Thread: All Day Awareness, A DILD Tutorial by KingYoshi

WOWWWW! welcome back KING YOSHI!!!!!!!!!!!! glad to see you again!

Wow, getting back into the ADA habit is going to be killer! A great opportunity for the rest of us to see the master's progress from scratch. Be sure to update us on your progress.

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Wow, getting back into the ADA habit is going to be killer! A great opportunity for the rest of us to see the master's progress from scratch. Be sure to update us on your progress.

Haha, I shall. Today did not go very well. I was waaaaaay too hungover . Tomorrow will be my official first training day.

Welcome back! You dont know me, but i do kinda know you. Your guide was a huge inspiration when i first got really serious about lucid dreaming, i took a break, and now that im back i still use ada, now along with new things, but the awareness is becoming a fixed program in my mind. Thank you for your guide!

Originally Posted by Dodge631

Welcome back! You dont know me, but i do kinda know you. Your guide was a huge inspiration when i first got really serious about lucid dreaming, i took a break, and now that im back i still use ada, now along with new things, but the awareness is becoming a fixed program in my mind. Thank you for your guide!

No problem at all. Glad it helped you out a bit and thanks for the welcome

Today was my first day of practicing this technique and i gotta say i've never felt so ''alive'' I'll admit i had to use an alarm to remind me and it's quite tiring but i hope i can get used to it! Thank you for sharing this technique!

You can bet your bucket this method works! I had an hour long lucid dream with only a day of practice. Thanks for the tutorial KingYoshi!

OK, I was trying for some time. No effects... I don't know, why. I was paying attention to everything I could for about a week. Next, I started trying with only one thing. I used body sensations, my weight, gravity, each for a week or more. Two dreams about LD at the very beginning of my practice, that's all I managed to get... Do you have any advice?

you are not wrong sweety! for most people in this site, ADA and similar practices have only worked after some weeks of practice or even some months!!!! your results were great for the first week. so please continue and see how it will work

Thanks! 2 days have passed since I began this technique and I just had a lucid dream last night! Also, I have a question. If I keep my lucidity all the time, would that mean I would reach a point where each dream I have becomes lucid? Also I found this, similar to ADA: The Secret of Frequent Lucid Dreamers

Never mind, I re-read the tutorial and you answered by question.

Sorry it took so long for my replies.

Originally Posted by WhatIsReality

Today was my first day of practicing this technique and i gotta say i've never felt so ''alive'' I'll admit i had to use an alarm to remind me and it's quite tiring but i hope i can get used to it! Thank you for sharing this technique!

Awesome! Yeah, it can be very tiring at first. Just stick with it and will slowly get more and more used to it.

Originally Posted by Zaephr

You can bet your bucket this method works! I had an hour long lucid dream with only a day of practice. Thanks for the tutorial KingYoshi!

Thanks and congrats on your success! I'm glad it has helped you produce some results. Just keep at it

Originally Posted by Oktek

OK, I was trying for some time. No effects... I don't know, why. I was paying attention to everything I could for about a week. Next, I started trying with only one thing. I used body sensations, my weight, gravity, each for a week or more. Two dreams about LD at the very beginning of my practice, that's all I managed to get... Do you have any advice?

Like yaya said, just keep at it. It sounds like you are doing the right things. Practice makes perfect and it can take some time for the technique to start producing strong results. You have had some good success so far, so just keep working at it and use that experience as your building blocks for future endeavors.

Originally Posted by Alien348

Thanks! 2 days have passed since I began this technique and I just had a lucid dream last night! Also, I have a question. If I keep my lucidity all the time, would that mean I would reach a point where each dream I have becomes lucid? Also I found this, similar to ADA: The Secret of Frequent Lucid Dreamers

It is possible to reach that point, yes. Congrats on your success and just keep working at it. The more effort you put into it, the better the rewards. Just make sure you are staying relaxed and not stressing yourself out. Stress can be a killer when it comes to Lucid Dreaming.

