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      TOTM Mega fest! Wow what a night. OK, ok, I'm sold, WBTB is an absolute requirement.

      Full DJ entry, LD #133

      This is what happens when the perfect storm comes together: day work, dream recall, night work (WBTB), intent, expectation. Work on each diligently, and then work to bring them together. Working to bring them together is just as important as developing each skill on its own. This is why you stick with the practice even through the tough, dry times. Because tough, dry times do not last forever, and sticking with it means your awareness is there waiting for you once you get the timing of wakings right and have good recall.

      I will also add that this week I recently listened all the way through PercyLucid's audio MILD class (generously available from PercyLucid for free to DV members) and adopted his recommendations. He has some great ideas in there, which may be new even to veteran MILDers/LDers.

      Onwards, upwards, more! "I will have lucid dreams TONIGHT, or VERY SOON!"
      Last edited by FryingMan; 08-09-2015 at 05:19 PM. Reason: typos, typos, why so many typos?
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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

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      Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
      This is what happens when the perfect storm comes together: day work, dream recall, night work (WBTB), intent, expectation. Work on each diligently, and then work to bring them together. Working to bring them together is just as important as developing each skill on its own. This is why you stick with the practice even through the tough, dry times. Because tough, dry times do not last forever, and sticking with it means your awareness is there waiting for you once you get the timing of wakings right and have good recall.
      Brilliantly said! More concise and effective than how
      Daniel Love described the components of successful LDing. Congratulations FM!!
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      Thanks! Timing is so important. Got to bed on time last night. Horrible BTS fail after WBTB (water-enhanced) @ 5 hrs. So many things on my mind. several hours at least. But at least I knew I'd get lucid when I finally did fall asleep. Had a (possibly fake, meaning I was maybe already dreaming about still falling asleep, but the lucidity was real) bed-tilting WILD, followed by a FA where I walked around and did "start my day" kind of stuff (getting a vacuum cleaner to clean up the dozen or so freaky beady-eyed spiders that had strung webs back and forth right above my bed!, talking to my friend who was playing a NSFW video game and wouldn't answer my question of what it was called) before getting lucid (first one I've had of those!).
      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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      Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
      (first one I've had of those!).
      First one of what? You get a fair share of spiders, don't you? Congrats on getting to lucidity again last night!

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      First "start your day 'normally' " FA -- felt sort of silly after getting lucid having "wasted" all that time after "getting up".

      Spiders -- yeah, definitely, mild dream sign, which is why it "kicked in" eventually, realized it, and I got lucid.
      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

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      Sensei's Sexy Competition, August 2015, personal posts & placeholders

      I always spend tons of time trying to find my prior posts in competitions, so this is my attempt to put links to all my posts in one place.

      Initial post, personal goals, 3-step tasks

      Night #1: 8 (same link as night #2)
      Night #2, LD#137: 23: post
      Night #3: 2 (same link as night #4)
      Night #4: 9 post
      Night #5: 3.5 post
      Night #6: 4.5 post
      Night #7: 1 post
      Night #8: 3.5 post
      Night #9: 16.5 post
      Night #10: 8.5 post
      Night #11: 4 post
      Night #12: 4 post
      Night #13: 7.5 post
      Night #14, LD#138: 17.5 post

      comp total (counting DJ comments, +1): 113.5

      Egads, that's my 2nd worst comp performance ever, even including my newbie comps. Basically no dream control whatsoever. Need to get excited about non-sexy goals that involve more teleporting, TK, flying, etc.

      DJ comments: 4-5
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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

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      Well my 2-year LD practice anniversary blew past half a week ago and I didn't even notice! I'm busy taking tours, etc. on vacation. I had a stomach flu for a day that threw me off a bit, and 2 very late bed-times in a row that reduced dream recall almost to zero. Early to bed last night brought the recall back with a vengeance (12 dreams, 5 fragments, and more before the WBTB that I forgot including some 1st cycle recall I think), several semi-lucids (one including demonstrating a nose pinch to friends, and I could breathe! ARGH!).

      Had trouble returning to sleep after a WBTB and did "relaxing SSILD" (advance to the next sense/cycle with every exhale) which knocked me out pretty fast. Maybe adding a mantra would make that a good WILD entry approach.

