Sozu's Workbook

I HAD A LUCID DREAM!! It was insane. Now afterwards I laugh at my reality check I did. I simply was in an elevator with my friend, I had pressed in a 'code' that I had learn from another dream I had some weeks ago. But the code didn't work (it was suppose to go rapid fast up), instead it just went down (code was 4-1-1-1 to press). When the elevator stopped I told my friend "Wait, I gonna see if I dreaming", and suddenly I ran towards the elevator door (that somehow was in wood now), and I jumped with head first into it, and I went through as I suspected. And there it continued at some street and I drove MC.
Weird thing was that I felt my foot, like they were in my bed, in a 45 degree angle, it made me not able to stand. I had in mind if it's no lucid, that it's might just daydreaming somehow. But as I focused on the sound around, I started hear bus sounds and other traffic sounds, which made me more sure that it's a LD.
I tried also to fly, but I couldn't stand straight.

And later I got scared, I wondered if I am breathing, so I tried breath but I really didn't feel anything, like there was no air. I thought I might try get out as I had no idea what I would do in the LD.
But I couldn't open the eyes or roll around. Got paniced and tried scream "HELP!" but it only got out some quite sound. But a short while later I woke up, on the correct bed side too (in the dream I thought I was sleeping with my head where I always have my feets, and my feets where I have my head).

Cried when I woke up, hahaha. Mostly for happiness but also of the last part, that I could just try continue as long as possible in the dream instead etc.


I wrote down /I dreaming and /Thanks for recall when I woke up for first time around 8 am (before the LD). So it maybe worked out to thank the diary and to write it up.

Also this was WBTB? as I went to bed 01:30, woke up first time around 8am. I never was completely still, as I wrote up time on the diary, but after I did that I just laid in bed trying to sleep again, and then I woke up at 09:50 right after the LD event.


I will now/soon write up the LD in my dreamjournal. And the other recalls I had as well.

Yup, that was a WBTB and a lucid dream for sure :breakitdown:

I'm glad the DJ and writing in it worked out for you. Good job! I can feel your happiness from your writing, I'm happy for you too:alien:

Alright, thank you :)


I think I might post an update here every Sunday. I'll try doing it so I don't get lost and forget about dreamviews. And so I can view back about the improvement.

On Monday, 25th February, I had these stats:
Fragments: 23 - Dreams: 19 - False Awakings: 2 - Lucid Dreams: 0 -

Today, 3rd Mars, I've got this:
Fragments: 28 - Dreams: 21 - False Awakings: 2 - Lucid Dreams: 1

6 nights and increased are:
Fragments: +5
Dreams: +2
Lucid dreams: +1

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I adding the attempts as well.
DILD attempts: 1 - WBTB attempts: 0 - WILD attempts: 1
Description how I count them:
DILD: If I been remembering doing ADA through the day (atleast 2 times) or/and when going to bed I remind myself to lucid etc.
WILD: Simply when I have in mind to make an attempt by laying still in bed for a 15+ minutes trying to enter sleep paralysis.
WBTB: When I wake up during night, write down in my dream journal the time and maybe a sentance saying "I dreaming", and then go back to sleep and have some thoughts about lucid dreaming.

The decision of DILDS so far is maybe more advanced to know when to give it a point. But however, points no much matter as the idea of it all is to simply not forget about lucid dreaming and remember to keep trying.

Note that the number of DILDs can max be +1 when going sleep. WBTB can ofc only be the time I wake up and then are awake for a few time (max 1 hour? but often 1-10 min) and then going back to sleep with mind on lucid dreaming and also writing down in dream journal.
And WILD is +1 point for every WBTB attempt that can be done anytime (except when sleeping), but shall require an effort and a minimum of about 15 minutes in order to count it.
That's my rules.

That's great for motivation.

Check this out - competition thread in General lucid dreaming class.

These are just some of the points you can get. Sounds like fun.

