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    Sensei's Comp, Day 1 (Lucid!)

    by , 07-28-2014 at 09:29 PM (717 Views)
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    2:10 AM: Fragment. In an enchanted garden at night. All of the creatures here (mainly butterflies) are constructs, and are designed to "find out" thing about people (listening at the proper moment, or asking particular questions). This has something to do with sleep and dreaming but C/R (can't remember).

    5:43 AM: (FA) I attempt WILD, which initiates missed FA. gab sees me trying to WILD and decides to help. She explains her method of WILDing: she visualizes Naruto in meditative posture (yeah right) before a big battle. She says the moment Naruto gets into meditative posture, he begins telling her he is ready to WILD. "I can see people fighting," he says. "The closest fight is the best one!" and "I'm ready right now," and "I'm still ready" and finally, if gab misses these cues, "I've woken up!" I marvel at how easy it is for gab to WILD!

    The dream transitions to a false WBTB (lol) where I am ordering pizza with Sensei and a coworker. I have to walk down a long dirt road to get to my room, but am excited about having pizza. I explain to my coworker and Sensei that I will probably not have any soda because I need to return to bed for the competition. I also look at myself in the mirror at some point. Nothing weird; I just look tired. I contemplate taking Galantamine, then remember that it was hard to fall back asleep after a lucid dream. I reassure myself by remembering that we've just purchased some blackout curtains and I can sleep as late as I need to. I then take the Galantamine (?) but cannot remember a moment later if I took it or not. I ask my coworker if I took it. He says he thinks so. I tell him this is important, and is he sure? He assures me he is certain, and says, "You took something from that bottle." I am satisfied. I ask him if he wants one and he declines, saying he has heard it is ineffective. I assure him it has worked for me in the past, though he chalks this up to my "good recall." He admits his recall is very bad. I say mine has not been so great either lately.

    (WBTB, WILD attempt 2)

    7:24 AM: Meeting a Tibetan medicine student in a grocery store. We have an argument about how best to induce lucid dreams. He is trying to sell me some junk medicine. He then says that "half of the mind is dark" when travelling in different countries, which is why I am not remembering dreams. I tell him this is ridiculous and that the mind is never "dark." He becomes angry and says he cannot teach me anything. I try to calm him down. "Can't we have a discussion?" I ask. "Is homeopathy always right?"

    "Yes," he says. He storms off. He then returns and says he is going to inform my "carlo" (no idea what that is) and my lama as to my rudeness. He also says he is going to find "all of the people that love me" and inform them too. I begin to get angry now to the point of violence. I implore him not to contact my friends and family, and get involved in my affairs. I also explain to him that our relationship is business, so do not make it personal. "Tell me you are understanding reality right now," I say.

    A child I know wants to get past me to the drink cooler. I move out of the way. I am conscious now of making a scene, and decide to walk away. I head over to the freezer section, thinking I will preemptively call my lama and inform him of some lunatic who will be calling soon. I doubt he'll be mad at all. I meet a little old lady in the freezer section, and she asks for help finding the "orange juice with sugar." I begin digging through the freezer trying to find it. She tells me she completed "three years" of something "in three days." I politely ask how this is possible, because I feel she may have dementia. She explains how her personal business fell apart due to internal conflict. Dream (mercifully) ends.

    8:58 AM: At a lake with a high school friend. He sees me and asks me to come over. I do. He then ignores me to talk to someone else (rather typical of him, I'm afraid). He sees an overweight girl walk past. Apparently she looks at him, because he says to the other guy, "Do you see this girl looking at me?" They then make fun of her. The other guy says, "Tell her to go inside, turn on the AC, and press the button that says 'food.'" They laugh then. I am disgusted, because they chose to make fun of her because maybe she found my friend attractive for a moment. I wonder why I am sitting her being ignored and then it hits me: Oh yes. This is a dream. I nose pinch to RC. I am about to set off to take care of my tasks, but I cannot pass up this opportunity.

