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[Lord_Dark_Forses]

Hello,

Yesterday, during the whole day i was doing my reality check eery 15 minutes or when i see something weird as normal, did some exercise before bed while i kept repeating myself "whats the mission? to have LD, whats the objective? to recognize that im dreaming" <.<! just to me sure that my mind remembers to check.

I took one B12 vitamin before bed and try to fall asleep but i never actually felt a sleep as long as i remember, not until like 5 am when i had a dream of which i only remember the end of it, and then i took some melatonin to try to fall asleep because its almost morning and then i felt asleep and had a strange dream, nothing out of normal, not like the other 3 random dreams in one dream.

Then i remember what Xanth said about meditation and ok decided to "meditate" for a while (that was my cover up to try to AP without telling my body xDDD) so i spent 1hour (yay, doubled my time laying down doing nothing xDDDD) and decided to go with the must basic technique i have ever read before "let the body relax by itself, and just focus on your point of awareness" and so i did, and even though i got distracted a couple of time i went back to my point of awareness until a couple of times i realize that i was just focus on it and that it but when i realized i was thinking that i was doing it xDD so i was not focus on it anymore, but i stick to it and kept focusing on it, i even felt a sleep for a second but i came back and focus on it, even when i was thinking something else i just kept thinking on my point of awareness.

After 1 hour, i just decided to turn over, and try to fall asleep, then i was thinking about the last dream i had, and suddenly i could hear the sound in my ear increasing for a second every time i was focusing on remembering a part of the dream, but i had drank too much water and that was not going to let me focus xDDD but hey, i spent a hour sticking to my point of awareness with the fail and try method xDD and after it i could for a second hear the increase of sound in my ear, thats a progress 

...too bad i couldnt have random dreams.

[Contenteo]

Good job.

Keep with it, even if it gets discouraging. Progress definitely seems to come in plateaus with this cognitive science.

Try not focusing, because that is keeping your attention in the physical. Try, hmm, heres one of my favorites, that is if you ever played hacky sack; visualize yourself playing hackysack. Just juggling it over and over and over again. Eventually, you will get enveloped by this visualization and when you resume realizing that you are just in bed, you will feel ever so slightly more disconnected from reality. Just keep repeating this over and over and over and eventually you will be quite deep into a meditative state.

Cheers,
Contenteo

P.S. When you get deep enough into that state, that's when you go for the gold and focus. You'll know when you hit paydirt, because its going to be a rush. Yeah, you'll know what I am talkin' bout.

[Lord_Dark_Forses]

Thanks for your advice, Contenteo