Quote:

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Remember fragment: 0.5 point*

Remember whole dream: 1 point*

Become lucid: 5 points

Successfully stabilise: 2 points

Successfully RC: 1 points

DEILD: 2 points
(Chaining not allowed)

WILD: 3 points

WBTB: 1 point for trying, 3 if succeeding in getting lucid. Only once per day. Not just waking up and going back to sleep.*

Set up yourself for REM rebound: 3 points*

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Yes :)

That competition I've been in a couple of times, always when I seen it on. I was in the previous competition as well. Now just waiting for them to start the next one.

Here is next update
Fragments: 32 - Dreams: 24 - False Awakings: 2 - Lucid Dreams: 1

The past week has these increased:
Fragments: +4
Dreams: +3

How about those FAs? Are you RCing each time you get up from bed? That may help you catch those FAs. :alien:

No I am not.
I did try make it a habit for many months ago, but after like 5 days of doing it I got lost and forgot about it.
But yeah, I will start try doing it again and maybe make a habit of it like I done with dream journal :)
Will start try tomorrow when waking up, might just write down in dream journal before bed and tell myself to remember making reality check at morning.

I want to write down daily, on dreamviews of my daily days and see if it improves any recall at all.
Had in mind if I might do it on paper, but I feel it just takes longer time to write it down and will feel waste of paper etc, and I would like to have it somewhere I can read it wherever I am.

My ideas for it is to find dream signs, to find out more of how I can try to get lucid dreams.
As for yesterday, my plans for today, became my dreams. I dreamed of that I walked to a part of my city where I had planned to go, and I dreamed that I had to wake up early as I wanted to do. But I also was unfaithful in the dream, which I don't understand.

Also some other dreams makes sense and as some people says writing down daily activity helps recalls, I might just try it again.

And doing so on dreamviews, will also give me more post count, which gives me more points, so I can change my username as I want.
Also it prob helps me stay more active on the site as well, and not to forget dreamviews site.


Question is where I shall do it, if you got any idea where I may do so?
If I shall do it right in this thread, or if I can somewhere place a new thread somewhere on dreamviews forums, or if I might post in this forum: http://www.dreamviews.com/dream-sign...reams-try.html ?

Why don't you write it in your DV dream journal? You can use different tags, sidenotes or dreams. You can use it for any notes, not just dreams. And you get 10 points for each entry. Would that helps?

hm maybe that :D


Also, today once again, the dream was about the planning of the day.
I had planned to go city in order to go gym and then to employee service to hand in some jobs. And then walk like 5km more until I get to another store where I might buy a new phone.
So I tried to tell myself that when I go bed I will make reality check if I go look at phones or something, and that I will do it when I get there too.

But, today my dream was about me in some school, and we did some abdominal workouts, and I had a paper of all my searched works that I were about to hand in to the employee service. Though there was nothing about phones.

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My plans for tomorrow, is going to be making reality check and train ADA, lets see what dreams appear then.

I suggest you RC all day long. At school, walking from store to store, even when just thinking about doing something. Don't forget to have that "wow, am I dreaming?" feeling when RCing. Good luck.

Yeah, I will try that. Hard to remind myself of it though.
School I finished for soon 2 years ago, and that's weird I don't notice it when in dream and having dreams about school (though I've thought to maybe continue study).
I do have lots of time to practise LD, but somehow it just comes boring if I am gonna just perform reality checks throughout day.

But yeah, I got up some more ideas how I shall do.
Always when I walk to the city/gym, as I use to do like 5 times a week, I am listening to music (as I like music, more fun to walk with etc). But I think that if I don't listen to music at all, and just walking and listening to the sound around me, I might be able to more concentrate me on everything around, like ADA. And also I may as well do reality checks while walking.
Problem is I always use to forget all these things. But sure, if I start to begin with it, it might turn out to a habit at last.

Also now I remember that I shall also do a reality check when I wake up. Today morning, I totally had forgot it. But I hadn't at the evening yesterday, as I also see that I written down in my dream journal to make reality check.

Oh well, might download the app for "sleep check reminder" or something like that.
I bought me a new phone today, Xperia acro s. Had HTC Wildfire s before, which was so bad I couldn't have all apps I wanted. But well now I do. Had like 100mb space to apps before, now having 11gb, what a difference.

