Thread: All Day Awareness, A DILD Tutorial by KingYoshi

To everyone just starting out, I made an addition to the tutorial called Getting Started. Be sure to check that out.

Originally Posted by Agent

Well you've convinced me. How long did it take for ADA to become natural? Right now it seems to require a lot of concentration.

It took me a couple months to get the hang of it. I left out a key part of the process and I have now added it, so be sure to check out the Getting Started part .

Originally Posted by rynkrt3

So I need to try and hear everythig and visually observe everything I can?

Ah, you actually need to try and hear, see, smell, taste, feel everything you can. That doesn't mean you walk around licking things like a Zebrah ( ), sniffing people, or touching everything. It just means you should taste the air, smell the air, and feel anything you are in contact with. Mainly the clothes and air on your skin.

Ah Yoshi, the starting out part of it makes good sence. Sorta like doing sessions during the day and gradually building up until your session is all day.

It's funny, this is sort of irrelevant but when im high, I can notice these sort of things much easier. Is it the same for you Yoshi?

Wow, this is the exact thing I train since 2 weeks now! I thought it was called "Lucid Living" but that doesn't matter. I have to say that this technique is just awesome. When I started I had a ld at the third night doing it and had another one right on the next night just because I was aware in the dream. Gonna add some of your tipps in my style and see if it helps more

Originally Posted by rynkrt3

Ah Yoshi, the starting out part of it makes good sence. Sorta like doing sessions during the day and gradually building up until your session is all day.

It's funny, this is sort of irrelevant but when im high, I can notice these sort of things much easier. Is it the same for you Yoshi?

Oh yeah. I love how my mind works when I'm high (which is one of the reasons I like to stay high). Though it does tend to make you do things like, leaving out one of the more important steps in the technique .

Originally Posted by Katsuno

Wow, this is the exact thing I train since 2 weeks now! I thought it was called "Lucid Living" but that doesn't matter. I have to say that this technique is just awesome. When I started I had a ld at the third night doing it and had another one right on the next night just because I was aware in the dream. Gonna add some of your tipps in my style and see if it helps more

Awesome! Hopefully, those tips help you out even more. It sounds like you are already having some good results though. Nice Keep it up and good luck to you!

I've been practicing walking meditation lately, which I guess is kind of like this technique. I've been having a more LDs this week than usual because of it. Nice tutorial, very well laid out.

If you are comfy in the current position is the position change nescasary to the technique?

Originally Posted by starburst

Thank you so much for making this tutorial! I'm now very determined to try ADA and I hope it leads to success. Thanks again!

No problem at all and I wish you the best of luck !

Originally Posted by mooseantlers

If you are comfy in the current position is the position change nescasary to the technique?

Ah, are you referring to my WILD technique? If so, it is all about comfort. If you feel comfortable in the first position, you don't need to position change if you don't want to. The position change's primary function is getting your body in a comfortable position and giving the dreamer a fresh start if they become become frustrated with lack of progress. Feel free to stay in one position if you are nice and comfortable.

After only a few hours a day of doing this, my dream recall has improved 10 fold. My latest DJ entry can confirm that this really does help with recall.

Thanks Yoshi!

So. I really don't get it:
must I keep in mind - for example - that im breathing and that my chest is moving while im breathing the whole time or must I recognize it one time and then search for other things that I could be aware of?

I always try to be aware of the blinking of my eyes and my breathing THE WHOLE TIME, is that right?

Is it recommended to "expand" ADA with questions like "is my environment logical?, What did I do the last 30 mins?"

Why am I just finding out about this!?!
I just started lucid dreaming on April 25,2011 after watching Inception during my summer vacation! I was successful having my first lucid only 10 days after I knew about lucid dreaming! But ever since I came back to school on June, I was stuck on a dry spell. Maybe because my hours of sleep is lessened from 10 hours to 5-7 hours or even because of stress. Thankfully I found your tread about ADA just yesterday. It maybe the solution to my problems! Hopefully I could master this and finally having lucid dreams!

Awesome technique KingYoshi! Seems to be the key to lucid dreaming naturally! Do you recommend it for a beginner? Am not exactly experienced in lucid dreams Waiting for your reply!

Dicci0308

Originally Posted by dicci0308

Awesome technique KingYoshi! Seems to be the key to lucid dreaming naturally! Do you recommend it for a beginner? Am not exactly experienced in lucid dreams Waiting for your reply!

