Thread: realdealmagic's Workbook

Idea!

Part of my plight on my last few attempts at lucid dreaming were that I was never actually consistent with my Reality Checks. I would have good days and bad days and days when there were none (included under the umbrella of "bad). So today I had the idea of setting my phone up to help me out. This isn't, however, a notification from an app. I find that with that kind of thing you become too dependent on the notification to set you up to do any kind of reality check. Instead, I've done the following:

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This means that instead of waiting for a notification to set me up to RC, I will relate looking at my phone to RCing. I did this today and have already started to just check instinctively when I pull out my phone. It's a strange thing to observe. So this should lead to further success!

Check Yo' Reality, Bro!

Idea: Phase 2

The idea from my previous entry is still going well. I still end up doing an RC every time I look at my phone, along with becoming more aware of my surroundings to question them and questioning how I got to where I am.

This, to me, doesn't seem like enough though. No. What I've started to incorporate into my day is that whenever I think about dreams or anything similar, or somebody brings them up, I will look at my hands. This happens quite frequently. This will mean I am RCing many times throughout the day, so they'll transfer quickly across to my dreams as a habit.

Thoughts

My dream recall is steadily improving, and I will be settling myself back to a regular 10:30pm-7am sleep pattern as I'm going back to school. This'll help me out in the long run because I'll get plenty of sleep, and will get into a routine (which the brain loves) to get myself waking up naturally throughout the night.

It seems that being on DV chat is both a blessing and a curse. It's a blessing because obviously, people talk about dreams there. It acts as both motivation, and a place to learn new things. It's incredible the kind of determination you can get through talking directly to experienced lucid dreamers.
It's a curse because I don't want to leave. Whenever I'm on my computer late at night, I tend to gravitate towards the chat, and I get caught up in talking about lucid dreaming which makes me just not want to go to sleep at all. Sounds counter-productive, and it definitely is! The fact that DVA classes on chat tend to be so late is another factor in this unfortunately, because I just don't want to miss them. It tends to be the peak points for activity on lucid dreaming.