Welcome to Intro class, Midnightfire! That's a really cool username! |
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Last edited by midnightfire; 08-07-2015 at 01:28 PM.
Welcome to Intro class, Midnightfire! That's a really cool username! |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Week Progress and Struggles |
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I see the early wake work schedule presents a difficulty. You are doing pretty much what I would have suggested - try to go to bed as early as possible and rely on bed time techs and obviously not long wbtbs during the week. If you have any natural wakes - like after each or any REM, night toilet breaks, then you may use those as micro wbtb - use techs like mantras, mild, ssild that don't wake you up much but can still direct your thoughts to lucid dreaming before drifting off to sleep. The weekends look like a good opportunity to catch up on sleep as well as incorporate wbtbs. In addition, you can try boosting your chances with more day work - RCs, critical thinking, ADA, autosuggestion. |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Last few weeks + Brief Lucid |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
Congrats on the ld! |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Yes I think the lucid did take me by surprise as I was putting more focus on other things rather than lucid dreaming practice during that day and the ones around it. |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
That's not so bad then. Your dream was shorter because you lost lucidity and not due waking up. What helps me in such instances is at the beginning of each dream to say out loud that this is a dream and reaffirm my intentions. This usually solves the issues of falling back into a nld. If you add a dream goal to your reaffirmation that would be even better. |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Week Progress |
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Last edited by midnightfire; 09-20-2015 at 12:06 PM.
When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
You're getting really close, Midnightfire. Next time you may even remember these past dreams and it will finally click! |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
That looks like a really cool program, I must check it out in greater detail sometimes. It also seems that it's developed by one one of our members here. In such a case, if you have any questions regarding the graphs, perhaps you might drop him a PM. |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
THanks for the tip NyxCC - I didn't realise it was designed by one of the dreamview members that's cool! |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
Last Few Weeks Progress and Set Backs |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
Congrats on the ld, Midnightfire! It's great that even with the few setbacks you have been successful with inducing lucidity. |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Thank you NyxCC for your continued encouragement and advice, it is much appreciated |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
Last 2 weeks |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
Four pages worth of notes - this is a record indeed. I think the most I have ever written is about two pages and it took me about two hours to write (I guess there's also the recalling part that takes forever). I absolutely agree about the dream scenes flowing one right after the other. I think this would be the case if we always had perfect recall. |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Last Month: |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
After doing some more research I have found a potential reason to why I lucid dream when I went back to sleep around 4:30am. |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
What you say about circadian rhytms and hormones makes sense. Also, wbtbs especially longer ones help boost wakefulness neurotransmitters. |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
For the past few months I have: |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
Hi Midnightfire! Judging by your updates, it seems you are getting better with the prospective memory exercise. Keep up the good work! You can try to incorporate a bit of randomness by writing down on a separate piece of paper, say 5-7 items to look for during the day and then each day randomly take a piece of paper to select the item. Repeat the process until you get even better results. Then, perhaps pick two items instead of just one. Be on the lookout for these habits to start showing in dreams. |
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Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Thanks NyxCC, taking your advice and will stick with this for the next few weeks |
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When the state of dreaming has dawned,
Do not lie in ignorance like a corpse.
Enter the natural sphere of unwavering attentiveness.
Recognise your dreams and transform illusion into luminosity.
Do not sleep like an an animal.
Do the practice which mixes sleep and reality.
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