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Fitness with Laci

Just when I think Laci's video is over, a bonus clip starts, showing her trying out a cardio fitness class. For example, one of the exercises is something like the following: Start from a standing position with your legs fairly wide apart. Then crouch into a lunge position facing your right side while bringing your right elbow across your body to touch the ground on the left side of your right foot. Then on the next beat, straighten up again. The tempo is quite fast, so I discover to my surprise that it's actually quite a difficult workout. I also discover upon closer examination of my form that I'm not quite doing the step right. Oops. Meanwhile, Laci is laughing about how exhausting the workout is, and after a few short clips showcasing different steps, the video ends on a joking note as she accidentally drops one of the weights that the class is using to work out.

3-D Go

My parents and I run into two girls about my age and their mothers. They're all new to Go so we decide to try a team game. For one of the girls, this will be her very first game, or thereabouts. One of the mothers, an Asian one, shows us the board she brought. It looks to me like it has more than 19 rows, so I try to count them. The count comes up fine, so I guess my visual estimation skills are just a bit off. Anyway, we start playing the game using colored Legos on one of those green base plates. My team is white, and the adults are playing red. The newbie girl keeps trying to play in the upper left, but it becomes clear after a few moves that Red is setting up a very strong framework in that area.

"Stop that!" I say, the next time she tries to play in that area. I feel a bad about snapping, so I try to recover by turning it into a teaching moment. I explain about frameworks. I'm not sure she entirely gets it, but she doesn't argue, or anything.

Once, she moves one of her previously placed pieces before putting down a new one. At first I assume she's just tacitly taking back her previous move, and I don't say anything, though it makes me uncomfortable. But later I wonder if she just didn't know that in Go you can't move pieces once they've been placed on the board.

At times during the course of the game, I turn back to the board to find that a more or less intricate Lego construction has appeared in the middle of it. For example, once, a rectangular green tower of about twenty (Lego) stories appears. Someone tries to take it by removing the last liberty at its base, but I point out that they should have to remove all the liberties for every story and the top, since really it's all just one big group. But then the second girl, the more experienced one, points out that that's not usually what you need to do for one-story groups. For those, you just need to take the liberties on the sides. I realize she's right.

At other times, cutesie farmhouses or tessellated color patterns appear. These are clearly the work of the newbie, and they're interfering with the game. I don't think she understands the point of Go at all. Eventually I get fed up and declare, "I give up on this game." I sweep my pieces into a bag and stalk upstairs. Maybe they'll try to continue without me, but in any case it's good riddance.

Upstairs, I dump out my pieces and try to sort them by color. It's going to take a while, because there are several biggish structures that use a lot of different colors in alternation.

At one point, I notice that I can make some cool percussion sounds with the Legos, so I do some one-man-band improv using the Legos, my voice, and any other noisemakers I can find. I think it turns out to be pretty neat. It's not exploring any new territory, musically, but it's got a pretty nice groove. The only person watching is my Mom, doing something in the kitchen, but she doesn't say anything.

NON-DREAM DREAM LUCID NIGHTLY ADVENTURE

Good morning! Didn't recall much from last night, still trying to get into the habit of DJ'ing in the middle of the night and I still haven't written a single dream down for ages. Anyways I had a funny "Nightly Adventure" last night.

23.00: Sleep

00.15: Nightly Adventure
*I wake up and a car is going to run over me! I stand up in bed and with a small leap I jump onto the windowsill, trying to hide behind the curtains. Something zooms past and barely misses me. I jump back into bed and head out the room and calm myself down in the bathroom.

05.25: Fragment
*I'm getting a new tattoo, a star or something else on my other shoulder. Monica is getting a new one aswell and she points at her leg, which already has a snake on it.

05.25: Wake up

Amount of sleep: 6½ hours

Supplements: 200 mg L-Theanine

That's it!

Keep on dreaming, HARE BRA!

Okay, this one is fragmented, which makes it hard to explain. I am a mod3 on a Minecraft server, and we remove homes if they are old/abandoned, also we allow flying.

