From FryingMan on another thread
"Developing a consistent pattern that you run through when you find yourself awake in between sleep cycles could be something like:
+ immediately try to DEILD -- 1-2 minutes max
+ [optionally, not every waking, not every night, best for when you plan to try] try for a full WILD with a time limit -- maybe
+ if the DEILD/WILD don't work out, aim for sleep with MILD
For me by far the most important factors affecting dreaming and having great recall and vivid dreams (precursors to LDs IMO) are:
+ having dreaming and recall be very important -- daily DJ, always recall dreams first thing after waking, spend time after waking recalling dreams and fortifying them in your memory
+ practice mindfulness: active attention to and self-awareness, awareness of life experiences
+ exercise memory of (life) experiences: day review in the evening, dreams review in the morning
+ treating the practice as a joy, something you deeply value and enjoy -- love all your dreams, not just the lucid ones
Specifically for lucidity:
+ for me, it takes maintaining very strong intention to be lucid in dreams
+ have specific LD-goals that I'm excited about and want to achieve in-dream: "I want to be lucid every night" is too vague for me. TOTMs and TOTYs here are excellent ways to maintain interest in specific goals that come with a reward (those cool images you get for the remainder of the month/year)."
I saw this and it resonated with me.
Specifically I wanted to talk about developing a goal around night-awakenings and get more specific with my dream goals.
Since I have started being intentional about my dreams at night I have started having minny awakening during the night between sleep cycles. I really like this because it gives me a moment to commit the latest dream to memory. I have also been using these awakenings to try and DEILD and practicing a WBTB later in the night after one of my natural awakenings.
I like what FryingMan has to say about developing a plan for these awakenings. First (commit last dream to memory) also first try to DEILD, maybe WBTB WILD, then MILD.
I also liked what he had to say concerning needing a more specific goal for each night to want to become lucid. One of my main goals has been to try and talk to my DC's, meet my subconscious or whatever, and see what I non-dual perspective "feels like" in a dream. However I have noticed that the DC I am excited to meet changes almost daily, depending on what show I'm watching, book I'm reading, or whatever. I am wondering if having one important DC I want to meet as a goal every night until it happens might help build my lucid intentions and expectation.
Updated Dream Goals:
- Meet and talk to my DC's and learn to interpret from them what I can learn about myself. Identify dream archetypes that are present and what I can learn through them about myself. (Focus on one DC at a time to build intention and expectation, focus on meeting myself for now?)
- Maintain my dream recall (DJ and remembering in morning, and during night-awakenings)
- Practice "turning on" memory in dream. "My body is sleeping (here), this is not my waking body, I am dreaming". Practice remembering "who I am" in dream.
- Complete the Task of the Month (become a pirate lol)
- Practice Reverse Reality Check, meta self-awareness, non-dual perspective, for 90 days starting 8-27-2019
- Have a plan for night-awakenings. First (commit last dream to memory) also first try to DEILD, maybe WBTB WILD, then MILD.
- Enjoy dreaming and have fun!
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