Thread: I'm not getting the habit of doing awareness test in my dreams.

Originally Posted by Iriba

Yeah something like all day awareness, but instead of being aware all day, i stop for
some moments at random time where i analyze my surroundings and if there is something out of ordinary.

Ah okay, did you follow any tutorials for techniques? I can recommend KingYoshi's ADA Tutorial and Sivason's Dream Yoga tutorials. I'm pretty sure if you'll follow a lesson or 2 of Sivason's Dream Yoga you will see some improvement

Do you only pay that extra attention to sight? For a bunch of training techniques for each sense, I'd like to refer to this.

Originally Posted by wouterjongeneel

Ah okay, did you follow any tutorials for techniques? I can recommend KingYoshi's ADA Tutorial and Sivason's Dream Yoga tutorials. I'm pretty sure if you'll follow a lesson or 2 of Sivason's Dream Yoga you will see some improvement

Do you only pay that extra attention to sight? For a bunch of training techniques for each sense, I'd like to refer to this.

what you mean, only paying attention to sight?

Originally Posted by Iriba

what you mean, only paying attention to sight?

Well, when you do awareness 5 times a day, does that only concern sight? Do you only try to see things you otherwise wouldn't notice? Or do you also try to feel the wind on your cheeks, hear the wind blowing with your ears, feel your pants against your legs when you're walking and hear people mumbling from meters away?

There's a lot of stuff you obviously wouldn't notice because they're always there. Training awareness is about training each and every sense. Besides sight, you'll also need to pay attention to what you hear, feel, smell and taste If I'm unable to make myself clear, please check out this link

Good luck!!

Originally Posted by wouterjongeneel

Well, when you do awareness 5 times a day, does that only concern sight? Do you only try to see things you otherwise wouldn't notice? Or do you also try to feel the wind on your cheeks, hear the wind blowing with your ears, feel your pants against your legs when you're walking and hear people mumbling from meters away?

There's a lot of stuff you obviously wouldn't notice because they're always there. Training awareness is about training each and every sense. Besides sight, you'll also need to pay attention to what you hear, feel, smell and taste If I'm unable to make myself clear, please check out this link

Good luck!!

Oh, yeah for now i only look around my surroundings
maybe because i can't understand the meaning of "awareness" yet.

Originally Posted by Iriba

...maybe because i can't understand the meaning of "awareness" yet.

Excellent explanation of awareness http://www.dreamviews.com/wild/13181...prep-part.html

Basically, you are like a little mouse that comes out in the open. You have to be aware of everything that surrounds you if you don't want to become someones dinner.

Originally Posted by Iriba

Oh, yeah for now i only look around my surroundings
maybe because i can't understand the meaning of "awareness" yet.

Not sure whether I am doing the awareness thing right either, but here is some of the stuff I did during a walk earlier today: I noticed more details about things and people around me visually. I noticed some smells I was passing like cigarette smoke or a smell coming out of a restaurant. I actually listened to some fragments of conversations of the strangers I was passing and attempted to make a bit of sense of them - that was hard because I was passing them pretty fast and heard only a snippet in mid conversation, but I noticed for example that one grou I passed spoke French, and there was some woman I directing the planting of some plants in a garden and that appeared like a very structured activity. I noticed a woman in a car that was parked awkwardly as if waiting for someone. She was elderly, and then I noticed an elderly man fumbling with keys to get into the house on the other side of the sidewalk from where she was, so I figured those two belonged together, and she was waiting for him. I noticed a group of people who looked like they could be a tour group, and some of them were strangely color coordinated in some accessories - like one woman's hat matched in color another's scarf. I saw two women in sweaters that were different but looked like maybe made of same wool, and noticed their age difference might mean mother and grown daughter. I tried to make eye contact with some people I passed.