Thread: Shelli's Workbook

No lucids. But I sure had a lot dreams! Five dreams/fragments in total. Which is probably a record for me. There seemed to be a cluster of them in the hour before waking up.

As usual I was woken up separately by my dog and both kids. Which was fine as I'd planned to just sleep and not worry about LD's or AP's. However I had my dream #1 early on (around midnight) about reality star I'm not fond of.

After waking up the first time I fell into dream #2 about a mother getting shot at a graduation ceremony and the ensuing panic among students and faculty. There was a brief discussion about the culprit. And I actually saw a DC's mouth move. - I woke up at the end. But was so bothered by the shooting I imagined a different scenario and ended up in dream #3.

Dream #3 took place in the same auditorium only this time it was full of younger kids. School was letting out and I had equipment to take to my car. It was raining and I had to walk down a slippery hill to get to my car. Kids were playing football with sanitation workers on the hill. Since my trunk was wet I carefully broke my equipment down and placed it in the back seat.

Dream #4 was a fragment about working out. I looked awesome!

Dream #5 was about a woman on Long Island letting her teenage son have an overnight visit with his girlfriend at an Island Resort on "Pia" Island. I looked at her like she had two heads (LOL)!

The last 3 dreams occurred in the last hour of sleep....like a dream chain. Seemed as if each of them lasted a long time. But they had to be just a few minutes long. Not sure why I couldn't remain lucid when the dreams kicked in. One minute I was imagining something and the next I was dreaming. I don't recall any transitions at all!

No big plans for bedtime tonight. Think I'll take note of my dreams and simply see if I have as many as I had last night (especially during the hour before waking). Will likely reread the DILD tutorial shortly.

As I mentioned earlier, there were no big plans last night. I ended up having lots of dreams again: several fragments and two full dreams. Many of them could be traced to things I'd watched on TV earlier or read. There were a couple or weird ones. But of course, I failed to recognized it in the dream and did not become lucid.

As usual I had several awakenings this morning: my daughters nightly stirring, my hubby's alarm going off, the dog jumping on my leg. So there was plenty of opportunity to observe myself falling asleep. Yesterday I totally couldn't catch myself doing it! One moment I was awake and thinking. And the next moment I was dreaming. Couldn't pinpoint the transition between states to save my life. But this morning I noticed the in between state. It was really nice and" floaty". But alas I couldn't linger there as I had to get up and start my day.

Tried SSILD for the past two nights. My dreams have been very vivid but not lucid. They've also been fleeting. No matter how fantastic they are it's easy to forget them completely if I don't write them down. The other night I couldn't recall anything. Not even a fragment. This morning I woke up around 2:20am thinking I'd had no dreams again. But as I laid there bits and pieces popped back into my mind. I hurriedly scribbled a few keywords as the dream memory unfolded. It was vivid and lengthy.

The 2nd full dream of of the night happened about an hour before I'd normally wake up. It was very realistic. In fact, it took place in my home around the dining room table. I was setting the table for dinner with my family waiting patiently in their seats. Only my husband was a completely different man. A massive man! When I pushed myself from the table to start clearing I noticed my huge tummy. I was pregnant with a massive baby! Weird. If not for the strange man I doubt I would've recognized it as a dream. It was so familiar and mundane. Even with the strangeness toward the end I didn't gain lucidity. Not sure if I would have since my son woke up from a bad dream wanting to get in bed with us.

Once my son climbed into bed I thought I wouldn't have time to do anything else. But I slipped into a short dream I can't recall now as my daughter woke up with a bad dream and I had to go to her.

Your recall seems to be great. And some days without recall are also ok. Happy dreams

Tried SSILD again with no lucids. Though I enjoyed weirdly vivid dreams. The weirdest moment was a guy smelling the shaved and perfumed wrist of Whitney Houston. It wasn't attached to a body though.

The thing about SSILD's that make them weird is that I take more of my senses into the dream than normal. They don't "seem" pumped up. They really are more...everything. I'm hoping to have success with them over the weekend as I won't have to worry about waking up with an alarm. It seems most of my long/vivid dreams occur during the hour before my alarm clock goes off. It pulls me right out of my dream and leaves me wishing for more time.

Oh, yeah. This is the 3rd morning where I had a super intense dream after waking up briefly at 30 minutes before my alarm. Once again I can't catch the transition from wakefulness to sleep. One minute I'm lying awake in the bed. The next minute I'm in a dream. I don't know why I'm not lucid then!!

Originally Posted by Shelli

Oh, yeah. This is the 3rd morning where I had a super intense dream after waking up briefly at 30 minutes before my alarm. Once again I can't catch the transition from wakefulness to sleep. One minute I'm lying awake in the bed. The next minute I'm in a dream. I don't know why I'm not lucid then!!

Are you trying this as a DEILD or a WBTB?

WBTB I guess.

Originally Posted by Shelli

WBTB I guess.

OK, for WBTB, you have to get out of the bed and wake up your logical center of your brain by doing some activities. You do this, so you don't fall asleep too fast and are able to stay aware for the transition. Does this help?

I had trouble going back to sleep this morning. I'll try SSILD/WBTB earlier (5:30am). I'll get up for 5 or 10 minutes. Anything longer than that and I'll have trouble falling asleep. It's funny how I have more progress during the week versus the weekend.

Thanks for the tip, gab.

If you still willing to try for DILDs, here is a collection of methods that can help you. You can check it out and see, if there is anything you can add to your practice.

If you wake up many times at night, you could try DEILD. When you wake up from a dream, don't move, don't even open your eyes. Think of a dream you just came out of and within few seconds, you should enter another dream, only this time Lucid. This works, because you are already in SP from previous dream, so you don't have to go through the long waiting time like for WILD. DEILD is essentially a shortened WILD. Hope this helps. Happy dreams

Ok. I hadn't read much about DEILD's....sounds promising. I'll read the link you provided and get back into practice.

DEILD is really awesome. Good luck

I had a WILD last night.

I woke up to use the potty around 0530 then went back to bed. Picked up my dream where I left off. I was walking up a city street when I noticed there wasn't much detail to my surroundings. So I stopped the dream....turned 360 degrees to verify that the buildings were really bland. Then I thought, "I've gotta do something about that." Then I changed my clothes and kept walking.

I was aware that I was dreaming and could change things to my liking. Yet I couldn't figure out how to change buildings.

That's awesome. Congrats!

Here is a great tutorial for WILDs. It's Sageouse's WILD class. If you have not read it yet, I recommend it. Happy dreams