I'll let this be both a response to dolphin and another entry.

Day 2

I think I just achieved both a piece of extreme progress and an extreme obstacle.

The thing is, it's only Day 2, and I blink basically only consciously now. Not a single blink can escape my awareness, be it followed by visualization or not. This is amazing, I never thought it would be this easy.

The problem is, I stop blinking whenever I do something else because I'm completely unable to multitask that way. This means I blink heavily for periods when I'm not occupied with doing something else that requires a lot of processing power. Specifically, talking makes me stop blinking. I get instantly reminded to blink again whenever I stop doing that engaging thing and get back to a kind of "brain idle" state.

Dolphin, I don't imagine it will be difficult to get reminded I haven't been blinking in a while, because I'm constantly reminded of this whenever I start doing something that distracts me from blinking. I imagine that my dreams might consist of me doing something cognitively engaging, then something less cognitively engaging, at which point I'll be reminded that I don't need to blink -> reality check -> lucidity. This is just a theory, of course, but I'll try to verify it very soon. My dreams are full of less cognitive activities such as observing or sometimes simply idling, so that will almost definitely have a chance of happening.