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Couple of really dry nights, almost no-recall in one case, got sick of that and set strong intention at bedtime for dreams (recall, vivid, waking up after, being lucid). The DJ is instructive also in detailing my thoughts during a back-to-sleep battle, so I thought I'd include it here. Oh, and lucid #68 where I did basic TOTM (open a pumpkin describe what's inside).

I swear I'd be getting lucid a lot more if I just got to bed at a decent time, that is still a big thing I'm battling.

00:00 Thursday 2014-10-09 LD #68, lots of dreams again, a number of vivid "I'm there" moments - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Awesome FM! Congrats on the lucid and the good memory to do a task! :)

Huge night, long epic vivids, a semi-lucid:

00:00 Monday 2014-10-13 multi-epics: Sadistic Genie, Porn shoot, destroy villain, master class - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Well I'm speechless, and you who know me know what a thing that is for me. I had a DEILD chain this morning of between 10 - 15 LDs. Most short-ish, but the whole experience was probably 30 minutes or more. And I just kept returning (in many cases to the same place!) again and again and again....it was mindblowing.

I ate and fought lucidly for the first time: an apple slice [it was crunchy and tart], a bit of milkshake [no taste or sensation really that I recall unfortunately], and sort of play-slaughtered a group of young (punks in my mind), the first time a DC in a lucid has ever challenged me or noticed me at all in fact without me first grabbing their attention.

Wow.

This is an achievement beyond words indeed!! Awesome FM!! Where can I order some of those diamond encrusted, 24k deild chains? :D

well done!

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This is an achievement beyond words indeed!! Awesome FM!! Where can I order some of those diamond encrusted, 24k deild chains? :D

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I wrote up a list of all the things I could think of that played a role in this DEILD chain over on Sageous's "What Happened?" WILD thread.

DEILDs I think are a phenomenon of opportunity -- you just grab 'em when you can. You can increase the odds by always remaining very calm at dream transitions/ends. For beginners this is more challenging I think because LDs are soooo exciting for those first couple dozen. Cultivating a very very calm mindset really helps -- just very lightly consider the dream and remain in the drowsiness.

I also had set very strong intention at bed time, and a very long sloooow back to sleep in the middle of the night (so had more tiredness and perhaps some REM rebound going later in the morning when my body is normally getting ready to get up for the day). I was also thinking about dreaming all day long since the night before was a long night of epic non-lucids.

Note that I was doing dream activities that traditionally result in dream end/transitions for me. I would much have preferred to remain in a single dream for 30 minutes than have 10-15 2-3 minute LDs. But it was still really fun to keep returning to the same place over and over!

That's a really awesome accomplishment, Fryingman. I am trying to imagine a 15 DEILD chain and am having some difficulties. And the fact that you remember a lot of them is awesome, too! Keep it up, man.

The chain was awesome. Conditions were just perfect for it: no distractions, just the right phase of sleep, I take some credit for staying sleepy/quiet and not moving and re-entering the dream repeatedly.

Another interesting note: I'm recovering from an exhausting business trip which includes substantial jet lag (11-hours, just about the worst possible, almost exactly half a day), and am setting in to sort of a polyphasic sleep pattern: 3-4 hour nap, 5-6 hours sleep at "regular" bed time. I've ended up dreaming rather vividly during the last several nap times, which can be as late las late afternoon/early evening. I don't seem to dream as much during the "normal" night phase but since it's shorter that's not a surprise. Maybe there's an ongoing perpetual REM deficit so that the long naps have more REM than usual? Normally in occasional 1-2 hour naps I never recall dreams.

In the one I had just now I felt sleepy after having been up for about 4 hour after another too-short night-time sleep session, went to bed again around 10:30am and got up around 3pm. But it took me at least an hour to fall asleep and it took me my full-strength "go to sleep" kung-fu continuous relaxation, which worked! Had some pretty interesting, vivid dreams, too.

End of year "blog" update. Had a very short but fun/funny/nice LD this morning after a massive massive massive loooooooooooong back to sleep battle spanning about 7 hours including a proper WBTB in the middle. You have to be stubborn if you want to LD ! And being able to sleep in really helps.

I started the calendar year 2014 with a LD on January 1st, and now I'm leaving the year with a LD on December 31st. Looking forward to a great banner year of LDing in 2015.

If anything, 2014 was a big lesson year that shows that effort yields results, and less effort yields less results. Day work remained high during the year, but night work suffered a lot. Went on a few spurts of "wake up after every dream", resulting in fantastic recall in some cases.

The other big thing in 2014 was getting into mindfulness. I think this has raised dream awareness to a new level resulting in a rather remarkable serious of very vivid, "I'm there" non-lucids.

