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      Unhappy ADA Help!

      hey guys,
      so for the past 3 weeks, at least, i've been trying to induce a lucid dream through ADA. I read through yoshi's thread (Great tutorial btw) and thought it might be good to try as I could also see the benefits in waking life of practising it. Well, the problem is after 3 weeks of commitment to ADA i still havent seen any marked improvement in my dreams. No lucid dreams, or increased vividness. I read some of the success stories that said they got lucid dreams just a couple of days after trying ADA, which is a bit frustrating as I havent seen any improvement after nearly a month of trying it.

      Ill quickly run through my technique. I would say, I do it about 4 times a day at minimum. Wherever I am, i stop and observe everything in my surroundings. The main senses I use are sight, Hearing and Touch (where I feel the weight and pressure on my surroundings, stuff like that) I cant really use taste and I sometimes pick up smells. Anyway, I use these senses to observe my surroundings and do this for a couple of minutes. I often narrate this awareness in my head, and at the end, like suggested, i question my reality and do a reality check with my hands.

      I really wish that this awareness would pass over to my dreams as ADA is quite a consuming technique. I think a bit of extra motivation is required. So, if any of you could give me some advice, I would really appreciate it. Thank you

      What am i doing wrong?

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      ADA might take a few weeks or months for some people, and doing it for one month is not really anything to worry about.

      Also, are you practicing it with enough mindfulness?
      What I mean with this is, do you actually question your surroundings and really assume that you might possibly be dreaming?
      It's easy to just do everything on autopilot and kind of pretend like you question your surroundings, but you need to really genuinely feel that you could be dreaming, and now you want to prove it to yourself.

      You might want to try other ways to practice ADA as well, to really make it "click" the right way;
      one way I often practice ADA is that I choose random targets that I want to look out for, typically one target for two or three of my primary senses (like sight and hearing, for example), and then keep a lookout for them until I have found them, and do a Reality Check right after noticing them.
      Then I repeat the process over and over for any senses I want, as long as my chances to notice those targets are reasonably high.
      This forces me to pay attention to my surroundings pretty much all the time, to make sure I don't miss the targets, since they could appear or occur anywhere.
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      I only practice self awareness now which has lead for me to have very rememberable and vivid dreams. I focus more on my thoughts and metal imaginary. Each time i get lost in thought i recognize and recall what i was thinking and what i saw in my thoughts. This also has lead me to be able to visualize really clearly which is pretty cool. This really works i suggest everybody trying it for few days.
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