reality checking habit and dreaming about interests!?

[mallegeit]

This message is mostly to Tim, but also to anyone else who knows an answer:

In two other topics the following remarks are made (implicitly):
-dreaming about interests: one is bound to dream about new experiences, not about things the brain is already familiar with.
-I wrote in a dream: practicing reality checking, will make the chance greater that you'll reality check in a dream too.

I'm wondering: doesn't this contradict itself?
I'm practicing reality-checking often now, during the day, but if my mind gets too used to it, won't that mean I won't dream about it?

[Rik]

I think that's sometimes the case.
You see, when you're a beginner, the RC-habit works really well, but apparently its effects fade, that'd mean that you must have some others needs to induce lucid dreams. Hell, why do you think MILD and WILD and such were developed, if we already had the perfect RC technique?

[mallegeit]

Or maybe it has to do with theme/context versus actions. Like you're likely to dream about new themes or contexts, but then in those context you're likely to behave like you do in reality...?

I did find that recording dreamsigns was a great advantage for me, because up till now I was always dependent on my lucid dreams developing by themselves, while just last night it was a dreamsign that got me lucid. And I recognized the dreamsign only because I had been recording my dreams so far and noticed it was there really often.

However, as far as familiar contexts go, I keep on dreaming I am still in a place that I left 14 years ago. I dream about it all the time... So I guess it's not context either...

[Tim]

Exactly Mallegeit. If you have read my blogs at Lucidipedia, I have conducted an experiment in which I practiced time-based RC's: doing as many Reality Checks as I possibly can during the day. I did this for two weeks. No results.

I like to think that RC's need to be practiced within "conflicting" experiences during the day that are prone to REM. As such, they become event-based, just like LaBerge prescribes: performing RC's whenever you encounter something irregular (i.e., conflicting) during the day.

Nothing new, though. Many learners report having little results. Combined with WBTB however, lucid dreams are much more easily induced.
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[dylan9236]

But if we tend to dream about things that are not normal for us, why do almost all of my dreams relate to school?
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[Rik]

Same story here, I've got a lot of dreams relating to school.
Wait, hang on. I see a lot of school in my dreams (in people, location) but it's never the main topic in my dreams. It just provides a filler

some at your dreams too?

[mallegeit]

I had a dream last night in which I had a false awakening. Went downstairs and looked at the kitchen clock. The time changed every time I looked at it, I also looked at the time on my cell phone, it disagreed with the kitchen clock. I got confused and stressed, but had no clue I was dreaming!

[Rik]

Dreamt last night about LD'ing. some sort of Developer Induced Lucid Dream. I was like O.o, but didn't get the message xD