Thread: FryingMan's DILD course workbook

Congrats again!!! It's nice to see you posting firsts once again!! Good memory regarding the competition too!

Good work with FA! Catching them is not easy bussines.
It's interesting that at the end of the competition LDs come generously. Last night I went lucid as well and I was really excited about it in the morning and the feelings of happiness endured. It was 25 minutes lucid (no supplements or induction) ended up with not catched strange FA. :/

They're serious about WBTB: dream yoga calls for waking every two hours!

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

Congrats, FryingMan! Sounds like it was a hell of an adventure. Looking forward to reading that DJ!

Here's the DJ:

00:00 Monday 2014-08-18 Home Run! 4 LDs: #50, 51, 52, 53 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Dayum!! The adjustments to your practices seem to be paying excellent dividends!! Great work!!

I've only now started to reflect on the "how/why" of that night. Having a strong important goal coming up may have played a key role (I wanted to hit 50 LDs by Friday), yes plus the new stuff I think. Hey, you'll notice I performed dream-self-control! Backed off from the ladies and stabilized and performed some other goals I've had for a while (before returning immediately to the ladies). Man that bookstore was crowded with cuties, it was only a matter of time, but I held out for quite a while actually which is progress!

[QUOTE=FryingMan;2109445]My reboot: don't stress about LDing, affirmations that I'm an awesome lucid dreamer and that the lucids are right around the corner (even tonight!), continuous vigilance (at any time, I could be dreaming! Keep a watch out for this), mindfulness. Still frequent RCs but they're not the focus, the vigilance is. Continuing with RRC. ADA-"lite": notice the world around but don't go overboard and exhaust yourself. You don't need to see the shadows caused by the hairs on the legs of every fly: just notice....more. Enjoy! And I've started a bit of considering myself from other's perspective in RRCs. Stay positive about dreaming, love non-lucids, stop counting and stressing about counts. I'm going to get much more into meditation. Returning to waking during the night and recording and night-time practices (SSILD, MILD, WILD).

The vigilance stuff I think doesn't work for newbies. I know I wasn't ready in the beginning. I had to experience a thousand+ non-lucid dreams where I really really felt like I was experiencing waking life to internalize the point that really, truly, at *any* point where I think I'm awake, it in fact could be a dream. After that, the motivation for vigilance is easy because you *know* it's true.

It seems to be paying off. My last two lucids were miles ahead of most of my others. Not necessarily the most aware of lucids, but they were just such mind-blowing awesome experiences, so bright and vivid and detailed.

On my reading list: Mindfulness In Plain English, and The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep.

This thread has a really eye-opening discussion on it as well as valuable links:

Excellent! IMO you're spot-on FM (and it answers a question I asked you on another post)

Originally Posted by FryingMan

I've only now started to reflect on the "how/why" of that night. Having a strong important goal coming up may have played a key role (I wanted to hit 50 LDs by Friday), yes plus the new stuff I think. Hey, you'll notice I performed dream-self-control! Backed off from the ladies and stabilized and performed some other goals I've had for a while (before returning immediately to the ladies). Man that bookstore was crowded with cuties, it was only a matter of time, but I held out for quite a while actually which is progress!

Good point! Your waking memory was obviously good with the dream-self-control and remembering a number of goals! I am very happy for you and what a way to blow past your anniversary goal!

Nice night of dreaming last night it turned out, but terrible for sleep as I had about 2-3 hours of insomnia. I'm resetting my sleep schedule to be strict: to bed by 11, up by 9, which leaves some time for insomnia/WBTB and still to get 8 hours. So that reset may have contributed. I also took 1mg melatonin before bed to promote drowsiness (still took a while to fall asleep) which generally doesn't cause insomnia for me, maybe it was the strong intention setting I did.

Still, some fairly interesting dreams and decent detail recall (not everything of course), the girlfriend series was really jumbled and hard to untangle, it may or may not have been together with the puking party sequence.

And a quick lucid (KILD), of course there's no hope for me if I get lucid in the middle of a good snog, but it was nice, and in the future maybe I'll build up the will to pull away and enjoy a "looking around" / goals LD. One day!

00:00 Thursday 2014-08-21 LD #54 (KILD) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I think that makes a new calendar month best for me (8 LDs).

Setting strong intention tonight, it would be great to get lucid (a multiple LD night even more awesome) on the eve of my first LD anniversary.

Sweet! Congrats on another KILD!

in the future maybe I'll build up the will to pull away and enjoy a "looking around" / goals LD

Some of my coolest LDs were when I slowed down and soaked in the dreamworld around me...that being said, the thing motivating me right now the most (not a lot of motivation right now) seems to be a rendezvous with Girl Friday.

Good luck on the eve of your 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

Spoiler for NSFW:

(all the while still with the HG's boob in my mouth haha)

, and I lost the semi-lucidity into some thoughts that spun off from that encounter.

Happy 1 year LD practice! I knew early on that you were here to stay and have enjoyed interacting with you of course. That semi-lucid sounded enjoyable!

Thanks! I probably won't do an "uber" 1-year summary post after all. I pretty much said it all already.

Year 2 goals: eliminate dry spells, solidify day and night practice, keep regular sleep schedule, and get some real WILDs in!

In-dream practice: slow down, engage, try Dreamer's in-dream journaling/narrative, be suspicious of caveman desires as a sign of dwindling lucidity and re-slow-down and re-engage. Also going to work on incubating meeting DV people in dreams.

Dream goals: really interact with DCs, visit Amber, get good at teleportation, lightsaber duels/fights with Sensei, control via pop-up menu, time-dilation (extend actual subjective length of the dream to days/weeks/months/beyond, not just via "jump"s), and, yes, get in some quality LD lovin'

Hey wanted to pop in and say grats on reaching your 1 year goal reading your workbook and StephL' gives me good motivation to attempt to catch up to you guys (lol) I'm usually on and off with LDing but I will try and stay more consistent and your progress over a year is certainly encouraging.

I hope many great LDing years come for us both!

^^ Good to see you, and thanks for the note! Never give up! (on LD practice), Never surrender! (on recall and getting back to sleep).

I had to dig *hard* this morning for any recall but I got a decent bunch of scenes that finally came to me. I really had to go to the bathroom too, but I didn't let myself move any more to get up until I had the keywords well memorized for these scenes. Lost lots more, I really want to remember *all* my 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!

Pardon my French, but HOLY SHIT 3 LDs last night, one DILD and two of what only could have been DEILDs immediately following. DJ to come later. It was a galantamine night and 12 hours in between bedtime and final waking, including 4 brutal hours of insomnia after the G. My head feels like I've been playing intense chess all night long (which in effect I was!)

That's 5 in two days, 14 in the calendar month, doubling my previous monthly count!

Awesome!! You are on a roll! A permanent roll! Keep it up! Let me know when you post the DJ

DJ's up!

Epic! Where's Sensei? Stunning outdoor scene, bed-eject to the slide (twice), LDs #58, 59, 60 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

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.

Awesome FM!! Congratulations!!

I think I had my first honest-to-goodness WILD this morning:

00:00 Friday 2014-09-19 LD #65 (WILD!), lightsabers, looking for Sensei, Mexican road trip, music - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

That sounded like a great LD on so many levels! And to be your first real WILD - very impressive!
(I added additional comments to your DJ entry)