Thread: Sensei's Competition

Originally Posted by ThreeCat

Good luck!!!

Thanks! You too!
Love your confidence, that will work wonders.

3 Step: Phase completely through a large solid object, Advanced Flying, Mass Telekinesis

Personal Goal: Visit the secret location from our DV project

Good luck everyone! Many wonderful lucid dreams to you all!

To my Sith adversaries: prepare yourselves, for a pillow beatdown shall soon be upon you. :pillowfight:

To my Jedi brothers and sisters: keep your pillows at the ready, and may the Force be with you, always!

Hey! Competition is live for some of you. Dreamer

Thanks. I knew you would like my signature. Especially since one of the secrets... well you know.

Give me a few more hours, I will be in time in 6 hours. Can't wait. Jumped my recall up a lot in the last 2 nights to prepare and had some good LDs.

Fun Facts!

Sith
Originally Sith was the name of a species of force sensitives.


Jedi
Jedi were not meant to be an army, or really to serve a republic, but were meant to seek the will of the force. By becoming so close to the republic as peacekeepers and as generals serving in the army, they were easy targets when the republic turned into an empire.

Hatfields - McCoys
The Hatfield–McCoy feud (1863–1891) involved two families of the West Virginia–Kentucky area along the Tug Fork of the Big Sandy River. The Hatfields of West Virginia were led by William Anderson "Devil Anse" Hatfield while the McCoys of Kentucky were under the leadership of Randolph "Ole Ran'l" McCoy.

Snakes
Often observed flicking its tongue, snakes use their forked tongue to smell the air.

Mongoose
Mongooses are very fast and agile creatures. They can defeat venomous snake thanks to these features.
They have become immune to snake toxins and they can survive more than one snake bite in their lifetime.

1) mass telekinesis
2) go through a solid object
3) teleport

personal goal: Explore the Shire

Originally Posted by Nfri

personal goal: Explore the Shire

Above my TV.
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Whom am I going to identify with? Well - no question whatsoever - has to be The Real McCoy!! A cheeky and victorious heroine with a heart on fire - watch out!



Soo - now you know what you are up against!

My 3 step tasks are:

1 - Flying
2 - Telekinesis
3 - Eat Something

My personal task is to ask the dream to show me my dream guide.
Let the fun begin.

Off to bed.. I have the feeling that I will have some awesome LD's tonight for sure!
Good luck everybody, hope everyone gets some results tonight!

My three step tasks are:

1. Advanced Flying

2. Advanced summoning

3. Time Control

Personal Goal: Find DC character that I have been looking for for months.

Sorry Im a little late Sensei, been a little busy man but Im on it.

This is kind of late, but it's not 8PM here yet, so...

Three-step tasks:
1. Advanced Flying
2. Basic Summoning
3. Telekinesis

Personal goal:
Find/summon a Stargate and walk through it.

I will post my 3-step task tomorrow.

I wills start off this competition with a small handicap. Since I just threw a big party over here, I anticipate less to no REM sleep this night. Don't get too comfortable though, you snakes, I am hoping for some good REM backlash! And from tomorrow on, I am on your backs!

For now though, I will have to do with everything spinning in waking life, instead of dreaming life.

Good luck to everyone in this first night

Let's do this, McCoys!

First night finished, and unfortunately I think I timed my motivation peak a bit too early, plus I had a bad night 2 nights ago so was catching up on sleep last night. Dreams vague, unusual for me recently, one strong WTF moment but when I did nose pinch I was already awake in bed .

6 dreams - 6
2 fragments - 2
WBTB - 2
Night total - 10
Competition total night 1 - 10

DJ: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...parties-59509/

Well I can claim the first points, but really not many! I've had a very stressful weekend and my dream recall has been crappy for weeks already, so I'll only be claiming for a WBTB (2 points)

Also, I'd really like to keep my DJ for lucids dreams only, is there a way to have a separate DJ for the competition? Perhaps I could just start a thread to post to?

SammyTheSnake

First night is over and no LD.
In a NLD I was in a public bathroom relieving myself (that's how my body tells me to wake up and take a piss) and totally confused thinking to myself that I don't want to bother to awake and go to the toilet.
I've been having these moments a lot lately! Don't know what to make of them. No doubt not lucid but thinking about lucidity as if I were.
Any way..
1 dream - 1
2 fragments - 1
Failed WBTB - 2

Competition total night 1 - 4

Last night I had mild indigestion, and the air was so humid that I had difficulty getting off to sleep.

All I remember of my dreams is driving somewhere, and trying to get a DC to explain an aspect of French history to me and not getting very far.

2 fragments = 1 point.

Bad night in comparison to my LD streak the last couple nights!
Here's what I got:

Competition night #1

- one full dream remembered: 1 point
- 4 little fragments (one of them even was me browsing DV): 2 points
- one WBTB (failed): 2 points
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5 points

I'm trying way too hard! Trying to force lucids won't get me anywhere. At least there are points for recall etc.

