Thread: All Day Awareness, A DILD Tutorial by KingYoshi

Lucid after three days of ADA, I actually started to be aware of some oddities in the dream, reality checking as a confirmation.

Awesome tutorial! Started practicing after i first read this ( yesterday evening), and i think i'm starting to get the hang of this. Thx for posting!

No problem at all ! Be sure to post updates on your progress. It may help out some of the others trying, and/or I may be able to help you along the way. Good luck to you!

I have been doing really well with this. I notice more things around the room. When I was at the gym I really noticed the whole room and was super lucid. Last night I went to a rave and lost it for the night. It was really hard for me to keep conscious awareness during the rave. It might have had something to do with the drugs I took Anyway I had no dreams last night which hasn't happened in as long as I can remember. It seems like its much harder to keep awareness when a lot of things are going on around you.

Yeah, with a lot of different things going on, there are just so many things to notice. It would be very difficult to keep up the awareness at a rave. Sounds like you had a good time though !

My last lucid was that vivid that I have noticed the sun shining on the hair on my hand. Literally. I was amazed.
Anyways, Yoshi, what's your lucid dream count per week?

Well, I had 22 Lucid Dreams last month and I tend to hover in the 20-26 per month range. So, around 5 or 6 Lucid Dreams a week. Yeah, the vivid ones are absolutely stunning at times.

Read this the day before yesterday, tried doing it all day yesterday. Except for a few moments, it worked quite well Last night, I didn't become lucid, but i did realise that some things were odd. This technique is really something else, showing results after just 1 day of practice! I'll report back when i make more progress (tomorrow morning i hope)

I also have to say that I'm starting to realise things are quite odd in dreams, no lucids yet though

Awesome! Glad to hear you two are already making some progress. Good luck to you both and I look forward to hearing from you again. ! Just keep working on it and those weird instances will help you become lucid!

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!

Had an instant lucid this morning and another where I just knew it was a dream,but did not do a rc. I am realizing more things in the dream. I have been practicing awareness for a while now, but have recently been giving it everything I have.

EDIT: my gf has been doing this with me and she had a ld last night as well

Very nice! That is cool your girl is doing this with you. You can kind of motivate each other to keep up the awareness. Congrats on your success thus far!

I'm going to try this. However, I know it's not really possible to keep everything in your mind at once. The brain can only process so much information.
I could focus all my attention on basic awareness of all 5 of my sense. Or I could focus all my attention on simply visuals or simply sound. I think the key is not to become distracted and to try to stop yourself from zoning out. Does that sound right?

Ah, you would surprised just how much your brain can process at once. Basically, you want to eventually get to where you are processing all five senses at once. You can always start with visuals and sound and slowly work the other senses into the routine. It may feel forced and awkward at first, but with time and practice you will have to think less and less about it.

Yeah, the idea is to keep yourself from zoning out, going on auto-pilot, taking things for granted, etc. Just take moments to observe your surroundings and truly get a feel for waking life. Observe what it is really like to be awake.

Originally Posted by KingYoshi

Ah, you would surprised just how much your brain can process at once. Basically, you want to eventually get to where you are processing all five senses at once. You can always start with visuals and sound and slowly work the other senses into the routine. It may feel forced and awkward at first, but with time and practice you will have to think less and less about it.

Yeah, the idea is to keep yourself from zoning out, going on auto-pilot, taking things for granted, etc. Just take moments to observe your surroundings and truly get a feel for waking life. Observe what it is really like to be awake.

I feel like I can keep a very basic awareness of all 5 senses IF I am able to keep my mind quiet (which is quite hard for me). But I feel that no matter what, I will always be sacrificing awareness of one sense to be more aware of another.

In essence, there is only so much awareness to go around. I can increase the total amount of awareness I have to distribute to my 5 senses by quieting my mind and meditating, but even then, I sacrifice some of my visual awareness when I focus on smell. Or I lose a little awareness of one conversation going on in the lunchroom when I listen to another.