2014 ran hot and cold for me. 2015 I'm going to turn up the heat to try to make it all one long hot streak.

2015 will be the year of the breath, mindfulness, and meditation.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...1-ld-92-63194/

I always envied fogelbise his reliable "look at the weird night sky, get lucid" LDs. I've had not a huge number but more than a few really really far out night skies with stars/ships swirling and dashing around like mad, but just stood there going "oooooo, shiny!" Well I finally had a "OK, what's going on here" moment with a fairly tame but still definitely WTF night sky, and got lucid, yay :). I was in a car, looking at stars/planet/things on the horizon, there were only a few strange objects (so it wasn't overwhelming) and it seemed to be like a strange eclipse of the moon, and said "OK, what's going on here?". I pinched my nose to RC and I already knew I was dreaming because my nose felt wrong, insubstantial. The moment I get lucid two of the objects get very bright and swoop a bit down to the left (in salute to my lucidity?). I "stood up" through the roof of the car and called to the ships to come take me away. They didn't, and I looked forwards in the direction of travel and saw only infinite empty featureless gray, then transitioned to a replay of an earlier scene and quickly lost lucidity.

http://youtu.be/d1tQFX_9ct0
^Your dream reminded me of the lyrics. Cool experience. My night skies are always mindblowing in LDs.

This may be my new favorite best night of dreaming yet. Wow! Either semi or low lucidity towards the end: I was bold and directing the plot via expectation, so at least probably low level lucid, but I never affirmed "I'm dreaming" so I'm not counting it. But if all non-lucids could be like that then…. as Sageous says, some dreams are fine just the way they are. And HOW!

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Quite a feat of recall and adventures packed into one night! Definitely a recommended read for what is possible!

I had another nice night last night culminating in a teeny lucid. Boldness growing & occurring more in dreams, and I started realizing in the dream that I had missed some earlier lucidity opportunities, but the scenes continued to be so waking-life-like that I kept missing them. In the end I saw a girl walk past me and thought "Quick, just RC!" and did a double-take when I could partially breathe, and got lucid and ran after here calling after her to come back to me. She did eventually but I woke right away, it was already quite late in the morning.

In yet another seemingly bizarre coincidence of the calendar and numerology, I hit my first LD "century" today (100th lucid dream), exactly one year and six months to the day of the first day of my LD practice.

The getting lucid sequence was more interesting than the lucid part, which was either really short, or I entirely forgot it. I think I just transitioned right away to a non-lucid. I did, however, tell my lucid dream to a DC in great detail later on in another (non-lucid) dream.

edit: here's the DJ: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...ketball-64466/

And I see your count is now 101, congrats! I bet you will hit 200 in less than a year...or to keep some kind of numerology going maybe exactly 1 year or exactly 6 months possibly! Either way you are clearly on the lifetime achievement path like me! :)

Hit LD #eleventy-one (111). It's an important age for a hobbit, and quite an interesting number. The LD itself was mildly notable in that it was a fairly early dream, the lucidity was quite low but I definitely knew I was dreaming as I saw a guy who could retract his head entirely into his body. I then fought him while jumping down the open space in the stairwell (descending stairs along square shaped wall, early dream sign)

LD #124, notable in that it marks the breakthrough of a month-long dry-spell, initially brought on by jet lag and traumatic waking life events (loss of a family member).

Very strange night last night: very light sleep, constant waking (we had an early morning appointment which we decided to skip at the last second), fairly vivid detailed recall as early as 3-4 hours, exhausted by around 8-9 hours from not having slept much at all, up for a bit, BTS victory via relaxation kung-fu for several solid sleep cycles, more dreams (some extremely vivid, totally "I am there" experiences), culminating with LD #124 which is shaping up to be one of my best LDs with good stability, excellent access to memory (performed my FULL lucid ritual), resisting DC temptations, and just as I was finishing up stabilizing by starting to give a cute DC a massage ("You're going to help me with my dream goals!" I told her. She had only a slightly horrified expression on her face, haha!), my wife made a sound while moving around the house and I woke instantly!!!! Argh!

I got lucid via an amusing/odd situation: I looked at the (analog) watch on my left wrist (I almost never wear a watch, and the few periods years ago when I did it was on my right wrist), and didn't recognize it, it was not the watch I expected to see, it had some odd features, that combined with a feeling of boldness to approach a girl and BOOM the lightbulb went off, and I instantly started in on my B.E. S.T.R.O.N.G. ritual with lots of hand rubbing.

