Thread: Just a really quick question.

ADA is all day awareness which is when throughout the day you constantly stay aware of your surroundings, every step you take, every feeling you feel, the weight of your clothes, the sound of your breathing, You essentially become aware of all the things which you subconsciously ignore on a daily basis and at the same time, question the probability that you are dreaming and look for evidence as to why or why not you are. Theres a couple tutorials on it, but I personally do not do this because I just don't remember to do ADA all day, rather I use a variation of this technique which theres another tutorial for which was written by Puffin I think, its like ADA but you do it at random points of the day. Whenever you remember to or whenever something strange happens and especially when something that seems dreamlike happens, you immediately become aware of everything, question whether you are dreaming and look around your surroundings, trying to remember how you got where you are and why you are there at that given point. As you keep doing this, it will pass on into your dreams and you will start questioning and becoming aware in your dreams as well as waking life, and this will lead to you knowing its a dream and confirming so by doing a RC.

I also noticed you don't like doing RC, and I've got some possible good news for you. I've been having more lucid dreams now when I do SAT and very few RC throughout the day, rather than a couple months ago when I would mindlessly RC every 10-20 minutes. The endless RC'ing does get cumbersome and it didn't work as well as SAT for me at least.

Yeah, it's weird because I can do affirmations all damn day, but doing reality checks just piss me off. I try to enjoy them, try to really get into them, but I just don't. While I was smoking outside a while ago I actually used all of my senses of my surroundings. Felt the warmth of the sun on my face, but the cool concrete of the porch against my soles, the breeze throw my hair in my face, the smell of a couple of hairs burning, etc. The one thing I forgot to do was recall how it was that I got out there and what I was doing before.

I've noticed that with a lot of suggestions in the DV Academy Logs, that they mention to not jump into harder aspects of dreaming in the beginning, but to just do simple things. I'm getting some ideas, but generally, what do you think are the easiest ones to simply go for in the beginning to get used to lucid dreaming and control?

Thanks again for any information, and I can kind of tell that ADA might not do too good for me, since throughout the day, I like to daydream a lot! I also like to meditate through affirmations and movement. Like how one time it took me three hours to clean the counter of my workplace, just because I was really getting into it.

Last night, in my eyes, I had success with a number of things. First, I know how my environment needs to be so that I am comfortable. I switched up the norm, thinking I'd be more comfortable if I could move around freely, but no, I'm the kind of person that likes to be bundled, like in a sleeping bag.

Second, MILD will never work for me, simply because when I affirm anything before or while going to sleep, it draws me right the hell out of everything. And for some odd reason, I actually was doing both WILD and MILD (or attempting to accidentally) at the same time. I started off with the WILD, then somehow I got lost in my own mind and started doing affirmations, or mantras, which pulled me out quickly.

Third, after I remembered the steps of WILD (don't know why they were hard to remember), I easily got into SP and it felt like all I needed was a little boost and I would've popped out of my body, on many occasions, but I couldn't get the boost. Then, I saw a large chain coming up from the floor and going to my ceiling, it was moving upward, so I reached out and grabbed it, I could feel the texture, temperature of the chain, but the second I touched it, it stopped moving. And I mean I saw my hand come out of my physical hand to grab it, except I didn't see the tattoos I have on my hand. But once the chain stopped, I let go, and I could've swore that I was in the dream world. But then I opened my damn eyes! I even had to do two reality checks to make sure because it was like I still couldn't hear anything like my sound machine, my Dad's TV, nothing, but I was awake, and once I did the reality checks, everything came back to normal.

Fourth, when I finally went to sleep, I felt like I had the longest dream I have ever had, followed by another. Both were long, but the first was the longest, it seriously seemed like it was at least an hour inside the dream world. And, for once, both dreams were completely out of the ordinary, and I mean really out of the ordinary, at least for me. I like the first one the most though.

Fifth, my dream recall is damn good now. Since October 28, I have anywhere from two long entries, to five a night. There are two days where I couldn't remember anything, and then one night where there was only one dream, but that was also a night where my sleep was really bad.

I just gotta keep trying with the WILD, I feel like it's the best way for me, and I just need to learn a little more on it, even though I literally roamed this site all day yesterday, soaking it all in. Hell I never even turned on my TV yesterday.

Also, this is the WILD method I used, I think I got it from YoshiKing.
1. Flex and relax my muscles starting from my toes up. (this helped out a lot)
2. Focused on my breathing without thinking, letting any thoughts come and go without any focus on the thoughts until they stopped.
3. Reverse blinked until my eyes stayed closed. (didn't take any time at all really)
4. Became aware that my whole body felt numb. Swallowing didn't really bother me, it took me out of it for a brief moment, but then I got right back in once I swallowed.
5. Imagined my room as it is, seeing the posters, the TV, stereo, speakers, carpet, walls, etc., in a rotating fashion. This is where I started picturing things and this is where the chain came from, and this is where I felt like I could easily escape my physical body.

It wasn't until after this failed by me opening my eyes that I either got confused or excited and for some reason added mantras to the WILD technique, which is what ruined it for me I'm sure of.