      My frequency leaves something to be desired in my opinion: I average 1 LD in 5 days, but in practice they come in bunches with sometimes multi-week dry periods in between.

      The beginning of August was very good for LDing, with a fabulous TOTM-bonus long multi-scene LD that included multiple saves, and a bunch of other LDs sprinkled around.

      The thing is I *know* that I can have very frequent LDs. The thing is just discovering how. Recall I think I've solved (although more recall is always better), it's getting lucid on a much more frequent basis that is my sore point.

      I think the key for me is sleep schedule and level of rest and finding just the right amount of day work intensity. And night work intensity. Well that's just about everything isn't it, haha!

      I'm also trying now to eat better and lose some (a lot of) weight and return to regular exercise -- I hope that will also show positive results.

      Dreaming remains a major part of my life and I'm so happy I discovered this fascinating hobby. I just wish I'd run into it 30+ years ago. Or maybe not, I'd probably be holed up in a (nice, dark, quiet) cave somewhere, heh.
      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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      Dude. Fuckin A.
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      I'm working with Elliot Gish as my Coach. He's great.

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      Congratulation (belated) on your 2 year anniversary of LD practice my friend!! (I know, convenience store workers/owners have cheapened the phrase "my friend" but I mean it in the original sense of the word of course). Sorry I have been so absent around here for days at a time but it is great to see you rocking on!
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      This was….amazing. As the title says, a whole new level of dreaming. 4 LDs: DILD, DEILD, DEILD, + another DILD later. The LDs were beautiful scenes, long, stable, vivid, basically like being there in a waking scenario.

      2015-12-05 A New Level of Dreaming! (LDs #158, #159, #160, #161), TOTM basic I & II - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

      I have some notes for what I did differently last night before bed in there.
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      "...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS

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      So awesome FM!! I put more comments in your DJ.

      I recommend others reading this to check out his DJ entry!
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      Some great dreams last night: A particularly amazing bunch of fun & sexy dreams

      I'm continuing daytime mindfulness/awareness work. I've slacked off on it a bit recently, though.

      Something I've just started doing is gesturing with my finger to "draw" out (on furniture, in the air) "LD" and say to myself, I'm a lucid dreamer. Lucid dreaming. I also write it in the snow when I go out. This is to produce a very tactile physical feeling / visualization. I also imagine seeing the letters "LD" floating in front of my eyes, on fire, and changing the colors: blue, yellow, green, red, etc.

      I decided after a particularly dry holiday season that I've become a bit relaxed about lucidity. I've raised its importance to me again, and I'm setting strong intention at bedtime and during the day for lucidity.

      I've had good results, a string of LDs, about 5 in 9 days from the 11th through the 20th of January.

      I feel like as long as I have good sleep, I *will* get lucid a lot.

      I read through Jamie Alexanders ebooks (pamphlets really), "Lucid Dreaming on Command" and "Meditation for Lucid Dreaming." He has an interesting approach that emphasizes a WILD-like approach: forget your physical body, focus your awareness in your head, continually go deeper, and let go.

      I've taken his HI-awareness approach and tried it several nights, I think it serves to produce a dolphin-like All Night Awareness mindset. I haven't got excellent sleep on it, but did kickstart my LDs again, so I think I'll stick with it or something similar. It shows that my suspicion that I need more attentive night-work was correct.
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      "...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS

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      I've had 4 or 5 amazing nights in a row it seems. Every night full of either epics or many varied vivid, present, alternate-life-level dreaming.

      Last night got ToTM: epic non-lucid, followed by a long string of late morning BTS dreams including a ToTM LD.

      2015-02-15 LD#174 Tsunami/call; epic "Sand Castle" farm; mini-car; garden bees; waffle wrap; boy; - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

      The epic is just in notes, there are many missing details. As it is it's taken me about 3 hours to write down these last 3 night's outline of dreams. (All from memory!).

      From the previous two nights:

      2015-02-14 and -13: vivid, present, alternate life level dreams. Long nights, tons of detail - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

      still in outline format. Details waning a bit because of the delay in journaling. I hope to fill in the details eventually.

      I've decided on the 2016 goals: it's taken a while. 2016 will be the year of boosting reflection and perhaps re-emphasizing PM practice, and making lucidity an important goal. Attention/awareness and recall are at good levels, I'll keep those going but switch the emphasis to lucidity and reflection for lucidity.
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      I just realized I've had 3 LDs in 3 days: 1 LD per night 3 days in a row, woohoo!

