortable, what others are wearing, clothing for sale, random things like astronaut suits and your laundry! 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 use or think of ELECTRICAL OUTLETS! 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 use or think of SMILES! 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 LONG HAIR! 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 DATES! Today's date, tomorrow's date, your birthday, appointments you're making, etc.! 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.

Feel free to jump in and suggest tasks, but only if it's the morning (<8am EST) before I get around to doing it. Remember, they've got to be random! And I strongly encourage you to report in on your success, times you noticed failure, or even to post a strict log of the times and details of your awareness. But besides collecting them here, make sure not to write anything down. This is a memory and awareness training exercise.

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

Yay. 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
like money flew in the window.. ha

oo fu.. its winter all the birds are gone

Originally Posted by 12g951ad

oo fu.. its winter all the birds are gone

You're right, even in Florida I saw like one bird today 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!

Originally Posted by Shift

Imagine you have just become lucid, and make sure to 'stabilize'.

What do you mean by that?

Originally Posted by Elis D.

What do you mean by that?

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!"

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

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

Will do tomorrow when I go for a trip into the city thanks

Originally Posted by deXtrous

Will do tomorrow when I go for a trip into the city thanks

Do it today! There'll be another one tomorrow

Originally Posted by Shift

Do it today! There'll be another one tomorrow

It was really late when I read it, I live in a different time zone

Originally Posted by deXtrous

It was really late when I read it, I live in a different time zone

Aw I've decided to update it at midnight (I'm always up at midnight, not always up by 8am ) so hopefully you can catch them that way.

I work fron home and rarely touch my nose.

hmm ok so do we write down everything ? like touch, blow, pick, scratch, and so one

No no, the goal is to remember what the task is (today: RC when you think of someone's nose). Every time you find yourself becoming aware of this sign, reality check and become very aware of your surroundings. Make a mental note of it happening, keep track of it in your mind. But this is a memory exercise, so you don't want to write anything down except at the end of the day if you want to post in this thread. Or I suppose at the end of the day you could jot it into your DJ.

So you want to both build up your memory to remember to remember to reality check, as well as your overall awareness (be on the lookout for noses, take in the scene when you do).

You CAN keep track of what it was that drew in your awareness. I think for the first task that might be a bit heavy duty though. I plan on slowly easing myself into it since I've gotten out of practice. Hopefully within two weeks everyone practicing should be able to just naturally remember what it is that caused them to become aware of the nose! But definitely keep track of it (mentally) if you can! The more detail and awareness, the better

oo ok now i get it il try it out cos it sounds like it could work

awesome i like the idea

so. its almost 1 in the morning here
i'll start when i wake up