Thread: Linkzelda's Workbook

I guess it really is all about the cheese to get Alex to meet you. Hahahaha

Okay, so plans for tonight:

Do the CANWILD technique, to stay true to one of the guidelines to stick to one technique.

I'll set the alarm to wake me up after 4 hours of sleep instead of 5-6 hours.

And if I wake up before that, I'll just rely on autosuggestion to keep my eyes closed, that way, if I do get into the dream state by becoming conscious after a dream ends, if the alarm activates, I'll rely on the autosuggestion as insurance to not be shocked by the alarm.

The reason I'm saying this is that last night, I woke up 30 minutes or so before the actual alarm triggered, and because I'm used to the alarm and how it sounds, hopefully it won't affect me if I get lucky with the REM periods and all that.

Good thing I decided to go for four hours, because I got a lucid! Will post details later on, still have a chance to get another lucid.

Brief summary of the lucid:

I was basically nose plugging like there's no freaking tomorrow, along with rubbing my hands one time.

I was able to summon an HD T.V., and watched a clip from it for a while. I tried to summon Eva, but again, she only deserves to show up once or twice in my dream experience, get paid, and leave me....lol.

I think she was probably doing something else, seeing as she showed up in serious dreams like the Akashic Records one I had. Maybe she just....okay, I'm talking to myself now...just calm down Link...

She didn't show up, then I tried summoning my previous dream guides......lol that was waaay too much for me to ask for.

Anyway, glad I was lucid! Time to attempt it again, since I'm sure I have more REM periods to go through.

Brief summary of the experience to GET lucid:

Okay so the post I made above, it pretty much worked, I woke up naturally from a dream, and knew that would happen since I woke up early last time, but I kept still, moving just a little bit, but not caring too much on that affecting my chances or anything like that, and then I dozed off, heard the alarm, and that signaled me to start getting ready.

Felt a fuzzy feeling around my head and neck, and I was being swirled a little bit, then my dream eyes finally opened.

Had my lucid, practice basic stabilization methods like the nose plug RC, and rubbing of the hands, I should've spent longer doing that, and telling myself "I will have a nice and long stable lucid dream."

Oh well, time to try this thing again, it's 5:46 AM, and I definitely have some leeway for another attempt.

Okay, after experiencing that lucid dream, I couldn't sleep lol. I was just too excited, it's been a month and a half at least of no lucid dreams for me.

I need to work on being calm after I get a lucid lol. And I was thinking about taking the time to go over any last details for the exams I'm taking today.

Here's the entry:

Throw the Gum Away, Running Up Stairs, 2 Men & 1 Woman, Eva? Anyone??? - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

YAAAAY!

You know, I think watching a little TV is not a bad idea for keeping calm in your LD. If anything, it might have been your frustration over Eva that might have caused you to kinda not care and give up, therefore you switched to the 3rd person perspective.

I would love it if you made a list of tasks to do in your next lucid. Start with some simple ones (which shouldn't be a problem since you summoned a whole HDTV that even worked!), and move to more complicated ones. Like a list of maybe 3-5 things so you will remember them. Couldn't hurt.

Congrats again on the lucid dream, I'm so excited for you!

Okay here are a list of things I hope to do tonight, one of which a DV member suggested I should try out:

1. Find myself a mirror, and write Eva's name on it, and see her come out of it, if it works, or if I summon her some other way, I'll ask her to show me what she was giving me the gray letter for.

2. Summon a golden eagle, seeing as Sinoblak had a dream of me holding one apparently, so maybe it could be my spirit animal or something like that.

3. I don't know, if all goes well, get laid by Eva.

I couldn't do the CANWILD tech because I forgot to plug in the charger into an outlet last night. I was really tired last night. After getting pissed over one mistake that deprived me of potential lucids, I decided to sleep again, and set the alarm at a different time now.

Dozed off, can't remember hearing the alarm, but oh well.

Almost had a foursome with melanieb and twin sisters that looked like 3D anime chicks, but the dream fades away.

Also had a dream about Kaomea and her pain meds apparently.... She made a DJ entry related to something like that.

The rest are just bleeeeh

DJ entry

The one with melanieb, wow...like, I couldn't tell if I was seeing the real thing or if it was a dream figure. She was so nice to me! But that itself just made it even more awkward, because I though melanieb would be a little bit more aggressive, but she kind of diluted that role while she takes my hand and we go to the bedroom. I think she was playing cute just for her own thrill.

:x

Awwwwww, sorry you forgot to plug in your charger Link.

