Daydream Awareness


Daydream Awareness, or DDA, is a technique under the DILD category. It may also be considered a variation of the MILD technique. It focuses on daydreaming while constantly being fully aware of it. This awareness then shifts over into your night's dreams and you become lucid.

The purpose of Daydream Awareness is to have the elements of the daydream carry over into your real dream. It acts as a pre-dream that influences the plot, scenery, mood, and actions of the real dream you will have that night. Through daydreaming you can influence your dreams in just about any way you want.

This technique should be used as you're falling asleep or with a WBTB. Just keep on daydreaming as you fall asleep. You can daydream about anything you want, but it is best to daydream about experiencing a lucid dream. Try not to let your mind become too absorbed by the daydream. You want to remind yourself every 10 seconds or so that you are dreaming. You want to be constantly aware that you're dreaming so that you will be aware and lucid in the real dream. Eventually you will drift off to sleep and into a real dream. Your dream will likely have some of the elements of your daydream and you will hopefully become lucid.

Influencing Dream Control:

Do things in the daydream that would normally be done in a lucid dream. Do things like flying, teleporting, transformations, etc. Using a lot of dream control can help you to focus on the idea of lucidity. It may also improve your dream control if you're struggling with it. You can change the parts of the daydream you never think about to improve your control. You could target one of those random clouds in the background of your daydream and turn it into a giant candy bar.

Influencing Goals:

Daydream Awareness can also help you to achieve a lucid goal. If you daydream of achieving a certain goal, your chances of completing or at least attempting that goal would be increased. If your goal is to learn how to fly, then fly everywhere in your daydream. Don't just daydream of achieving a goal though. Daydream about how you're going to achieve it and believe that it will work. So daydreaming about growing wings and launching yourself from a mountain should come first.

Influencing Scenery:

You can also use Daydream Awareness to dream of certain places you would like to visit. If you want to have a dream in space, then daydream of flying through space and pay a lot of attention to the scenery. Focus more on visualization and the senses if you want to influence scenery.

Influencing Plot:

All you have to do to influence the plot, events, and actions in your dream is daydream of them. If you want to have a dream where you go on an epic quest to find an ancient treasure, then daydream the story. Combine the last two influences and make up the story as you go through the daydream. Daydream of all of the important events you want the dream to have. Do not daydream about things that you wouldn't want to have in your dreams. They could carry over into your real dream and ruin everything.

Special thanks to Coolb3rt and Sweep for helping to test this technique.