All Day Awareness, A DILD Tutorial by KingYoshi

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Originally Posted by Candlelight

An utterly fantastic tutorial. Thanks for writing it up, Yoshi! I'm definitely going to start practicing this...I'm about to have a shower so I'll try it then. The feel of the water, the sound of it hitting the floor, the shampoo running over my hands...and so forth. I'll report back when I'm done. :P

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Please don't make it too in-depth. There could be young eyes viewing this.

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Originally Posted by LucidJuggalo

Please don't make it too in-depth. There could be young eyes viewing this.

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Aha don't worry about that happening. I was only going to mention if I could...'reach' this state of awareness. :)

Man! I read this article and tried it from the time I read it until I went to bed. (4 PM until about 12pm) I did forget that i was doing but then got right back on track and then i started noticing little things that i had missed before. After having a higher state of awareness than i usually do all day. I had a dream where i was with some friends going to walmart, then it switched to a day at my highschool. ( im in college now and have not spoke nor seen this girl in about a year or so) I was in class then noticed this girl who was a Star Athlete and straight A student and whom now has a child, being very weird and looking somewhat pale and thinner than usual. as the dream progressed I figured out that she was on HERION! lol but apparently my awareness is just shit because i didnt even reality check when that was CRYSTAL CLEAR dream moment!

It seems you had, at the very least, heightened your awareness for that dream. You picked up on some oddities/dream signs within the dream. Unfortunately, your mind tricked you into the heroin addict assumption :P. Its all good though. The mind is pretty darn good at covering up for its oddities. That shows some progress and you should just keep practicing. The more you get used to ADA the more things you will pick up on. It will get harder for your mind to effectively hide numerous and larger scale oddities, like being in high school :P. Nice progress and keep up the good work!

I tried this earlier but I couldn't concentrate on everything at once, not even for a second. I did, however, manage to achieve this weird...feeling. Everything felt like reality around me. It's just like I could do it instantly - just like flipping a 'feeling' switch on in my head. I've been able to do it before but I've never really taken any notice of it up until now. But anyway, it can't be that easy so I'll stop now at risk of causing lots of confusion. :P

Guess I'll just read over it again and give it some hardcore practice. :D

Actually, that is good candle. Noticing how reality feels is part of it. With proper awareness you can feel the difference in reality and the dream world. The ultimate goal of ADA is turning the feeling of the dream world into a dream sign itself. Meaning, you gain lucidity simply because you are in a dream.

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Originally Posted by KingYoshi

Actually, that is good candle. Noticing how reality feels is part of it. With proper awareness you can feel the difference in reality and the dream world. The ultimate goal of ADA is turning the feeling of the dream world into a dream sign itself. Meaning, you gain lucidity simply because you are in a dream.

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Sorry, this is irrelevant but also kinda relevant lol. In my next... ahh idk maybe 5-10 lucids, ALL I'm going to be is be aware, just walk around and observe the difference of the feeling of being in a dream, and being in waking life. I hope this helps me :)

Yeah, that is good idea. You don't have to waste the entire lucid doing this, though. Just take a few moments throughout the lucid to really get a feel for the dream world. Perform an ADA session in your lucid and realize the difference between the dream world and waking life.

Amazing thread. Everyone should do this. The only bad thing for me is I have chronic lower back pain, and I definatly don't want to be aware of that all day lol. I try and ignore that.

I compined that with MILD last night and I broke the dryspell :banana:( 2 months with only 2 poor non-vivid ''not so''lucid dreams).
I was in a semi-nightmare situation where I was in a house where a guy wanted to kill me and at one point I just realised this was a dream , I didn't ever reality checked, and I tried to throw the guy a fire ball.While trying though I woke up.(maybe I tried so hard)I feel great cause this was the first really lucid dream I have after 2 months , so ADA rocks (MILD rocks too)

Here are some great tips on becoming more aware. This is by Wakingnomad

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Originally Posted by WakingNomad

These ideas are based on different beliefs systems integrate lucid dreaming into their religion, some Don Juan ideas, and on personal experience.

These are things to do in Waking Life.

1) Ponder the illusory nature of life.

2) Consider how dreams are like waking life, and waking life like dreams.

3) Ponder the possibility of the dream world being a real place.

5) Wonder if you could be seeing other real people in dreams.

6) Visualize what you would do if you could do anything.

7) Do nothing and everything.

8) Maintain awareness. Turn off the autopilot, and do everything deliberately. Breathe, walk, eat, sit, stand, drink in awareness.

9) Force yourself to always have good posture. This is actually a great feat. This will give you amazing awareness.

10) Ponder how which laws in dreaming apply to waking life.

11) Be in the moment. Whatever you do, do just that one thing, and nothing else. This will give you amazing awareness and focus.

12) Do not be amazed, said Jesus. Remain calm. If you become too amazed, adrenaline will course through your veins, and you will wake up.

13) When you are listening, only listen. Focus on your awareness going to the back of your head.

14) Teach others about lucid dreaming. Teachers always learn more than students. When teaching focus your awareness to the third eye.

15) When neither teaching or listening, bring your awareness to your crown.

16) Take a full deep exhale and inhale with every breath. This is a great feet, and will amazingly increase your awareness.

17) Look at everything. Look at everything you see, but don't focus on one thing too much. This is will transfer over to lucid dreaming. This will also increase your awareness. You will begin to notice things you have never seen.