-4 fragments - 2 points
-1 dream - 1 point
-WBTB - 2 points

Total night 1: 5 points

Remembered a fragment (1/2 point)

It was a funny fragment in hindsight but unpleasant while it happened:

False awakening - too high up, points - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

No lucid here either - but two dreams and a fragment and a comprehensively messed up WBTB - too late for one thing, and I met my husband, who had a huge green tea with vanilla, milk and sugar, and I couldn't resist making one for myself as well. Result: I couldn't fall asleep at all any more, despite rolling about in bed for almost an hour more and listening to the city...

fragment: 0.5
dreams: 2
WBTB fail: 2
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4.5 Points

Don't know if such a fail counts, but I spent almost an hour in bed trying to fall back asleep - so maybe it does - otherwise also fine of course!

Night 1:

1 dream, 3 fragments. That's 2,5 points. DJ: 28.07.14 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

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I've been thinking about something, though. Isn't it a bit unfortunate that I can get 1,5 points from remembering 3 fragments? I mean for all I know they all are part of one dream, and if I had remembered the whole dream I would only have gotten 1 point. With this point system it pays more to remember a lot of fragments than whole dreams... Oh, and how do I really know it's a whole dream and not just a long fragment? A lot of times I think I remember two whole dreams, but then I remember a fragment that connects the two, and it is really just one dream after all. Oh, man, this is difficult!!!

1. day of competition (long lucid dream) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

2f - 1p
ld - 5p
wbtb - 2p

rc - 1p
stabilization - 1p
interact with a DC - 2p
basic summoning - 4p
phase throug a solid object - 8p
advanced flying - 10p
mass telekinesis - 10p

1. task - 5p
2. task - 10p

meet a teammate - 7p
fight a teammate - 10p ?

complete 1x DV Extra Task - 5 points (personal goal)
complete 2x DV Extra Tasks - 10 points (task of the month)
complete 3x DV Extra Tasks - 20 points (lucid dares)

total = 111p

Also I dare Fryingman, anotherdreamer and fogelbise at Lucid dares. So check it out!

http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-chal...ml#post2115083

Here is my syllabus of supplements:
http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-aids...ment-here.html

Originally Posted by sprada

First night is over and no LD.
In a NLD I was in a public bathroom relieving myself (that's how my body tells me to wake up and take a piss) and totally confused thinking to myself that I don't want to bother to awake and go to the toilet.
I've been having these moments a lot lately! Don't know what to make of them. No doubt not lucid but thinking about lucidity as if I were.

Ah - I know what you mean - so stupid, when that happens, when I remember that I non-lucidly sort of decided not to get lucid!
Happens mostly when I have a dream, where I have quite a lot of control without lucidity, manipulating the dream, making things happen semi-consciously.
The problem then is, that I am almost exactly, where I wanted to get to so much and it feels like giving up on the cake after baking for ages.
Because once lucid the significance of that prior dream and goal evaporates and I start a new "project" - that mixed with low expectations concerning lucid quality and length - and there I go, missing out on the Real McCoying!
To sort of feel, or even "know" this is semi-lucidity already, I would say - I hope the comp will over-rule such sentiments.
But I do know the thing with needing the toilet as well - just as you describe it - I guess, I mostly get lucid right at the end of a REM-phase anyway - so I need to focus on DEILDing more...

Edit: Man, I'm tired - maybe a nap later on, but I almost never manage to fall asleep in the day... :sleepysteph:

Originally Posted by Chessica

Night 1:

1 dream, 3 fragments. That's 2,5 points. DJ: 28.07.14 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

***

I've been thinking about something, though. Isn't it a bit unfortunate that I can get 1,5 points from remembering 3 fragments? I mean for all I know they all are part of one dream, and if I had remembered the whole dream I would only have gotten 1 point. With this point system it pays more to remember a lot of fragments than whole dreams... Oh, and how do I really know it's a whole dream and not just a long fragment? A lot of times I think I remember two whole dreams, but then I remember a fragment that connects the two, and it is really just one dream after all. Oh, man, this is difficult!!!

Basically, be consistent to yourself. This is not well-defined. Here's what I do: if it's a coherent scene where I feel "there", where I observe things and think about them and react, and it's not just a flash of faint memory, I consider it a "scene." A dream is made up of multiple scenes with remembered or "felt" transitions. My dream #1 from last night is an example of multiple different scenes but I "knew" they were all part of one dream so that's how I counted them. The rest of the scenes had absolutely no relationship and didn't "feel" from the same dream so I count them as separate dreams.

To me fragments are really really vague feelings or flashes of a scene with no coherent action within them, or are so short they only bear a single sentence or two of description.

So yes, as your dream memory improves, at some point you will get fewer fragments and fewer dreams, but at some point that can build up and you remember more dreams from more wakings, and they're longer with remembered transitions.

I would *love* to only get 1 or 2 points a night but have long multi-scene perfectly vivid and perfectly remembered dreams. But where I am right now I remember a bunch of disconnected unassociated dreams/scenes.