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    by , 08-19-2013 at 05:17 PM (906 Views)
    Date: 17th Aug

    Pre bed: SJW, 100 mg B6

    Total sleep time: 7 hrs

    Dream quality and recall: vivid, some stability issues, evading recall

    Non-ld: I am in the place I used to live before. There are problems with the lock and I am trying to avoid my new neighbors. Once again, I am staying here only temporary and prepare my stuff to leave the next day...

    WBTB:I got woken up, decided to use as WBTB, repeated mantra a few times, distractions again.

    LD1: I finally fall asleep and find myself on the street of the same town from my past, near the post office. There is also a bear there. A bear? Lucid. I don't pay any more attention to the bear but on its place two large dogs appear, behaving menacingly. I just want to go forward and stretch my hands, as if feeling the dream/wind or whatever but the dogs bite my hand. The biting causes a strange sensation of burning pain, I struggle to get rid of the dogs. As they won't go away, I decide to ask the rest of the DCs for help. There are lots of DCs passing by on the nearby street and I start calling for help, but nobody pays me any attention. However, the moment I start asking for help those dogs get out of my sight and disappear. I look at the DCs which are like a school of fish, silently passing by, many of them having dogs on leashes, small to big ones different breeds. It looks absolutely insane.

    I have no idea what happened, but now I am in a dark room, no sign of DCs or dogs. I finally remember that one way to deal with scary creatures is to transform into something scarier or at least powerful, so I decide I would do the tiger transformation. I get on the floor and first of all hear coming from me a slightly muffled but tiger's roar which I actually didn't mean to do. Then I try to feel my legs, but I kind of concentrate on my human body too much, so the transformation is only half done. I can't see much of my limbs to confirm if they are human or animal ones, just feel that I am stuck in the middle of the process and want to look in some reflective surface to check what's going on. My mood goes quite bad as I get bored doing this and wonder what to do next but the dream ends.


    Micro-ld: I am on a ferry type of boat, on the upper deck that is open. It also reminds me of all these city boat tours they offer at various places I have been to with my mom. My mom is also there telling me to be careful, so I hold on to the rail. It is quite cold so I get out my blanket. I notice that the sky is covered with dark clouds which are much closer to the boat than they are supposed to be. I hold on even tighter and then see that a tornado has formed in the distance. I get a very convincing false memory that I recently had a dream about this? and now am seeing it irl. There's something about this whole thing and the tornado so I become lucid. In the meantime the driver of the boat moves us closer to the river bank and allows the passengers to disembark safely. I look at the tornado with interest and decide I will try to avoid it by going to the subway station where it has no reach. (I'd say my mind was kind of foggy for ld). I immediately reach a subway passage but before I get in, I have another look at the tornado. It is huge and partially turns into some sort of drilling machine as I stare at it. It also comes closer. I decide it's time to quit playing and go underground and figure out what to do from there.

    I have no idea or rather memory what happened, it seems like the dream ended, I briefly lost consciousness then on to the next dream.

    LD2: I am in the yard of our old neighborhood and bf is making some kind of sex-related remarks. I ignore him and bf just leads the way towards the street. I notice that both of us are barefoot and concentrate on the feeling, while getting a mix of false and true memories.

    At this point I become lucid and we continue towards the fence. As I get there, I see some animals again. A medium size dog that is coming towards me and also a cat, then two more cats appear. I get the feeling that all these animals are attracted to/by me and think that this is becoming very similar to OB's issue with the blankets. I try to make make them go away, making funny movements with my hands. Then I succeed in turning them against each other. This is a very entertaining sight although I do feel slightly guilty doing this, now the cat has turned into a kitten and is wrestling the dog. They are more in some sort of confrontation than real fight but I am amazed that I am actually controlling their movements. After my sense of wonder/amusement subsides, I leave them and move on down the street, bf with me.

    I go over some tasks but am reluctant to engage in something that will destabilize the dream too much. However, the moment I think about Angel Falls, I notice the sound of running/falling water from a nearby yard. In my mind, I know that's something else, but I think it can be used to summon Angel Falls. So what I do is I turn my back on the yard and the sound, concentrate on it and start walking backwards towards it, expecting AF to be there. Bf is holding my hands as I am walking backwards and the dream turns void-like, mostly I see darkness behind me as I walk. I am slightly worried that I might stumble upon some unexpected object but then remind myself that there is really nothing there.

    I slowly turn and check the result. This is not our neighborhood anymore, but it is still the yard of some people and there are lots of watery things there. Hard to describe, two fountains/geysers, puddles of water, also water randomly springing and running over the place. The yard abruptly ends and I see small amounts of water running down the stone edge, which gives me some hope. As I look down I see that the next level is about two floors below and there is an inland beach. I also check out the surroundings and see that beyond that inland beach is a valley with trees and the sea at the end of it.

    I feel that I won't have the time to go to the sea and chose to use the inland beach for the advanced TOTM. There also small kids there, something like sand and rocks near the water. It is quite high and as I finally gather the courage and prepare to jump in the water, the dream ends.

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    Updated 08-19-2013 at 05:25 PM by 61764

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    Comments

    1. Highlander's Avatar
      Congrats. on the LD's.

      BTW how are you finding the B6 in relation to your dream content now? I recall you mention that you had 'agressive' type dreams when using it beforehand.
      I've only ever used B6 during WBTB with mixed results. I'm not sure if I'm correct or not.
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    2. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks Highlander!

