StephL

Not to forget to put it in here - will probably edit in some more:

Breakthrough - I managed to play darts lucidly!!

Last night, I got lucid - was in a house - did nose-plug - and then pretend-remembered like - yeah, they have a darts-room with board and arrows and everything next door - I saw it (pictured it shortly in my mind)!
Went in that room - and there everything was!
Not my original darts - I shortly even wondered, if I had dreamt the oche correctly..
But everything felt natural.
Unfortunately - my memory is a bit hazy - and I do not know, what I hit.
I believe I was happy with just being able to throw at all - maybe four times - with darts, that felt natural - and they went into the board, like they should, I think - with a proper ballistic arc and a thud.

Soo - I gave it a stab and made around 20 intense RRCs in the daytime - and - tadaa!!
Every single time I go to the toilet for example and other triggers - found to my embarrassment, that I have loads of toilets in my dreams.
And I believe it worked almost specifically - with locking a door and myself in somewhere - that brought it over this time.
I had never done more than 8 of the things before - shame on me.

I was having a crazy dream - somebody was after me - a woman - and she wanted to infect me with a disease she had.
Forgot, why she was so angry.
And when I managed to lock myself into a room - I remembered to RC/felt somehow it was a dream.
Nose plug - like also done every time with the day RCs - worked perfectly.
But what came to my mind this time wasn't darts or TOTMs - but dutchraptors 5 lucid criteria.
I knew that I was dreaming - I remembered these criteria - and decided to break through a closed window.
First I touched the glass - and then I just pushed my lower arms through.
What happened when I broke through was, that this window behaved, as if it had been a thin plastic foil with some metal-foil mimicking a mirror then.
So then I was outside and hovering like 2 m over the ground - and wanted to make sure, I know there are no consequences to what I do.
There was a group of people standing about - and I took a long stick from a tree - and poked them.
I know..
At least I didn't care, what they thought of me. They looked a bit afraid, asked what that was all about - but didn't leave.
Well yeah - and I was on the one hand able to contemplate, that it constituted a failure not to do more - on the other hand - I couldn't bring myself to seriously hurt or kill somebody.
With that I lost lucidity.

But a bit later in the dream - again hiding from somebody in an enclosed space - once more lucid.
Again - nose plug - worked a treat.
Once I was out there and had roamed about a bit, though - a DC came along and told me I have to do this and that to solve a real-life problem - pretty convincingly - and I lost lucidity and went about doing what that person had said.

When I woke up - I found out, this dream had started only 2 hours and a bit after me falling asleep.
I put out the alarms then - but got to put them on earlier next night, I guess.

Soo happy!!
From Friday to yesterday I managed to happily sleep through my alarms - darting-party effect, I guess..
But last night - the second I heard worked exactly as it was supposed to.
I use this: Alarm Clock Bud Pro for IPhone
Caught me in a dream, I forgot now - heard the alarm - waited it out - and then:

It was weird - my face was directed to the bed - and I suddenly had the impression I can look through my eyelids a bit like through a camera-seeker - and saw the ground, which was covered in decorative pebbles.
And I made that clearer and bigger and suddenly wuusch - I was there!!
It was not a long one - and I also didn't have something prepared to think of - but it came to my mind, that theoretically I wanted to play darts some day lucidly.

But I stood there and decided to first of all just observe and walk about.
Which I did - and sat on a bench, next to a tree.
There were thousands of ants circling the trunk at the base and it got more and more - and I thought - naa - if I go on watching crawly things - that could turn out nasty (was starting to feel so).
So I got up.
Clarity and vividness could have been better all overall - but when I kept my attention somewhere - it got better - there.
I came to a big villa - found it looked interesting - and went in.
Very beautiful old fashioned house with a lot of wooden panelling and paintings and a huge wooden staircase.
I met a woman upstairs in one room, who first was one - and later changed into another person - both known to me/friends irl - and we talked for a while - intense.
In a way - my lucidity was a bit dampened through our exchange - I knew, it was a dream, still - but on the other hand I took the interactions pretty seriously.

