LukeSid

I was standing in a lake, close to the bank and I dropped my clasp knife into the water. I trawled my fingers along the bottom of the lake and located a knife...but it wasn't mine (it was handsomely marked and clearly better than mine) I trawled again and found another one...which was differently configured but with the same handsome markings.

After finally locating mine, I apparently noticed a number of freshwater fishing items close together on the bank and I apparently assumed that an angler had put the items down to mark his fishing-place...so, being the basically honest person that I am, I assumed the knives might have belonged to him and had somehow slipped off the bank, so I added them to the pile.

Cut to a group of (anglers) who were on the bank and the knives had gone...and I now apparently decided that the knives maybe weren't the property of whoever had marked that area and they would have been "finder-keepers," and I'd lost out.

So I started interrogating the group and one individual started waffling on about something (as DC's apparently often do?) So much for my initial high moral action...I ended up being slightly spiteful that I'd apparently missed out on some fine booty. Hold on...it was just a dream. Why am I feeling guilty? I'm not any kind of freshwater fisherman, so I don't know where that came from...I do know that Ed, my brain, seems to be playing me like a fish.

Yesterday,I had made up an ADA list, based just on mundane personal things that basically should occur in all my dreams. Sensations...of feet, clothing, wind in hair, muscle effects, gravity, notice people's faces, sensations of touch, how it feels to lie in bed etc

I noticed the "waffling" DC's face in detail. The teeth were white and small, with big gaps between them. The feeling of the water as my fingers trawled through it. Another one I must add is the fact that the water wasn't at all cold...no sensation of temperature at all.

Of course, all this is useless if the "awareness" of dreamlike quality doesn't happen.Also, rather than highlighting the "unreality" of dreams, changes like this seem to make the dreams more vivid ...perhaps that in itself is a good signpost to ultimate lucidity.

But I've now got a more focussed list I can concentrate on rather than the more demanding "notice everything" of general ADA.

We'll see...