things like this usually don’t work with me. But I’ve decided to try it out anyway since it seems to be very simple and doesn’t require me to wake up in the middle of the night. But just to be sure this actually goes into my head I’m going to write closer to 150 lines a day
50 lines on the computer during the day.
50 lines on the computer 30 minutes before sleep.
50 lines by hand 10 minutes before sleep.
And then repeating it in my head as I fall into sleep.
That should keep it from falling out. I’ll try it for about a week or so.
I don’t think there’s a bigger difference between analog and digital writing. You could always do a little of both. Or as you say, experiment to find what fits you best.
Heh, having the ability to perform a reality check doesn’t mean that you’re slumbering. It just means that you’re performing some sort of action that will ‘succeed’ if you are truly visuallizing reality(‘in’ reality) at that instant or otherwise result in something ‘unnatural’ occuring.
I actually did this just last week during the spare time after my chem test. I had a lucid the day after. so I don’t know if it’s coincidence, or if it truly did work. I should (and will) try it more.
seems to me that in writing long-hand, you are more connected with the thought because you are actually taking the time to draw the language corresponding with the thought out on a piece of paper. your mind and body need to be in sync to do that, so it seems like a better method than writing it on a computer, where all of the letters are just little squares that you press. Have done some research regarding how writing something long-hand makes for more connection to the content of what you are writing.
that said, I am going to try this myself…
Last night I wrote down “I will have a lucid dream tonight.” on a piece of notebook paper 25 times. I didn’t want to do 50 lines because I just got overwhelmed and it was already 22:30, which is the time I wanted to go to bed. To make matters worse, I didn’t remember anything when I woke up the following morning. Although, after that I did read for about an hour and watched some clips of a movie until 23:45.
This can work but I think it’s very important that you can LET GO after you did it. If you keep thinking you must have a LD that night, it will not work because your mind become stressy of it…
Just write, let go and be meditative before you go to sleep.