      The improvement I think has been via: 1) conquering morning BTS (back to sleep); 2) inculcating strong desire to get lucid, that regular/frequent lucidity in dreams is an important goal of mine; and 3) concrete short-term goals to get lucid. I set a goal 2 days ago of getting 10 more LDs before the end of February, and am 2 LDs / 2 nights so far. I summarize 2) and 3) as "focus", a term Sageous recently used and I think hit the nail on the head.

      I also set a firm goal 1.5 weeks ago to get into top shape by the end of this year, including shedding all excess weight, so I'm eating a very healthy and rigorous diet of mostly home-prepared whole foods (I record absolutely everything I eat in myfitnesspal and conform to the calorie and exercise targets I established) with a caloric deficit every day. I'm also drinking a ton of water (8+ glasses per day) and managed exercise almost every day as well. At first I was concerned I was losing too fast, but the curve has already started leveling out so now the real work begins.

      I've been regularly consuming nuts during the day (not much, they're very dense in calories, not more than 40g per day): walnuts and almonds to start with, then walnuts and pumpkin seeds. Good omega-3's for the brain. Also, taking fish oil supplements with more beneficial omega 3's.

      I'm really excited, this focus on lucidity, together with my Attention, Reflection, Recall training seems to be the winning recipe. Will keep it up and see how it goes!
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      This was a particularly nice LD last night: ultra clear and vivid, stable, and every bit of control I attempted worked perfectly. Too bad I spent it all pursuing caveman :/.

      There was an unexpected and funny twist right at the end.

      2016-02-21 LD#177; bowling, hunt, bikers, monsters, bar; room w/friends & sexy time, gollum attacks - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

      p.s. post 4K!
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      "...develop stability in awareness and your dreams will change in extraordinary ways" -- TYoDaS

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      Too bad I spent it all pursuing cavemam
      I noticed that in my last year of lding practice I'm not intrested in sex at all, which is good, but I wonder what are the reasons...

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      SSEC2016 (Competition) DJ index and points summary

      Spellbee2's Spring Extravaganza Competition 2016

      Night #1 (2016-04-11 00:00) 3D, 1F, 3.5 pts, night total: 3.5, comp total: 3.5 DJ entry
      Night #2 (2016-04-12 00:00) 0D, 2F, 1.0 pts, night total: 1.0, comp total: 3.5 + 1.0 = 4.5 DJ entry

      Competition total: 4.5
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      DJ for last night and previous 3 nights

      I've been so dry March and April that any lucid dream is a celebration: I got lucid late this morning (#182) at the tail end of a long night of dreaming, details in the DJ above.

      I'm ramping up again on focus, intention, and motivation for more lucidity. Day work fairly strong again, but as always, night work needs more focus and attention.
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      Got a nice LD last night (#183), its in my DJ.. Yay! Goal for remainder of May: 20 LDs, so that's 1/20. I'm trying to push 1LD/night as a goal average in general. Worked pretty well 3 months ago in February (achieved 6 of goal 10 in last 10 days of the month). Maybe a bit aggressive but I know I can get lucid a lot if my motivation/focus/resolve is strong along with favorable conditions. 1 LD/day is also an easy goal to calculate. I'll keep it limited to the current month so it seems more immediate and important.

      I made good on my plan to get off the computer an hour before bed last night and read LD stuff instead (ETWOLD). I read an interesting passage (there is a LOT of good stuff in just chapters 1 and 2 of ETWOLD!) about mental blocks. That may be something affecting me so I did some affirmations that I have no such blocks, that lucid dreaming is easy for me, etc. I did not record during the night. I'm hesitant to return to that, for one thing it can bother my wife, and for another, it always wake me up thoroughly if I have a lot to record. May play with that one a bit, perhaps just key words.

      Today I established 3 PM targets: the first time I:
      + hear a bird call (HIT)
      + first time I begin a conversation with a non-family member (MISSED)
      + step into an intersection (N/A, so far)

      Interacting with people is a great opportunity for reflection, since I live abroad from my native language country and rarely speak with non-family members in my native language, yet almost all of my dreams are in my native language.