So, based on that I think the goal of this method (which is similar to many other methods) is to increase total awareness by quieting the mind rather than allocating it to any particular ratio of the senses (EX:50% sight, 30% hearing, 19% touch 1 % smell and taste).

Then again, I haven't really put a whole lot of effort into this method yet. I justify it to myself by saying I'm busy, but really I'm probably just a bit too lazy.

I have been using a version of this technique for the past 4 or 5 days now. It seems to be working really well. Before I was on a dry spell of sorts (for me at least), and was having 1 or maybe 2 lucid dreams a week. I have been lucid in at least one dream for the past three days, and last night I remember getting lucid three times. Thanks a lot for the tutorial. This is exactly what I was looking for a while ago, and this tutorial answered my questions about awareness far more thoroughly than other threads.

Nice, those are some impressive Lucid Dream numbers! Keep up the good work and let us know if your success continues .

I love this! I was also going to ask a question about weed. Like you guys, I believe my awareness is enhanced when I'm high... unless I smoke from sun up to sun down... then things start to get hazy by late day. (I try not to smoke till 4:20 on any given day.)

I worry sometimes that smoking might limit my progression in my dreams, but it seems, Yoshi, this isn't the case for you. What do you find more difficult to accomplish when you're high, Yoshi?

Well, I'm often the one smoking from sun up to sun down . I've smoked ever since I first learned to Lucid Dream and it has never really caused any problems with my dreaming. I was high when I learned to Lucid Dream. I even smoke during WBTB attempts. I would say the hardest thing to accomplish at first was recall. As long as I keep my recall built up, weed doesn't seem to effect it anymore. If I stopped journaling for a week or so, my recall would likely start to suffer.

I've been trying WILD for the past 3 days, and it kind of teared me out.
So I decided to stop trying WILD and start with DILD.

I don't know but since I started trying LD'ing my ADA has increased enormously! Even before I read this guide?!

I was like so aware this morning it was so fucking creepy?! It feelt like I was tripping balls, seriously.
Even my friends couldn't recognize me.
I saw things so different I was almost 90% sure it was a dream. (Did some RC, turned out it wasn't a dream)
But now at night I feel not aware at all I'll try to be more aware and I'll prolly soon exp my first LD.


Thanks for the guide Yosh, it's excellent.

great guide. It's amazing how powerful something as simple as awareness can be when people are attempting the DILD method. I think too many people get bogged down with the idea of doing random RCs. Keep up the good work.

would this be good to do while doing WBTB? has any one tried this?

Originally Posted by willeex

I've been trying WILD for the past 3 days, and it kind of teared me out.
So I decided to stop trying WILD and start with DILD.

I don't know but since I started trying lucid dreaming my ADA has increased enormously! Even before I read this guide?!

I was like so aware this morning it was so fucking creepy?! It feelt like I was tripping balls, seriously.
Even my friends couldn't recognize me.
I saw things so different I was almost 90% sure it was a dream. (Did some RC, turned out it wasn't a dream)
But now at night I feel not aware at all I'll try to be more aware and I'll prolly soon exp my first LD.


Thanks for the guide Yosh, it's excellent.

No problem and just keep working at it. That first lucid dream will come soon enough. Good luck to you, and be sure to keep me updated .

Originally Posted by LucidPower

great guide. It's amazing how powerful something as simple as awareness can be when people are attempting the DILD method. I think too many people get bogged down with the idea of doing random RCs. Keep up the good work.

I agree wholeheartedly. I kept getting questions/pms about RCs/awareness and realized that the majority of people were getting the wrong idea about the whole DILD process.

Originally Posted by SoulClaw

would this be good to do while doing WBTB? has any one tried this?

Absolutely! Wake up practice some ADA and then return to sleep. Sounds like an excellent idea to me .

It seems weed can bring a lot of pros with a few minor cons you can work to overcome. And yeah... I TRY to wait till 4:20... often I cave. xD

I got deep into meditation and rediscovering dreams through marijuana and how it enhanced my awareness as well. I like to think we have the plant for a reason.