• Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views




    Page 3 of 3 FirstFirst 1 2 3
    Results 51 to 59 of 59
    Like Tree55Likes

    Thread: Ctharlhie's Oneirinomicon

    1. #51
      Lucid Elder God Achievements:
      Created Dream Journal Made lots of Friends on DV Referrer Bronze Tagger First Class Veteran First Class 5000 Hall Points
      Ctharlhie's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2011
      LD Count
      non-Euclidean
      Location
      R'lyeh
      Posts
      1,702
      Likes
      1672
      DJ Entries
      17

      April Retrospective

      1st-3rd: 1 LD
      4th-10th: 2 LDs
      11th-17th: 2LDs
      18th-24th: 2 LDs
      25th-30th: 3 LDs
      Total: 10 LDs
      Goals:
      Look at hands at the beginning of every LD
      Teleport every LD
      Do something to change the 'dream script' every LD (ie. don't just wander aimlessly, interrupting the narrative)
      My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
      Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
      Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut

      Always, no sometimes think it's me,
      But you know I know when it's a dream
      I think I know I mean a yes
      But it's all wrong
      That is I think I disagree

      -John Lennon


    2. #52
      Lucid Elder God Achievements:
      Created Dream Journal Made lots of Friends on DV Referrer Bronze Tagger First Class Veteran First Class 5000 Hall Points
      Ctharlhie's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2011
      LD Count
      non-Euclidean
      Location
      R'lyeh
      Posts
      1,702
      Likes
      1672
      DJ Entries
      17

      30 Days of Dream Yoga

      For the 30 days of April I'm going to carry dream yoga as my induction methodology.

      I'm mainly drawing this from a simplification of The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Dreaming Yourself Awake by B. Allan Wallace.

      This is going to be used in tandem with what I've learned from vibrate alarm DEILD.

      The idea is simple: fall asleep doing a dream yoga visualisation, every time I am woken by an alarm, resume the visualisation.

      The theory is that by the end of the month this should begin to foster awareness throughout the night.
      FryingMan and Sensei like this.
      My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
      Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
      Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut

      Always, no sometimes think it's me,
      But you know I know when it's a dream
      I think I know I mean a yes
      But it's all wrong
      That is I think I disagree

      -John Lennon


    3. #53
      Member Achievements:
      Made lots of Friends on DV 5000 Hall Points Vivid Dream Journal Tagger First Class Populated Wall Veteran First Class Referrer Gold
      Sensei's Avatar
      Join Date
      Sep 2012
      Gender
      Location
      The Depths
      Posts
      4,415
      Likes
      5589
      DJ Entries
      116
      Quote Originally Posted by Ctharlhie View Post
      For the 30 days of April I'm going to carry dream yoga as my induction methodology.

      I'm mainly drawing this from a simplification of The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche and Dreaming Yourself Awake by B. Allan Wallace.

      This is going to be used in tandem with what I've learned from vibrate alarm DEILD.

      The idea is simple: fall asleep doing a dream yoga visualisation, every time I am woken by an alarm, resume the visualisation.

      The theory is that by the end of the month this should begin to foster awareness throughout the night.
      Good luck. I can't wait to see how this works for you. If I focus too much on visualization, I often have amnesia, too little and I have no control in my incubation.

    4. #54
      Lucid Elder God Achievements:
      Created Dream Journal Made lots of Friends on DV Referrer Bronze Tagger First Class Veteran First Class 5000 Hall Points
      Ctharlhie's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2011
      LD Count
      non-Euclidean
      Location
      R'lyeh
      Posts
      1,702
      Likes
      1672
      DJ Entries
      17
      Quote Originally Posted by Sensei View Post
      Good luck. I can't wait to see how this works for you. If I focus too much on visualization, I often have amnesia, too little and I have no control in my incubation.
      Interesting. Could you elaborate on how visualisation causes you to have amnesia?
      My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
      Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
      Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut

      Always, no sometimes think it's me,
      But you know I know when it's a dream
      I think I know I mean a yes
      But it's all wrong
      That is I think I disagree

      -John Lennon


    5. #55
      Lucid Elder God Achievements:
      Created Dream Journal Made lots of Friends on DV Referrer Bronze Tagger First Class Veteran First Class 5000 Hall Points
      Ctharlhie's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2011
      LD Count
      non-Euclidean
      Location
      R'lyeh
      Posts
      1,702
      Likes
      1672
      DJ Entries
      17

      Day 1

      No lucids, but I remembered four dreams. Tonight I'm going to switch from the Tibetan A () to the Latin A as my object of visualisation. The Tibetan character was just too unfamiliar to call to mind and visualise vividly during such a brief and shallow awakening.

