Hi dutch and BB!
Y'all know me quite well by now. I'd like to sign up officially for the course. Here are my vitals:
I'm at 29 LDs, with 7 in 10 days during the last competition (one week ago), including 4 in 5 days, 1 ld 3 days in a row, and 2 in one night, all new highs for me. 10 LDs in the last 2 months, including basic TOTM in both Feb and March. I usually undergo a short "recovery" period after an intense competition like now and am building my way back up. Last night's dreams had awareness in them for the first time in about 4-5 days. Sleep has been very deep after the competition for those 4-5 days. I do a lot of intense exercise now to promote solid sleep.
Figuring out how to wake up again in the middle of the night (brierfly) will help with lucidity.
Basically all my LDs are DILDs. I've tried DEILD a few times, and WILD a bunch of times, but the few times I did get into the dream (once for DEILD and once for WILD) there were discontinuities so maybe those were DILDs, too.
I have successfully lucidly flown twice (once with low, and once with medium awareness, where I attempted speed control but it didn't work), and behind the back summoned DCs several times. I have shot (weak) fire from my hands once. I summoned a DC directly before my eyes once after a behind the back summon didn't work, it was a trip watching her materialise (flat painted red person shaped blob appeared in a flash, where the red slowly drained away resulting in a fully rendered DC underneath!). I've never teleported. I've successfully performed a pre-planned stability ritual several times (I pat down my dream body from my chest to my feet, looking down at it, while counting to 5).
Many times I feel "dizzy" / unstable upon lucidity and vigorous hand rubbing brings everything clear and things settle.
I rarely lose lucidity and have a dream continue, but that has happened at least once that I'm sure of.
My awareness ranges from barely realizing it's a dream (I treat DCs like real people), to full knowledge of who I am, what I'm doing, and what my goals are. Time of night of the LD seems to influence this (closer to morning, more awareness).
I've also successfully deeply engaged both touch and visuals in at least one dream upon remembering to do so (last week), it was a really amazing experience.
I get easily distracted by female DCs. I do not want to ignore them altogether since that is a big part of LDing for me, but I'd rather invest in really building up my "lucid minutes" and taking frequency and control to the next level, first, if that's what's needed.
Almost all of my dreams end (and some of them start) with close female interaction (e.g., making out, or grabbing). I think I could easily go twice my current max (5 minutes) or more by avoiding dream girls.
I want to figure out how to engage the ladies without losing the dream, that's a secondary major goal.
So my plan at this point is to: 1) deeply engage the dream environment (all senses), and just stay in the dream fully lucid for as long as I can, and slowly explore. 2) keep my feet moving, so my perspective is always shifting. 3) constantly set and re-set mini-goals
I would like to learn how to stand still and observe without losing the dream. Right now I do that by rubbing my hands or my thumbs over my fingers separately. And I would like to learn how to stand close to a girl DC where she fills my field of vision and not lose the dream.
And I hope you'll accept me in to the class!
thanks,
FM
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