Thread: Senses In, Senses Out and Incubation

I know that sight is the first sense to fade when a dream starts ending. Does anyone know the order that all the senses fade when a dream ends?

Also, when a dream starts, is the "involvement" of the senses in order or do all the senses switch on together? My instinct (and it's only a guess) says that sight is the first sense active (because of HIs?)

I ask this because, I've been trying to incubate a dream about my house (if I dream about my home I've got a good chance of becoming lucid because I habitually RC at certain places around the house) and not succeeding. I've tried an affirmation, "I'll see my house in a dream" but if my assumption is incorrect and sight ISN'T the first sense active in a dream then could incubating a dream using a sight-orientated affirmation be counterproductive?...Perhaps if the sense of body movement (is this called 'kinaesthesia'?) is the first active sense in a dream then a sight-orientated affirmation is useless because your dream body's movements within the forming dream have already decided the initial direction of the dream?

So, could there be a case of making an affirmation based on bodily-movement such as:

"I'll feel myself climbing stairs"?

(Or, perhaps more specificially: "When a dream starts I'll feel myself climbing the stairs.")

or if it were the sense of smell the affirmation could be:

"I'll smell the smell of cooking food"? (thus meaning my dream is likely to start in the kitchen.)

when i wild i usually feel first. i feel the coming of the dream. then i see it and hear it almost simotaneously. but i don't know if its different for everyone. i feel like it might be. i'm a touch oriented person. some people are sight oriented and others are sound oriented. which ever you are probably would come first.

It's important not to make RCs habitual, and instead try to be truly skeptical about whether or not you're dreaming at that particular moment. You don't have skepticism in normal dreams, and it's important to get some in so you can become lucid.

I haven't WILDed in forever, but the first thing I remember about my dreams when I wake up is the visual aspect. Like proxide said, whichever works best for you.