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    Chessica's Dream Journal

    07.08.14

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    Chessica
    , 08-07-2014 at 10:20 AM (825 Views)
    So I had my first lucid in months!! And the first lucid in Sensei's competition. It was so much fun! Yay!

    I woke up at 7.30 this morning and I wrote down 3 dream fragments. I probably could have dug deeper and remembered at least on of them fully, but I'm stuggling with the motivation to write the dj. and so they stayed only fragments. I then lay awake for a bit thinking I would do a WBTB, I was awake for maybe 20 minutes? Then I got comfy again and tried to go to sleep. I repeated a mantra to myself for a minute or two about how I would fall asleep and realize I was in a dream. After a while of twisting and turning, not being able to fall asleep I did a nose plug, and I could breathe! Only through one of my nostrils, but I could breathe!! But how could it be? I was still in my bed trying to fall asleep! But wait, was I? I looked around and realized I wasn't in my bed after all. I was on a mattress on the floor somewhere else. I got up and went to the bathroom, doing another nose plug (I couldn't believe I was lucid) still could breathe, but only through one nostril. I kept my nose plugged for a while, wondering how I could do that and not "choke" in real life, I then realized it's only my dream body that's got its nose plugged... Even though I was lucid my awareness was low at this stage. I suddenly realized I was standing in a bathroom scrubbing the toilet and I thought "I'm not using my LD to scrub down a filthy toilet!!" So I stood up and tried to remember my goals. I remember the competition and some of the tasks. Should I try flying? I have had a plan that if I did become lucid I would summon a 'musical muffin', eat it and try to sing! So I placed my hands behind by back and thought "when I bring my hands in front of me again there will be a musical muffin in my hands. And there was! It was a bit unclear/hazy, but had a creamy cheese topping with a 'musical note' as a decoration. I hurried to take a bite, and as I did I wondered how it didn't taste anything. After eating a bite of it I tried to sing - very quietly, because I was afraid someone might hear me. And I was disappointed, my voice was even poorer than in real life. LOL! Here the dream gets a little blurry, I can't remember quite what happened, but I think I had a FA where the nose plug RC failed.

    I also remember dreaming about writing in my dj about both the lucid dream and some other dreams - it's so frustrating waking up and realizing you have to do it all over again, haha. All in all I remember 4 fragments, 2 dreams and 1 LD! A very, very good night! I'm so happy!

    A question though: Did I just have my first WILD, or was this just a regular DILD? Did kind of feel like a DILD, but then I really thought I was still awake so it might have been a WILD... I've heard so much talk about the weird sensations one gets when wilding, and I didn't feel any of that...
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    1. CHiLLEN's Avatar
      Congrats! I completely lost my shit when you mentioned you were scrubbing a toilet in a lucid dream LOLOL. Do you write your dreams down on paper? I use an app called Dreamer. It's a lot easier for me and motivates me rather then when I use paper.. I dread doing it.
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    2. shreyas's Avatar
      good just keep practicing it you will develop fast.And with the muffin part did not work properly as you had to deepen a bit (deepening is simple just rub your hands or touch the objects near you like walls,floor,furniture etc)Then the muffin will be good to taste and your voice like you wanted....
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    3. Chessica's Avatar
      Thank you for your comments!

      @CHiLLEN_AU: Yes, I write it down on paper. Went to google play, but couldn't find the app you mentioned...

      @shreyas: Thank you for your tips. I've used some stabilizing techniques before, and they are very useful. I got too excited this time, and just wanted to go ahead with the dream. Should've stabilized, though.
    4. Bharmo's Avatar
      Congrats on the lucid! It totally looks like a WILD!!
      And very good job on summoning the muffing (I still need to learn summoning) and remembering your goals!
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    5. greendrive's Avatar
      Congrats on your lucid. Scrubbing toilet I once had this but was NLD and it was followed by a FA.
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    6. StephL's Avatar
      Wow - congratulation - good question if this was a WILD - sounds so, actually - just noise-less. I wish I could do it, too.
      Caught yourself cleaning the loo...

      Well done on the musical muffin - sometimes I have problems with all vocalisation in lucid dreams - start to croak, can't get something out - was it that? Fantastic plan to sing in your dreams, though - I like doing this as well - but as said above, I don't often have a voice for it. But keep at it - it can be really, really great, if it works. Been clinging to a lamp-post several meters above ground once, while conjuring meteors, and there was a telephone-receiver hanging next to me. So I pretended, this would be a glorious amplifier and sung into it and that worked wonders, at least to my dreamy ears it did - booming all over the landscape.
      Maybe try an appliance to help you believe in yourself?
      Do you sing in real life?
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      Updated 08-07-2014 at 02:58 PM by StephL
    7. Chessica's Avatar
      @StephL: I do sing in real life, but I only sound ok'ish when I sing and play the piano at the same time. Then something is in tune at least, lol. I will try an appliance next time. I remember singing in NLD, and then I sounded great! Haha! And to all of you commenting: Thank you! It's so nice to read all these kind comments! <3
    8. ThreeCat's Avatar
      Chessica! Great job! And I want to say something--the fact that you realized that it was ridiculous to be scrubbing the toilet during your LD is wonderful resurgence of attention--I think for most this would have been the end of the LD and the transition into an NLD--simply because the dream was trying to reassert a new narrative. Great job and pulling yourself out of it! And good job on the summon too!

      And to add to the others as well, yes--it does sound like you successfully WILDed--even if you were not aware of transition, you still made it! Congrats!
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    9. CHiLLEN's Avatar
      Oh not sure about google play. It's an iPhone App.
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    10. fogelbise's Avatar
      Great job Chessica!!! The competition really does help many people I feel. And that FA or WILD...that really goes to show how easy it is to think you were tossing in turning at a time when you were already asleep! It is always good to have some motionless RC's in your arsenal in these situations and a back up RC for when the nose plug fails like you mentioned in the later FA.

      For android/google play, I like Awoken (actually for it's truly random RC reminders but it also has a DJ function), but not sure how it compares to the one Chillen mentioned.
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    11. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Congrats on the LD and summoning! Great job!
      Awesome that you remembered the competition too, that's some great goal memory!
      I hate writing DJs in dreams, I do it way too often! I need to get back to making sure I RC every time I wake up so I can catch those FAs!
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