Quote Originally Posted by PennyRoyal View Post
"Gradual Awareness Technique" - I may not have been the first to invent this, but I have not heard of it before.

The basic idea - You choose one thing that causes you to do critical state testing (Am I dreaming?). Once you have become proficient at questioning your awareness on that one task almost every time, you choose a new one. The concept is to slowly build an arsenal of things that cause you to always question what state of reality you are in. Constant vigilance in being aware always seemed like such a daunting task to me - build it one block at a time!
Cool technique, and seems perfectly suited for self-pacing. LaBerge had an interesting section on rotating different dream signs for training prospective memory, but it had a totally different purpose and approach. With your tech, the idea is to add stuff permanently until one day the world looks very different to you -- now everywhere you look, something is reminding you that you might be dreaming.

This is a really cool idea. I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes for you, especially in terms of how quickly you add new elements as well as what the best approach turns out to be for "preserving" old triggers. Gently coaxing progress out of the body and mind usually seems to be the most effective approach from my experience.

Plus, it's pretty sweet that your acronym works out to be "gat".