I am just walking around, and I see what looks like a griefed cobblestone house from Minecraft (Interestingly, it looked realistic instead of the normal block-like minecraft style.). I go inside and say that I should remove it, as it is pretty old looking. So I see like cardboard inside that I start tearing down/deleting as it hits the ground, then I hear some two punk kids behind me..apparently they live there, and are mad that I am destroying their home. I am thinking they are bums hiding out there. I start telling the one about how depressed I am that I didn't have a dream that night that I remember( How did I not notice? This was from a WBTB attempt. I woke up at like 7:00am then went back to bed. Layer zero much?), then he gives me some challenges of which I do not remember. They were not easy, but I completed them, earning the appearance of Gandalf the white. I started flying above the scene proud of whatever I had achieved. I start to think how I crafted my staff I was holding, I start thinking blaze rod, iron stick... The dream ends here. I'm glad I remembered the major details, but sadly the minor ones have been forgotten.

this expectation thing is giving me blue balls. For real ! last night I wtb with a mantra. And I had a "lucid dream" not a magycial one.I did a nose plug reality check and I could breath so I thought "I'm dreaming" and then my heart pounded really quickly and I felt like I would wake up so I just concentrated and waited for the black to turn into something better. It did, and in a few seconds I could see a bunch of squares with trees and flashing colors. Better unexplained . Anyway I was still nervous my heartbeat would wake me up , but I could only see my dream, not get into it. It was like I was watching a t.v. with a very blurry image. Then I woke up and did another reality check which failed. But I remember thinking I should record that on my iphone so that I don't forget I was lucid in the morning.

I'm mad that I was never actually awake, and when I actually did wake up my recall wasn't as vivid. I can't remember the dream before my lucid. But I remember the two after it.

I followed a girl B and her friends to a camp across the river, located on a dark island.In order to reach it , one had to complete the obstacles. So copying B I just sort of glided across the balances etc. and made it. There I followed people and wanted to leave, I knew M would be worried. She came just as I was leaving and I didn't even ask "how?!" she managed to get across. Anyway a friend, alexi, said it's a camp kind of like college. I didn't get involved in the dancing but there was a gym with a couple of my peers. I finally found where people hid out during the summer. I found an old "Friend" j there and she didnt mention much but complemented another girl. It was weird because I ignored her mostly. She wasn't surprised I was there. Before I saw J, I was looking at how clean their bathrooms were . The other ones had blobs on the ground. I ran outside with just a towel and back and saw the Jule and talked about her with j's blonde friend. Juile is you know... was all I could get out.

At an old-western themed bar. Nina and F were above shouting to get beverages. I saw Nin and just exited but came back to help my sis win some money.

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[FONT="Courier New"]My first goal in my lucid dreaming practice was to find a way to easily induce at least one lucid moment each week. I have noticed that I have fulfilled that goal now and I have learned what makes that possible and what's not.

Dream recall is the first priority because that is first of all required to remember any lucid experience at all and second of all it makes the dreamer more aware, the dream more vivid and therefore more easier to become lucid in.
So keep a pen and a piece of paper by the bed and write down any dreams that you remember in the morning, after some time you will be so aware that you start to notice your micro-awakenings in the night after each dream and can record it in better detail and with a fresher memory.

The second priority is the bedtime. If I go to bed too late, my dream recall will be low, harder to be aware of, and therefore harder to become lucid in. Going to bed at an regular or earlier time gives the opposite effect:
high dream recall, easier to be aware of and easier to become lucid in.

The third priority is the mindset. A stressed out or worried mind mind is as bad as a late bedtime and therefore very important. That's why aiming for general higher awareness of the dream is better than aiming for the lucidity itself.
Easier to imagine and easier to fulfill. If one doesn't succeed one night you got to have the mindset of there's always another night.

These three simple steps is what have helped me induce lucid dreams every week frequently. I wrote this mini guide to remind myself of the power behind these factors and to help people who needs it learn from my experience.

