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    Lucid XP

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    Xanous
    , 08-16-2014 at 03:01 AM (546 Views)
    It's been a bit of a dry spell...

    Ive been nearly lucid several times all week but last night was the only one worth making an entry for. I woke around 3:30am (1.5 hours before the alarm for work) and drank a full glass of homebrew kombucha made from a caffeinated green and black tea blend and promptly went back to bed.

    The time of this experience was just before the 5AM alarm:

    I wake from a non lucid dream that I can no longer recall and settle for DEILD. I have been having what feels like hundreds... no, thousands of DEILD misses lately and so I took a slightly different approach. I focused on visualization with a very strong desire to stay alert. I repeated some mantra like "Watch the dream. Stay alert." While focusing on a deep body relaxation. There was no real technique other than just relaxing. I always seem forget this is most important for me, but this time I was highly focused and a little desperate.

    Right away, I began to see HI where I was tightening or loosening bolts on a stop sign. Somehow I equated, keeping the stop sign up-right with staying lucid. I had no physical sensation but I did my best to keep the sign from falling.

    Next I felt the very slight and subtle shift into the dream body. I felt vibrations this time, but I knew I was in. I began to struggle to move my dream body in a wiggling motion and right away felt I was about to break free but suddenly...

    I am at work and non-lucid. I am looking at a cut piece of 2/0 gauge wire (about as thick at the flat side of a dime). There is someone to my right and I begin complaining about how I was lucid but lost it so fast. I'm really upset. I ramble on as I see the wire shred away into little shards.

    I wake and try for another DEILD but the alarm goes off.

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    Updated 08-16-2014 at 03:08 AM by 5967

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    1. ~Dreamer~'s Avatar
      Congrats on breaking the dry spell!
      Interesting to see you experimenting with visuals.
      I bet you'll have another crazy LD in no time!
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    2. Xanous's Avatar
      Thanks. I REALLY hope to do my study challenge tonight!
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    3. CanisLucidus's Avatar
      Ah cool, man, nearly missed this one! Congratulations on betting that dry spell!

      Good luck with the study LD tonight!
    4. NyxCC's Avatar
      Congrats on the ld!

      Have you been brewing the kombucha from green and black teas on purpose or is this the general recipe?

      There was no real technique other than just relaxing. I always seem forget this is most important for me, but this time I was highly focused and a little desperate.
      To tell you the truth, I think this is exactly how I get most of my successful wilds. I don't do any techs just focus on relaxation. This may serve as an anchor for the mind. (Although I throw in a mantra here and there just in case).
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    5. Xanous's Avatar
      Have you been brewing the kombucha from green and black teas on purpose or is this the general recipe?
      It's the general recipe.

      To tell you the truth, I think this is exactly how I get most of my successful wilds. I don't do any techs just focus on relaxation. This may serve as an anchor for the mind. (Although I throw in a mantra here and there just in case).
      Yeah this may actually be the base technique. The rest is just variation. It's been a while so I can't be sure he didn't, but I think Sageous could have emphasized this a little more. Maybe I just missed that somehow?
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