My new method to get used to RCing fast
Hey guys , I just wanted to share my experience from the last day . A bit of history : been trying for an year (at least ) now , I changed up tactics a few times (tried WILD-s , WBTB-s ) with close to none success (no direct methods worked , just had some short DILDs) .
So in the last week or so I started reading some more again , and decided to go for the indirect methods . I'm too lazy to keep a dream journal for now (tried it in the past , but I just haven't refined a way to keep journaling (not get too lazy) ) , but I do remember a lucid dream every time (however little times there were) .
The method is viable for the people that spend more time on their computers , but I believe it can be adapted otherwise too .I noticed that I hear my mobile phones ring tone even if it's not ringing now and then and thought that a frequent very distinct sound could be a very good indicator to make a reality check , since there's a good chance the noise will appear now and then even without you hearing it . So I scheduled a beep (freq:1500, for some reason I think higher frequencies will appear easier in the mind) to go off every 15 minutes .
And it did , and every 15 mins I made a RC (I tried to float) . Now what I'm happy and in the same time frustrated about is that the night after I started doing that I had a dream that was vivid and very weird (a dog with wings ) and I did remember to RC , but the stupid RC (floating) didn't work . So now I'm changing up RCs but I'm pretty bumped about not being able to say that the new technique worked the first day :D
I'd be very interested to get feedback from someone else that tries it . Here's what I did for Linux by the way :
Look up some info of how crontab (a scheduling servise) works - it's very simple . In short :
chrontab -l // to see what tasks there already are
chrontab -e //to open the config file (best choose nano when prompted)
there's an explanation about how crontab works in the file itself . Here's what I added :
15 * * * * /home/lucid.sh
30 * * * * /home/lucid.sh
45 * * * * /home/lucid.sh
0 * * * * /home/lucid.sh
ctrl-X to exit , Y to save the file
and in lucid.sh there's just :
modprobe pcspkr; //to activate the pc speaker because it's inactivated by default in the kernel
beep -f 1500 //do the beep