Awakening Awareness Game/Technique

Awakening Awareness Game?Technique

1.Set a spot in your dream journal or on a small separate sheet of paper where you'll keep score. It should be a blank spot a few inches by a few inches that you could easily find when you're tired. A sticky note or small piece of scratch paper would probably work best.
2.Fall asleep any way you wish.
3.Every time you wake up, plug your nose and breathe in and then out. If you can breathe, then you're dreaming! Enjoy your lucid dream! If you can't breathe, proceed to step 3. (If you think another reality check is more effective, feel free to use it.)
4.Write down any dreams you had, if you like.. Then, find your scoring area. If you didn't have any lucid dreams prior to this awakening, mark an X. If you did, mark an O.
Make your marks in an organized manner to facilitate counting your marks.
5.Repeat steps 2-4 until you reach 100 marks (X's and O's). Once you do, you're done with the game! Count the O's and put that number over 100 to get you're score.

Sample scorecard:
XXXOXXXXXXX
XXOXXXOXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXX
XXXOXXXXXXX
XOXXXXOXXOX
XXXXXOXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXX
OXXXOXXXOXX
XXXXXOXXXXX
XOXXXXXXXOX

14/100

The point of this game is to try to catch more false awakenings to achieve more lucid dreams. This game also trains you to catch more awakenings which increases your awareness and your chances of having a false awakening to catch.

This game could also be used as a stand alone technique. When you achieve success with this technique it should increase your level of confidence because of the lack of effort put into the technique! This confidence helps you achieve more lucidity. It helps makes lucid dreaming simple, fun, and consistent.

This game could also be used to supplement other techniques. You could use it to see how well your other technique is working or you could compare techniques to see what works best.

It can be used as a competitive game between any amount of dreamers. How high can you score?

wow this is actually pretty nice!! ima do this and see how it works, thanks! it makes it very consistent and because you want to catch a false awakening and write an o, your subconscious is working more with lucid dreaming. This is great, it might work well.

Good idea, that's a nice simple way to track progress and make RCing a habit for FAs.
Will you be posting your updates here?

I like this! Maybe there should be an element of timing to it, to encourage catching more end-of-sleep-cycle wakings (something I want to get back to).

Shortly after I posted this I tried it. I wasn't encouraged by the results in terms of lucidity; my false awakenings seemed to disappear. Ashamed I posted a dud of a technique, I hoped this thread would get buried and forgotten.

It did help in me catching awakenings though! Maybe I didn't try it for long enough.

I had 4 false awakenings this morning but only caught 2, so I definitely want to create a technique that revolves around consistently having and catching false awakenings. The problem though is, the harder I try to catch false awakenings, the less I have them! Maybe it's not possible to create a technique that revolves around consistently having and catching false awakenings.

I'm not a fan of alarm clocks but you could use one if you wish. This technique is flexible.

I have noticed, at least for myself, that when I purposefully fall asleep searching for a particular dream sign, the dream sign always disappears from my dreams. Not sure if anyone else has encountered this phenomenon. It began with my search for Fris (as I used to always eat in dreams, and sometimes still do). Once I began searching for "eating," food stopped appearing in my dreams. This has repeated for numerous things, such as people, places, and so on.

So maybe the technique wasn't a dud, dolphin--maybe it just needs to be tweaked. I wonder if you could prime yourself to search for false awakenings, and then somehow "forget" about false awakenings, to allow them to repopulate your dreams? Not sure. I'll let you experiment :)

I don't usually purposefully fall asleep searching for a dream sign. Even though I have this recurring dreamsign of a girl from my past, I never try to dream about her, it just happens. I do think about her pretty much every day, so I guess that's the reason I'm dreaming about her, but I never actually set myself to it. I'm trying to find her in my lucid dreams, to ask her about her appearance and if she means something, but she doesn't want to be found once I'm lucid.
[..skipping to the point..]
The point is that maybe you will have more FAs if you just think about them during the day, instead of going to sleep with the intention of having them.
During the day, imagine yourself waking up and doing a successful RC :)