Subjective Reality "techniques"

[Tripp444]

Steve's article left me wanting more "methods" for Subjective Reality. He mentioned "remembering things" the way you want them to be. Which I've been using, but as he mentions, a method only works if you believe it will. So I would like to play around with some other techniques like this. Any suggestions?

[HeartExalted]

I would be interested in some techniques, too.

A couple I have used are the following. First, I am trying to keep track of synchronicities, situations where I am thinking of something a lot and I later see something in my everyday life that reflects that. Second, I sometimes ask myself "If this were a dream, then what would X represent?" (X being a person, thing, etc.)

I look forward to others' answers...

[Angela]

Read every post you've posted here, listening to it as if it's someone saying something to YOU.

Because it is.

[cylon]

The only techniques I could advise would just be reminding yourself it's a dream. Over time you will see the evidence of that, and at that point you won't need any more techniques.

[Tripp444]

@HeartExalted I need to start doing more of that, where I ask myself what different things represent. Lately, Ive been trying to affirm to myself that "I" have created everything - good or bad. Like if I'm stuck in traffic, I remind myself that I created the traffic. Or if I get something unexpected, like money or a gift... I like to affirm that it's all part of my creation.

[lookcloser]

Originally Posted by cylon

The only techniques I could advise would just be reminding yourself it's a dream. Over time you will see the evidence of that, and at that point you won't need any more techniques.

True. Its the best technique by far. Keep telling yourself "This is all just a dream".
Its the easiest to internalize too. Very effective

[ButterflyWoman]

Some years ago, I became interested in lucid dreaming. I did a fair bit of reading on the subject, and one of the suggestions was that in order to condition yourself to question your reality, you should regularly pause and say to yourself, "Is this a dream? Am I dreaming now?" The idea is that you get so in the habit of doing this that you start doing it even when you're asleep, and it can trigger a lucid dream.

Doing that regularly did start to make me actually question my reality. Eventually, it became more and more spontaneous, i.e., I didn't have to ask or do a "reality check" any more to have the awareness of the "unreality" of my "reality". In time, this became a more or less permanent way of experiencing the world. I do sometimes step very deeply "into character", still, but that's no longer the default.

The amusing thing is that I'm no better at lucid dreaming now than I ever was. Now and then I still manage to become lucid, but for the most part, my dreams are entirely unconscious. So the technique did work, but not quite the way I thought it would...

[SethWilliams]

Originally Posted by cylon

The only techniques I could advise would just be reminding yourself it's a dream. Over time you will see the evidence of that, and at that point you won't need any more techniques.

Yep If you think about it, your transmuting alot of resistance and limitations with just those few words.