I figured it would be worth mentioning from the perspective of someone who's done this myself for a while, how I feel this is best accomplished for a beginner. I started doing this as a result of the fact that I meditate multiple times a day every day, practice yoga, qigong, and various routines and ritual practices that demand constant mindful awareness, and when this first began affecting my dreams it was mostly just as a result of the awareness I put into these exercises. It was later on that through my practices I decided to devote more of my day to maintaining such a level of awareness, and as that grew, dream clarity, recall, and DILD went up significantly. It's nice to see someone has written a guide to doing this, since it's one of those things I just did automatically through my practice and would probably normally forget to suggest to people, despite how much it helped me.

Anyway, if you're just beginning, the idea of being aware of every moment of your day sounds like a chore. The trick is to understand why awareness helps your dreams first of all. If you know how to drive, or work a repetitive job, or have done long school work before, you know how good the subconscious is at automating our processes. The first time you drive a car, it's hard, you have to do everything manually, and you make mistakes, but once you've done it a few times, your subconscious just takes over, and you don't really "think" about the process of driving the times you do it after that. This is how most of our routine each day goes, our subconscious takes control, and leads us about like a bit of a machine - however, we still have our conscious thinking happening on top, so if something astoundingly weird were to happen that breaks the routine, we'll question it.

In our dreams however, you go about like a machine on autopilot, but your conscious mind is asleep, so when a giant flying dinosaur comes through the window and takes a dump on your friend's head, it doesn't trigger any reason to break autopilot, and you continue being blissfully unaware. So essentially what this technique is about, is about reclaiming yourself from autopilot in your day to day life, so that you stop being in autopilot in your dreams, when you're not in autopilot, you take actions slowly (increasing dream length), you pay attention to your surroundings (noticing things and becoming lucid more often), and you recall the events afterwards much easier.

So really, the easiest way to get started is simple. What are you doing right now? Reading my post. How are you reading it though? You were probably just aware of yourself reading it, but were you aware of the feeling of each of your fingers on your keyboard? Of the background sounds happening outside your house? Of the flashing of your Skype window beneath the post? Pause right now, and take a moment to engage each of your senses. First, what do you see? Your monitor, your keyboard, now look around the room, take it all in, examine things. Now what do you hear? Listen to the sounds, explore where they're coming from mentally, i.e. if you hear your neighbour, try and picture where exactly outside they'd be to be making those noises etc. Next up, touch, how does the keyboard feel, how does your body feel? Is your back aching from being in a strained position? Well sit up and straighten up a bit, get comfortable. Now what about smell? Forgot the deodorant today? Or can you perhaps smell your parents cooking downstairs - why not go ask them what's cooking! Taste? Grab a snack, enjoy it, take your time to eat it slowly instead of rushing to get back to what you were doing.

If you'll notice, all you've really done in this process is SLOW DOWN. Instead of focusing so intently on your task that you ignore everything else, you've taken the time to pause, slow down, and take in what's really happening in all five of your primary senses. So the easiest way to get started, is just to do things more slowly and carefully during your day. An easy one is meals - instead of rushing to finish, while watching TV at the same time. Take time for your meal, eat it while doing nothing else, focus on the taste, the texture, the smell, and really enjoy it - if nothing else, you get to enjoy your food better, and eating slower aids your digestion, so its good for you, but it also starts to get you used to a heightened awareness of your senses. Now what else do you automate each day? Do you walk to school in the morning and find yourself marching along a bit like an ant? Slow down, leave earlier in the morning if you're worried about being late, and take the time to walk there slowly - take in the sights. What's going on at the building sight across the road? Where's that tweeting coming from, which tree? Try and spot the bird! What can you smell? Hear? See? Go touch a tree on your way past it, feel the warm sunlight on the bark.

You get to school, and you've not really taken any effort or time out of your day, but you've enjoyed your walk to school a lot more, you've enjoyed your meals a lot more. Now start doing it elsewhere. Having a quick bath or shower? Instead of rushing through it, take the time, look at the parts of yourself you're washing, check your teeth and see if they look/feel healthy, maybe get out a tape measure and see if you've grown any if you're not too old, or perhaps weigh yourself and see if you've put on any muscle in that extra time you've devoted to your morning walks!

