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    2xDILD, Crystalline diamond TOTM

    by , 04-28-2013 at 03:33 PM (804 Views)
    Total sleep time: 7 hrs, still tired

    Dinner: 2 Eggs plus other stuff
    Prebed: 1 1/2 Glass of soy milk

    Fragment1: I am some kind of adventurer, like Indiana Jones, a man as well. I am about to enter a bunker, when the doors begin to close. I don't want to be stuck inside so I roll on the floor and escape through the exit door just before it closes sliding from above.

    Dream2 short DILD: I am in a familiar yard and there are loads of mattresses all stacked together, a pile as high as the third floor perhaps. I am initially sitting on top and trying to balance. I then get down and on the ground there is some red liquid which is toxic and contagious? A Rottweiler is under the influence of this red liquid, he is ranging mad behind a glass window, people are watching him, he is deadly dangerous. I try to quickly move away, pass by it, and find myself on the street. I go in the wrong direction, the street looks slightly familiar in the dream, I have no idea where I am, but confidently go in the direction which I assume is the right one. I begin to speed move on the street and become lucid. I continue speed moving, trying not to hit some people and two German shepherds in front of me. Memory gap...perhaps I woke up?

    Dream3: In a store and have the feeling I have been here before. I want to pick up something I have ordered, but it looks like they couldn't deliver because they don't have my address. The old lady behind the counter takes out a piece of paper and shows me that the address is missing. As I am trying to fill out the address, it begins to change, but I am filling out a non-existent address anyways and that does not seem odd at all. I then see that they are selling a special tea to make you lucid. I am so happy they are finally selling those things and want to buy a pack. I also want to get a fancy facial lotion but become distracted, so I forget about it.

    Fragment4: Another store, this time I am looking at coffee mugs, wondering whether to buy one. There is also a beautiful teapot and a guy is trying to pour water in the tea cup, but it doesn't quite work. One of us is actually biting the teapot, can't remember who it was.

    Dream5: In something like a museum, similar to a place I have been before in another dream. It also resembles a bookstore and they are selling drawing materials, I wanted to buy these so that I can begin painting with color. Further ahead there are two guys wrestling. They are playing a strange game, as if they are anime characters, and one pretends to hurt the other and the other pretends he gets kicked in the butt. I think of how good they are at doing this whole thing, this requires a lot of skill.

    A semi-familiar girl comes to me and wants me to be her partner in this strange game, but I can't do it, so I turn her down. She then takes out a napkin with something written on it. I just see the first few lines: DEILD and SxxEILD. So she is into lucid dreaming? I ask her what her nickname is, I am assuming she has a DV profile. She looks kind of offended and as if I have crossed some privacy line. She takes back the napkin and walks away.

    Dream6 DILD, TOTM: I am with my friends and boyfriend and it looks like we are doing some laundry. We are inside some place maybe public laundry, maybe store, it is rather empty, just us there. We go out on the street and hail starts to fall. I also see some lightning. I then look at the sky and see some indescribable lights there. They take the form of many invisible airplanes. There is also some thunder-like sound. I tell my friends, " And you didn't believe about the end of the world, well here it is!". I look in the sky again, something like a small sun, looking menacing to me.

    Strange things in the sky, I may be dreaming. I become aware. I still feel threatened, what if this is real? No, it's a dream! I tell myself. Ok, it's a dream, but this thing is in the sky, let me get out of there. I turn around the corner, and continue on my way but the dream begins to fade. I continue walking and start rubbing my hands, but I don't feel them so much and that worries me. They actually feel kind of numb (but not paralyzed). I see a DC woman and desperately try to cling with my mind to her, I ask her to help me, I try to engage her, but whatever she answers I can barely hear.

    I think I may have quickly DEILDed at some point, but it was more like a mild dream fade and then back to the dream, no time in the void. I turn back and see that the thing in the sky is taking a lot of space now and it reminds me of the war of worlds machine. I turn my back and think that if I go far away from it, it may not notice me or just disappear. I continue on my way, it is of course a dead end street. I even stumble on some steps of this dead end street, shortly wondering how did I manage to do that? I begin climbing a fence and cross to where there are some houses. I enter one and find myself in the kitchen. I notice something interesting there, can't remember what. I go in the other room, and concentrate on a DC that is watching TV. " Tell me about the situation, what is going on with this thing outside?" I then remember that I don't need to stay here and want to change the scene.

    There are now three DCs in the room. " I need to change the scene, will you help me?", I ask them. A very helpful and enthusiastic DC takes the initiative " Sure, I will help you, guide you, where do you want to be?" happily replies the man. I initially think "Angel Falls" but then I remember I wanted to finish TOTM first. So I glance at the floor and start looking for coal. I see a large black object and take a piece of it, but it turns into a backpack and the piece in my hand is useless. I turn to the DC woman on my left. " Quickly, give me a piece of coal" , she hands me a brown black pointy piece of a coal. I place it between my fingers and it feels like rubber. I begin pressing it and try to shape it into a diamond. I shortly close my eyes and the dream begins to fade. I am annoyed. " Turn to diamond, turn to diamond", I have to have positive expectations, I remind myself. I look into my hands and finally a diamond shaped crystal is there. The way it is faceted reminds me of a crystal glass my grandma had. Still holding the diamond in my hands I start thinking that I have everything I need to do the four-in-one task in this room with the DCs. Then the dream fades and so does my overall ability to concentrate.
    I wake up and head for the journal.

