30-Day Challenge: Day 15 - Finally. Success!
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, 07-18-2013 at 11:24 AM (603 Views)
Yeah, you heard it! I finally had success with the challenge.
Last night I got enough sleep to try out my theory about manipulating the dream and WBTB.
What I did before bed: Meditate for about 5-10 minutes to get present in the moment. I went to bed at 10pm.
After that I almost instantly fell asleep due to exhaustion from work and being tired.
I woke up at around 4am naturally and drank something. I didn't get out of my bed because I was extremely tired and almost about to pass out instantly.
Then I started to think about my theory and actively tried to visualize a dream scene. But this time I noticed something. I could feel how my mind would get awake by actively doing something.
So I tried something else. I consciously tried to accelerate the falling-asleep process (for some reason I can do this, feels just like flexing some kind of muscle :O). While doing this I enhanced it even more by creating random images in my mind (just like you should do for getting into HI). But the images were manipulated in a way that each image had the word "RC" or something else written somewhere. I wanted to manipulate my following dream so it would give me hints to get lucid/do a RC.
Then I passed out. The whole process took about 5-10 seconds max.
Here's the dream:
I was in my house. There was some noise outside so I went to the parking lot right in front of my house. Many people were standing outside, just around the bike rack. For some reason we had to put away all the bikes from the rack...and for another weird reason there were much more bikes than IRL. Even in the dream I started to wonder why we should do this.
Then suddenly even more weird things happened. A police car appeared and two police officers walked towards us. One of them was black and the other one white. They grabbed one of the people in the crowd and pushed him on the ground. They tried to put handcuffs on and I intercepted. I told them that police officers need a reason to arrest civilians (this is from playing an Arma 2 mod, where cops are only allowed to arrest civilians with a specific reason). Suddenly the black one turned to me and punched me in the face while saying "I don't need a reason to do anything!". The odd thing was that his punch didn't hurt at all, it felt like a gentle stroke. I got extremely angry and suddenly the cops grabbed their pistols and said: "Alright, nobody's getting away from here. You are all sentenced to death!". They began shooting the people and I ran behind the back of the house. Now it all made sense. This is so ridiculous, it must be a dream! I was really happy that my method worked. Then I walked back to the cops, feeling invincible. They had to pay for shooting my Dream Characters. They saw me and the black guy was pointing his gun towards me. "QUICK STEP!", I thought. I just love this technique and I got my enthusiasm for the RPG back. Within the blink of an eye, I charged towards the cop and punched him so hard that he crashed into the wall. I focused all my energy into my legs and arms. The cop got up again and threw away his weapon. He looked stronger now. I noticed that I should do ADA because I felt kinda 'numb'. I touched the ground and tried to feel the texture while starting to become present in the moment. The dream was now crystal clear and I could feel the distinct feeling of the dream compared to reality. The cop looked at me and prepared for charging towards me. Right as he was about to run, I used Quick Step to jump high into the air. I then kicked the air to propel me towards my house. Within 5 seconds, I kept using Quick Step to jump from wall to wall between my house and the neighbours house. I felt so extremely fast. After I built up enough velocity, I kicked myself off the wall and charged towards the cop. BAM!, I hit him in his face with all my strength. The way his body crashed through all the houses in my neighbourhood looked just like the enemies do in One Piece or Naruto. Shit this lucid was awesome! - I thought.
Suddenly my vision began to fade black. I thought that I was about to wake up but I did ADA and focused on the dream to regain stability. I was in front of my house again. What happened now is something I won't write here. Let's just say that I had my first dream orgasm...and it felt better than expected. Normally I wouldn't waste my lucids for this but it was one of my experimental dream-goals.
At this point my vision faded black again. I thought to myself that the next time I get lucid I'll do some testing for the RPG. I lost lucidity and thought that I had woken up. A friend appeared and I told him that I'm so happy that I finally figured out how to get lucid again. Also I could see a super-nintendo console on my windowsill. I told him about my dream (in-dream dream recall) and woke up for real after a couple of minutes.
I looked at the time and it was now 6pm. I slept for 2 hours!
Also, being extremely tired during the WBTB seems to be good for me as I can fall asleep while laying on my back. And when I sleep on my back my awareness is usually higher than in any other position. I also woke up on my back.
What I learned from this was that you should frequently do RC's in the dream and keep doing ADA. Even when you think that you woke up, do a RC just to be sure.