Dreamstate

test post as posting hasnt worked lately for somereason (for me at least)

I'll start with the research. In the experiment, 2 groups of students were asked to learn boring material. They were supposed to do it in a room with terrible learning conditions. Loud and funny clips were played in the background to distract them and they were to receive little money for participating in the experiment. Second group studied under the same conditions as first one, but nevertheless performed much better on the knowledge test and reported to the researchers that television distracted them much less. The researchers told this second group only one sentence before learning. "Don't see this as learning material that you will later be tested on. See it as an opportunity to improve your memory and concentration." They thus changed their so-called dominant motivator. They changed the reason why the students got involved in the assignment. Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1041608011001749 I have also found some interesting notes in my notebook. However I can’t find a source of these statements but I reflect to this and I bet that a lot of you too. The greater the delay element, the less motivation we will have towards a goal. Each waiting day lowers the value of the prize in our eyes. When we do reality checks only to build a habit and get lucidity in the future, we will come across lack of motivation after some time. When I do reality checks I don’t focus primarily on increasing my chances of lucidity but I aim at improving my memory (I try to remember what I was doing this day or day before or 3 days ago etc...) {by the way it is a very good motivator in case of keeping dream diary}, critical thinking (I doubt whether my surrounding is real or not) {improving critical thinking causes me to thing whether something is good for me or not and to make better decisions}, I am increasing my willpower (look at the end what I mean, because it is a bit complicated), and I am currently trying to create a new technique based on reality checks. There may be another reasons why you do reality checks, I showed you mine. The point is to change your so called deep motivator on a one that will give you motivation to do reality checks. Willpower: Studies have shown that almost every regularly trained act of self-discipline usually increases the amount of willpower after 2 weeks. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2855143/ Smokers who, before quitting smoking, engaged in small activities that increased their willpower, such as avoiding eating sweets, later abstained longer than those who tried to quit without such preparation. Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2946169/ All of it is from a polish course, based on scientific researches, about motivation. Let me know what you think about it and how it worked for you! Especially you Daniel.

Can we use dreamwalker technique in our non REM stage also at night because I mostly wake up in the middle of the night at random times.. So will it work when I use that technique whenever I wake up at night?