Hi sageous! I know RRC are very important to WILDing, but i am having a hard time remembering to do them. When i began this class, RRC's were part of my daily routine, but as time passes by, i seem like i am drifting farther and farther away from remembering to do it. Idk if i am getting lazy or what. My question is though, do you have tips or anything like that you use to remember to do them? It would really be a great help. Thanks Sageous |
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Last edited by Sageous; 05-27-2012 at 06:35 AM.
What I find useful for motivation is to not force it in any way. It's fine to have off-days, if I struggle remembering to reality check or do dream incubation then I don't worry about it and 'have that day off'. The best way to commit to a routine of RCs is to affirm very strongly in the morning after you've recorded your dreams in you dream journal that you're going to carry them out through the day. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
Sageous, you did say that RRC's take only a couple of seconds to do, right? |
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Follow your dreams.
DILD - 50 | DEILD - 3 | WILD - 1 | MILD - 1
Previous Goal: Air bendMain Goal: Find my Dream Guide
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I think of it as how my perception affects both my, and those of everyone else around me, experience. Think, if you weren't in that location at that time, your experience would be entirely different, as would everyone else at the location and time, because you as an agent and observer wouldn't be there to experience it and be experienced by others. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
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Just during the past week, I've found I am able to reduce the time it takes to do the RRCs. At first, it felt like it was taking me a few minutes to do the RRC and I felt very awkward doing it in public. (My girlfriend actually started to wonder why I kept getting these weird, spaced out looks all the time.) I think this is like anything in that the more you repeat it, the faster your brain gets at doing it. |
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I was doing the RRC yesterday while playing a game of horse with my brother at the park. I realized that life had an infinite number of branching paths. For example, if I had missed the shot and gotten another letter, I'd have lost, but since I got it in, I kind of "switched paths," to say. Not really an amazing discovery, but it's the first thing I'd realized or felt while doing an RRC. |
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Tell me about it. I've emerged from an RRC more than once with my wife looking at me like it was time to take me to the hospital. Or funny farm. |
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I'm also doing the RCC in a visual way. It's just much easier like that to me, instead of asking questions. I usually don't even ask anything even in my mind, but wonder about things without words |
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I realize that i'm dreaming.
I realize that i'm dreaming.
I realize that i'm dreaming.
<--- My Dream Journal Contains ONLY Lucid Dreams
Follow your dreams.
DILD - 50 | DEILD - 3 | WILD - 1 | MILD - 1
Previous Goal: Air bendMain Goal: Find my Dream Guide
Spoiler for Goals:
Ok I'v Been trying these RRC through out the last 2 tweeks or so. Iv been doing what you say, feel how I am effecting the environment, where I am, where I am going, where I have been, but I don't get the sense of "wonder." Is the point of the exercise to "wonder" or is it just to realize I am in that situation? |
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They say dreaming is dead, no one does it anymore.
It's not dead it's just that it's been forgotten, removed from our language.
Nobody teaches it so nobody knows it exists.
The dreamer is banished to obscurity.
Well, I'm trying to change all that, and I hope you are too.
By dreaming, every day.
Yes. |
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Last night I had a huge jump in my recall - I was able to remember three full dreams plus five fragments. In each dream I kept having what I call "almost lucids". I would see something strange, then stop and wonder about it. Each time, I got distracted before I became lucid. The RRCs are definitely causing the "almost lucids". I feel that lucidity and WILDs are just around the corner! |
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^^ That's great, Hermine. though I don't associate RRC's with recall (they're a 'hear and now' sort of thing), I can see your overall immersion in all this stuff bumping up recall a bit. Nice to see the RRC's doing their job, too. |
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Hello I'm pretty new to WILD and have never attempted to do it before I'm just wondering how to overcome the fear of it. I just don't like what I heard about SP, I know it's just my head doing funny things but it still feels kinda creepy. |
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Session Three: Notes about the Noise is now posted. |
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Your timing is excellent, fuzzion. I just posted this week's session, and if you read it you might find that there is absolutely nothing to fear about WILD, or SP -- all that stuff they talk about is just so much noise! |
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Another great session this week, Sageous. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. |
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Check out my DreamViews Podcast with OpheliaBlue!
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
No sailor controls the sea. Only a foolish sailor would say such a thing. Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream.
Like a sailor on the sea, we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of dreaming.
Very interesting lesson this week, Sageous, and one that's well worth addressing due to the sheer amount of baggage attached to the somatic sensations associated with WILD. No matter how many times I think I've got it figured that sleep paralysis is not the goal I still seem to find myself excited at the slightest physical sensation. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
Also this lesson does outline just how flawed the progress arc of a WILD touted on internet guides is: lay down -> hold still -> SP -> HI -> HH -> Dream. |
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My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut
Always, no sometimes think it's me,
But you know I know when it's a dream
I think I know I mean a yes
But it's all wrong
That is I think I disagree
-John Lennon
I agree, I don't think any WILD guide (that I've read so far) is particularly that good for how it truly works. They focus too much on the scientific nature of it and generally get it all wrong anyway. |
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Check out my DreamViews Podcast with OpheliaBlue!
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
No sailor controls the sea. Only a foolish sailor would say such a thing. Similarly, no lucid dreamer controls the dream.
Like a sailor on the sea, we lucid dreamers direct our perceptual awareness within the larger state of dreaming.
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