July has been sort of a slow month recall-wise, terrible bed times leading to low recall, still: some great epics and some really bright if short lucids (and got my first ever advanced TOTM wings, these have eluded me until now). Of note: back to back LDs #129 and #130 this morning, the earliest LDs ever at about 4 hours or even less. #130 was a caught FA following the end/transition of #129. Two "Opti-Men" ultra-multi-vitamins during the day (usually I just take one) may have had an effect, as did the big bowl of wheat-flake cereal with a banana right before bedtime. Sleep was light all night long with a lot of wakings, not all that restful but lots of dreaming. The LDs came after an earlier waking where I had to pee (big glass of water right before bed with just this intention).

#129 was also notable in that I got lucid while running and while nervous/concerned (I had left my luggage on the plane during an international connecting flight with little time left I was running to get it). Normally I'm "standing still" when I get lucid -- though in #128 I did get lucid while in the middle of flying.

I'm keeping day awareness work high. I'm almost never contiuously zoned out for long periods of time now. I do RCs in the middle of conversations and interpersonal interactions more and more often. I still want to get to daily meditation. WBTB, timing, and sleep conditions are probably my biggest hurdles now to much more frequent LDs.

#129 was also interesting in that it was a sort of mild version of a "my life is ruined" situation which happens sometimes in dreams, and I think noticing this strong emotion was one thing that lead me to RC: I'm hopeful that this is the mindfulness work paying off.

Despite some low recall nights, 6 LDs and an advanced TOTM is actually pretty good so maybe the month hasn't been as slow as I originally thought. Of course I want more! Travelling vacation in August will be great I'm sure: travelling to a a new place, relaxing warm location, and no work for a couple of weeks will be great for dreaming I'm sure!

go get it!! I read those dreams this morning. It's inspirational!

Congrats on the early in the night pair of LD's! You didn't mention back to sleep trouble after that early awakening…maybe that is a sweet spot for you in WBTB's (including appropriate amount of liquids before bed: milk in cereal plus your big glass of water before bed)? Congrats also on the advanced wings!

Thanks! It was really early: 2-3 hours? I can't imagine that's a great WBTB time for me. And I rarely notice those really early wakings these days. May have been a bit of REM rebound after 2 nights of getting only about 5-6 hours of sleep. But yeah, recently I'm not having trouble getting back to sleep, but I think that's symptom of being generally under-rested, which has led to a lot of poor (for me) recall nights. And what am I doing staying up again, time for bed!

Short sweet little LD (#131) to start off August right. I took 3mg of melatonin at bed time to set up REM rebound for a Galantamind, choline bitartrate, alpha-GPC "lucid party". I expected the melatonin to knock me out but instead I woke frequently. I was feeling so "hung over" that I decided to not take the supplements as I was starting to fear getting any sleep at all, since a frequent effect of a 3mg dosage of melatonin is insomnia after 5 hours of sleep. It was hard getting back to sleep. I couldn't decide between just getting up or trying to get back to sleep, and eventually decided "just to practice" relaxing and quieting my mind. And sure enough, once I'd decided to do that and started it, I was asleep in a minute or so.

Before that tough waking I had a really unusual (for me) sequence, involving a nuclear bomb going off (hearing it, it was one of the loudest things I've ever "heard"), and several scenes that kept restarting in that same room but with different themes.

In the lucid, I'd been stuck in traffic in a major police stop and search event, but while they were ransacking all the cars around me they just ignored me so I decided to drive on. There were no cars on the freeway but lots of people walking, an a walk-a-thon benefitting animals. So I decided the cops had been stopping cars back there to prevent them from driving on the freeway so I got out of the car and it shrunk and I pushed it with a stick like a little kid's toy car, then I ended up in a cafe.

I'm writing this note here because it was an interesting way I got lucid: I found myself in a restaurant/cafe type place, standing at the sink in the middle of the room washing my hands, and I noticed a glitch (I thought there were two women sitting at the table against the wall to my left, and I looked there directly and I thought I caught the briefest glimpse of one just as she vanished, thought "That's different, there used to be another woman there just a second ago," and instantly said "I'm dreaming!" sort of as a reflex and not entirely believing it (at the time I felt totally, entirely awake, most of you will be familiar with that feeling). I looked down and I was washing my hands and thought "I'll do a nose pinch as soon as I finish washing my hands." Then, "NO! Do the nose pinch now if you're dreaming it won't matter!" and I sort of started walking towards the girl at the table at the same time as I did the nose pinch (could breath easily) and asked her name and proposed an intimate encounter before waking up :).

I've been working a lot on trying to notice the odd or out of place during day practice, so this was a welcome case of it happening in a dream!

hmm.. that melatonin first galatamind later looks very iteresting... I'm going to try that for my next wbtb