long time no post in this tread. If no one have something new to add here it would be nice to hear the progress of everyones attemp in lucid living. Me myself just found out one important thing i was missing in my attempts - to listen. To listen to everything around you the same time as you look around and take notice of your surroundings. It’s very hard to hear things before you see them (xept for cars and stuffs like that) and it’s also very hard to concentrate on all on the same time. But, if you really try to concentrate on both sounds and visuals i found that it was more easy to stay in the state of awareness without your thoughts flying away for you.
I’ve also found a nice list on the things to focus on when being as aware as possible. I hope this list will help some beginners atleast (it helped me). Hopefully it will bring something to more experienced Lucid Livers too. I found the list on this web page/web book:
home.no/lucid/The%20World%20of%2 … glish.html
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Look sight all around. Try to perceive the surrounding world, wealth/riches and variety of its forms, color, motion, space.
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Hearing listen to the diverse sounds, including the simple miracle of speech and the magic of music, to their loudness, to timbre, key.
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Touch become acquainted with the objects/subjects by feel/to the touch (smooth they, rough, dry, sticky or moist), by weight (heavy, the lungs, continuous or hollow), they do cause pleasure, pain, by heat-, cold and so on. Focus attention also to your health into the given moment and compare it with the fact that you felt in another time: fatigue either cheerfulness, freedom or stress/voltage, pain or comfort, etc.
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Taste try to the taste everything that you want: different products and substances or try to recall and to visualize entirely their taste.
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Sense of smell try to recall and to visualize as much as possible the smells: the excited body, the earth/ ground, incense, smoke, perfumery, coffee, pommel, alcohol, sea.
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Respiration focus attention on your respiration. Minute ago you, probably, were not aware in the fact that breathe, although, executing this exercise, inhaled and breathed out once fifty. Detain respiration by several seconds. Breathe out. Now deeply inhale. You see that realization of its respiration gives to you the possibility to change it by random pattern.
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of emotion focus attention on your emotions. Recall how differ anger from gladness, tranquillity from the excitation. Recall other emotions, the it is greater, the better. Try to determine how actually they they are perceived?
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Of thoughts Sosredotoch’tes’ on your thoughts O than you they did think, executing this exercise? About which you do think now? By how a real do seem you thoughts?
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“4” try to realize the fact that your world always contains your “4”. On William James’s observation, the basis of the process of recognition is the fact that precisely I see, I hear, I perceive, 4 dumayushch. You are not that the fact that you see, you hear, you think or feel - you only take in this. In other words, you are the one who realizes. You always in the center of your multidimensional universe of recognition, but you do not always clearly realize yourselves. Repeat briefly entire exercise again with the following difference: controlling its recognition be aware in the fact that observing - these are precisely you. (“I see the light/world of…”).
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The realization of realization finally, realize your realization. Usually consciousness is focused on the objects, which are located out of us, but in this case it auto can be the object of knowledge. From an ordinary point of view we seem ourselves by the self-contained, sole center of consciousness, in our internal world. However, mysticisms assert that we all, in the final analysis, are one, infinite consciousness, which there is a source of life. this knowledge is difficultly to adequately express by words.
thx for listening (reading)