Take your day slowly, reclaim your senses, and get yourself back from being a slave to autopilot. Both your waking life, and your dreaming life will improve massively as a result. You'll start to see the world more beautifully like you did as a kid, because instead of focusing on your destination 24/7, you're present in the NOW, in this moment, enjoying what's there in front of you

You literally don't have to take ANY extra time out of your day for this, instead you're just reclaiming the time you already let go by in a blur to slow down and enjoy the day!

OK, so I have made an 30 day ADA experiment on Reddit, but was sick and failed to accomplish it. Now I want to start again, but I was wondering what have you guys used to remind yourself to do ADA? I was considering doing it in scientific, experimental manner. I would stop doing everything else dream related and just focus on ADA for 30 days. But I can't seem to find right reminder. What do you guys use?

@KingYoshi Do you think it is beneficial that when doing ADA we also always ask ourselves: "Am I dreaming right now?". I don't mean usual reality check, I mean on developing habit to always be aware that everything might be a dream. I know ADA gives us much more information than we would usually have, but with this I think it would be even more powerful. What is your opinion on this?

Originally Posted by Elaol

OK, so I have made an 30 day ADA experiment on Reddit, but was sick and failed to accomplish it. Now I want to start again, but I was wondering what have you guys used to remind yourself to do ADA? I was considering doing it in scientific, experimental manner. I would stop doing everything else dream related and just focus on ADA for 30 days. But I can't seem to find right reminder. What do you guys use?

Make a solid commitment to noticing whenever you've zoned out, and tune back in. Then do it. Lather, rinse, repeat. That is, just keep doing it. Be patient, and over time you will find yourself noticing more and more and remaining tuned in longer and longer.

@KingYoshi Do you think it is beneficial that when doing ADA we also always ask ourselves: "Am I dreaming right now?". I don't mean usual reality check, I mean on developing habit to always be aware that everything might be a dream. I know ADA gives us much more information than we would usually have, but with this I think it would be even more powerful. What is your opinion on this?

Well your Q wasn't @FryingMan but I'll weight in: IMO you do need the constant notion in your mind of why you're doing this: to determine your state (awake/dreaming). It's not enough just to be aware of sense input, you must also reflect upon it with the ultimate goal of determining your state.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Make a solid commitment to noticing whenever you've zoned out, and tune back in. Then do it. Lather, rinse, repeat. That is, just keep doing it. Be patient, and over time you will find yourself noticing more and more and remaining tuned in longer and longer.



Well your Q wasn't @FryingMan but I'll weight in: IMO you do need the constant notion in your mind of why you're doing this: to determine your state (awake/dreaming). It's not enough just to be aware of sense input, you must also reflect upon it with the ultimate goal of determining your state.

OK, thanks man. This has helped a lot!

Once it's much easior to be aware than not aware, do you have to keep focusing on what you see, hear, feel...or is just being aware enough?

For the 95% of us that don't have results in the first week, how long does it normally take to see results?

So far I've been doing this for two months. I'm aware about 80-90% of the time. For a month and a half I've been doing a Dream Journal, and doing reality checks, using a beeper that gives two beeps every 10 minutes.

Two nights ago for the first time I noticed something weird in a dream, a ferris wheel that was weird shaped in the center, but I didn't become lucid. So far, the only way for me to become lucid is having my mind very awake and alert when I go back to bed doing a WBTB after being up for an hour, or taking a lucid steroid!

Wow, this technique sounds powerful so I'm willing to try it. Some issues though:
-I can hear the "Sound of Silence" since I generally sit in a very quiet room. Only when I try to listen to it though. Its like a constant hum. Does this occur in dream? If not, Then keeping all day awareness of it may help me realize I'm in a dream state if i dont hear it.

-I meet practically no people except my brother and parents most of time in a day since I live alone in my room and spend it in my room 90% of the time. Should I keep awareness of the faces of the people I meet so if I meet someone and dont recognize who they are I will know I'm in a dream? Ofcourse I cant practice this much since Im not meeting many people besides my family.

