Quote Originally Posted by Alexander1656 View Post
Any really obscure ones that no one knows about?
I've been trying to invent totally new ones but I've also been trying to make my use of the existing ones more dynamic.

I've done this because I've found RCing all day - without results - really frustrating and I wondered if the constant RCing becomes too much of habit so that your brain no longer dreams about it. I mean, I spend a lot of my time in the day biting my nails or repairing the damage I've done biting my nails and I'll also bite my nails last thing at night but I've never dreamed about biting my nails. It also occurred to me that I'm constantly pushing my glasses back onto my nose but I never dream about that either.

To attempt to overcome the problem of the "RC habit" I've now started ensuring that each time I do an RC it involves utilising my environment in some way. For example, to do a nose pinch I'll pick out a random object in the room and ensure that the object is involved in my nose pinch. So, if the object is a pen I'll pick up the pen and the pen plays the role of the thumb and pushes one nostril shut while my other thumb closes the other nostril.

Another nose pinch variation I've devised is the "mutual nose pinch" where I'll visualise me nose pinching a DC's nose with my hands, and the DC nose pinching my nose with his hands. Like a, "Hey, let's help each other realise this is a dream" kind of thing. I've only been doing that visualising a week and on two dreams this week I've had DCs put their face right up to my face and in one of those dreams I became lucid.