Daily Dreamsign: Can I Have Your Attention Please?!

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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.