Home run! LDs #50,51,52,53
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Wow, 4 LDs in a night! What a way to wrap up my first year of LD practice! Still have 3 nights left so there may be some more on the way. TOTM basic performed. Galantamine assisted, and as usual very hard back to sleep, including a late morning back to sleep after getting up after a phone call, but I stubbornly held on just knowing I had a 4th Ld in me and had a fantastic 4th with lots of control
Tons of firsts:
+ first time in a cartoon LD land
+ first time experiencing strong gravity while lucid (roller-coaster bus)
+ first time see hands in progress of being rendered (super trippy, the [well, my] brain does form first then shading!)
+ first time summon bottle, then water to fill it
+ first time lucid drink (felt totally real)
+ first time pocket summon (ordered gum, felt coins and a wrapper, pulled out only coins and a crumpled wrapper)
DJ to come later
One Year LD practice anniversary!
Wow, has it been one full year already? It seems such a long time, and yet such a short time. And so many dreams, counting a dream as a coherent set of scenes that I know "belong" together, I've recalled probably approaching 2000 dreams in this last year (average somewhere around 6 per night). That's something that I'm really happy about!
On this day, August 22, 2013, I set intention for the first time to recall my dreams, and that very night I had some recall! Little did I know what a roller-coaster ride I was entering! The heady highs of lucid dreams, and high recall nights (16, 17 dreams in a night!), the depressing lows of no-recall nights (thankfully very very few of these, possibly countable on one hand), the frustrations of middle-of-the-night insomnia, and the confidence that came with teaching myself how to win most of those back-to-sleep battles.
I have a busy day so that's all for now, but I plan a longer message on the general forums later today or tomorrow.
Oh, and last night, I was ALMOST lucid, a semi-lucid moment where I transformed a not hot DC into a smoking hot topless blonde, thought to myself, "Oh, Yeah!" and dove on in. I thought about holding the dream, then a distracting DC came along whom I wanted to avoid but she saw me and made some disparaging comments and we had a quick back-and-forth of comments , and I lost the semi-lucidity into some thoughts that spun off from that encounter.
LDs #56, 57, long epic continuous theme multi-waking dreams
I'm probably going to mostly stop posting in this workbook other than really new/exciting developments, but this was a noteworthy night with 2 lucids within a long multi-waking dream sequence centered around my previous (adult) home (with many missed WTF!? moments), and a bunch of other fairly weird and reasonably vivid dreams:
00:00 Tuesday 2014-08-26 LDs #56, 57, epic long multi-waking dream, bunch of shorter dreams after - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
That's 11 LDs this calendar month, blowing by my previous record of 7, woohoo! And there's still the better part of a week left in the month. So far August has featured 2 doubles and one quadruple LD nights!
LD #62, TOTM-fest, awesome dreaming
Had some really fabulous dreaming last night including an all-time favorite LD.
00:00 Tuesday 2014-09-09 LD #62, TOTM-fest, shark park, baseball, work, argument - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
What I did: woke at about 6 hours, performed Dreamer's MILD (incubating and visualizing dream signs and preferred dreaming locations) and Zipplord47's self-hypnosis, and took 20 drops of wormwood tincture.