I probably will dream about phones tonight I think, but, dreams always use to turn up some small random event throughout day or something very small I have planned for tomorrow.

Well, I will see how I do.

And also, I will write down my daily activities in my dream journal maybe. I will right now start write down the dream I had and then write down my day.

I've been quite busy this week, and kind of forgot about ADA etc. Also didn't have my dream journal the past day as we went to sleep at my gf's dads house etc.

Well, here is update, the last recall were like thursday or so. And here is what I've
Fragments: 33 - Dreams: 27 - False Awakings: 2 - Lucid Dreams: 1

That is:
Fragments: +1
Dreams: +3
since last week.

Didn't write up what I did the previous days in my dream journal, I will start do that tomorrow when I get home and have more time in evening.

To add the attempts also, today so far is:
DILD attempts: 9 - WBTB attempts: 0 -WILD attempts: 2

Just do your best:alien:

Yep, I will!
But I keep forgetting to do ADA, doh.
I will do some quality reality check now.

So far this week, I've had 1 dream each night (also 2 dreams in 2 days now). I hope to keep that up for the whole week if not getting more than 1 dream a night. A 7 dreams+ each week would be awesome to achieve.

So far now, I've had 1 dream each day this week, means 4 dream recalls in 4 days.
Today was a weird dream, that I later will write up.

Also did 2 V-WILD attempts yesterday when I went to bed, or well, not sure if I shall count them as two. I relaxed the body first for like a 15-20 minutes maybe, and did visualization. Then I got thursty so I slowly went up and really felt how tired my whole body were. Drinked some water, and then I went bed again like a minute later, and tried it again but this time was more than 20 minutes I laid in bed trying.

No success though, it also feels very hard to fall asleep when just being numb and visualizating, so I moved my body to the side and a couple of minutes (2-3 maybe) laying that way, I fell asleep quite fast.

Recall sounds good, but WILD should not be attempted before bed. Only after some hours of sleep. That will help.

Yeah, I was reading the WILD forum part and the first 2 lessons yesterday before bed. I heard that WILD is not effective before bed, but really I didn't know why and how not effective it is. And well, I see WILD as a kind of meditation and practise visualization at same time. It's funny to get so numb that I don't feel my body etc. I will try someday to get to make it on another time than before bed though.

Today, I had 2 dream recalls and 1 fragment recall. That makes it a 6 dreams this week so far, and 1 fragment.

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Originally Posted by LonelyCloud

Yeah, I was reading the WILD forum part and the first 2 lessons yesterday before bed. I heard that WILD is not effective before bed, but really I didn't know why and how not effective it is. And well, I see WILD as a kind of meditation and practise visualization at same time. It's funny to get so numb that I don't feel my body etc. I will try someday to get to make it on another time than before bed though.

Today, I had 2 dream recalls and 1 fragment recall. That makes it a 6 dreams this week so far, and 1 fragment.

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Nice recall!

It's ok to practice WILD, as long as you don't get disappointed. When you first go to sleep at night, you go through 80 min of NON-REM and then 10 min of REM. We get best dreams in REM. So you would have to stay aware for 80 min, while falling asleep and sleeping in NREM until you get to REM.

But if you sleep for about 7-8 hrs, NREM is only 10 min and REM 80 min long. So while WILDing, you need to make it aware only through 10 min, which is much easier.

If you can, try to WILD in the morning. I wake up at my normal time or earlier, stay up for 1-3 hrs and then WILD. In morning nap you go to REM almost immediatelly, only after just a few seconds of falling asleep. Even if you don't get a WILD, you get some awesome sensations and HH. Good luck:alien:

Okey, I will try keep in mind to try WILD in mornings when I don't got anything to do.
Though, the bad thing is that now on Monday I start internship for a job/summerjob I will sure get (as it's some easy IT stuff, only needed is to be fast typer on the keyboard and handle a computer well, which I'm a pro at). But that is only until 10th April.
As for weekends I'm always at my gf's place, and when waking up there it might get hard to not be disturbed as we've got the computers, TV, and all in her room.
So maybe I can try WILDS at my dads home after 10th April.


