Quote Originally Posted by sivason View Post
LOL! No, no you misunderstand me! I was not even a hint offended or anything. I was honestly hoping you may help me come up with another basic challenge that would work on that. So, I guess the issue is bringing enough waking memory in the dream? That makes sense, maybe a new challenge could somehow be made to improve this aspect of our dreams. I was truely just hoping that you, as one of our most experienced dreamers, might have an idea how we could work on it. I guess we could stick to these two and later add another,. Do you think the old standard of remembering where you are sleeping and the time of the year (and maybe which year) or something of that nature would work?
Okay, I'll play ... but stop me if I get in the way, or on your nerves.

I think your initial challenges are best left alone, but I do suggest that you add a memory-based challenge later. The "standard" of remembering where you were asleep is probably still a good choice, but ultimately your challenge will need to nurture the waking memory necessary to not only "know" that you're sleeping somewhere, but to be able to tap waking-life metaphor to help you recognize the presence of the person with whom you are attempting to share your dream. Since odds are excellent that your dream-sharing partner will not be showing up with business cards, or likely even in human form, you'll need to really dig into your own mind to establish both your partner's presence and a means for communication.

So I'd keep it simple now, just like you're doing, but feed in memory challenges later.

And if anyone is still reading: Sivason's challenges are also very helpful to building your LD'ing skills, so they have great value even if you never meet anyone else in your dreams!