Even though I get lucid often, it doesn't mean that they last for long. Usually 10 seconds to one minutes.
And I have tried all sorts of different stabilization techniques from spinning, hand rubbing, engaging the other senses etc. They work from time to time, but it's far from frequent.

So that is my new goal. Find away to easily stabilize the dream. I have been to focused on the lucid induction part so I have completely ignored the stabilization as can been seen in this Dream Journal. I have always trusted that my dreaming mind will become more clear automatically at some point and that I could figure out a way to stabilize at the spot.
And it did happen sometimes, but I was always to focused on the thoughts I had before I got lucid and focused on unnecessary things like trying to convince a dream character that they were dreaming, learning to fly when I am barely lucid, hitting on hot girls... You get the idea. So now I am going to have a plan of action, something that should be the first thing that comes to mind while I am lucid and doing it instantly. I will cycle through all the different stabilization techniques again to really see the effects of each one.

But that's the first priority in the goal of stabilization, a plan of action.
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DJ 20-08-12

02:00 - 07:05

07:20 - 12:45

Dream 1

Although I don't actually remember much of this dream, here are my notes.

'Shark profile picture. I am looking for my charger, I don't think I am meant to be in this country. I have random people texting me.' I do however remember sitting outside someone's house while people were texting me!*

Dream 2

I was on holiday with my dad. It was raining where we were. He said to me 'Do want photoshop cs2?'*
'Sure' I replied. He took me round the town and we had to drag files towards us. They had pictures of random girls on them. I remember dragging it like a computer.
* * * * *My dad then started to smoke. I thought 'This is weird why is my dad smoking?' I never questioned him but I new it wasn't right! We were in the hotel and I had a shower outside. When my brother and sister came in, I scared them. I walked up behind them and shouted!*
* * * * We were going out for the night. This random family gave us a lift to the pub we were going too. In the car I had a chalkboard and a piece of chalk. On the chalkboard I wrote in big letters 'LUCID DREAMING'. When we were in the pub they were playing Konan and Krept 'Gassed in the Rave.' I remember singing 'I'll probably end up with some joker at the end of this dark knight!' Then the pub played 'Elro - Scrabble' and the dream ended.

Dream 3

I was with some of my friends and about 7 people I didn't know. There was about 12 of us altogether. We were standing outside my house when loads of them decided to go into my house. I said 'What are you doing!?' They ignored me and walked in right to my back garden. I went into my living room and sat next to my mum. We watched them in the back garden and I said to my mum "Just chuck them out, say they can't be here"
"Ok" she replied. She turned off the lights and announced to everyone. "You can't all be here can you please leave!" They all ignored her! I walked out myself angry. They began spraying beer at me, I was very sore. Everyone gathered round in a corner and the back garden turned into the Ricoh Arena. One boy was still spraying beer at me laughing. I turned round and snarled at him. It didn't stop him. There was two men on the pitch they had stopped the match for some reason, the dream ended.

I had three dreams last night (that I can remember):

DREAM #1

I am semi-lucid during this dream.

Kermit the frog appeared next to my bed. And then we both float up into the air and start flying down the stairs and out the front door. I decide that I wanted Kermit to glow, so he starts glowing. Then we’re just flying through the sky and singing together, and that's about where the dream ends.

DREAM #2

I'm sitting in some kind of loft type place, with some guy with a beard, and we're watching soccer on TV. I have a feeling I don't like this guy. Not a very long or detailed dream.

DREAM #3

I'm in my backyard, and Acacia and Abby (my friends) are there. I'm commenting on Abby's hair because it has all these weird braids in it that you can somehow see from the back but not the front.

Suddenly, Acacia decides that she really wants coffee, and we decide to go to McDonald's to find some. There's this random McDonald's window near my house. The lady working there is one of the cafeteria ladies from my school. Unfortunately the McDonald's is closed. I check the time on my iPod and see that it's almost 9 PM, when for some reason I thought it was only around 5 or so.

