Thread: 501's Workbook

Well It has been awhile again but things are still going. I have been really bad about doing RCs through the day but have had an average of 2 or 3 LDs per month. These are actually ones I am able to do stuff in and control. I have a few more where I wake up almost right away.

I was able to get a personal goal of phasing through a wall/door done. was actually really easy when I tried hard to do it. I think the next personal goal I want to do is go to the moon or alien planet. I want to walk on a world. Below are links to the last two DJ entries I had.

20 May 2015 and 1 May 2015 - TOTM and a Personal Goal - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Always good to hear from you, 501! Congrats on the lds and on completing your goals. It's quite interesting you got another lucid dream with the 3rd person perspective. I'm starting to wonder if this is some sort of awareness change/evolution? Does that make any sense to you?

Thanks for the reply NyxCC and yes I do think it is some sort of awareness change. Its almost like I am watching a movie at first and then I all of a sudden realize this could be a dream. After this realization it is pretty blurry and I have to do something within the dream to clear it up, so I put my hands/arms out or grab something in the scene.

There have been quite a few times where I have this realization and immediately try to fly or do something else and the dream collapses, I think this is probably at the tail end of a dream and at the end of a sleep cycle where my consciousness begins to awaken. I am actually pretty surprised that I am even still having lucids at all since my practice is way down and I have stopped with the supplements. I probably do some sort of reality check only once a day maybe and it is usually just a through process, nothing physical I actually do. I guess you could say it is an awareness type reality check since I know how dreams feel. I get this feeling and sometimes when I get it in a dream I do have to double check with a RC.

Thanks for the reply NyxCC and yes I do think it is some sort of awareness change. Its almost like I am watching a movie at first and then I all of a sudden realize this could be a dream. After this realization it is pretty blurry and I have to do something within the dream to clear it up, so I put my hands/arms out or grab something in the scene.

There have been quite a few times where I have this realization and immediately try to fly or do something else and the dream collapses, I think this is probably at the tail end of a dream and at the end of a sleep cycle where my consciousness begins to awaken.

Hmm, that makes sense. So, in such cases you probably need to recognize this peculiarity and as you said, be as a active as possible to allow for some extra dream time within the constraints of it being a dream tail.

At any rate, your natural ld consistency is amazing!

Another long stint with no posting.

I have had a few lucids since my last post, but they were pretty short and I didn't really have any plans going into them.

I have been bad at RCs and bad about everything really as far as lucidity is concerned. I keep meaning to get back and journal my dreams every morning but I just never do. I have started to do more RCs lately, so hopefully I can really get back into this. I love to have LDs but in the long run it is pretty time consuming for me to have multiple LDs frequently. It is hard to continue to practice when my life is so busy but I plan on making more time and hopefully start journaling my LDs again and participating in the TOTMs.

Hopefully it wont take me 6 more months to post!

So this morning I finally wrote some in a dream journal, I surprised myself and remembered 2 at first and then all together I remembered 4 after I began trying to think of details on the others I remembered. I am surprised my recall was as good as it was.

As far as lucid dreaming I am really trying to do RCs more often but I need to focus more on what I am doing so it becomes automatic, I really only do them when I have time to let my mind wander and not when I am in the middle of stuff. I do have a timer set to go off every 15 to 25 minutes to remind me, this worked last time so should do the trick again. I need to get to the point where I am incubating more prior to going to sleep and absolutely incubating when I wake up to turnover or whatnot.

I am going to try to get into doing TOTMs again, this is something that really helped me have good LDs before so hopefully it will help again.

Good to see you back, 501!

I agree it can be difficult to get back into the ld habit if you have a very busy lifestyle. My suggestion is to start small and strive for consitency in doing a few ld related practices. Once these are well established, you then you can expand to include more items. For example, I am currently working to set up a few lucidity hotspots, places that will remind me to RC and think about dreaming in general. I'm also throwing in a few random SAT/ADA weekly exercises to notice items I haven't paid attention to before.