I regularly meet my host family from another country in my dreams, but the house never looks the same / I meet them in different places.
So I have tried using the Graffiti meditation but I was wondering how you remind yourself to Reality Test with persons you don't regularly meet in dreams. I could form a habit of RCing when entering the WhatsApp chat but as I never chat with them via my phone in my dreams it doesn't seem like it would work. I appreciate your thoughts, maybe I am missing something obvious đ
Good line of thought, I did try the graffiti idea when Daniel first introduced it but it hasn't been something I've tried that much although recently, I've been imagining more outrageous scenarios to help trigger my reality testing in both daytime and night time and I think the graffiti method could easily become part of that...I think.
Here's what I do: Driving is one of my Dream Signs and so rather than just RT every time I get into a car which is so mundane I forget to, I've started to daydream that any steering wheel is in fact a coiled snake that attacks me and tells me to Reality Test there and then. (Snakes feature in my dreams too). So as this is more memorable, I am getting to the stage I can easily imagine this each time in waking life so my RTs are getting better and should bleed into my sleep hopefully with such strong imagery.
As for graffiti, I did wonder about spraying up people's faces that I see in my dreams a lot, some I also see in real life, some not. Either way, I wonder if you can imagine something funny like, a drawn on moustache or glasses on one or all of these family members each time you see them or think of them, that may then trigger the Reality Test reminder in your dreams if you use it as a trigger in daily life?
Great & powerful ideas, then it will be time to give them some well-deserved face tattoos!
I will think of creative ways and will leave them under this post :)
I was thinking about some good ways to come up with original ideas to fire up my prospective memory ever since the video about it. Thanks for taking the time to reply!đ
@Flo No problem, yeah, I think I was going to write something offensive but funny to me on my other half's forehead to make me laugh and trigger an RT as she was in my dreams a lot...speaking of it I think I might do that as this seems again like a good technique to play with.