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    Comments: Wow! Finally got that diamond, not quite as I expected or planned the whole thing, but still... and with April almost over, I think it's time for me to relax and call it a month!

    Edit: Wrote down this entry, everybody left and I decided to go back to bed because I felt tired. As usual I was taking my time relaxing in bed when bf decided to give me a call. I told him that I am tired of being woken up, and decided to get up since our guests will soon be back from their walk.

    Lol! This whole situation is getting ridiculous, but then I have to ask myself "Perhaps this lack of sleep and constant disruption is keeping me on the edge while at the same allowing for some REM rebound to occur?" The truth is I have had 7 LDs since our guests arrived, so I probably should turn my coal complaining into a diamond gratefulness? Whatever the reason, thanks for the great month!
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    Updated 04-28-2013 at 05:10 PM by 61764

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    lucid , non-lucid , memorable , task of the month , dream fragment , side notes

    Comments

    1. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      All right, congratulations on Task of the Month! Great technique asking the DCs for help, and what a response. I will need to try this for my transportation needs some time! I was almost hoping you'd have them take you to Angel Falls so I could rip off some inspiration from you. Still can, I think... this sounds like a winner.

      Good job!
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    2. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks! Haha, that technique was something I didn't engage in too intentionally but rather intuitively. It's amazing how well it worked, perhaps because I was in a hurry and did not put too much effort into it? I was also lucky to have found a bunch of helpful DCs. You should have seen the face of this guy, he was beaming with enthusiasm. I guess that was actually an expression of me being happy.

      When I think about changing the scene in dreams, I always think about literally disconnecting and appearing in another scene. I often get worried that this will wake me up, close the eyes, try to change the scene. I should probably use the door technique which won't compromise stability as much. I wonder what the DC would have suggested though, had I opted to go to Angel Falls.
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Nice! Helpful DCs are the best. I've invoked a helpful DC on at least 3 different occasions to pull me from the void, so I really like where you're going with this. It totally makes sense to try applying this to non-void situations to see what they do.

      I really would like to see what they do to try to help! Looking forward to seeing what happens if you try this again.

      The door technique is very appealing to me, too, for a lot of reasons. It relies on a lot of schemata that I can buy into, like the idea of a magical door transporting me away to some really far-off place. I tried it a couple times early on I believe but I've come a long way since the last time I went for it. I should really try it again. I feel like it'd go better now. Is the door technique something you've used with some success before?
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    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      *checking journal entries* Hmmm, It seems that I have officially "discovered" for myself this technique while trying to summon a friend of mine. I just knew what to do?, so I closed the door, opened it again, and there he was!

      Now, using the search function to browse through my journal entries it seems that doors have been playing an important role in both lucid and non- lds. Usually in chase dreams ld or non- ld, I look at the door and my expectations summon whatever is there. I can't believe this thing has been under my nose all the time! And then my subconscious finally decided to bring this up by helping me summon my friend. In a later ld I once again automatically used this technique this time to change the scene, was not visualizing anything in particular, just used my expectations to change the dream place into another place.

      More recently, I have noticed that whenever I pass through a door, I seem to go to a completely different location. See this entry, after "try chanting Ommm section", notice the role of doors. TOTM bread

      This makes me think it is a rather good technique and certainly worth exploring.

      So after reviewing some entries now, I really begin to think that many of the answers to our problems are right in front of us, but we can't seem to notice them. We have been unconsciously doing all these things like flying and summoning all our sleep life. We just have to learn how to do them consciously. Maybe there is still a lot to learn from non-lds after all.
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      Updated 04-28-2013 at 07:03 PM by NyxCC
    5. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Well there you go! I had no idea that you tended to "warp" when you go through doors. If that's something that tends to happen for you automatically any way, I definitely agree with taking advantage of that.

      I think that you are absolutely right that our natural tendencies in NLDs are a great guide for what we can attempt in LDs. After all, these are things we have practiced in-dream time and time again. That's why I find that people who have good recall of their NLDs tend to have good translation of their abilities into LDs. I had nearly zero dream recall until I started trying to lucid dream, so I had to sort of build up from the ground floor. A really strong NLDer like NewArtemis, for example, had high levels of dream control even in her early lucids.

      This is cool... I'm excited for what you'll try next. I was looking forward to trying some teleportation stuff last night and really expected to get lucid, but it just didn't happen for some reason. Soon!
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    6. NyxCC's Avatar
      Dreaming is so amazing, you learn a little bit of something every night. And even if you think you get the hang of something there are always surprises. I think that keeping an extensive dream journal of all dreams is a must if we are to unravel dream's mysteries. And still it will take a long time, but we are not in a rush.

      I am so looking forward to this exploration. I love the fact that you guys also like to experiment so much and so via DV can gather more pieces of this multidimensional puzzle. Dream on!
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    7. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      I am so looking forward to this exploration. I love the fact that you guys also like to experiment so much and so via DV can gather more pieces of this multidimensional puzzle. Dream on!
      I know exactly what you mean. The knowledge sharing is such an idea factory and a motivator. I can't think of very many ideas I've had that weren't influenced by or outright borrowed from some other discussion or DJ entry here.

      When I started out, I tried exploring lucid dreaming purely on my own and it was... well, it was lonely. And not particularly successful. I'm very fortunate to have found my way here!!
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