FryingMan's DILD course workbook

**FryingMan** · 09-01-2019 06:31 AM

Long dry spell. Waking life taking up all my mental efforts this year. Had a couple brief LDs in the last week after giving it a bit more attention, and also because I believe I tried a demo of a VR system a few days ago (really impressive, and totally amazing/dreamlike, probably great for LD incubation!). Recall remains pretty good but I'm not journaling much these days.

**fogelbise** · 09-15-2019 02:41 AM

Nice! I think VR can definitely prompt LDs. I also feel like owning (or easy access to) a quality VR headset can take away some motivation to put in the work for lucid dreaming due to the ease of having an experience, though it is an experience without the infinite possibilities of lucid dreaming.

**FryingMan** · 09-15-2019 04:25 AM

Did an RC (didn't get lucid unfortunately) in a dream two nights ago, so that's some progress on my practice reboot. Some good recall last night (pretty much an epic non-lucid, long 7-8 scene continuity) but only 6 hours of sleep. Gotta practice relaxation for sleep techniques and practice settling the mind meditation.

**FryingMan** · 09-22-2019 10:41 AM

Several nights now of quite vivid dreaming and good recall. Increasing awareness of and beginning reflection of events and features of the dreamscape. No in-dream RCs after last week's. I now have a very regular sleep schedule (big issue for me in the past), so I'm hoping for some payoff in dreaming, if only I can get back to sleep more quickly at the middle-of-the-night wakings. After about 5hrs of sleep (as always) is a very challenging back-to-sleep.

**FryingMan** · 11-25-2019 03:00 PM

It's too quiet around these parts! C'mon everybody, get dreaming!

2 LDs recently, one last night. Very short, probably more of a lucid moment, but I consider it a victory. I did a BTB after getting up for a bathroom break after about 6.5 hours of sleep. I had the bed to myself so I put in earplugs and pulled a folded t-shirt over my eyes to keep things dark and quiet. I made it back to sleep (I've been getting more disciplined in my back-to-sleeps recently, eventually reigning in the runaway train of random thought chains and focusing on relaxation until I sleep, and slept for about another 3 hours. Recall is always poor after about 8 hours of sleep, but I did get lucid, and had some dramatic, interesting dreams in that period.