      To summarise, this is my methodology for the month:
      • Daily meditation
      • Lucid living/mindfulness
      • Dream yoga (visualisation at the throat)
      • Vibrate alarms for brief awakening, resuming visualisation each time
      My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
      Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
      Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut

      Always, no sometimes think it's me,
      But you know I know when it's a dream
      I think I know I mean a yes
      But it's all wrong
      That is I think I disagree

      -John Lennon


    6. #56
      DVA Teacher Achievements:
      Tagger First Class Made lots of Friends on DV Referrer Bronze Huge Dream Journal Made Friends on DV Veteran First Class 10000 Hall Points
      FryingMan's Avatar
      Join Date
      Sep 2013
      LD Count
      296
      Location
      The Present Moment
      Posts
      5,384
      Likes
      6845
      DJ Entries
      951
      For some reason, probably lack of repetition, I have trouble visualizing things in my throat . If I find I'm spending too much effort on that, I switch to visualizing it in front of my eyes, or in the "3rd eye" region in the middle of the forehead.

      For example, the lotus flower is a pretty challenging visualization to begin with, but trying to also place it in my throat area is even more challenging. I keep finding my physical eyes trying to "look down".

      Vowing to "pay attention to the night" can also really help. Specific intention not just to "black out until morning."
      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

    7. #57
      Lucid Elder God Achievements:
      Created Dream Journal Made lots of Friends on DV Referrer Bronze Tagger First Class Veteran First Class 5000 Hall Points
      Ctharlhie's Avatar
      Join Date
      Apr 2011
      LD Count
      non-Euclidean
      Location
      R'lyeh
      Posts
      1,702
      Likes
      1672
      DJ Entries
      17
      So much for "30 days of Dream Yoga", eh. That month I also happened to be entering the last phase of writing my dissertation. No surprises LDing promptly fell off a cliff. The good news is that I'm now going weeks rather than months of losing focus, and lucidity is still regular (1-2 a week), but I'm not aiming for regular, I want nightly lucidity - isn't that the dream?

      I've been steadily building my dream yoga practice over the last couple of weeks, the new book by Andrew Holecek being the catalyst, resulting in a the development of a nice "hot streak". Last week I had 4 nights w/ lucidity. I also had a very vivid LD from a lengthy "epic" (ala Sensei's categorisation) after a WBTB this morning. Here is the log for the dream:

      Bedtime: 11:30(ish)
      Rise time: 10:00
      WBTB: 6:30-8:00; micro-wbtb at 2:44; 05:03, other spontaneous awakenings

      Daytime practice:
      - Zazen (15mins) [x]
      - Mindfulness/illusory form practice

      Nighttime practice:
      - MILD (at the end of wbtb) [x]
      - Red lotus dream yoga

      Technique:
      sleep cycle alarms with 90 minute margin for micro-wbtb and dream yoga
      WBTB - affirmation “Very soon, when I am dreaming, I want to remember to realise I’m dreaming”, then visualised becoming lucid
      Went back to bed doing body scan WILD technique without intent to actually WILD

      Notes:
      Dream yoga/illusory form + microwbtb alarms resulting in higher clarity, more recall and more spontaneous awakenings after dreams
      The body scan returning to sleep from WBTB seems to crucial, with far more successful WBTB's w/body scan - even if it does not result in a WILD.
      fogelbise and Patience108 like this.
      My Lucid Dreaming Articles/Tutorials:
      Mindfulness - An Alternative Approach to ADA
      Intent in Lucid Dreaming; Break that Dry-Spell, Escape the Technique Rut

      Always, no sometimes think it's me,
      But you know I know when it's a dream
      I think I know I mean a yes
      But it's all wrong
      That is I think I disagree

      -John Lennon


    8. #58
      Dream Guide - DVA Teacher Achievements:
      Made lots of Friends on DV Tagger First Class Vivid Dream Journal Populated Wall 5000 Hall Points Veteran First Class
      fogelbise's Avatar
      Join Date
      Mar 2013
      LD Count
      1090+ sncFeb'13
      Gender
      Location
      'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.'
      Posts
      2,418
      Likes
      2955
      DJ Entries
      180
      It's always good to see you around Ctharlhie Congrats on the 4 night week and getting back into your practices and finishing your dissertation it sounds like! I should have kept better records of my practices over the years like you are doing here in your workbook. I started one late in another spot, but better late than never. Your format of record keeping (your post above as an example) is a good one to copy for any others out there reading this.

    9. #59
      DVA Teacher Achievements:
      Tagger First Class Made lots of Friends on DV Referrer Bronze Huge Dream Journal Made Friends on DV Veteran First Class 10000 Hall Points
      FryingMan's Avatar
      Join Date
      Sep 2013
      LD Count
      296
      Location
      The Present Moment
      Posts
      5,384
      Likes
      6845
      DJ Entries
      951
      Yes, welcome back! I hit quite a hot streak as well from the Holecek book, it really reinvigorated me! I'm also doing the Ah/Lotus visualizations and I like them a lot.
      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

    Page 3 of 3 FirstFirst 1 2 3

    Bookmarks

    Posting Permissions

    • You may not post new threads
    • You may not post replies
    • You may not post attachments
    • You may not edit your posts
    •