Thread: All Day Awareness, A DILD Tutorial by KingYoshi

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That video, its content is the dumbest thing I've ever heard in a long time.

I've been trying this technique for about a week now, and still no lucid. Obviously I'm not impatient enough to expect instant results - I plan on doing this for as long as I possibly can - I'm just wondering if I'm doing it right.

I find it easy to become aware of things I can feel, such as my clothes on my body, various other things I'm touching, my breathing, my tongue in my mouth, etc., etc. and smells and sounds are not too difficult to pick out when I remember. However, what am I looking for visually? I try and notice shadows, and other lighting effects, but I can't seem to find anything else interesting enough when sitting in my room, for example.

Any ideas?

Originally Posted by moSh

I've been trying this technique for about a week now, and still no lucid. Obviously I'm not impatient enough to expect instant results - I plan on doing this for as long as I possibly can - I'm just wondering if I'm doing it right.

I find it easy to become aware of things I can feel, such as my clothes on my body, various other things I'm touching, my breathing, my tongue in my mouth, etc., etc. and smells and sounds are not too difficult to pick out when I remember. However, what am I looking for visually? I try and notice shadows, and other lighting effects, but I can't seem to find anything else interesting enough when sitting in my room, for example.

Any ideas?

There is not really anything to look for. It's not a matter of looking harder, but of being aware of what you already see (and hear, feel, etc.). In order to make it more useful as a tehcnique for lucid dreaming, it's also a good idea to question what you are seeing. Looking for shadows (for example) is a good way of adding the element of reality checking. But the basic is to be AWARE of the sensory input that is always there. Hope this helps!

Originally Posted by Spyguy

There is not really anything to look for. It's not a matter of looking harder, but of being aware of what you already see (and hear, feel, etc.). In order to make it more useful as a tehcnique for lucid dreaming, it's also a good idea to question what you are seeing. Looking for shadows (for example) is a good way of adding the element of reality checking. But the basic is to be AWARE of the sensory input that is always there. Hope this helps!

Ahh ok thanks, I think I get it now!

I've been perfectly remembering lots of dreams lately, though they haven't been lucid yet. As I seem to be able to remember and visualize much more smaller details I think this technique is already starting to yield some good results. I guess I should perform more RCs and question reality more now

this feels like im a natural as i can feel the letters beneath my fingers and songs in my head and wind rushing by my body even after starting this yesterday! by the way, does anybody else tend to be really slow when being aware of their surroundings like in slow-motion?

Originally Posted by LucidCorso

this feels like im a natural as i can feel the letters beneath my fingers and songs in my head and wind rushing by my body even after starting this yesterday! by the way, does anybody else tend to be really slow when being aware of their surroundings like in slow-motion?

When I have nothing to do and try to just focus on being aware the best I can, then I am definitely a bit slow. At least it feels that way. But if I'm being aware while doing other stuff, it won't slow down the other progresses.

Originally Posted by Spyguy

When I have nothing to do and try to just focus on being aware the best I can, then I am definitely a bit slow. At least it feels that way. But if I'm being aware while doing other stuff, it won't slow down the other progresses.

Hmm, that might be the reason because everytime I have tried I've been doing nothing, going to try it with football training later!

So my days usually consist of staying home, usually going out at night (Tuesday, Thurs - Sat) and I also work during the day Thurs - Sun.

The only time I really get to practice ADA is when I go out or when I work. Oh shit, I was doing it a lot yesterday. President Obama was giving a speech here at UNC and I was sitting in the stands behind him. It felt so surreal that I would constantly look around and notice everything and then plug my nose. I got to shake his hand.

This is all crazy to me because just a week ago I had a dream that I met and shook hands with Obama, and he was talking to my father. The way his hands felt in the dream matched what they felt like in waking life, which blew my mind.

Anyway. I love ADA!

Actually practicing this will take a commitment. I tried the first day and it's tiring stuff..

Originally Posted by xChris12

Actually practicing this will take a commitment. I tried the first day and it's tiring stuff..

Yea no kidding! I didn't but after the first few days I slowly drifted away from being aware.

True, this is tough, but the lucids are definitely worth it

During school before trying ADA out, I was wide awake. Then I tried it for like a class period, I kept yawning each time I attempted to increase my awareness and tired myself out..

So about 2 weeks ago I went to New York City again and had a lot of fun with ADA. I was there in December, and after coming home, I kept having dreams that I was back in the city almost every night, which was weird but led me to the idea that, if I ever went back and practiced ADA every day, I would continue to have dreams about the city and do it in my dreams.

I already had 2 or 3 dreams since I came back where I was taking my time to notice everything around me, and it felt exactly the same way as it did in real life. However, just like I sometimes forget to do an RC in real life, I wasn't able to go lucid.

Still practicing though! I love this stuff so much. I kinda wanna just move to NYC because it's a great place to practice it.

Does the effectiveness of ADA - with regards to becoming lucid - wear off after a while?

Originally Posted by Bobblehat

Does the effectiveness of ADA - with regards to becoming lucid - wear off after a while?

One of the problems I usually run through is that there are so many possible dream scenarios that, your mind might not always go to one where you even remember that you learned about it.

I wonder how long it takes for ADA to completely be a part of your mind. So much so that, in every possible dream scenario, you have the memory of ADA embedded and you can do it whilst dreaming.

For a few months I have felt a lack of focus in life. Like I was never fully awake, or just that everything was blurred out to a degree. Not literally visually, but I just didn't feel focused or aware. Today I decided to try out ADA, and was taking little awareness sessions pretty often. Today when I went outside to let my dog do his business, I walked out, looked around, and everything was clear and pretty.

I feel like this is the best tutorial on this site. It is very helpful! Though, I have not achieved a lucid dream yet (I just started this ADA stuff), my dream journals are becoming more detailed and my dream recall has been getting a lot better. I hope to achieve a lucid dream by the end of this month. I've also noticed more details in my waking life, and when I question if I am dreaming, I find my answers to be more detailed and complex rather than "yes, this is real". By far the greatest help I have received. Thanks to KingYoshi for this tut!!

Originally Posted by akotten

my dream journals are becoming more detailed and my dream recall has been getting a lot better.

I know what you mean, making a comeback from a break, my journals are more detailed after every entry.

One of the greater tutorials out there!

Definitely

Kind of jumping into the middle of this thread... but ADA definitely works! I did not know that this was well known until reading this post; a couple months ago I was experimenting with it and my awareness in my dreams definitely increased. I even had a few lucid dreams in the weeks that followed, but unfortunately have not been keeping it up. However, it is true though about awareness in waking life carrying over into dreams, and this thread is a good reminder of it.

I'm going to start using this technique today and post my results on my blog! I'm really excited about having LDs again!

If you want to follow my progress and maybe help me along the way, here's my opening post to my 30 Day ADA Trial: All Day Awareness – 30 Day Trial « How To Be Awesome

Thanks a lot!

First time I slept long enough to get into my bit of dreaming, after going through this n giving what I interpreted from it a try. I tried just going over the details of everything I sensed, I then had an idea to help visually remember scenes/details of what I saw.

Pretty much just looking at all of it, closing my eyes and trying to focus on the image that was just before my eyes. Not really sure if that will improve on it at all, just know that when the first night of dreaming after just focusing on details, I had one of my most dream filled nights I can recall, a total of 5 separate scenes/scenarios

Will post some more if more good comes from it.