Thread: Much more "awareness"...

I am not claiming that this will work for you, will provide an easy method for LDs, or even that it will work to give more LDs to me. You'll kind of have to read on to get that part. I am claiming that I have somehow achieved a higher state of awareness from doing this, and I am hoping that it will help in my LD journey, and hopefully in yours also!


I was just on vacation snowboarding for the past week with my three little brothers, needless to say if you have been in similar situations, aches and pains from snowboarding, waking up to the yelling and jumping of little kids, and excitement of being snowboarding and in below 0 weather did a number on my recall, so I haven't recalled any lucid dreams from this, but it seems to me that it definitally will help soon now that I am back to my normal cycle.

With that out of the way, here we go:

The day before I left for vacation, I read in Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming about Stephen's experience going to some lucid dreaming yogic demonstration where an Asian man with little English would point to everything in the room saying, "This dream, this dream, this dream, this dream," etc. What I got out of it was that everything should be considered a dream until further verified, and that I need to be more aware of everything.

I read this sometime around night, so for the next hour or couple hours before I went to bed I looked at everything I could saying to myself, "This is a dream, this is a dream, this is a dream, this is a dream." Then do a reality check. I did this while doing whatever else I was doing at the moment like packing for vacation, watching TV, going wherever, etc. When I was laying in bed I visualized any scenes I could and did the same thing in a daydream type of way.

It's been my experience that whenever I do something like that right before I go to bed it embeds it into my head subconsciously. One example of this was a long time ago when I was little there was some stupid game where you kind of juggled words with people and if you screwed up you were out. I was horrible, but went to bed playing the game with myself in my head, and the next day I was just as good as everybody else.

So all this past week, I've become "aware" as I say it of my surroundings and of my conscious state of mind very frequently. While I probably did upwards of 5-10 RC daily before, I become away upwards of 25-40 times a day.

I notice that I become aware whenever I do lots of thinking, rationalize what happened or why something happened, wonder about anything, have songs stuck in my head, do random things, see random things, notice that I've gone a while without much thought and have been doing things kind of zombified or zoned out, etc.

The first couple of days right whenever I became aware I would say, "I'm dreaming." While knowing that I'm probably not because I didn't feel the real need to RC which is an RC in itself, but I would still do an RC anyways to triple check. Now I usually will say, "I'm aware!" Then I'll look around my surroundings for a second, do reality checks, and think of what has been happening lately. I'm usually in this extra aware state for a couple minutes.

I probably sound crazy or that I'm just now clueing into something that everybody knows about or does which I think is probably likely, but if I become like this as often as I have been over the past week uncessantly, I'm expecting an LD very soon if not tonight since I will be able to sleep tight and dream away.

Thanks for reading! If this makes much sense and sounds logical go for it and try it. I hope it works well for you and I both.