Acacia and I go to a different McDonald's, where we have to stand in line for a minute because there are a few people ahead of us. While we're waiting, I notice that Acacia is wearing a black hat and sparkling purple lipstick. So I'm like, "Ooh I love your lipstick!" And Acacia is like, "Thanks!"

So I try to decide what to order, but I can't see the menu from where I'm standing. Plus there's all this random stuff piled up behind the counter. Acacia tells me they're selling one brand of coffee called Coldwell Scent that only costs a dollar, so that is what we both decide to order. The lady who takes our order has black hair pulled back into a messy bun, and I think she seems nice.

I wake up before we actually get our coffee.

... Well, at least I was kind of lucid during that first dream. I realized I was dreaming and controlled one small thing. Not much, but it's a step forward I guess.

Part 1
I was in some Hatian village. Me and my group were hold up inside of a small building. There was a sniper shooting at us. I was afraid and I was flinching a lot. I noticed my little cousin was there in a pink shirt so I stood in front of her as a meat shield. We had an opening so looked around the building and found a knife. I had looked for explosives but I didn't find any. I saw one of the bad guys riding away on a bike so I chased him. The seen changed into part of my old neighborhood. I wasn't able to catch him. When I went back to the neighborhood it had changed again. It became a really colorful place. It was like I was going back to a place from my childhood which didn't exist on this reality. It was based off of the show Doug and I saw some of the characters. I also saw Goofy there chilling on a lawn chair.

i remember specifically being very paranoid in this dream throughout the hole thing. well i know i was at my house for the longest time in some reggae band with my friends. i was having trouble leaving because my mom kept me asking to do varios chores which began to annoy me. there were 5 hour energys and i new they were mells up there in the cabinet but i took one and some 5 hour chap stick. also i remember being at my grandpa at some point. plotting somthing.

Dream - Lucid

I was having sex with Jake in his room. I thought it was something we'd probably regret later since we weren't using a condom. The fact that we aren't dating anymore in waking life didn't seem to be an issue. Oh well, I guess it's already happening now. He then pulled out for awhile.

Then, I was playing FFVII in the living room at my house, and I wanted to tell my brother that I beat it. I then didn't remember fighting Sephiroth. Hmm...

More fragments, but at least now I'm actually remembering things instead of waking up with vague feelings and having the dream "on the tip of the tongue" so to speak.

[COLOR="royalblue"]Non-Aware (Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="blue"]Partially Aware (Lucid Dream)[/COLOR] - [COLOR="navy"]Fully Aware and Vivid (Astral Projection(OOBE)[/COLOR]

This night I stayed up with my friend and we played Dead Island Co-Op. I was planning on going to bed early anyway, but the game bugged and made me lose all my best weapons so I stayed up in front of the bright TV-screen and had to do it all over again. So I ended up going to sleep, very late and my dream recall was destined to be bad.

[COLOR="royalblue"]I did end up remembering some dream from the morning though, but I have no dream recall from the night dreams. I also woke up from some bug flying around in my room around 03:36.

I was playing a high graphic version of some World of warcraft like game. I remembered that I were some kind of ice monster and I were doing a dungeon boss fight with some friends. My best ability was a channeling ice attack. I also remember that I canceled the attack by mistake, usually like I do in League of Legends and that my team mates got angry at me.

I were in some garden and I saw my parents smoking cigarettes and they both hate cigarettes for real, so I wondered why they liked them in this dream. I also took a cigarette just to do the same thing as them and make them think about what they taught me. I have some memory of me packing a bag and saying good bye to everyone.

In some other dream I was playing Counter-strike with a friend, but it was lagging so I tabbed back to my desktop and tried to see if there were any programs that made it laggy. I remember seeing that another game was running at the same time, that game seemed familiar to me in the dream, but I have no idea what it was now. Also when I tried to close some programs, more program popped up. Kind of like a gamer nightmare.

Then I was watching a soccer match, Barcelona VS Aston Villa. It went to overtime and the time was 20:00 in the dream and I remember that everyone started to walk away and didn't wanted to see the ending because 21:00 was too late. I also remember seeing an 7 year old girl screaming that she wanted to see who was going to win. I also remember meeting my friend Johan in this dream, but I don't remember what we talked about.