Today, I had no recall at the morning. My flow broke, no idea if it may be as I switched place, as I slept over at my gf's apartment.
Though, if I get a dream tomorrow, it will be an average rate on 1 dream each day the this week.

Now today, I've
Fragments: 35 - Dreams: 34 - False Awakings: 2 - Lucid Dreams: 1
and
DILD attempts: 15 - WBTB attempts: 0 -WILD attempts: 5

That's
Dreams: +7
Fragments: +2
AND
DILD attempts: +6
WILD attempts: +2


I had one dream recall today. I got this recall the second time I woke up, sometime around early morning, like 7am I belive (hard to guess as I didn't bother watch clock), and I didn't write down the dream too.. Then I woke up a 2 hours later or so, and I remembered that I did have a dream but wasn't able to recall it at first, but a minute of thinking in bed the dream recall started and I wrote it down.

Now when I went to the computer and went on youtube, on the list where I've liked videoclips, I saw one clip about Mark Zuckerburg visiting Harvard. And that made me recall a fragment that I either had today or yesterday. But I count it as today because I recalled it today.

I'll write down my dreams later today, in the evening when I'm home.

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The fragment I've only written down in notepad on the computer so I copy+paste it here so I don't forget it or lose before evening:
Mark Zuckerberg - met him at a grocery store with my friend. I was about to go ask him for a autograph, but he were too busy as he started to walk towards the checkout.

This week haven't been very great recall. I quite forgot totally of doing reality checks, all day awareness etc.
Dream Journal is being keept though, it's stuck as habit.

But anyway, here is what I've got through the last 7 days:
Fragments: 38 - Dreams: 36 - False Awakings: 2 - Lucid Dreams: 1
DILD attempts: 21 - WBTB attempts: 0 -WILD attempts: 5 -

Dreams: +2
Fragments: +3
DILD attempts: +6

Last day of this week, and that means update.
First of all, my internship is over and I will start work in 2 weeks from tomorrow, and during this time I really got nothing much to do other than going gym everyday and have some meetings with my association (teaming up with some companies/projects, gonna do shoot photos and videos for them).

This week (7 days):

Dreams: +2
Fragments: +3
False awakings: +1
DILD attempts: +6

Looks like what I had last week too, except this time I also had a false awaking.

From 1st January to today these are my stats today:
Fragments: 41 - Dreams: 38 - False Awakings: 3 - Lucid Dreams: 1
DILD attempts: 27 - WBTB attempts: 0 -WILD attempts: 5


As I've 2 weeks free time (well, no school and no real job/internship), I WILL practise ADA and also try out some meditation and WILD attempts during day/afternoon times.
Started to read about ADA yesterday afternoon and read all those reviews of peoples success with it. I will see how it goes, if I now can remember having some times during day where I am trying to notice and being aware of everything around with all my senses for some minutes to start with.

Today I started do All Day Awareness for real. I've set up notifications on my phone using an app in Google play named "Life reminders" or something like that.
Got them up on these times: 10am, 1pm, 4pm, 7pm, 10pm. Which is 5 times a day. I thought it may be a good start to do so.
This though I set up around 4pm, so I really just did it 3 times that I had scheduled with the app, however I also did it some extra times when I was walking to the store for example. So I will do it more when/if I remember and find it great time.

Another thing is that today I thought it might be great if I would read some book before bedtime, so I don't go directly from my computer to bed as I always do.
So I was lending a book about meditation (basic book, it shall be about why to meditate and different type of meditations etc), it might be somewhat interesting to read before bed time and also maybe could read it when performing a WBTB that I might to someday in the week. From Tuesday to Wednesday maybe, I will check up some apps for my iPod for some alarm clock that doesn't make too much sound, as I don't want dad to wake up by alarm clock in middle of night if I would do WBTB.

Well, I'm off to bed to read the book in a 10-40 minutes, depending on how interesting it is and how tired I'm.