      I may start really ramping back up location awareness, ala ADA-RC/location, since I had at least 4 different scenes at different times either in or near my childhood home (big-time reliable dream sign for me).

      I saw a woman in the store today with really large, attractive but odd-looking eyes, it reminded me of the dead woman from last night's dream (dream woman had no eyes, but it was my focus of attention on her at first).
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      Congrats FM!! This refocusing is something I find myself doing at various times through my journey. Getting to bed on time is huge too.
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      Today's PM targets, first time you (my addition: after leaving home):

      + see a pet/animal: HIT, cat in the parking lot
      + see a flower: HIT, alongside the road (patch of dandelions) on the way to the dentist
      + see your face in a mirror: HIT, getting out of my car at the dentist, back-of-sun-visor mirror
      + turn on a light switch: HIT, the bathroom at the dentist
      + step into the sun: HIT, walking back to my car after the dentist

      All in the first part of the day. I may start doing what I did in the past, which is to keep always 4 active targets, and replace old targets with new targets when I realize one was hit/missed.

      Dream sign analysis:

      LaBerge says in ETWOLD (I'm just going with his flow at this point) that dreamsigns are categorized as:

      + awareness (thoughts, emotions, sensations, perceptions)

      + action (doing something dream-like [flying], malfunctioning devices)

      + form (shape, contents of location)

      + context (location, situation)

      I think that action and form are the easiest to notice and identify and get lucid from: these are the "wow, look at that, that's WEIRD!" sort of events. And guess what, most of my dreamsigns seem to be awareness and/or context-based for quite a while now, very subtle, lucky me!

      So I've started paying much more attention to context. Good old location (which I've done in the past in the form of ADA-RC/location), and particularly any sort of social interaction. Old friends and people I don't really know in waking occur in just about every dream. With a few notable exceptions (childhood home and environs), all my dreams take place in non-waking locations.
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      Super sweet dreaming night. A (slight) return to supplements (Huperzine-A) to get some LDs kick-started.

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      Nice. I'm having no luck. Decent recall - but the dreams are so mundane and every-day that no DILD's have been triggered. I tried to WILD last night after my standard WBTB after peeing...and couldn't lie still long enough what with an itch here, or an ache there... I kept tossing and turning and eventually lost my concentration and fell asleep. On other nights this past week I tried to use the REM-Dreamer. The first night it woke me each time it triggered (should've checked the settings before using, but didn't) and after adjustment of brightness, there were no cues that made their way into my dreams that I can recall.

      Yesterday after a loooong, beautiful wilderness hike and then patch seeding my lawn, etc. I decided to take an afternoon nap to see if I could LD. I was repeatedly interrupted by my wife, phones, and her dumb-ass dog's pointless barking. Not a great week for me AT ALL despite high motivation and strong intentions at bed time. Boo hiss.

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      Quote Originally Posted by DoubleHelix View Post
      Not a great week for me AT ALL despite high motivation and strong intentions at bed time. Boo hiss.
      Yeah, LDing with frequent success is I think all about "putting it all together," all the day work, all that intention, motivation, *and* setting the right conditions (finding a quiet place where you won't be disturbed, for example), WBTB, etc.

      WILD is tough, and is not perhaps for everybody, although I refuse to give up trying (despite it being a long time since my last formal attempt). Being good at relaxing body and mind completely, fairly quickly, I think is pretty important.
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      Quote Originally Posted by FryingMan View Post
      WILD is tough, and is not perhaps for everybody...
      Sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree with you on that. I think WILD >>IS<< for everybody. If you believe it to be tough, well, then it will appear to be so. I chose to hold the opposite belief.

      As far as I can tell, it is harder in one sense only...and I can't even confirm that it applies to me. The "transition" stage is reputedly disturbing/anxiety provoking to some. Forewarned is forearmed, though. If you know it's coming, it can be a celebratory occasion indicative of impending success (or at least progress) rather than a frightening one. I >>have< gotten to the point where I hear loud adventitious noises I know are foreign to my house, and have definitely seen hypnagogic images, so while I haven't had the "eureka" moment of full-on success, I've gotten at least that far. And with little in the way of prior attempts.

      I'm definitely NOT counting this technique out - in fact I'm a bit pissed I haven't put more effort and faith in it until recently, where I've been trying "a little of this, and a little of that" to see what gets me closer to my goal.

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