Then I had a dream-urge to go to the toilet - at that moment, lucidity rose - and I thought - lets see if it helps when I go relieve myself on a dream-toilet.
Which I did - and it didn't help - so I gathered, I must be indeed needing a toilet irl.
And let it happen to wake up.
Only to find out - still having an urge - that I didn't need either toilet nor urge - and the urge went away..
Crazy!
Sorry guys and gals - but I find that sort of note-worthy..

I should do more, I guess - but here one dream, I really liked a lot:

I grew up (mostly) in a village at a lake in the Alps.
It is one of my most persistent dream-signs - the whole setting - esp. our old house - but I didn't realize, I was dreaming there again.
So anyway - I wanted to go swimming - but at the lake were tourists everywhere and the water was less than crystal clear and I was disappointed.
But then somebody told me, there would be a lake prior to the big one - directly in the mountains - close to the wells.
There are such small lakes - but the one I dreamt doesn't exist.
Soo beautiful - surrounded by a bit of meadow, which was a clearing in a beautiful forest - and I went swimming and it was really joyful - a great dream.
Swimming I also often do in dreams - and not irl lately - should go to a public swimming pool maybe - I need a bit of workout - always liked swimming.

There is another motive, which keeps returning - me searching a (new) place to live. This was just for staying close there.
So I looked around and found a rock with a hollowness - it was rather small for a house-rock - maybe 4 meters high and as broad - free standing.
With a cleft to crawl through - but inside was a cosy room, which I decorated a bit and put in my mattress and there I had my secret vacation-home in the rock.
I even had a fire-place and there was a hole to the upside of the rock for the smoke to evade through.

Bit later - other people arrived - I kept my rock secret - but the people were nice - and it was clear to me then, that the ones finding that lake were somehow special, interesting people - so I went swimming and talked with some of them - they called it the Ring-Lake - and I wrongly dream-remembered*, that that was indeed the name (I know a part of the original lake, which is called so - but it is just a natural bay irl).

Later a friend of mine showed up and took me with her to a "lake-party" at the big lake - these do also exist and take place every summer.
We got ourselves beer - and I got x-mas cookies (I love them - best sweets in the world if home-baked - esp. the ones my mother in law bakes) but I didn't find/get at my money in my back-pack - so she paid.
Next motive - me searching my - often a lot of - luggage for something and getting frustrated.
Then we watched a theatre-show for children - on very small stools and almost the only audience. The piece had a witch, who looked like these over-enthused esoteric around 50 years old women, I met a lot of through my mother - we deemed her un-impressive and went on.
Then there sat a former boyfriend of mine - and I wanted to talk to him - but he seemingly not with me.
And I also had problems speaking - but tried hard - and woke up from that.
Very unfortunate - because I was starting to suspect something, when I couldn't speak properly - dream time was through then I guess.


Fazit: Incubate your friggin' dream-signs!! And don't just tell yourself - if I see - then I dream - just posted a failure stemming from such under facepalm - but rather mantra myself into doing RCs, if I see/experience xyz.

This dream had almost an overload of dream-signs:

Geographical setting around lake I grew up close to
Looking and finding a place to move in for living
Swimming
Searching luggage and getting frustrated
Ex-boyfriend
Not being able to speak

Six of them in one dream - and I stayed happily non-lucid.

Made a mistake with my alarms - the app needs to be open, for them to go off - I noted, it was not - but my dictation-thing, when I woke up naturally quite late.
Was awake for the next one still then - and the one after that woke me up - and I tried it out as a micro-WBTB with mantra - in the end I fell asleep to a non-lucid.

Buuut: before that was a short phase of - very short - disappeared once I got a bit excited about it - HH!!
And pretty strong ones - bit of vibration and a strong feeling of weightlessness - but at the same time movement - swerving about - even falling.
That was the second time of my life, I had strong bodily HH - any HH, actually - first one was after a longer WBTB and 2 min. of just looking at the back of my eyelids on a WILD try - on my second ever WILD try!!

And such I made a lot of tries the last two months up to half an hour - never again with HH or success in WILD (but quite often with a following DILD).
I guess, I need them some more times, before I can avoid getting so positively excited about it..
This is progress towards WILD, though - and makes me very happy indeed!

