Thread: Questions about school and ADA.

Originally Posted by Lowie

Hello everyone

I have some questions:

1. How can I practice All Day Awareness at school? Because I'm most of the time of the day at school... I just do a reality check every hour but i want to do some ADA for a few minutes while I'm in class.

2. I have a dream journal, but when I wake up i don't have time to write something at all . I have to remember the dream(s) until I come back from school... Is that bad for my recall or not?

I hope i get some good answers

Cheers

Lowie

Hey Lowie, I'm a student too still in school, I'm 17. I do reality checks every hour or so and inbetween classes I do some ADA.

Also, if you would just get up 5 minutes earlier you would have time to write down.

Wish you the best,

- Brute

Okay thank you Brute for the info
I'll try to do some ADA inbetween classes
But when you are doing ADA inbetween classes, where are you paying attention to?
Greets

Lowie

Originally Posted by Lowie

Okay thank you Brute for the info
I'll try to do some ADA inbetween classes
But when you are doing ADA inbetween classes, where are you paying attention to?
Greets

Lowie

No problem.

Well I do my reality checks(Nose pinch, fingers through palm) and then think about the fact that I have an impact people around me and people around me have an impact on me. Then I spend a couple of minutes studying a few aspects of the room I'm in, making sure they're geometrically sound and make sense. Then I spent about 20-30 secs thinking about how objects around the room could represent other objects, for example, the clock as a sun etc.

Hope this helped some,

- Brute

I'm also 17 and still in school. I also do ADA while I am still in class. Ofcourse, your studying should have priority, but for example:
While you are watching and listening to your teacher explaining something on the blackboard, pay attention to your entire field of vision. Listen to the sound of the pens in the class scratching and ticking. Feel the texture and weight of your own pen. There are constant sounds of people moving their legs, coughing, writing, breathing, talking, etc. It is always possible to be more aware.
As for in between classes: there will be a lot of voices, foodsteps and people walking around. Each of them has their own clothes, faces, shadows, and so on. The wall and floor have their own textures. Ever noticed the location of the cameras and motion sensors?
But don't forget: the most important thing is not to notice all that there is to notice. The most important thing about ADA is that you are constantly aware of your surroundings. If you have to concentrate on school, reduce your awareness sufficiently to be able to focus. Make sure that you don't forget about being awake and aware, that is the most important thing about ADA

There are two things that helped me the most with ADA and effective reality checks, which helped me reach my first glimpse of lucid dreaming:

1. A Dot on your Hand

No joke, this seems silly but its SO effective. I put a small pen dot on my dominant hand's thumb, and I see it all day. Everytime I see it, I do a small or in-depth RC depending on the situation I'm in at the time. This constant RCing leads to practically all day awareness, and it makes it harder to forget to RC when I am busy. For example, just by typing this I looked at my keyboard and coincidentally saw the dot on my thumb, making me RC!

2. Don't ask "Am I Dreaming", ask "Why is this not a Dream"

This small shift in thinking has made my reality checks so much better. Where once I just held my nose and touched various surfaces, looking at the details of my surroundings and what-not, this question has made me much better at looking for the real differences of dream and waking life.

Why am I not dreaming? I stop and listen to the sounds of life going on around me, something I know that is beyond my control. I listen to smells, hear sounds, see faces, and I let them take me back into memories, places, or objects that I then try to remember as vividly as possible. What was I doing 15 minutes ago? How did I feel 15 minutes ago? Does it make sense for me to be here now? Where am I going? Then, I try to actively control waking life. Can I grow a plant out of this concrete? Can I fly right now? Can I make that person randomly trip? None of these compare to my favorite, patented check that I call the Door Check. Simply walk to a door, imagine anything you want behind it, and see if it materializes, or if the room takes a while to shift into focus after swinging the door open. If not - reality!

The only time I have been lucid in a dream was from this door strategy. I had a False Awakening, went to my bedroom door, and told myself I would see something totally unexpected. In my sleepiness I swung the door open quickly, and was met with the smells and heat of a trainstation, with a full steam engine train billowing its whistle... You can imagine my surprise!