-Also, instead of vision my most active sense, since I started ADA seems to be sound. I hear the sound of silence, traffic, wind, noises around the house. I see usually static images like a webpage or app window. Is this okay or should I focus more on what I see?

Hi,
Really great tutorial, it's awesome. I started ADA some time ago but stopped due to not enough concentration and results. But I know it takes time and I started again with sessions when I walk and got 2 lucid dreams in the last 3 days.
The last one was this morning but didn't have time to get the control before my brain wakes me up before I get stab by Ann old homeless person, but that's another story.

I have some questions, since I didn't have a lot of LD and I'm new to ADA.

- I can easily hear things around me, notice the touch more or less in the same time and I taste the air from time to time.
But I have trouble with seeing things around. I mainly use my hearing so o don't know if I should try to notice all the small details I can see or try to embrace all I manage to see even without noticing small details.

- I'm also wondering if noticing shadows is useful to detect dreams. Do the shadows behave strangely in dreams? Does the same reasoning apply for reflections or colours?

Thank you for help, I'll keep practising and I hope I'll get better at ADA and LD.

Great guide!

Thanks Yoshi I been doing this for 3 mouths and had 100 lucid dreams this is by far the best teq

I never had a lucid dream and when i tried ADA I found it easy to maintain myself aware when I remember of doing it. How do I know if I'm doing it correctly? And I started a DJ three days ago but can't remember a single dream and I also use the mantra " I remember my dreams " before going to bed. Any advices that could help me remember them?

Originally Posted by Freixs

I never had a lucid dream and when i tried ADA I found it easy to maintain myself aware when I remember of doing it. How do I know if I'm doing it correctly? And I started a DJ three days ago but can't remember a single dream and I also use the mantra " I remember my dreams " before going to bed. Any advices that could help me remember them?

First of all, be patient You're not doing anything wrong from what I read so it will certainly improve if you persist. Also, there are many factors that can influence dream recall negatively, such as stress, drug/alcohol use, not enough sleep, irregular sleeping patterns, etcetera.
Lastly, I don't know how well your recall normally is, but most people have ups and downs in recall from time to time, so don't be worried if it is not immediately great after just starting to practice.

I'm sure that if you stick around these forums you'll find all your questions answered and your recall improving steadily!

Started this yesterday. Had a very long vivid dream last night.

Just some clarification on if I'm doing this correctly because it seems so easy when I know people struggle to remember.

For visual, I try to look at everything in my field of vision but with moving my eyes or neck to look at them. This is so I am aware of things around me but I'm not analysing and drawing all my attention/awareness to them.

Sound: I simply tune into the layers of different sounds going on around me. For example, I could be watching TV (I listen to everything that is audible in the clip; voices, sfx and music etc.), whilst watching TV, I hear my parents having a conversation in the kitchen, I listen to their voices, picking out certain words but trying to establish a correlation or meaning of those words. I listen to the pitch of their voices and the tones. Whilst talking, they'd be cooking as well. So take in the sounds of pots and pans clanging, the sizzling of food, the humming of the oven- all whilst watching TV and being aware of things in my FOV.

Smell: I notice any changes of smell in the air and take it in.

Feel: I feel my body sat in a chair, the fabric against exposed skin, the temperature of my body, the muscles being used in certain motions.

Taste: I eat slowly, feeling the flavours and how they blend together.

I also try and be aware of blinking, breathing and my tongue resting whenever I remember to (ie- when I think about other awareness and such.)

When I was walking yesterday, I also noticed how zombie like people are. I really feel like I stand out from the crowd when I do ADA, compared to "Daywalkers".

I see good things in this technique. So I'll stick with it

What is the best way to do this technique? Like for the first option

A. Do I just think to myself, feel the wind blowing against my skin, hear the pitter patter against the ground, notice the shadows made by the trees

Or do I do this:

B. I ask myself how does the ground feel, like hard smooth, etc, or for example if I look at something, do I like study its shape and wonder like what shape is that exactly for example.