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23 Post author: Qiaochu_Yuan 25 July 2013 02:58AM

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Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 25 July 2013 06:59:04PM 3 points [-]

Two approaches that come to mind are doing what CFAR calls offline habit training (finding a concrete trigger, tying it to an action using vivid associations, and repeating the trigger-association-action loop continuously for, say, 10 minutes) and installing them as social norms (ask all your friends to start asking each other these questions when relevant).

Comment author: Benito 25 July 2013 08:25:25PM 6 points [-]

This reminds me - often, people who are trying to lucid dream will ask themselves if they're awake every time they go through a doorway. Once it's habit, it starts happening in dreams.

Then suddenly the answer changes.