Hey, i am a 26 Year old Biology Student, who starts on monday his long awaited Diplomawork so i will my studies finaly at the beginning of next year.I´ve started meditating at the end of February because i have had a hard time with a break up and i needed to change something and thought it might help. After some time i saw the benefits of meditating and started to be interested in meditation, awarness, beeing a good people and and started to reconsider aims of life. A month and a half ago or so i slept by a friend who had this book about lucid dreaming. I´ve heard about it before but was never exited enough to start or read more about it. But now i thought: Hm meditation is about beeing conscious in waking life why dont start with lucid dreaming so i can be conscious while sleeping too. One day later I brought LaBerge´s Book in German and read it and startet with a DJ and some simple exercises. I´ve joined here a month ago and depenth my practice. So far i´ve got 10 LD´s and i am eager to rise up the count ;)
i still write a DJ. But not on a daily base any more. i write every LD and some long vivid dreams into my DJ. I normaly remember atleast 1 or 2 dreams a night without problem and when i intend to remember more and set a focus on it before i go to bed even 4 dreams are in. By now i notice waking up like 2-4 times a night so i don´t need an alarm for WBTB. With WBTB i´ve started just end of the last month but have had 4 LD since then. At the moment i experiment with SSILD and WILD in a combination. Most of the times my WILD´s fail but i still get lucid after a while then.
I do some random RC a day, whenever i think about it. I do the counting finger, pinching nose and some days ago started wih the thumb thru palm.
Most of the time i just get lucid by "no reason" and not because of some recurring Dreamsigns. Often i get lucid in my own room because on the one hand i practice often awarness here and on the other hand my failed WILDS start in my room then :)
just out of the blue i don´t have a lot of DILDS, what i want to change
the things i do to get better are:
-random RC (quick ones just to check if i dream)
-some days i pick up 3 or 4 events like everytime i see a blue car etc (prospective memory), but i kind of can´t stick with it on a daily base. i think i need to change it... but it is difficult. the events i have are from a thread here, maby it will work better if i pick my own.
-when i have a quite moment while doing an RC i also think about what i did before and look at my surrounding.
-at some points of the day i started sagous RRC´s
-everytime i think about it i try to be aware (like all day awarness) /SAT
-meditating 2 time a day after getting up and before getting to bed for ~30min
-before bed i recap my day as detailed as possible like it was a dream
i have found out that if i skip meditating or recaping the day i need a little more time to fall asleep + when i do a wbtb attampt i have more problems to focus.
-next week i will start working for 8h a day so i wont have so much time for practice and the question now is to focus on what of these things to still make progress and dont do to much half hearthed...
-plus i have trouble to decide on what to focus my awarness. when i go somewhere i try not to lose myself in thoughts but be aware and see what happens around me. when i do RRC i think about what have changed in the last 10min in my surrounding. sometimes i try to focus on my senses like what do i see what do i hear what do i feel and i try to remember what cloth i have on without looking.
-before i fall asleep i say something like i will have lucid dreams tonight. but maby i should to something like this over the day too but i just cant find a real good mantra i really believe because something like "next time i look at my hands i know i dream"... just don´t know... i dont remember looking at my hands in my dream until i get lucid and check it. so why use this mantra?
i´ve also started a workbook on intro class where i alrdy posted some progress and questions. but i thought why not start here too and get some more input. :)
so enough for my first post i think. when you have some more questions just ask i am really motivated to implement your input into my daily practice.
thank you ;)