Thread: Roguetta's Workbook

Okay, nighttime routine is not working. I need something simpler and not so maybe steps. It's got to be normal or something easy to incorporate into my life; I've really got to start small. Actually, I was getting so many more dreams when I was napping in the afternoon, so much so that it was overwhelming. Now I mainly get up and go play a game after writing dreams down and then later in the year I'm going to have school. I don't really like routines, so instead I'll make a loose reality check list to follow for a week and see if that helps better. If it helps, then I can move onto other things. I'm mainly on DILD now, MILD is just a hard thing to remember because I like laying down and talking to myself before bed or making up a story, MILD kinda gets in the way of that. But, I've listed some reality checks that I think will work because of my recent dream settings. I still get a lot of false awakenings, so I really need to make sure my bedroom is real when I wake up.

THE LIST OF REALITY CHECKS DAILY:
1. Finger count when I wake up and am still in bed, my normal false awakenings start with me waking up from my current bed and rarely my old room. Then I head into writing down a dream I just had, then when I wake up for real I forget that dream completely.
2. Do a nose pinch reality check when around the house outside. Too often, I'm running around outside my current home and smoothly transition into my old home, also I'm outside often in real life petting the cats so I'll probably do it.
3. When it's dark or light, anytime during the day go look at the clock and try to make sure the outside light syncs up with the clock time. I've been having more dreams at night, but I notice the moon is never full. This kinda bothers me because last night it was beautifully full and bright, but I almost always just have dark dark nights in my dreams. Despite the fact that I adore the moon.

Okay, now I'm going to set a number counter here to see how many I get each day and just incase, I'll set a minimum goal. GOAL: (15 daily) DONE: (22, July 12th)

A question I do have, for those that watch. I'm sure some of us have had dreams in our old neighborhoods or homes at some point in our lives, if we lived in two homes of course. But because I have half my dreams in my old neighborhood/home, I need some advice on how to recognize that in the dream. I've read about doing reality checks when you think about it, but I never think about the place. It's just been apart of my life in a big way I guess, that I keep going back to it for my dream adventures. So what things can I do in my real life to recognize I'm dreaming in my old home in my dreams? Also, I guess another question I need some tips for. I've noticed the proportions of my current home or old home in the dreams are slightly larger sometimes. Should I be studying my house more to try and spot it in my dreams, maybe questioning reality when I become aware of the amount of space in the area? That probably wouldn't be often, but it might help.




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