    I truly look at my friend for the first time, and his eyes bug out and seems a bit cartoony. I look away and he stabilizes into himself. He tells me we are going somewhere else now. While he is talking, I am listening, and start to lose lucidity. I mentally repeat, "This is a dream" to stabilize. Lucidity returns. I tell him I'm not going. He asks why not. I say, "Because you're supposed to be my friend, but being around you is neither friendly nor fun." I then walk away. He tries to follow me, but I start running (quite elated actually) and jump high over a 9ft fence or so and easily land on the other side. Escaped!

    I then set to the tasks. I attempt the basic flying task. I leap into the air, high again, and yank branches down off of a pine tree. I swim my arms a bit, but don't see any real flying. For some reason, in dream, I become convinced that I have satisfied the basic flying task, but C/R when I wake up. Oh well.

    I then attempt advanced flying. I peer up at the sky. It is very far away, blue, with white clouds. It seems impossible. I tell myself, "This is just your mind. You can fly right up into those clouds." I remember StephL saying that advanced flying seemed kind of scary, and I empathize with that thought. I jump into the air, staring straight up, and fall right back down. I try a couple more times. Nope. I decide to do the basic dream control task and set off.

    I run down to my school building where I went to school as a child, and see a bolt in the wall (at this point I attempt advanced flying again, but still no success). I begin to shape the bolt with my hands, expanding it, and willing it to change into something else. It transforms into a combination lock. The lock looks more like a paperweight than a real lock, but it certainly is no longer a bolt. I am satisfied. I turn to find something else to mess around with and the dream ends.


    So I tallied my points and it's actually 18.5:

    2 NLD: 2
    1 frag: 1/2
    1 lucid: 5

    RC/Stabilize: 1
    Interact w/ DC: 2
    Basic Object changing: 4

    WBTB: 2
    WILD: 1

    If anyone has any advice on flying and advanced flying, I would love to learn. It's one of the things I want to do more than anything, and one of the things I have been least successful at in the past. Sometimes I am OK at basic flying, but most often it has been challenging. I am much more adept at manipulating the environment.
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    1. fogelbise's Avatar
      Congrats on the good recall and the lucid and on the first night as well!! Since you asked...there are a couple of things to try for flying. Bear in mind that this is coming from someone who flew a lot in when I was younger, especially in non-lucids, so I thought of it as easy and it usually is...perhaps like manipulating the environment is for you. Do you relate to or like any flying superheroes? I grew up with the Superman movies and I think that played a part. Try just knowing that this is your dream and if you want to fly like Superman(or other) then you will! Just extend your arms out and go just like Superman. Other's say that it takes more than that, namely by using archetype control...but I say if you can get it to work with the first idea then it will be easier from then on in general. Use archetype control if needed. I think for me that I see the dream world as an "anything can be done" world so perhaps that is my ingrained archetype. Advanced flying has pro and cons (for me, doesn't have to for you) that I have come across but I won't poison your future experiences with anything negative and it isn't that bad anyway. That doesn't mean that every dream control method works the first time I try it. Reference: Archetype Control: An Elegant Tool - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
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      Updated 07-28-2014 at 11:31 PM by fogelbise (clarify advanced flying)
    2. StephL's Avatar
      Uuh - sorry for that! And congratulation, too!!
      I fly a lot - almost always, often that's all I do, and what used to work for me as a kid and still does without fail is jumping from a bit of a height and "air-swimming" - it's pretty easy a schema to draw on - you know - air behaves like water...
      But it's strenuous and slow for me - fitting the schema.
      I think key is to lose fear of jumping from heights - knowing nothing can happen. I let myself fall backwards once, stiff - dutchraptor had recommended that to make sure, you know, nothing can happen to you - have faith in that.
      I hit the ground, but it was just as if a board of wood would be tapped on one of my vertebrae - just for me to notice the ground.
      Maybe experiment with that?
      Another thing I do often, which happens on its own rather, sometimes, is hovering - you know, run, jump and every time a bit farther, a bit higher, and gravity is a bit less forceful and then - you glide. This works nicely - help yourself with something like running down a hill, just take and keep your legs off the ground, when really bouncy!

