Updating with progress as I work with Beginner and Intermediate Sills
Continuing to have an increased number of lucids, mostly DILD. I feel that the 'be here now' meditation is really helping with developing the mindfulness in conjunction with awareness practice during the day. Many times, I'll simply be talking to a DC, or walking and thinking about awarness, and it'll hit me. While this happens toward the end of REM many times, I'm continuing to work on extending the dreams, or continuing through the void. I'm going to continue to work on 'coming in at the right time' with dreams, as opposed to the last few minutes of a REM cycle
Having a bit of success with WILD, although I maybe have one every 7-10 days or so. Tactile sense is helping me a lot with this as I felt it was a natural strength, and decided to work with it There's usually a period I can't account for, but soon 'find myself popping up' in a dream shortly after the WILD attempt using body feel as the anchor. Focusing on point int he body (Beginner skill) has helped with this as well as occasional body scans during 'be here now'. I do the microcosmic orbit meditation, and the beginner tactile meditation helped a lot with focusing on the points in the body throughout the orbit.
Although visualization exercises with colors was a bit more difficult, I noticed the other day that once I am on the verge of sleep when attempting WILD that I'm able to create vivid colors very easily. I can then work these into the shapes which I was naturally better at. It seems like if I practice more during waking hours, it'll be much easier when in the transition stage, or even in the void
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