Hopefully this helps anyone who reads it

~Raven

Well I do my reality checks(Nose pinch, fingers through palm) and then think about the fact that I have an impact people around me and people around me have an impact on me. Then I spend a couple of minutes studying a few aspects of the room I'm in, making sure they're geometrically sound and make sense. Then I spent about 20-30 secs thinking about how objects around the room could represent other objects, for example, the clock as a sun etc.

I'm going to try this

While you are watching and listening to your teacher explaining something on the blackboard, pay attention to your entire field of vision. Listen to the sound of the pens in the class scratching and ticking. Feel the texture and weight of your own pen. There are constant sounds of people moving their legs, coughing, writing, breathing, talking, etc. It is always possible to be more aware.
As for in between classes: there will be a lot of voices, foodsteps and people walking around. Each of them has their own clothes, faces, shadows, and so on. The wall and floor have their own textures. Ever noticed the location of the cameras and motion sensors?
But don't forget: the most important thing is not to notice all that there is to notice. The most important thing about ADA is that you are constantly aware of your surroundings. If you have to concentrate on school, reduce your awareness sufficiently to be able to focus. Make sure that you don't forget about being awake and aware, that is the most important thing about ADA

I'm beginning to understand how i can practice ADA in class thanks man!

1. A Dot on your Hand

No joke, this seems silly but its SO effective. I put a small pen dot on my dominant hand's thumb, and I see it all day. Everytime I see it, I do a small or in-depth RC depending on the situation I'm in at the time. This constant RCing leads to practically all day awareness, and it makes it harder to forget to RC when I am busy. For example, just by typing this I looked at my keyboard and coincidentally saw the dot on my thumb, making me RC!

I'm going to try this for sure!!! I mostly forget RC's and ADA but with that dot, I'm not going to forget to do all this stuff

None of these compare to my favorite, patented check that I call the Door Check. Simply walk to a door, imagine anything you want behind it, and see if it materializes, or if the room takes a while to shift into focus after swinging the door open. If not - reality!

I'm also going to try this because I have to go through doors alot

Thank you very much everyone for the useful info!

ADA is very powerful keep a clear head and you will be the smartest. I talk by experience, ADA changed me for the good and my feeling and memories don't hunt me or control me. I went trough a rebelious phase that left a wiser, more aware me.

Originally Posted by Alexanderp3

ADA is very powerful keep a clear head and you will be the smartest. I talk by experience, ADA changed me for the good and my feeling and memories don't hunt me or control me. I went trough a rebelious phase that left a wiser, more aware me.

Wow, I didn't know that ADA was SO powerful.

I have another question: Do you feel it when you are doing ADA? Because I just look at everything and listen etc.. But I'm not feeling myself more special or something...

Originally Posted by Lowie

Wow, I didn't know that ADA was SO powerful.

I have another question: Do you feel it when you are doing ADA? Because I just look at everything and listen etc.. But I'm not feeling myself more special or something...

You begin to change over long periods of time.

All the best,

- Brute

Originally Posted by BruteForce223

You begin to change over long periods of time.

All the best,

- Brute

Okay thank you

Since this is very similiar to my problem, i always spend my time in school too
and i am kinda shy to do these kind of things in middle of everyone, although i try to
be discretly as possible, i stop what i am doing, and start to look around my class room and
to see if there is anything out of place, but i can't never believe i am dreaming. can someone help me.

Originally Posted by Iriba

Since this is very similiar to my problem, i always spend my time in school too
and i am kinda shy to do these kind of things in middle of everyone, although i try to
be discretly as possible, i stop what i am doing, and start to look around my class room and
to see if there is anything out of place, but i can't never believe i am dreaming. can someone help me.

ADA and RC's can be very subtile and nobody is going to notice in class if you are doing one of these things
And I don't think you have to think that you are dreaming but you just need to be aware of everything and question yourself if you are dreaming.
That's my view on it
Oh and sorry for my bad english
Good luck!

