Hi,
I’ve tried having LDs for some time, but all of my attempts failed pretty spectacullary so far. It’s not problem with dream recall, I pride myself I am able to update my dream journal night after night, with at least one new entry. The point is it’s not very rewarding to me - since I’ve started focusing more intensively on LDs (on “invoking” them) I’ve as well started to have nightmares i.e. about man-eater spiders or skeletal wights. You’ll say “do RC”, but that’s really last of things that was coming to my mind when such thing were getting closer and closer to my face. I usually end up waking up, screaming like hell unleashed after that. I’m also a bit scared about the bare fact itself, that I’ve not encountered any mention of such “sensations” in any of guides I’ve followed.
Now, I do believe though that the reason for not being able to even consider RCs is problem with fitting them into my waking life. That brings me here, with - I hope - rather inferior problem. I mostly forget about RCs. I’ve made myself some memos, but they’re not very helpfull, especially when I’m busy (seems I just tend to ignore them). Is there a way to increase my “awareness” of them? And won’t it limit my RC-performing ability while dreaming, that I use my phone on-screen memos to remind me of RCs?
Another point, mostly when I remember I should do RC, it’s not the “time and place” (like in a bus, those priceless face expresions of other passengers when you pinch your nose - by some considered as the best RC there is). So the question is - can you combine efficiency and discrecy in one, or these are RC traits that exclude one another?
Third question - I’ve read that doing more than one RC is more efficient (hence better). Now, some guides recommend performing text-reading RC and clock-reading RC. As far as I know they work on the same basis, which is the behavior of the text being read (that it shifts constantly). So will the combination of two “pretty much the same” RCs (like mentioned text-reding and clock-reading or pushing fingers through one hand then through another) work, or should I alter them? If the latter, which ones you feel are best to combine?
I thank you in advance for your help and time (and sorry if my english is terrible, it’s just not my main language).