Thread: Tradl3s's Workbook

My guess based on my experience and reading other's experiences is that we all have more FA's than we realize. FA's are often so mundane that we don't give them a second thought unless we get in a repetitive loop of them OR if our awareness is high enough. FA's are dreams after all, and dreams are notoriously fleeting…even more so if it is a dream about doing something we pretty much do every morning - waking up and getting up. Why should we store moments like that in our long term memory/easily accessible memory in general? No good reason until you are practicing LDing. If you get consistently good at recall I think you will remember an occasional FA's after waking up. If you are at a high level of awareness, then you will eventually catch some while you are still dreaming. My first catch (caught the recall only) that I remember involved writing something in my bedside paper DJ and then later actually waking up and seeing it wasn't there. If I hadn't looked for something that I did during the FA that changed my bedside environment (the change in the dream was the written words I added to the paper), then that memory of the FA would have probably faded out completely. A recent FA catch I had while still dreaming involved pulling out an earplug and noticing my ear still felt plugged and finding another earplug inside the same ear and realizing that I was dreaming. That same night I caught another where my drawer was completely empty.

"Man, i sure wish this was a dream." Those moments can make us laugh or cry…I have had a fair amount of success with "If this were a dream right now, I would!..wait!" Perhaps the difference involves starting to think about taking some dream action, some action that you would only take in a dream…thinking a little further along. This can be helped by thinking the same way during the day. I have also had moments similar to yours. Fairly recently in a dream I was noticing cash on the ground and looked around and saw more and more of it as I continued walking. Realizing that this scenario is somewhat of a dream sign for me, a variation of a dream I have had every once in a while since childhood, I decided to look at my hands (RC) but I did so half-heartedly and quickly. I didn't notice a difference and quickly went back to picking up the money. For me, that was a big reminder that I need to make sure my RC's don't become rote and to also do more than one kind of RC…If I did my float RC, I bet I would have floated. If I looked at my hands more than once and with more wonder, I bet I would have seen something off like as I have before.

An update on my future goals/plans:
After i get a good sort of rhythm going with dreams, (Recalling most nights, Dream clues kicking in for those nights, DJ Every morning)
I would like to experiment with WILD. Mainly because i can sort of choose where i want to be in my dreams right off the bat, and i've also come close to inducing WILD before. I've seen dreamscapes form before my eyes with this technique, but the dreams i managed to make were not lucid, and were very short lived. It's definitely a cool feeling though, and definitely something i'd like to take advantage of.

An experiment i'm going to try tonight:
I'm going to try writing down every dream i've had in my past (That i can remember) onto a text document right before bed. I want to see if we can gain any benefit from remembering/ writing our past dreams.

Hang in there

Originally Posted by Tradl3s

I want to see if we can gain any benefit from remembering/ writing our past dreams.

Especially the ones that stood out to you and are fun to think about. It can also help to identify dream signs.

WILD practices can lead to DILDs. SSILD is kind of a hybrid and takes the pressure off by allowing you to "let go" when you finish the cycles. I find it very effective for both WILDs and DILDs but I still get mostly DILDs from it and have been using it for over 3 years.