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.
LD #68, vivid dreams, hard-won back to sleep resulting in more vivid non-lucids and a TOTM DILD
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
2014-12-31 LD #92, 2014 year end notes
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/
LD #97, weird planets/stars in the sky, finally!
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.
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
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