      Hmmm, well there was some action there as well - dogs and tornadoes, but no big drama in non-lds. SJW and menthol may be making for a milder aggression. I have to say that recently B6 has been giving me the boost I need and the other supps like HTP, melatonin, etc. make me quite sleepy. I am keeping an eye on things... Oh, and I must mention I had extremely vivid dreams from just Gingko yesterday.
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Hey, good stuff with the expectation / teleport / scene change there, Nyx! Even if you didn't end up with a straight-up copy of Angel Falls, the theme was definitely headed in the right direction and you had some good raw material to work with too. I wonder if just a bit more detail may have done the trick? It's hard, though, so I really can't give a surefire recommendation. I'm always caught between spending too much time fixated on a scene change and the need to get it just so.

      I also liked how you were the puppetmaster in that household pet cage match. Definitely something to remember, especially considering how effortless it was for you.

      The detail in that first LD sounds nuts! Very much like the kind of thing I've seen from B6 time to time.

      And FWIW, Highlander, one of the longest, highest-level LDs I had was from pre-bed B6. WBTB B6 hasn't yielded anything as impressive for me yet. But perhaps there's more I need to do with it.
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    4. Highlander's Avatar
      And FWIW, Highlander, one of the longest, highest-level LDs I had was from pre-bed B6. WBTB B6 hasn't yielded anything as impressive for me yet. But perhaps there's more I need to do with it.
      Thanks for the info CL, I will have to look into this maybe.
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    5. NyxCC's Avatar
      Hey, good stuff with the expectation / teleport / scene change there, Nyx! Even if you didn't end up with a straight-up copy of Angel Falls, the theme was definitely headed in the right direction and you had some good raw material to work with too. I wonder if just a bit more detail may have done the trick? It's hard, though, so I really can't give a surefire recommendation. I'm always caught between spending too much time fixated on a scene change and the need to get it just so
      Thanks CL! I think maybe I should start doing some of those dream incubations/visualizations, maybe it will be easier then. By the way, is this what are doing for your MILD?

      I also liked how you were the puppetmaster in that household pet cage match
      Yeah that was pretty cool, a bit of evil kitten puppeteering can make you a very happy person. I should do this again!
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    6. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Thanks CL! I think maybe I should start doing some of those dream incubations/visualizations, maybe it will be easier then. By the way, is this what are doing for your MILD?
      Lately, I have actually been doing just a bit of this to settle myself down, then switching to watching HI and waiting to drift off. In the background I'm constantly thinking to myself that "it's all a dream" and "I have to remember that it's a dream". Sometimes this pushes me toward a WILD, which is neat. I'm pretty sure that I went all the way under this morning but I got surprised/excited and popped back out.

      So lately it's been:
      -Visualize swimming through an endless ocean (like Art's tech, just not a forest ). Throughout, remind myself that "it's all a dream". A couple minutes of this, maybe.
      -Chill out and experience HI, again reminding myself over and over that I need to remember that it's all a dream.

      That's how it's gone lately at least! I change things up sometimes but this is what has been effective lately. My reminders to myself are very obsessive and very, "This is really, really important and I need to remember it later" in feel.

      How about you? What's your playbook?
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    7. NyxCC's Avatar
      That sounds like a nice tech, not too demanding yet wakeful enough, especially if you insist on the "this is really important" part.

      Well, the initial (recent) plan was to do visualization pre bed and WBTB but I have been falling into laziness, so I just do any visualization for any amount of time during the day (5-15 mins) because I believe it's still developing the area of the brain I will eventually be using when I do a proper WBTB.

      Apart from that, I have been doing mostly mantras on WBTBs, some of which had been successful when combined with B6. In the meantime, bf's little bro's changing places so he will be staying with us for a few weeks, which means I just might get the wakefulness I need to do one of those proper WBTBs.

      I also signed up for the competition again, so hopefully it will give me the motivation to work more on techs and have more promising results to share.
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    8. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Cool, sounds like a good approach! Yeah, visualization practice by itself is a great idea. The skills you build there should carry over nicely to dreams, or at least I'd think so. It's always better to have logged some practice hours before attempting the real deal, IMO.

      And good luck with the competition!! Should be a great time.

      Oh, one thing that I forgot to mention. During WBTB I get out of bed and stay up for a bit doing whatever. I may play a game, read (preferably about LD), read about something on the net, etc. That's usually 20-30 minutes, then I get back in bed and do all the other stuff I mentioned before.
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    9. NyxCC's Avatar
      Thanks!

      Oh, one thing that I forgot to mention. During WBTB I get out of bed and stay up for a bit doing whatever. I may play a game, read (preferably about LD), read about something on the net, etc. That's usually 20-30 minutes, then I get back in bed and do all the other stuff I mentioned before.
      I'm always extra careful not to wake myself too much, hence spend as little time as possible out of bed. That often carries the risk of me falling asleep way too fast. Caffeine has been a help in moments like these, but I have used it sparingly recently. Man, so many months have passed and it's still hard to get the perfect WBTB timing. But maybe it's just a little more motivation I need? The comp should do it, I hope.

      Thanks for the explanations. Looking forward to seeing where this swimming visualization will bring you next time!
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