And you may not be summoning Eva, but you sure are getting lucky with the DV chics

Okay, so instead of using an alarm program that only activates once, I downloaded one that can activate several times:

Setting one to wake me up after 6 hours for example (though it'll really be 4-5 hours of deep sleep for me)




When I wake up to that one, I'll try my best to say a keyword in my mind (for dream recall that is), and then hopefully go into a DEILD, or a WILD.

Then I'll set one to activate at 60 minutes. Then one at 30 minutes:



Then one more for an hour:



And since I'm used to the alarm, each time it rings, I'll remind myself to keep my eyes closed, remain still, and enter a dream state lucidly.

Hopefully it'll pay off!

That's all for now, good night.

And as for goals, I honestly do not know. I could go for a shared dreaming attempt and find Alyzarin or Kaomea.

If not, it'll be Eva.

If not that, find a demon girl that could be another dream guide.

If not that, I'll think of something, hopefully lol.

The program I'm using is called "Free Countdown Timer," if anyone reading this wants to try out the CANWILD technique.

I'm going to remind myself to plug in my charger lol.

Managed to get lucid last night, barely remembered the lucid. It was pretty short.

The other dreams are just kind of dramatic for no reason, especially the last one where I got mad at some employee for being mad at me for no apparent reason.

When I did a nose plug RC in the lucid before that (first dream I put), it was kind of hard to breathe, but I still managed to breathe through.

Afraid of the Dark, No Exam for me, Store rage.. - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Plans for tonight:

Drink 3mg of Melatonin

Set the alarm to ring after 4 hours of sleep, then 1 hour after that, then another, and one more.

Maybe one more since I have to take into consideration that my REM cycles might be stronger during the morning, but nina's response to a similar query I had in mind made me more confident to take melatonin as a sleeping aid:

http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/melato...6/#post1570830

The only way to see how it'll affect me is to test it out myself. I have 120 tablets of it, so might as well put them to good use. I plan to take one daily from now on.

That Melatonin really helps with sleep, big time.

I could've remembered more of my dreams, but I dozed off since I was practicing waking up with my eyes closed with the alarm rings. I set it to ring maybe 4-5 times last night, which helped with remembering some dreams, despite my gap in recall in most of them.

Backpack, Plug, Circular Waterfall, 10 Reports, Alyzarin, Spike Spiegel Dies...... - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

One part of a dream that freaked me out was a dark violet demon that had a lot of penises attached when it opened its layers or exterior.

Meh.

I think I found Alyzarin as well, or an element from her avatar of the character from Higurashi.

Okay, plans for tonight, and I love the extra credit you set up Ophelia, this is going to be tough, but I'm pumped up for it!

All right, since I have to wake up earlier for my Chemistry Exam starting at 8AM-10AM tomorrow, I won't have the luxury of setting several alarms, so that means I'll try to sleep without using Melatonin, just because I'm a little paranoid that right now there are thunderstorms, and when that happens, my external alarm clock might reset if there's a black out (and for final exams, that is NOT something I want to happen AT ALL).

I will nose plug reality checks as usually throughout the day, and if I happen to find myself getting up from bed, I will do a nose plug reality check.

I will set the alarm to ring after 4 hours of deep sleep, tell myself like usual that I will keep my eyes closed, remain still, and have a vivid lucid dream.

I just hope that my alarm clock that I use as a back up to know I have to get up for waking life activities doesn't black out, because it just started to POUR right now.

Anyway, hope I get lucid tonight, if not, oh well, after the exam is over, I'll have PLENTY of time this week to lucid dream attempt. Can't wait! This extra credit is a challenge indeed, since most of the entries that I've made are mostly non-lucid.

Hope that changes this week.

Ugh, last night didn't go so well. I woke up a little earlier than the alarm I had set, so I guess I have to change the time a little bit next time. No problem.

I remembered a few dreams, and when I woke up, I wanted to go back to sleep, but since the alarm was close to ringing, like 20 minutes from ringing, I decided to just stay up. Like at 4:20 AM. Lol

I did a nose plug RC a few times.

I had a dream where this chick's sex drive was insane, she was up for anything...and I mean ANnnnnnnything.

Too bad I didn't have sex with her, even though I decided to be with her while everyone leaves a flooding ship. Guess maybe that's why her sex drive was up, because she knew we were going to die. Hahahaha

Dj entry here, but it's really not that interesting

Okay, I took 51 mg of Melatonin just now, and I'm letting just chilling for a while before I drift into sleep. I haven't done something as crazy as that before. It might be child's play compared to some, but compared to how I never too drugs, this is like a hardcore experiment I'm going through. Normally, I would want to take one 3mg, but drinking 17 pills, hope something good happens from this.