I woke up and wrote Barcelona - soccer match on a piece of paper and imagine that it felt so blurry and I wondered what was going on, then the dream changed and I was in the Dead Island game.

I was in a cage and zombies were approaching us in the distance. I see a man with a Electric Shotgun (Don't ask me what that is..) and he was going to shoot me. I screamed for help but nobody helped I got shot and woke up.[/COLOR]

It have been a while since I had a false awakening, but I will try to take advantage of these opportunities from now on.

I were somewhere in town with some friends of mine. We wanted to meet at a specific house, then we split up tp reach our gole alone. Not everyone managed to come there, because one was called by his parents on his cellphone he came later. We did not stay there long, however two of my friends and I came to my place.
I don't know why, but my parents were not there, instead of them my neighboars had access to the apartment. I noticed some strange thing: There were three cats in this house.(In rl I have only one cat.) I noticed the first cat being "Filemon" (which died years ago in rl) and the second cat being "Gienek". I did not know how the third cat came there or how its name was, the neighboars said it was a strayed cat. Its appereance was exactly like Gienek, so it couldn't be just a cat of someone I know.
I was called by my friends waiting in the kitchen. They both discussed about a videogame, they called it a pointless war. I had the same opinion about this topic.I told them about the cats and wanted to look after them. They were asleep, all three of them were in a basket and slept at top of each other.

Before I could do anything I woke up.

Freshman Football players - DJ Woods. Midcentury Modern Home with turquoise kitchen - giant eating area. Ridiculous bathroom - separate tub and shower. Love. Flying by hanging on to balloons. Coni and Gene Ant.

DreamLucidAwake

Advanced TOTM

It was a false awakening early in the morning. Something didn't feel right to me and I used my reality check where I try to feel the dream.It felt like I was dreaming and I became lucid. On my desk i saw an odd looking book that I do not own. It looked to me like an old fancy journal. It was then that I remembered the advanced task of the month. I assumed that the book was the journal I was supposed to write my waking life in.

I opened it up and found a quill inside. I sat there for a moment and tried to recollect my waking memories. It was kind of difficult, but I was at least able to remember that I went shoe shopping that day. My shoes were starting to feel uncomfortable because my feet got bigger. So we went to some store that I can't remember for some sale related to taxes. I don't like shopping so I was trying to be quick. I found a pair of black tennis shoes that felt comfortable enough and chose them. That's where my memory ended.

I picked up the quill and wrote something very similar to that in the journal. The writing part was fairly simple and I didn't have too much trouble after the memory part. I can't remember how the dream ended though.

Not much of a precursor to this dream or a non-lucid portion. Woke up and then went back to sleep with the desire to have a lucid dream and so I did.

I believe I was inside of someones house and then upon exiting I went and fiddled with the trunk of their car for whatever reason and stopped in fear that the alarm might go off. Then I looked around and just said to myself, "Yea this is a dream." And so then I became lucid.

Now once lucid my first impulse was to jump into the air and fly, so I tried to but when I jumped into the air I just fell down right back onto the sidewalk. After that I tried to look away and then say that the person I wanted to be there would be spawned behind me when I look back, but that didn't work either. So then I started going for a nice little walk. I was in a ritzy looking neighborhood with a lot of big houses. I was walking until I saw an area that looked like where I lived. So now I ran and jumped so now it was either fly into the air or fall and hit the ground, hard. So this time I flew into the air. I had a nice flight probably my longest yet, I always enjoying flying, I love the feeling of the wind. Anyways so while I was flying I flew over a pool and noticed some people, what looked like my brother and one of my friends. So I landed and they were talking about what I gathered to be World of Warcraft. I touched my friends shoulder and tried to turn her into a different DC and at this she let out and annoyed sound which threw me off my focus. The dream went into blackness and I could still feel myself touching her shoulder. So I eventually was able to re-enter the dream, which I'm getting better at now. And then I pretty much just lost the dream the moment that I re-entered.