It was not on my back but in my usual position on my stomach and turned to the right.
Will copy this over to my workbooks and in the alarm thread also.






*that's a phenomenon, I am interested in..

Found out now, that writing is easier for me than dictating, when in a semi-asleep state - and - using my multiple alarm auto-snooze thing - I didn't get lucid - buut - have fantastic dream-recall for four dreams.

Got them in the book - won't put them over here - private/not interesting/being too lazy, the me - buut:

Got to mention this adorable dream-animal I found and befriended.
It was a bit like a rodent or squirrel - but the size of a dog.
With fluffy and a bit reddish fur and a long nose ending in a cute little black knob - constantly searching about.

It had whiskers almost all over and was vibrating with them and emitting a sort of purring - not exactly like a cat would - but similar.
Oh yeah - and it wanted to cuddle and play all the time - and look at everything with huge black eyes also.
I took it with me to that family I often dream of - and they all were delighted - didn't throw me out for a change..
I'd love to dream this one again!!
Actually - have one for real would be great!

Well yeah - as the title says - I am on about starting activities to induce LDs after having a bit of a break from it for no reason, I could name - so just to revive the practice..
Edit on 27.01.14: It was waiting for finally getting that alarm-app.
Been occupied with other stuff in the daytime - still am - but anyway - back into dreamland it is - I hope.

So - I dreamt about having to do removals again.
I had been living in a flat, which was originally a shared flat with two other students - and I had been alone for a while there.
There was a longish bathroom - a meter wide and some 5 meters long - and something didn't work with water drainage.
I had known that - but used it anyway - which lead to condensation gathering on the ceiling in a way, that destabilized it - was about to come down, when my friends came back from somewhere - was clearly my fault, and I had not cared - was about to move out anyway.
Edit: How nasty of me - can't remember having been really nasty - I now rather remembered, I had not expected something bad to happen - hm... There we go - memory sweetens over stuff - but I am actually happy to really remember that whole story incl. optics - except the faces of the others - maybe much of it also strongly modified memory - but at least I have something, which catches it - I do remember my bad consciousness, for example.
They were pretty pissed off about it..

Then some packing and deciding what sort of action to take - trying to find somebody with a car to do the transport.


Later a scene where I was at my old school - and there was a x-mas service for all of the school in a big auditorium - I decided to leave - wondering, why I had gone to a religious service in the first place.

And wanted to go to a party - and for some reason in the school-toilets - there was make-up stuff everywhere - not mine - and I searched through it to find something, which fitted me - from that I woke up.

There was more - didn't dictate - but all in that vein - pretty realistic and boring.
Naja - I hope I get my auto-snooze installed today - my husband promised, now it would work - what a hell of a mess to get at such a harmless sounding application for I Phone.

Been "terrorizing" dutchraptors LD-God thread for recommendations - and after ages got one from benni - just to run into crazy problems getting it.
So that is why he is on the case - and said with his computer at work - he can do it.
I refrained from trying to understand where the hell the problem with that now was..
Doing some RC-ing - mantras are prepared - and lets see, what the snooze can do - aiming at DEILD - and barring that - WBTB again!!

Weell - I have - after a while for the first time again - journalled per dictation.
Starts with me saying something like mice with bollocks are a means to get lucid..?
Hm.
Will not make a guide on that..

Followed by some more incomprehensible mumblings - then I fell asleep with the micro on - I have a light snore from time to time - otherwise I know now how I breathe in sleep - for imitation-purposes.
Edit: No sleep-talk on that recording - wanted to try and see if I could catch some with micro - quality was quite good actually!
Then after 2 hours of that I woke up - and dictated more - thought, it had been a lot - nope.

Worst of all - I had a lucid moment - with handlooking - and they were almost perfect - maybe from doing handlooking in the day again after a while - but the number of fingers changed on counting.
So. That is all and everything I remember about it.
Also on my own and not from dictation of course - but no connection to anything else - and it only shortly survived the RC.

One dream is so that I can remember it more or less - will leave stuff out though - I have remembered it now after listening to it - so I hope that will be enough.