As usual, going to set an alarm to wake me up after a few hours of sleep, but instead of 4 hours, I'll go for 3.5 hours, since that is the minimal amount to try to get into REM sleep, but of course, I shouldn't be applying that logic if I'm doing this during the day, seeing as REM cycles can be at their peaks if I get lucky during the afternoon while I'm sleeping. The 51 mg should be able to keep me sleeping deeply, which means I'll get to practice more on listening to the alarm for the CANWILD tech I've been trying last week and this week as well.

My eyes are getting kind of lazy right now, but it's probably not the melatonin as yet, maybe it's just because I woke up really early so I wouldn't miss the exam, and the dosage should come into effect later on in sleeping. I'll set the alarm to wake me up 90 minutes after the 3.5 hours of sleep (if I sleep for that long without waking up, lol). And since my dreams are even more realistic during the day if I take a nap (I usually forget them though), hopefully the effect from the melatonin helping me sleep quickly, and then the alarm ringing after 3.5 hours, and then me keeping still with my eyes closed will work out.

Hopefully that idealistic method will work out today. Hope to have a lucid

WILD

Pro - once mastered, possibly the most effective method for attaining lucidity
Con - very difficult to master for beginners, often requires waking up in the early morning

I don't know what this part of the assignment means, but what I'm presuming this to be combining the fundamentals of the technique we're using, and just putting it to good use and practice until we nail it.

For WILDs, the misconception that always fooled me was between SP and NREM, though I never taken the two seriously, I always hear people say SP, not reaching to SP to get into a lucid, and yadadada.

When I first got on DV and saw the WILD techs, I thought of it as being this hard balance between awareness and passiveness, and the thing about being aware just enough, but not too awake, and being sleepy just enough but not too sleepy was something that always annoyed me, because I would sleep and be concerned about maintaining the right conditions.

Then I realized later on in the months in DV that it's all about falling asleep, and finding an anchor that you can rely on, but not TOO much, just something that can lift you and shift yourself to the right direction is the mentality I need for WILDs.

Of course, that's for the relaxation stuff. The CANWILD skips all that crap, and gets you into the dream instantly with enough practice.

Of course, people will say that it's a variant of DEILD, yes, but as comments in CrazyInsane's tutorial said before, it's only a DEILD if a dream occurred. If I get the alarm to hit just right after NREM sleep, then it's technically a WILD to some sense, even though my eyes would be closed, because most of the time, I wouldn't have been in a dream for a while from NREM sleep (note: being in a dream, not saying I'm not dreaming during NREM) :

http://www.dreamviews.com/f79/sleep-...0/#post1873116

And thanks to Mzzkc being the smart guy that he is, I'm going to try and shift towards misused "SP" being as NREM instead.

Originally Posted by Mzzkc

Therefore, “NREM” is an excellent alternative to the commonly used term “SP.” And I implore you to use it and spread the word to those still holing onto the old terminology.

NREM!!! Just putting it out there.

Originally Posted by Linkzelda

WILD

Pro - once mastered, possibly the most effective method for attaining lucidity
Con - very difficult to master for beginners, often requires waking up in the early morning

I don't know what this part of the assignment means, but what I'm presuming this to be combining the fundamentals of the technique we're using, and just putting it to good use and practice until we nail it.

When I had initially written this class a couple months ago, I didn't think I would get so many students who already had a good idea of what method they would be practicing. I had designed the class to be SUPER beginner, so this 3rd lesson was meant to go over the pros and cons of each method to help the beginner students select a method if they hadn't already. Since you're already having lucids and already chose WILDs, then this 3rd lesson doesn't really apply to you as much.

Thanks, Ophelia!


I remembered a few dreams from this nap I had, but it seems that I can't really find the urge to drift back to sleep, which makes me wonder if 51 milligrams of melatonin really made any kind of difference.

Maybe because I took it at daytime, seeing as different chemicals are made at day and night, so I guess I made the bad mistake with trying to sleep during the day. Guess I'll just eat something and wait for the night to come.

Lame Entry here

Okay tonight, I'm going to try and find melanieb, and do something....

I thought I should just mention some things before I go to sleep for tomorrow's progress.

Today, I only remembered two dreams. I remember listening to the alarm I had set, but only once, and I set it for at least 2-3 times. One dream involved me not being able to make a straight line with a ruler, and the other one was Fajitas being charged at ridiculous prices, at least, that's what I thought was ridiculous.

I've also noticed that I continue to fall for the High School dreams again and not do reality checks. I'm out from college until Fall semester, and yet I'm not aware of it. Even after all those entries I've had related to school, my incompetence for not doing reality checks in them continues to amaze me. It's most likely the fact that my mind has been saturated with anything related to school, but I would think that it would've at least upgraded my competences a bit since I'm in college, and not at a High School anymore.

