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i tend to autism over weird details and numbers in my dreams though. like i have entries describing the caliber of the bullets in firearms, or the questions on a test, or the number of pages that the exam was. i can write thousands of words on a dream that is otherwise completely hazy that genuinely didn't feel that vivid

meh, i probably just was dream journalling wrong and wasting my time then given what i was focusing on was wrong. i've maintained my dream journal for a year, and on a good night i've gotten it to be around 200 words or so, but without any sort of actual physical sensation

>the goal is to train your brain to focus on small sensory details when dreaming. 
is this what all day awareness is supposed to be? to force yourself to constantly focus on feelings of your body?

>I usually don't bother with taste, but it has worked most of the time when I actually tried to taste something in a lucid dream.
i oddly have a strong sense of taste in my lucid dreams
dream food tastes completely unlike irl food though. burgers that literally melt in my mouth, or pastries that change from sweet to savory to processed in real time as i eat them

> try to touch something and feel its texture.
isn't rubbing your hands together the first thing you do to keep calm? i've never gotten that far with a lucid, i usually just panic and wake up
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>meh, i probably just was dream journalling wrong and wasting my time then given what i was focusing on was wrong.
I don't think there is a wrong way to do it, everyone is different, and I wouldn't consider myself an authority on proper dream journaling. I just think that focusing on sensory experience could help when it comes to clarity (e.g., recalling if it was cold or warm during your dream, if you felt any sort of wind, if you smelled anything in particular, etc.) Even if you write down 'I did not smell anything', you are telling yourself that you actually were supposed to smell something, building your unconscious expectations, but again, everyone is different, there are no guarantees.
>is this what all day awareness is supposed to be? to force yourself to constantly focus on feelings of your body?
Yeah, ADA has the same goal - making use of the fact that when you are either consciously or unconsciously aware that you should be feeling something in a dream, you usually will feel it. Personally, I couldn't keep up with it. It required too much focus throughout the day, but it could also potentially help with clarity.
>isn't rubbing your hands together the first thing you do to keep calm? i've never gotten that far with a lucid, i usually just panic and wake up
Yeah, you can definitely do that. Focusing on the dream sensations should help you stay grounded in a dream preventing you from waking up prematurely. Touch is probably the easiest one. As for the other senses, the goal is to remind yourself that they exist and that you are supposed to be getting sensory input from those senses.