Quote Originally Posted by ultranova View Post
Exactly, my last lucid dream was induced by just feeling that the situation I was in was a dream. I done a RC like 10 (dream)minutes after I actually became lucid and of course it succeeded. I think that we should develop a skill of feeling the dream instead of trying to recognize it by dream sings and hoping that we will do a RC. Maybe instead of writing down our dreams by basing on what we saw/heard/.. and what was the plot we should direct more towards what we felt.
Very interesting! Thanks for the idea.

Quote Originally Posted by Moto View Post
Had two lucid's last night, early in on the night. I was so tired, one of my DCs played a game with me called Hands, where he grabbed my hand, and I was supposed to hold on to the hand as long as I could to help me push my brain farther in the lucid dream state. I was doing the this is a dream thing for a long time yesterday. Will do today and post my results for tonight.
Looking forward to hearing about it.

Quote Originally Posted by ultranova View Post
I have some nameless book in my house, it is about dream interpretation and it contains some general info about dreams. I have found one very interesting quote from some Chinese philosopher Zhūangzi (c. 369 BC - c. 286 BC), who had a dream about being a butterfly.
"Once upon a time, I, Chuang Chou, dreamt I was a butterfly, fluttering hither and thither, to all intents and purposes a butterfly. I was conscious only of my happiness as a butterfly, unaware that I was Chou. Soon I awaked, and there I was, veritably myself again. Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly, dreaming I am a man"
That's Daoist, I think. I heard that little story before. I love it.

Quote Originally Posted by Hyu View Post
I've tried this for nearly 2 weeks now and I've had quite a bit of success with it.
I'd like to note that I still RC after waking up to catch FA's though. (but this works all the time, since I really don't know if I'm awake, so I see no reason to change this routine)

At first I just randomly thought about whether or not I was in the dream world during the day.
I'd always start by saying "This is a dream" with my inner voice.
I've done this for a few days.
However the chant didn't feel right for some reason, so I decided to adapt it for myself.

Instead of saying "This is a dream" I would say "This is real".
Even though it seems like the complete opposite, the idea and thought process is exactly the same.
I'm still trying to figure out which world I am in, but instead of calling both a dream I call both reality.
The idea that they are two worlds with different rules remains exactly the same.

After some time, I noticed that I would remember doing these checks even after a few hours
So there was no need to do them again since I could clearly recall everything I did in between.


Doing this, I've had many dreams where I would just realize that I was in the dream world.
I'm sure this is related to this experiment because I feel like I am much more aware of which world I am in at all times.
I'd like to mention that this has happened before the experiment (just realizing I was in the dream world) but I'm confident that it happens quite a bit more often now.
So yes, this seems to be working out pretty well!
That's awesome! Whenever I wonder if I am dreaming in waking life, I am going to say, "This is real!" from now on. I wonder what is going to happen.