The main thing was - I had a little hut/house on wheels and could put it where ever I wanted - and had interactions with several real life people.
Mostly positive - some stress also.

I had visualized a darts-venue, I was at on Sunday - and a board - when going to sleep.
Still no lucid darting - buut - I did play darts.
So incubation does work.
Had a board on the outside of my little wooden home - and at a time missed the whole board and smashed in one of my own windows.

Well - there is loads of room for improvement there!

I get sloppy journalling here - but I do a day-journal at the moment - at least started out.
Edit 01.27.14: Well, well, well - I caught around 4 days since that - I can do better! I hope I will!!

Anyway - on Saturday I met a very nice and interesting woman (intellectually interesting - like common interests..) and a hopefully mutual feeling of understanding what the other wants to say.

Last night I dreamt of meeting her and taking up a discourse, we had started, once more and to mutual learning-effects.
I will not get into what it is we could teach each other - but I am pretty sure, it is a good idea to sit together and do this - with a glass of wine and so on - and I think, I am inspired by this dream to put something like it up in real life.

I had several - but one dream of last night I will journal a bit because it was great.
There was a shop, I felt like knowing - which sold little art-objects and handmade clothes.
I was looking through the window - when a woman came out, and said she had seen my little objects from an exhibition, I had also dreamt about sometime in the last weeks.

This dream was very much like furthering earlier dreams - I think, I had dreamt the shop before and explored it - and the one with the exhibition I still remember well.

She led me through the backdoor of the shop - and it was a huge house behind it - getting bigger with exploring new rooms/stairs/galleries.

But first she showed me the tools and materials they used - and then some people showed up and it was a sculpture class.
I had no money - but she said, I take part anyway.
So I did - and later it all turned into an art-academy with lots of very friendly, bit "artsy" and beautiful people.
There were also cafès and a club with bar and I got to meet many people and talked and they showed me their stuff.
I wanted to design clothes and not do more sculpture in the end - and the last I remember was being in a room full of fabrics of all sorts and colour - and I tried to decide on which to want to use.

Very beautiful and vivid dream.

Other people have monsters, dragons or at least a rabid dog to threaten them - me - nope.
I have a horror-rabbit - second time.
Last night I had one moment of semi-lucidity - but was happy with having 5 fingers - got to change RC - my dreaming self knows now the number of my fingers.
They were blurry and unclear - but the fixation on counting was hindering me.

Bit later in that dream - I got attacked by said killer-rabbit - I admit - I am a bit embarrassed by my subconscious choice of opponent..

It was nasty - I got lucid - and then it jumped me and bit into my arm - it hurt!!
I thought about anotherdreamer and his gnawing demons and tried to love it - still hurt - so I rather made a roar and flung it away.
And good was.
And lucidity was also gone..

These are the two dreams from last before last night - Sylvester was properly partied in real-life - so I only have fragments from last night.
Unfortunately do I write out the following dreams only now - there was more about them - anyway - they still belong into the competition - so here are their skeletons:

Dream one:

First there was a text, written by my father, which I had to publicly read - and I wanted to slip out of that somehow - not liking it.
I did read it though - and now forgot, how that went.
Later I had Goethe for a visitor - made him tea, that I remember - and he wrote something for me.
A short story. And I didn't like it either.
But it was dedicated to me - and my father put it into a frame (just one page) and hung it on the wall.
I remember being happy not to have to read that publicly as well.

Dream two:

My favourite dream-house - our old one - and I had separated a two-room-flat from it - freshly renovated.
It was supposedly hindering my mother selling the house - me living there and the flat freshly built.
Yepp - it was partly built onto the house in some way - at attic hight.
With a beautiful mosaic floor.
And I had a sight towards a roof gable of another house, which had united with a tree - and a sentient tree at that - a mixture of gable and fairy-tale tree-face.
We talked - but I forgot about what.
There was also an estate agent wanting to sell the house, who complained about me having left the heating on - I told him that I live there now, and he can't sell the house - he agreed and left.

Sorry for the jumble - but this "time between the years" - x-mas to now - is not exactly well suited for dreaming-activities in my case - too much tohuwabohu going on.