I quite understand you FM, I was burnt out about ADA-style techniques... and I have to admit I never worked as hard as you are doing, good job!! |
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Well LD #30 not withstanding (it was entirely unsatisfying), I'm mighty dry. This is a disturbing trend. Frequency is not accelerating despite lots and lots of day work. Recall is OK but not at close-to-LD levels of awareness or length or even close to my recall of the first few months. It must simply be that I'm not doing enough, or expecting enough, or am not positive enough, or not enough of <something>, or am doing things wrong, or maybe doing too much. I'm mostly sleeping well, but not waking up much in the middle of the night. One thing that has changed is that I'm not so excited any more about waking up in the middle of the night to do recall. I wonder if that's enough to stall LDs? Maybe I need to recapture that excitement. I've had a healthy dose of stress recently but not enough I think to explain multi-week dry stretches. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
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“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I quite understand you FM, I was burnt out about ADA-style techniques... and I have to admit I never worked as hard as you are doing, good job!! |
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Thanks for the advice! Well as for strong and clear goals, I think I need to set more definitive short-terms and medium-terms, review them more frequently, and take more concrete action to achieve them. "Lucid all night every night" I'm realizing will be a multiple year span of every day effort and attention (awareness!). I can talk the good talk about my plans but I've really not been very systematic about actually *doing* them. It's sort of like analysis paralysis: |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 04-15-2014 at 06:12 AM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
I think that you found a lot of great answers in your last post and especially agree with this: |
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Your predictions have always come true, may it be so now! And at least, recall is holding fairly steady. |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 04-16-2014 at 08:21 AM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Ew, bad night. 3 tiny dream moments recalled, a few seconds from each. 2 hours late to bed though so not too surprising. |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 04-18-2014 at 03:15 PM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Sounds like some of my recall. By the way, what is your process when you have all of the great recall? |
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I'm going to count LDs #31 and #32 from last night! |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 04-19-2014 at 10:33 AM.
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FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Congratulations on the lucids FryingMan!! |
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#%*}*{*##%!!!!!! |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
LD 33, wow, bizarre dreams (fun!), took 33g of my sons's bodybuilding amino acid blend (@ 00:20), bedtime @ 00:45 |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
"Up Your MASS"...what a great name! Congrats again!! |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
Jet lag night #1: |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Can I have my dreams back now, please!? |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 04-29-2014 at 11:00 PM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Had some slightly more aware dreams (with some waking memories), short but clear/vivid memory of a few scenes. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
w00t my REMee has shipped, let the games (and detailed sleep timing analysis) begin! I RC now in response to any bright light and especially red lights, and have been for a while in anticipation of getting a LD sleep mask. |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 05-02-2014 at 05:54 AM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
For sleep masks you're supposed to be extremely aware of lighting and changes in lighting so that's what I've been working on for a few months now, adding to my routine. Walk outside into bright light: RC, come upon some bright reflection: RC, etc.. Since the mask will be shining red lights in my eyes I'm especially making note of red lights around me, which when driving includes stoplights and the rear taillights of cars, which are of course *everywhere* at night. Drove past a local business which had lots of internal red lighting (no, not that sort!) visible so I did a bunch of RCs in response, and so on. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
OK LDs #34, 35: |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
34, 35, 36!!! Congrats FM!! |
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Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
Thanks! Hah, yeah, the sweet spot is @ 1.5 weeks...must just give it time. REM rebound (if that's what it was) via melatonin at bedtime helped, but it probably it just a matter of getting sufficiently rested and getting some recall back. |
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Last edited by FryingMan; 05-06-2014 at 01:21 AM.
FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
Something important for every newbie: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...-read-imo.html
Listen while you work or before bed? http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-podcast/
More great audio: http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews-audio/
My lucid dreaming journey: http://www.dreamviews.com/members/fo...boutme#aboutme
As close to "taking a night off" last night as it can get. Still set intention to recall, still used remee. Very interestingly, I woke at about 1.5-2 hours with 2 coherent scenes of recall, highly unusual as dreams that early usually are very "LSD trip"-like, very abstract and truly bizarre. Well the 2nd scene of the dude stretching on the monkey bars was a bit unsettling actually. |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
LD #37 |
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FryingMan's Unified Theory of Lucid Dreaming: Pay Attention, Reflect, Recall -- Both Day and Night[link]
FryingMan's Dream Recall Tips -- Awesome Links
“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”
"...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS
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