u/Worried_Ant1365

Tried the premium Noom experience in the app and after a few days of diligent exploration and use, I have to ask:

What does Noom provide, exactly, outside of a very expensive way to track calories and keep a person organized? I feel like, having gone all over the app, there’s not a lot there applicable to me. Is it just a user/service mismatch? (E.g. Nothing in the lessons is particularly eye opening. Drink water, get adequate rest…) I’m baffled at this what with the reputation Noom has for being proper good, non-fad health support. What am I missing?

Now, I know there’s a lot of advice along the lines of “symptoms are just a side effect of the method or your body entering a type of mind space” and that tingles, spinning, etc isn’t necessarily some gateway moment before a shift (which, per a lot of other good advice I’ve seen, is basically instant and on an awareness level, not physical).

BUT I feel like something have recently, pointedly, changed in my shifting journey: Having had a meditation streak for 120+ days and counting now, I’ve become used to entering certain states of mind and have, dare I say, gotten pretty good at some of it. (Heck, my meditation streak is longer than I’ve been aware of shifting. 😅) Thing is… in the past week or so, when I sit or lay down to attempt a shift (yes, I know—“attempt”, ew!—but since I haven’t made it to my DR this way, I have to call it something and “attempt” is best I’ve got) I get sort of all-over vibrate-y and I feel like I’m spiraling forward into the darkness. Gently. Loosely. Not some big pull or anything. (It’s quite a pleasant sensation.) And it happens FAST. Like, within a minute of setting out to meditate to mentally position myself to set about releasing from the CR and connecting with my DR. (My “method”currently, as it may be pertinent, is to just chill and let my mind float and fix on an object that is my doorway to my DR.)

Any ideas on why I’ve this regular new sensation and so quickly? (And no worries if the answer is “congrats, you’ve gotten good at meditating and that’s all it is” hahaha. It’s just so new and interesting and seems to involve itself in my shifting attempts, so I had to check on what it might be.) Thanks!

P. S. I’m aware that other often repeated good advice is “it’s all personal to you” so no worries if 🤷‍♀️ is also a valid answer to my question.

I’ve been journaling my dreams in an effort to solve a lucid dreaming thing. I’ve proper lucid dreamed fairly regularly my whole life. (Not super often but regular. Couple a month give or take.)

Now, I say “proper lucid dreamed” because I haven’t a tendency to vivid dream 3-5 a night. And in those I know I’m dreaming, too, but those I distinguish from lucids because I “follow the plot” so to speak. (I don’t go “hey, I’m dreaming!!” and start breaking physics and summoning pink unicorns or flying or whatnot; I just know I’m dreaming in these and treat the dream scenario as… hmmm… I guess I just LARP —er, DARP? Dream Action Role Play?—it.
Haha)

So, in an effort to break this apparent habit or belief of mine where I’m lucid but not Lucid, so to speak, I engaged in regular reality check breaks during the day yesterday so that maybe I’d interrupt my go-along-with-it dream habit. Thing is? “No” dreams last night. None. Not even a hazy half-remembered something. That’s unprecedented for me. (And I know people dream a lot more than we tend to remember, sure. Hence the “no” dreams claim since I know better than to absolute it.) Given my history and journaling I cannot believe I didn’t even dream in any remembered sense. It’s a serious outlier.

So, my question: did I inadvertently wreck my dream life by introducing reality checks in the daytime? 🧐 Seems odd timing, if nothing else.

Thanks.

Disclaimer: this might be unanswerable and I get that but—

I’m pretty sure I know what’s stopping me from shifting. (Like, I’m 99% sure this is why.) I’ve this horrible fear that I’ll shift and then… not believe I’ve shifted. As in: I fear I’ll shift and spend the rest of my time in my DR waiting to discover it was all just a dream where I eventually wake up back in my CR here and am gutted forever by the disappointment.

Anyone have any tips on how to deal with/get over this? 😞 Thanks!!!!

I’ve finally pinpointed lucid dreaming juuuust in that sweet spot pre-get-out-of-bed as The Way I seem to be comfortable shifting *however*… I’ve a frustrating reoccurring issue with my lucids:

I go aware (yay) but cannot alter (boo) my dream. I mean, I have free will etc. I act like I would in real life, basically. (Having chats with people, doing normal mundane tasks— e.g. last night I helped do a “end of road trip” check on a tan rental SUV and was low-key distracted by the scenery and memories of the trip. Basic normal everyday stuff.)

So I’m in a dream I’m sure must be a dream and it’s just real-life-ing around me and I just never seem to break out of that so I can aim it towards a shift. Any ideas what I could work on to position myself better for success during my frequent lucid dreams? A.k.a. A better way to force myself to remember in the moment “oh yeah, I was gonna use this to shift!” and actually DO it, instead of my well-behaved, get-along-girl a$$ going “doo, doo, doo… mom said check the pockets in the back seats… oh yeah, one of us left a folding umbrella in here…” 🤦‍♀️

Thanks!

Calling this a tip since it’s the best label for it.

Had a fascinating realization today. (Really, it’s just a way of looking at the old “don’t allow focus on your CR” advice from a new angle.) As the subject line says, “you can’t see your CR from your DR”. Meaning that if you’re laying there trying to shift but you feel time in your CR à la “later today after this I need to…”, or “maybe I should open my eyes to see if these symptoms made a difference…”— that is all from a CR point of view.

Don’t. Let. Your. Focus. Waver. (And yep, it is a TON harder than it sounds. I should have kept a lap counter device in my hand and ticked it up each time I had a “CR Me thought” pop in. And this with me thinking I’d done the mental reps 💪💪 to have discipline and focus. Whooboy.)

So… thoughts? Anyone want to try to workshop this into a helping tool for shifting? I just kept gritting my teeth and growling angrily at myself the reminder “you can’t see your CR from your DR!” 🤣😂🤷‍♀️

I feel like this + a absolutely borderline belligerent “I’m in my DR, gosh darn it” belief might do the trick for me.