Quote Originally Posted by Sageous View Post
A quick warning, RareCola (and any others here who share his results):

You seem to be advancing nicely in this technique, but you must be careful not to put too much importance on the "nature" portion of the RRC pause.

Sure, the nature portion of the RRC matters, especially in the early phases of your WILD's, and should be included -- it also sets the mood in a concrete way for further wonder. But if you put too much emphasis on your physical body's participation in the world around you, you run the risk of creating expectations of physical conditions within your LD which do not exist.

I'm concerned that I might have led a few of you a bit off the path. The RRC pause is essentially a moment for you to remember your interaction with reality, and that "your" includes your consciousness, your spirit, your sentience -- the very important bits of you that have little to do with nature. Indeed, the "self" in self-awareness is just that, and it is not your physical body. That's why I asked you to also wonder about your interactions with other people as well as other stuff.

Remember that there is no physical body in dreams, so there is little need to elevate its import in the RRC. Sure, it matters, and its the thing that's carrying your self from place to place and person to person, but in this context it is what your mind is telling it to do that matters more than what nature is doing to it.

Once more: to elevate the natural stuff going on around you above the activities of the conscious stuff that is going on within you could cause a real problem when you LD, simply because you might find yourself elevating the environs of the dream into something "real" over which you have no control, which could cause you to forget that that dream world is you, and in no way a product of nature... which would in turn put a real damper on your lucidity. So when you do RRC's (or RC's in general), try to find a balance that favors your mental and spiritual self over your physical body.

So what you're doing isn't wrong -- indeed, from a meditation standpoint I would imagine you're doing great! But for our purposes I hope you'll try to understand and try to get your entire self caught up in your RRC's.

I hope that made sense. If not, please ask again -- this is important.
Thanks for the advice! I understand what you're saying, only could you give some examples of what you do just to be sure?