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- From: s_titz@ira.uka.de (Olaf Titz)
- Newsgroups: alt.dreams
- Subject: More subtle reality checking...
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 15:51:28 GMT
- Organization: Fachschaft math/inf, Uni Karlsruhe, FRG
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- Recently I've come across the experience that a more subtle way of
- reality checking could perhaps achieve more. If you follow the
- instruction, "just ask yourself, am I dreaming, the whole day long",
- this sounds so silly, it'll be hard to remember continuously.
-
- But I've reached lucidity recently by recognizing certain
- inconsistencies in the environment that caught my attention "by
- themselves". E.g. I went to the football arena and after the match had
- begun, I suddenly was inside of a big hall - they had relocated the
- match to indoors :-) This was weird enough to get me aware of the fact
- I was dreaming. Now the important thing is that I was not actively
- checking for such things, but rather have sharpened my attention to
- such weirdnesses so that I can recognize them even while dreaming.
- Maybe this is easier to learn, but I'm not sure.
-
- Happy New Year,
- Olaf
-
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