Thread: Password shared dreaming experiment

No luck for me. I had a lot of random dreams. I set an alarm to wake me up at 3:45 AM and was getting ready to sleep at around 11:45 AM I think, but it seemed I quickly turned it off and forgot about the WBTB in general.

That was probably 2-4 hours of sleep, excluding the fact that I was moving around the bed a lot. I would suggest posting the password later on in the day, or at least until someone has made a post to keep as logs. I pretty much couldn't do another WBTB because I was already going through Dream Journal entries to get myself into the mood of staying up for a WBTB and to ultimately go to the Cathedral.

But for now, negative on my end, and by the time I got on Dream Views, I already saw this thread and the password.

Even if I were to do the WBTB, having the password already set out would make it pointless, unless of course, it was just a test, but I doubt it. I'll just look forward to tonight and try again (5:10 AM right now). I'll have to get ready to pack any other stuff for a road trip I'm taking today. It might take 10 hours in fact, and I'll most likely be taking small naps as well.

But yeah, posting the password at least when you're going to sleep to set a new one in a lucid would be ideal, to prevent others who are addicted to logging on Dream Views during their WBTB.



Also here's the dream journal entry if you're interested,

Kicked in the Chest, Bike Riding, Horse Riding and Torso Healing, Tennis Courts and Indoor Garden - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

JULY 21, 2012 CST -5:00, DJ entry posted 5:05 AM

Originally Posted by Linkzelda

No luck for me. I had a lot of random dreams. I set an alarm to wake me up at 3:45 AM and was getting ready to sleep at around 11:45 AM I think, but it seemed I quickly turned it off and forgot about the WBTB in general.

That was probably 2-4 hours of sleep, excluding the fact that I was moving around the bed a lot. I would suggest posting the password later on in the day, or at least until someone has made a post to keep as logs. I pretty much couldn't do another WBTB because I was already going through Dream Journal entries to get myself into the mood of staying up for a WBTB and to ultimately go to the Cathedral.

But for now, negative on my end, and by the time I got on Dream Views, I already saw this thread and the password.

Even if I were to do the WBTB, having the password already set out would make it pointless, unless of course, it was just a test, but I doubt it. I'll just look forward to tonight and try again (5:10 AM right now). I'll have to get ready to pack any other stuff for a road trip I'm taking today. It might take 10 hours in fact, and I'll most likely be taking small naps as well.

But yeah, posting the password at least when you're going to sleep to set a new one in a lucid would be ideal, to prevent others who are addicted to logging on Dream Views during their WBTB.



Also here's the dream journal entry if you're interested,

Kicked in the Chest, Bike Riding, Horse Riding and Torso Healing, Tennis Courts and Indoor Garden - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

JULY 21, 2012 CST -5:00, DJ entry posted 5:05 AM

Excellent idea... in the future, I'll post the password from the previous day before I go to sleep, so around 10 PM. So... last night's password wouldn't have been posted for another 15 hours or so.

Originally Posted by Mindraker

Excellent idea... in the future, I'll post the password from the previous day before I go to sleep, so around 10 PM. So... last night's password wouldn't have been posted for another 15 hours or so.

Mindraker:

Why post the password at all? Just have people post their guesses here, and if someone gets it right or very close to right, announce it then and only then.

I think doing it that way you avoid people "suddenly remembering" that they got it right -- not that anyone here would do that on purpose, but it is easy, very tempting, and sometimes psychologically unavoidable to revisit your memories of the dream with the password in hand, find the thing that best resembles it, and then alter it slightly (with very convincing rationale) to resemble the password. Again I'm not saying that will happen with this group -- they seem pretty sincere. But it could, especially if people really want to get it right. But by not issuing the password at all, you'll never have to worry about it, or about those pesky skeptics who'll say "That guy just said he heard the password to look good; how can we believe him?".

Another good reason not to post the password, even a day later, is because you still have it in you. In other words, There is always a chance that someone might pick up on a password you created five dreams ago, because it is still floating around your unconscious; day/LD residue can last quite a while, especially with a project like this that necessarily demands a lot of attention from you.

tl;dr: So I suggest you keep the password permanently secret, unless/until you see a match or something very close to a match get posted. It ought to make the thread fairly interesting, too!

Again, just a thought!

Originally Posted by Sageous

Mindraker:

Why post the password at all? Just have people post their guesses here, and if someone gets it right or very close to right, announce it then and only then.

I think doing it that way you avoid people "suddenly remembering" that they got it right -- not that anyone here would do that on purpose, but it is easy, very tempting, and sometimes psychologically unavoidable to revisit your memories of the dream with the password in hand, find the thing that best resembles it, and then alter it slightly (with very convincing rationale) to resemble the password. Again I'm not saying that will happen with this group -- they seem pretty sincere. But it could, especially if people really want to get it right. But by not issuing the password at all, you'll never have to worry about it, or about those pesky skeptics who'll say "That guy just said he heard the password to look good; how can we believe him?".

Another good reason not to post the password, even a day later, is because you still have it in you. In other words, There is always a chance that someone might pick up on a password you created five dreams ago, because it is still floating around your unconscious; day/LD residue can last quite a while, especially with a project like this that necessarily demands a lot of attention from you.

tl;dr: So I suggest you keep the password permanently secret, unless/until you see a match or something very close to a match get posted. It ought to make the thread fairly interesting, too!

Again, just a thought!

I can see if I were to pick "passwords" from objects in my room (like "Rubik's cube"), you would quickly get an idea of the type of person I am, and it would be pretty easy to form a mental image of what the next object would be. (E.g., chair, table, bed... you probably would guess "lamp" or "desk".)

However, if I were to simply take random passwords from the dictionary, then this doesn't really exist...

Good point. I don't know if it has to be kept secret, but... yeah, you are still observant of what the history of passwords are.