Dicci0308

I'm not KingYoshi, but i would definitely recommend this technique. I have personally had a whole load of succes with it. If you have any questions, you can still post them here, but it won't be KY who answers them, it will be someone else who uses this (me for example :p). Good luck

This makes so much sense. I wonder why I'm not "aware" or "conscious" of stuff going on in my dreams, but I never stop and take a deep breath of real life, so why would I do it in a dream?
Im starting to try this as of today being my first day. Ive also found a little trick for others trying to start this, that I think KingYoshi stated in the original post, but I'm going to put it blatantly here:
To help, you can imagine the real world is a vivid dream if you are stuck trying to observe everything. You will become more excited about looking at absolutely every detail if you think in your mind that its a dream and you want to remember it as best as you can.

Anyway, Im gonna keep trying this until I start living it, wish me luck and thanks

I've been practising ADA for about 5 days but I haven't seen any results, but I'm feeling positive about it.

However, I'd just like to know if I'm going about it the right way. When I'm practising it I just focus on everything in my field of vision.

When I try hear everything should I just recognise that there is a sound or try to figure out what it is. Also, I don't quite get how I'm meant to feel things, is it noticing how, let's say, my legs feel against the matress when I'm lying down?

Originally Posted by TehLadoo

I've been practising ADA for about 5 days but I haven't seen any results, but I'm feeling positive about it.

However, I'd just like to know if I'm going about it the right way. When I'm practising it I just focus on everything in my field of vision.

When I try hear everything should I just recognise that there is a sound or try to figure out what it is. Also, I don't quite get how I'm meant to feel things, is it noticing how, let's say, my legs feel against the matress when I'm lying down?

There is no need to figure out what the sounds are, just notice the sounds. Noticing how you leg feels against the matress is an excellent example of how you should be trying to feel things. Another one is feeling the clothes on your body.
Trying to focus on literally everything in your field of vision is impossible and would probably drive you mad. What you should probably be doing is focussing on details in the center of your field of vision. As for the rest of your vision: make sure you notice and stay aware of what you are seeing, but there is no need to look at every object individually.

For everyone: Sivason has a good class on dream yoga. This contains (among other things) excellent tutorials about sensory awareness. I think that following those will help you understand what you should be doing.

Hi to all, Newbie here. Had 14 LD under my belt for 11 months. After an 8 month dry spell, i decided to give it a break. While searching for an LDS, i came to this thread. Started practicing yesterday, did WBTB for less than 30 mins, and also the Lucid dream timer technique, i had the most stable and long lucid dream ever (30 mins!!!). My previous LD were less than 5 minutes duration. This thing works for me. Thanks spyguy. I agree that reality checks are not for inducing LD but to CONFIRM that one is dreaming. i personally would want to focus awareness externally so that you would not feel your physical body and increase tension to it, preventing relaxation. Instead, focus on your eyes, hearing, and your hands, with as much detail as pussible.

I've been doing reality checks about once every fifteen minutes to thirty minutes, sometimes even more checks in that time-span. I'm assuming I should take thirty seconds to a minute of each of those checks and just take in everything around me and think to myself: "Am I dreaming? Are there any abnormal objects? *think of all the things I hear/see* What makes that object "real"? Describe it." And then the rest of the time just kind of do it at random times when I can?

Also, please answer this: What do you recommend I actually question about what I take in? I'm not too sure what I have to say to myself to confirm it's a real object, and not part of a dream. I'm assuming something along the lines of: where did it come from, how did it get here, and what is it made of?

Thank you so much for the Tut King Yoshi, but I do have questions. I just started two days ago on this technique and wanted to ask if I was doing it correctly. This is how I usually go about with my sessions. I try to have a session every two-three hours for maybe 2-3 minutes. In this two to three minutes. I try to notice how thing feel, going around feeling random items I usually don't. or how my feet feel.. Sliding or touching the cold tile beneath me. I look outside my window, and take in the scenery. How the trees look, the sky, everything around me. different color hues. I also question my reality. As if I could possibly be in a dream. I do multiple RC's (Nose Plug, Gravity test, counting hands, looking at clock.) I came here to ask am I doing this correctly? and if so, would should I start doing to benefit more from ADA. Like you said. You pay attention to how you breath, the expansion of your longs. Smells. Clothes. I'am just looking for a guide because since I've came over this tutorial I think I've found the one I love! Thanks for anyone who replies!