It annoys me...my non-lucid state does whatever the hell it wants. It's a weird term for me to refer it as a state rather than a being.....it really annoys me that whenever I do become lucid, it's like there's no point in being lucid at all.

The reason is that feeling of solitude is augmented exponentially that it's almost scary. Sometimes I wonder if I'm having an OBE/AP when I do get lucid. Lucids have to have some kind of....filling in them you know?

But the last lucid, well the lucid before my recent lucid, it was all empty...just empty....empty empty empty! That gives me the chance to finally be cognizant of true solitude and the peace and happiness that comes with it, but I want to have that filling in my lucids.


Going to try and find melanieb again tonight, seeing as Eva won't show up in the near future because she's either stuck up, or thinks she only has to have short screenplay or something. I know she's there, she's helped me before, so I'm not that crazy....I think. I'll

Tomorrow is already Thursday wow....I hope I can get the extra credit assignment before the week is over.

I took two 3mg melatonin pills, because I really want to sleep like a baby and wake up to the alarm I set instead of waking up like 3 hours, going back to sleep, and then 2 hours later, I hear the alarm, and then nothing good comes out of it. I don't know, that's what's been happening lately. But I won't give up on the technique itself, because that would just sent me back to square one.

I've done some reality checks, mostly because of the little server thing being down for most of the day, and just doing RC sporadically and questioning if I'm dreaming or not.

Took 6 mg of melatonin last night, started to get ready to sleep around early midnight, woke up around 4:30 ish AM, and I just came out of a dream.

I had the luxury of seeing how my body feels after a dream was over, and I felt fuzzy all over. I could've went for a DEILD, but I don't know what came over me....it was the PERFECT opportunity! =(

I had the alarm wake me up for a few times, which is why my dream recall was pretty good.

Remembered 8 dreams, but all of them are non-lucids.

Still have a few days to get a lucid, but wow, the fact that I literally had TWO chances to go into a lucid through a DEILD, and one dream that basically signaled when my alarm was going to ring, and damn, was it accurate, I really feel like an idiot for not seizing those chances.

I did get to meet Eva TWICE (oh mah gawd), one time I was holding her in my arms, and the second time, same thing pretty much, but in a different situation.

She asked herself, "Where is that asshole?"

I don't know if she's referring to me, or Ocelot....

Either way the first dream with her was pretty nice. I think it was her that I was holding while on the floor, felt pretty good

Anyway, before I fantasize about that for too long, I'll just post the entry here.

Eva, Eva Again, Biochem Seminar, Melanieb's Older Daughter. Get Out, Ho-Oh, Sidney Poitier, Kidnap - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Last night was a bit random, I remembered 6 dreams. They weren't really interesting to me that much. One almost scared me, but when I realized how stupid the enemies were, it was a breeze. It almost felt like I was doing a speed run in a video game.

Katy Perry, Resident Evil 4 Garradors, Huey Gun fight, Heart Stuff, Physics Test, Panels - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Man, was that a random night.

Oh, and I also noticed that a dream sign of resident evil 4 was apparent in these set of dreams. And I saw Leon, who has shown up quite a few times in my dreams. Not as much as blonde females, but enough for me to take into consideration.

Random question but do you RC when you play video games?

No, I haven't played any video games recently. I had my game consoles and all that, but never really touched them until the semester was over. And even then, it was just for a few minutes while on Tinychat. Not sure if I'm going to be playing much video games during the summer as well, but I'll try to remember to do a RC when I am.

I do admit, I still randomly go on Youtube to watch videos of video games, like walkthroughs, or some person using a mod or some hack in the game. I guess it replaces the urge to play the game. Games aren't really that important lately, dreaming itself and recalling them, and looking forward to another attempt kind of shifts my mind away from it.

Last night, I wasn't really motivated to do the CANWILD since I didn't want to wake people up. But now, that's not going to matter lol, so I'll start first thing tonight on the CANWILD

No lucids for last night.

Come Sit Next To Me, Sound Muffling, Show Time - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Nothing too interesting, except for the fact that I had a romantic attraction towards a girl who was my Biology Lab partner my second semester at A&M as a freshmen. Sigh..........I don't know why my mind even cared about her in this dream, and I wanted her to sit by me.

It seems like it's trying to make women my pets or something, it's almost disgusting, even for me! It's just too freaking pointless to dream about a girl you don't care about, and still have some kind of attraction towards her? Ugh....

Man, no lucids at all this week, one more day. I don't care too much if I fail for tomorrow anyway for the extra credit assignment, it's not the end of the world.