18) Listen to everything. Listen to as many conversations as you can simultaneously in a crowded room. Focus on one. Next make it all background noise. Listen to sounds far. Become so quiet, you can hear your own heartbeat.

19) Touch everything. It's best to do this in the forest so people won't think you're a nutjob. Touch everything, and notice the temperature, and texture.

20) Walk around with your eyes closed. This will increase the awareness of the other senses.

21) Don't watch TV.

22) Think about where you would go, if you could go anywhere, even if the place was not real.

23) When someone begins to argue with you, listen to them so hard, they are forced to quit arguing. This goes against your nature, and will increase awareness.

24) Do the thing that you are afraid to do in waking life.

25) Keep life new. Do new things. Try new foods. Meet new people. Always say yes if you can if someone invites you to do something new.

26) Do the most fun things in life as much as you can.

27) Meditate.

28) Be aware of others' energy. Learn how to avoid negative energy. Gravitate toward positive energy. This I call the "energy sense." Learn to cultivate it. Someone that gives you the creeps is negative energy. People that make you feel good without saying or doing anything have positive energy.

29) Ponder the possibility of everything and nothing being true.

30) Do a reality check every time you wake up, and every time you walk through a door. Every time you do an RC, say, I am dreaming.

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Regardless of your views toward shared dreaming, Nomad is a pro lucid dreamer. His advice and tips should not be taken lightly. He really knows his stuff and that is an excellent list. Thanks for posting it allensig :D!

@Stratos - Awesome man! I'm glad you were able to bust out of that dry spell. Congrats on achieving lucidity! I'm sure there will be many excellent lucid in your future, good luck to you!

I read the tutorial the other day and have been trying to do it, when I can remember.
I had my first DILD this morning.
I can't remember how I became lucid though.
Thanks Yoshi.

This pretty much sums up what I do (with a little more focus on DJing)! Thanks for taking your time to share this with us, Yoshi! Oh and, welcome back!

Nice and I'm glad to be back, XeL :D!

@Angusaurus - Awesome! Congrats on achieving lucidity :D! There will be many more where that came from...I'm sure of it! Good luck in your future efforts as well!

I have just realised how there are so many things that we think are obvious, but we don't really pay attention to them.
It's even more funnier to stay still for a few minutes to be aware of my surroundings, just to notice that you didn't spot the most visible ones.
Anyways, I can focus on two things at once. I'm developing sight awareness, sound awareness and feeling awareness, casually trying taste and smell.
Sounds like the best technique out there, imo.

Yeah, taste doesn't really come in to play as much as the others. Sounds good Polarity and let us know how everything goes. Good luck to you!

Thanks, I'm going to try this and be serious about it. I've noticed I'm pretty unobservant about my surroundings normally, so a few times, I've tried to become really aware. But it's taken conscious effort, and I end up having to talk to myself about my surroundings to keep it going, and it feels very unnatural, and I can't really concentrate on other things while doing it. I hope you're right and that it does become natural over time.

I've been procrastinating for far too long now on this site. :P

Whilst this is an undeniably good tutorial, I'm going to leave it for the time being in order to focus on the basics (namely the DILD method). I hardly ever write my dreams down and I never RC so that needs to be sorted. When I've experienced a few more I'll give this another go, I just feel it'd be better if I focused on one thing for the time being. Quick question; You probably get this all the time, but when should one perform RCs, and how often should they do it?

Thanks in advance. :)

Finally a technique that fits my sleep schedule! I'm going to try this for sure. I need to be more alert anyways. Thanks!

Great post! so by ADA basically your basically saying practice "mindfulness" right?

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Originally Posted by Candlelight

I've been procrastinating for far too long now on this site. :P

Whilst this is an undeniably good tutorial, I'm going to leave it for the time being in order to focus on the basics (namely the DILD method). I hardly ever write my dreams down and I never RC so that needs to be sorted. When I've experienced a few more I'll give this another go, I just feel it'd be better if I focused on one thing for the time being. Quick question; You probably get this all the time, but when should one perform RCs, and how often should they do it?

Thanks in advance. :)

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You should RC anytime you remember to do it. Atleast 20 times a day.

Also KingYoshi, amazing tutorial! I have been doing this half-arsed for the past months now, and I'm going to try to work harder to see if my LD/month ratio goes up. This technique has a downside though.

If you're constantly aware of everything, then you will be constantly aware of the bad things aswell. Having wrist injuries and working outside in freezing cold weather makes it a biatch to keep up, but I've tried thinking that feeling pain is better than feeling nothing. It tells us we're alive and it's usually temporary.

Practicing this technique doesn't only make you lucid, but changes your view on life. Doing this like I have, I have started to appreciate the small things in life more. Doing this full time is going to enchance life to a maximum.

Clearly this technique is doing wonders for me. I used to be lucky to get a LD a week. I've now had 2 (technically 3, since I had 2 this morning, but the 2nd one wasn't worth writing down as it was so short and I remember so little) in the space of 3 days. Whoop! :D

Yeah me too.I believe this technique is what will get me to being a pro:D

Just remember guys, it is a lot harder than it seems. If you lose consciousness or awareness, realizing that you lost it will make you aware again. You just have to keep at it and it will become natural. 10 minutes of awareness is miles ahead of most of the human race. Some people go their whole lives never being aware with the exception of death.