      What scared me was superwoman flight - I held an arm up almost 90° and zuoooum - my schema of that was a lightning fast flight - seen in the inner eye or a movie - nice - but with full on physicality - Uaaaaaagfh.jäsfj
      What brought me down "safely" was good old air-swimming after accepting a bit of a drop.
      But great - not for nothing I put that up as a three-stepper, one of the best things I did in a lucid - also for a comp. I most definitively want that again and this time staying cool besides the thrill! I love a bit or more or a lot of a thrill!
      No need to be afraid of anything!

      Oh - and what I really want is grow a pair of proper wings one day - I'm so looking forward to that!

      Hi fogelbise - my dear teacher!
      Archetype control sounds so impressive, overimpressive - but having a superhero in mind is archetype control of a sort - I don't like the sources where this lingo seems to come from overly much, though...
      It just makes sense to me to use "schema" - maybe because that's a neutral German word for such a thing - using a thinking pattern to form a reality...
      Updated 07-29-2014 at 12:04 AM by StephL
    3. ThreeCat's Avatar
      You guys are awesome. Thank you so much for the ideas. And StephL, no worries--random stuff from the day come back in my lucids so you are certainly not to blame. I have had some success with swimming, but like you said--so much work! And I tend to fall if I am not swimming lol.

      Fogelbise, my flying person is Peter Pan--always thought it would be great to fly to Neverland (not the Michael Jackdon version, of course). I'll give that a shot tonight. I just need to think of a wonderful thought... Any happy little thought... . I will also look at the thread on archetypes, but I agree: if I can just get it to work, I would rather keep it simple.

      See you guys tonight!
    4. OneUp's Avatar
      Very interesting dreams ThreeCat, especially the old lady asking for the "orange juice with sugar" LOL. Glad you were successful with getting an LD last night, and your recall is pretty good I must say! and Btw man thanks for the advice earlier about getting rid of the day residue, Ill be sure to try it tonight. Good luck for tonight!
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    5. StephL's Avatar
      And I love the conflict with the Tibetan medical student of course - hehe - no discussions - homoeopathy is always right - go darken half of your mind!
      Well done - making him storm off!
      But good you got lucid on "your own" later - otherwise you might have come to regret it - it's all so bizarre and multi-faceted with dreams...
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      Updated 07-29-2014 at 12:40 AM by StephL
    6. Antoia's Avatar
      Congrats on the lucid, and nice recall! gab's method of WILDing sounds hilarious. I like how your NLDs seem to all be about dreaming and lucid dreaming I can't really help with the whole flying thing since I've been doing that in NLDs for a long time (though lately my mind seems to say "nope, too bad" when I try advanced flying), but in case you want some inspiration:



      Also, usually when I fly I find a high place and jump off. Luckily for me, there's a balcony right outside my bedroom, and I usually end up in bed in LDs, so I go outside and jump off there. Hm... maybe that's why I haven't been able to fly well lately - I've been landing in the street and taking off from the ground. Something to think about, I guess.
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    7. Nightfeather's Avatar
      I remember a fantasy novel in which the key to flying was imagining the environment moving (as opposed to oneself moving). I haven't yet tried it out though.
      @Antoia: Wow! Thats amazing dream inspiration!
    8. ThreeCat's Avatar
      Nightfeather, I have tried that before a few times, and it tends to work, but it is also a bit of a burden, as I have to keep saying, "Faster, faster" or "higher! higher!" If I lose concentration I fall. I will quote Oasis:

      "Maybe, I don't really wanna know/ how your garden grows/ cuz I just wanna fly . . ."

      Oh, boy. It's a 90's Tuesday

      Antoia: Maybe it's because I've just come off of LDing, but I think this may be really helpful! I'm psyched, lol. Thanks for the video!