Hi everyone, I'm new and it's a long time ago I would like to have some clarifications on this technique. I say that I am Italian and I apologize for English. I use a google translator. I hope to receive an answer. KingYoshi does the ADA technique work without making the WBTB? That is, it is necessary to run the technique, to test reality, to write dreams in the journal and just do it?

I'm on my phone in school (<3 smartphones.). I took about 5 minutes to hear everything I could. (whispering, writing, snoring, pens drop, etc.). I started to feel everything on me(put my awareness on the way my sleeves feel, the way my sboes feel etc.) I observed everything I could see, I I tried tasting the air but it had to smell or taste.

Anyway,a few notes: when you do these things, it's not like they change, the way your shoes feel on your feet stays the same, the sounds of everything is as it always it, BUT now your noticing it. So it may feel like your doing these things to no avail, but you are doing it right

I have a question. I was doing these things like a check list (sight is done, let's try hearing now, ok now touch etc.)
Is it ok to do that, or is it supposed to be all at the same time (which would be mind fuck.)

For the past few days, I tried (all) day awareness in different situations, several times a day. It's rather easy to focus on the sounds that surround me, the way my clothes feel on my body, the blood running through my veins and how it feels to type all at the same time.
But I also resolved to try and be aware on all of my way from my home to the federal state's library. Problem is, that way involves city streets with lots of traffic, walking past a shopping mall, two busy stations, being in a train full of strangers and walking down a shopping street. And whilst I can focus on a few things at the same time, I can't even imagine how not to fail when trying to focus on 20 people's blabber, the wind on my skin and in my hair, the clothes on my body, the blood in my veins, the sun on my skin, the sounds of traffic, wind and footsteps of dozens of strangers and so on at the same time.
I doubt anyone could be aware of and focus on all of those things at the same time. So what should my priorities be?

Or ...

Originally Posted by rynkrt3

... is it supposed to be all at the same time (which would be mind fuck.)

Originally Posted by Krake

For the past few days, I tried (all) day awareness in different situations, several times a day. It's rather easy to focus on the sounds that surround me, the way my clothes feel on my body, the blood running through my veins and how it feels to type all at the same time.
But I also resolved to try and be aware on all of my way from my home to the federal state's library. Problem is, that way involves city streets with lots of traffic, walking past a shopping mall, two busy stations, being in a train full of strangers and walking down a shopping street. And whilst I can focus on a few things at the same time, I can't even imagine how not to fail when trying to focus on 20 people's blabber, the wind on my skin and in my hair, the clothes on my body, the blood in my veins, the sun on my skin, the sounds of traffic, wind and footsteps of dozens of strangers and so on at the same time.
I doubt anyone could be aware of and focus on all of those things at the same time. So what should my priorities be?

Or ...

Ah, well see a lot of the problems you will have with ADA, is trying to over analyze things. That really isn't the point. You don't have to pick up all the words of everyone's individual blabber. You just listen to the sound as a whole. Hear everything that is going on around you, notice how the voices are different or things like that. If you are trying to overhear everyone, then that is definitely going to cause problems achieving the heightened awareness. As for your sight, see everything, but don't go looking for things to see. As you are walking along the street don't start panning around trying to see the entire environment, just notice everything in your normal line of vision. You can use your hearing and other senses to pick up on the events that are out of your sight. As for smell, most people have pretty good smell awareness anyway. It won't be hard to pick up on different smells as you walk along. Just keep the visual awareness in your line of sight and don't try to make extra difficulty by looking all around you the whole time. Humans are very capable of performing ADA in a busy street, it just takes a bit of practice. Its like an awareness overload at first. Just take a deep breath, relax, and be aware. Hope that helped out a bit.

Nice, it sounds like you are doing well. Go through the checklist like you did and once you complete it, attempt to do all at once. Try to hold on to the all at once awareness for a bit.

I'm seriously struggling with this today I don't know whether it's the fact I've been up since 3AM this morning after a failed WILD and then a failed attempt to get back to sleep, or what. Anything I can do to bring this state of awareness back? Because it feels too draining currently, although I really don't want to waste precious time

Just currently tried/trying to notice everything all at once and it's so hard. I focus on different sights/sounds and it's hard to focus on reading etc whilest doing it. But I see the sense! So I'll try to keep it up. Great tutorial Yoshi Thank you.

Though my head's beginning to hurt.