the RC set-up

[joshbotch]

this worked for me last night so i thought it might work for others. 

my main problem with visualization techniques is that even if it works and i end up in a dream doing what i had visualized myself doing, i usually get wrapped up in it and fail to RC.  it seems to me that many of us might have more luck with visualization if we visualize our selfs doing something we would not do IRL or perhaps something we are strongly against IRL. 

a lot of times it seems most of us just go with the flow of dreams most of the time, why not try to set yourself up for something so abnormal, something that your so opposed to IRL that you would have a hard time not doing a RC.

makes sense to me, i hope other people might find it useful also.

[pj]

I spent a lot of time early on trying different visualization and incubation things.  I always tried to include something or someone in these to remind me that I was dreaming.  I never did have much luck.

In fact, yours may be the first report of success I've ever read from somebody who experienced it first-hand.  Congratulations on the success!  It will be interesting to hear how this progresses, and whether anybody else has any luck with it.

One that I put a lot of effort into was carefully visualizing myself in a room with stucco walls, heavy wood door with iron hinges, and no ceiling - open to the sky.  I can hear a sea from beyond the walls - the waves, gulls, breeze. . . I move slowly around the room, making my way around hand over hand, feeling the cool, rough and slightly damp walls.  I feel my way across the heavy door, the hinges, and back around until I come to a window opening.  My cousin T. is standing there in the window, and he tells me that I am dreaming.

Except I never seem to get that far.

[Sunshine]

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[Tyrannus Prime]

I tend to have the problem that I've made RCing such a common point of my waking life yet, as you've said, when I'm in my dreams, I'm too engrossed or absorbed in what going on in the dream that I forget to, or I assume that not matter how absurd something it, it's perfectly normal.