Attaining lucidity: 7 am thoughts.

[44CalibreSunlight]

So my constant reality checking isn't directly paying off. I haven't been even close to lucid in a while. I record my dreams when I remember them, but my sleeping patterns have been messed up, so I'm often to tired to really be good at trying to remember. I'll often remember 2-4 when I wake up, but make no effort to keep them remembered. When I think about attaining lucidity, my main focus is DILD. I try WILD every now and then but haven't succeeded. I haven't had a really good moment yet. I'm trying to figure out my thought processes. I have successfully put reality checking into my super ego. So that my mind gets triggers by things like thinking about "having to remember things" and many different thoughts can trigger this. But it doesn't seem to be the way to get it into a dream. I try to figure out the tasks I'm often performing in dreams, the state of mind I'm IN in that reality. I want to figure out a way to infuse lucid dreaming into those types of thought patterns, but I'm just not sure how. Perhaps I have to associate it with something extremely common, and really make an effort. but not common enough so that it becomes passive. maybe I should just develop my arbitrary reality checking a bit MORE. and then practice some habitual reality checking. Before I move on to any other homebrew techniques. just to have mastered the basics. But I really wanna figure out what triggers my thought processes. if dreaming is created by that.. effect, I can't remember the name but it forms from thoughts and keeps building and building, well then maybe I could figure out how to make it the FIRST thought to occur and so it becomes easier, cause it will always be in the back of my mind. Not much real point to this, but I figured I'd share some thoughts.

[insight]

I'm also a big fan of infusing RC into common thoughts that are still uncommon enought to get the awareness. On the other hand I'm not afraid of ongoing effort. I find the DreamSign thread inspireing - it's like building up your vocabulary in a foreign language. Thank you for posting your ideas