Thread: Emnition's workbook

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Congrats on the ld!

Have you considered using an alternative RC in case the first one fails? Or maybe switching the tech altogether if you are uncertain about its effectiveness. I used to examine my hands closely, trying to spot any inconsistencies in dreams, until at some point I managed to get an almost perfect match in dreams which confused me several times. In the end I dropped this RC altogether.

Wish you awesome lucid time during the holidays!

Thanks!

Good point. It is something that I used to do and for some reason have abandoned. From now on I'll go for finger through palm and then breathing through my closed nose.

I realised I forgot to mention something. Even though I know only a handful of people who speak my native language (Dutch) over here, my dreams are still mostly in Dutch. Sometimes after waking up I'm not sure whether maybe there may have been some English in it. A few days ago however I had a dream that involved our housekeeper, who only speaks Indonesian. I was talking to her and did so in mediocre Indonesian (pretty much like my real Indonesian )

It is not uncommon to dream in other languages, especially if you use them irl. That may make for some cool experiments during dreams too. I remember one of our members who was learning Japanese had some goals to try to speak to DCs in Japanese and also find something written in Japanese.

Originally Posted by NyxCC

It is not uncommon to dream in other languages, especially if you use them irl. That may make for some cool experiments during dreams too. I remember one of our members who was learning Japanese had some goals to try to speak to DCs in Japanese and also find something written in Japanese.

Do you have any suggestions? I was considering what would happen if I started noting my dreams in English for a while, maybe I'll give that a try.


Last night I went to a party and had a few beers. I went to bed around 3 am, slept solid until 8 am and after that was in and out of it a bit. I don't remember much but I do remember becoming lucid without trying. All I can remember is that it ended with me feeling like my girlfriend was doing something to wake me up (I was sleeping at her place), like making sounds or whatever. I then had a false awakening. This losing lucidity because someone or something is waking me up from the real world, which isn't really happening, happens to me A LOT. I'd say 90% of the time.

Originally Posted by Emnition

Do you have any suggestions? I was considering what would happen if I started noting my dreams in English for a while, maybe I'll give that a try.

You could try that, especially if the dream was in a foreign language.

Last night I went to a party and had a few beers. I went to bed around 3 am, slept solid until 8 am and after that was in and out of it a bit. I don't remember much but I do remember becoming lucid without trying. All I can remember is that it ended with me feeling like my girlfriend was doing something to wake me up (I was sleeping at her place), like making sounds or whatever. I then had a false awakening. This losing lucidity because someone or something is waking me up from the real world, which isn't really happening, happens to me A LOT. I'd say 90% of the time.

Congrats on the ld! So you often have FAs? Then it might help to get into the habit of RCing every time you wake irl. FAs are great ld opportunities. Be on the lookout to see if everything is order, people or objects that shouldn't be there.

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Congrats on the ld! So you often have FAs? Then it might help to get into the habit of RCing every time you wake irl. FAs are great ld opportunities. Be on the lookout to see if everything is order, people or objects that shouldn't be there.

FAs don't happen too often for me. I actually meant that it happens a lot that I lose lucidity (and wake up) because I'm under the impression that something from the real world is disrupting my focus, for example my girlfriend making noise, or little kids making noise. When I wake up I always notice that I only imagined it. Nonetheless solid advice

I've been quite inactive for the last week or so. Finals week and after that I moved to a new place. So basically I have nothing to report aside from the fact that I have nothing to report.

Best of luck on the finals!

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Best of luck on the finals!

Thanks! They went well I think. I now have a load of free time on my hands, though I'm not spending nearly enough of it on LD related activities. Need to up that!
I'll probably be inactive on DV for at least a month. Schoolyear is nearly finished now and after that I'll travel around Indonesia for a while. Excited!

Nice! Have a great time traveling around and wish you some bonus lds in the meantime!

I'm back home in NLD now, already missing Indonesia. Had a great time, but unfortunately I haven't been very occupied with dreams (going to bed late, getting up early, making the most of the day, forgetting about RCs due to all the awesomeness and being busy all the time). Now that I'm home I should really get going again though! I haven't been keeping notes in my DJ lately and my dream recall has suffered because of it, so for the next few days I'll focus on that.

Welcome back!

Since I've returned I've been less productive with pretty much everything, including LDing. I need to get back in the habit of.. you know... being productive. Pluspoint: I took a nap today and I had the sensation of touch, which I rarely have in my dreams.

Originally Posted by Emnition

I need to get back in the habit of.. you know... being productive.

Lol, that sounds so familiar.

Still struggling with my productivity. I decided to go for SSILD again, but to be honest I feel more like I'm doing that because it's an easy way out instead of it necessarily being the best option for me. Time to push my reset button and build my habits from the ground up again. Before attempting anything at night I want to make sure my habits during the day are solid. For now that means focussing on more awareness during the day. Shouldn't be too hard since I've just had surgery and I'm nearly always in pain


Point of interest; in one of my dreams my hand was very cold and refused to become warm, no matter what. When I woke up I noticed I was lying on my hand and it was numb.

Originally Posted by Emnition

Point of interest; in one of my dreams my hand was very cold and refused to become warm, no matter what. When I woke up I noticed I was lying on my hand and it was numb.

Yea but did you become lucid?