Practice meditation before bed each night. It teaches awareness. Also, you can still be aware during class. Awareness isn't focusing on being aware. Awareness is having a thoughtless mind and taking in everything around you which, in my opinion, can still be done in class. You can learn while still keeping that mirror like mind.

Originally Posted by Tushix

Practice meditation before bed each night. It teaches awareness.

I'm going to do the meditation tonight, probably will do it a lot more too.

Originally Posted by Tushix

Practice meditation before bed each night. It teaches awareness.

I'm going to start with meditation when holidays start and there is no school, because I have much time then Or maybe if I'm not to tired before bed. Sorry fot horrible english

Originally Posted by Tushix

Practice meditation before bed each night. It teaches awareness. Also, you can still be aware during class. Awareness isn't focusing on being aware. Awareness is having a thoughtless mind and taking in everything around you which, in my opinion, can still be done in class. You can learn while still keeping that mirror like mind.

You wrote "thoughtless", did you mean that? For me awareness is having a thoughtful mind, but instead of the thoughts being random and distracted, I am aware of them and am more focused, and am paying attention to my own thoughts as well as to stuff around me. Thus for example, I was once waiting for a light to change from red to green, and suddenly I became aware of the thought "The world is on fire." it was such a random thought, and usually I would have not payed it any attention, but I noticed and questioned it. Since the world was obviously not literally on fire, why did I think that, and then I became consciously aware that I had recently gotten into the hot car, and the air conditioning had not had time to kick in yet, and I could feel the hot air on my skin, and yes, I understood why I had had the thought. Until I questioned that thought I had not been aware, but stopping that thought and analyzing it and combining it with what my senses were telling me, that was awareness. And I wish to become more aware like that more often.

Originally Posted by Lowie

Hello everyone

I have some questions:

1. How can I practice All Day Awareness at school? Because I'm most of the time of the day at school... I just do a reality check every hour but i want to do some ADA for a few minutes while I'm in class.

2. I have a dream journal, but when I wake up i don't have time to write something at all . I have to remember the dream(s) until I come back from school... Is that bad for my recall or not?

I hope i get some good answers

Cheers

Lowie

Hello! Im also at school and what I do to remember my dreams is write a few keywords on my phone to jog my memory when i get back later to write it up properly. I dont think this does any harm to your dream recall as i asked a similar question a while back.

Dont wait until you get home from school to write your dreams down. i have my cellphone next to my bed and when i wake before i get up i write down the dream in my phone, you can txt way faster than actually writing. so then when i get home before i go to bed i transfer the text into my dream journal in full detail.

Originally Posted by JayZen

Dont wait until you get home from school to write your dreams down. i have my cellphone next to my bed and when i wake before i get up i write down the dream in my phone, you can txt way faster than actually writing. so then when i get home before i go to bed i transfer the text into my dream journal in full detail.

That's not a bad idea man, although I just get dressed and record it on notepad then pt in my DJ later that day.

All the best,

Brute

Originally Posted by professorbella

Hello! Im also at school and what I do to remember my dreams is write a few keywords on my phone to jog my memory when i get back later to write it up properly. I dont think this does any harm to your dream recall as i asked a similar question a while back.

Oh okay thank you for the info

Originally Posted by JayZen

Dont wait until you get home from school to write your dreams down. i have my cellphone next to my bed and when i wake before i get up i write down the dream in my phone, you can txt way faster than actually writing. so then when i get home before i go to bed i transfer the text into my dream journal in full detail.

I think I'm also going to type it first on my cellphone in the morning Thank you for the info

Originally Posted by JoannaB

You wrote "thoughtless", did you mean that?

Haha I don't think I worded it perfectly. I'm not very good at describing things but what I meant was have a mind that takes in the information and environment around you rather than focusing on thoughts such as where you will have to be next or what you should be doing etc. I think your example is good!

Originally Posted by Tushix

Haha I don't think I worded it perfectly. I'm not very good at describing things but what I meant was have a mind that takes in the information and environment around you rather than focusing on thoughts such as where you will have to be next or what you should be doing etc. I think your example is good!

Ah, got you now! You mean like when your mind is distracted by thoughts and daydreaming instead of paying attention and focusing. Indeed.