Long time ago I was in a dream where I was walking along the side of a familiar road, I was dodging out around bushes and back to avoid getting hit, then I said I hope they can see me, suddenly the cars all went past slowly, with all the passenger windows down and people saying be careful there. Thought it was weird I began to notice a tree limb was caught on my left shoulder. I pulled and pulled but the tree just drug along with me bending further and further, the passers by cautioning me, then I saw an SUV diagonally at the side of the road, and thought how will I get around that. Finally I had had enough of the tree limb and just pushed it off of my shoulder with the other arm, it caught on the SUV and it sprung back like spring, it picked up the SUV and tossed it at least 30-40 feet in the air and at least 80+ feet back down the road, its doors were all flapping open as it hurtled rolling thru the air and landed in a parking lot. I noticed a DC in a vendor tent and said that can't happen its impossible, then I was thinking I'm not responsible for that, He immediately closed the tent flaps, then I quickly headed off into the woods towards the river to avoid any possible responsibility. When I reached the river It became hyper-realistic, I could see the rocky bottom with crystal clarity and hyper definition and also the river surface. Next I spotted along the woods trail a bit of landscape I knew was much further downstream and became lucid (it also was hyper-realistic with fine grains of texture) I saw a person I had been trying to reach in my lucid dreams, as I ran towards them the dreamscape tore in half, tho I was running full speed the half I was on was moving backwards just as fast if not faster and the other side was moving away at equal speed, seconds latter I was awake my left arm and shoulder totally pinned beneath me without any feeling at all

Originally Posted by cooleymd

Yea but did you become lucid?

I didn't. I mentioned it because I rarely have a sense of touch in my dreams.

Since my last post I have been focusing more on awareness during the day. I'm definitely not yet where I want to be, but am making improvements. For now I've got an alarm to remind me every 30 minutes, but of course I want to do it without alarm eventually. I'm still not as properly motivated as I should be to do everything, but it is on the rise fortunately.

Originally Posted by Emnition

I rarely have a sense of touch in my dreams.

How about when you rub your hands together, do you feel that it is a great stabilization technique too

I have been sleeping all day since yesterday night like 10 times now earlier today I became lucid twice in a dream
(after about 8 hrs of sleeping and almost 8 hrs of sleeping ago now) in the dream I noticed I was gathering up
to much stuff and became lucid I tried to rush towards a dream character and lost the dream. I woke up on the bus realized the bus was going the wrong way and so were many other buses and became lucid, I was looking at the DreamScape and noticing the beautiful blue sky and lost the dream. Number of times lucid TWO, number of times stabilized ZERO (by rubbing hands or doing anything else) total time lucid even adding them together maybe 20 Seconds

so give hand rubbing a try see if you can feel the friction, I should have given it a try, instead I tried jumping in the air to verify it was a dream, because the false bus awakening was ultra realistic, result I got stuck in the air.

Originally Posted by cooleymd

How about when you rub your hands together, do you feel that it is a great stabilization technique too

I've never used that technique. I've become lucid a few times by pushing the fingers of my left hand through the palm of my right hand and that gave an indescribable sensation. But other than that I most of the time don't have a sense of touch. Also I'm still not sure whether I really am hearing things in my dream, or whether I just know what people are saying in my dreams.

I'm not sure anymore whether the idea was my own or whether I found it somewhere but I've decided to try something for the rest of this month: MILD followed by SSILD. I already attempted it last night but ended up falling asleep during the MILD phase, also being a bit distracted. Tonight I'll sit up while doing MILD to keep me more awake. After that I'll lay down for SSILD.

Hand rubbing isn't a reality check its a stabilization method
you feel your dream body via the hand rubbing and stabilize
this will work even if you have just entered the void and are blind
you can still feel your hands, and wait out the blindness

I just woke up from a dream where I was checking my eyes for blind spots by holding up my hands (similar to a reality check) but since in this test I was expecting to see parts of missing fingers that is what I saw. Since I was missing pieces of fingers the blind spot check was a pass, never thought of reality check or to count how many partial fingers I had

As I would move my dream hand thru my dream-blind spot the fingers would disappear (partially) and then reappear
should probably post this on in the stupidest ways I missed becoming lucid thread

Originally Posted by cooleymd

Hand rubbing isn't a reality check its a stabilization method

You're right, my bad!

Originally Posted by cooleymd

I just woke up from a dream where I was checking my eyes for blind spots by holding up my hands (similar to a reality check) but since in this test I was expecting to see parts of missing fingers that is what I saw.

I've never heard of this method before. Does it work well for you?


Last night I went for MILD followed by SSILD. MILD went pretty decent, though I have to say my visualisation skills could use some improvement. When I tried SSILD I felt still somewhat distracted due to the visualisations still appearing before my eyes. Truth be told I think I've completed a very low amount of cycles without starting over.

It isn't a method it qualify's for stupidest ways to miss becoming lucid, blind spots are something from the real world not dreams

missing fingers is a method for me to detect dreams when I am not stable I will be missing some, or my fingers will look weird or twitch around all over.

Once in a dream I did the shake your hand thing like in the move Lucy and got my hand to double

LucyHand.jpg

Of course it would have been better to get Scarlett Johansson in the dream and have her shake her booty

Originally Posted by cooleymd

Of course it would have been better to get Scarlett Johansson in the dream and have her shake her booty

I think I've just found my new dream goal


Last night MILD & SSILD again. Because the visualisations were so distracting last time I focused mainly on a mantra during MILD and only a little bit on visualisation. Then on to SSILD. Less distracted, but still distracted. Result: no lucids. I'm also wondering right now if my post-surgery medications might be influencing me. I imagine painkillers do have some effect on dreams. I'll have to look into that

I didn't have much time to post this morning and right now it's already 8pm so I don't really remember the specifics of last night's attempt. What I do remember: no lucid.

Last night I was so tired that I didn't even attempt anything. Laid down, fell asleep.

I'm starting to notice my level of awareness falling during the day. I don't think about it as often anymore and I more and more tend to ignore my alarm.

EDIT: I watched Lucy last night. Her lucid dreams must be INSANE