Thread: JoshMcNaughts WorkBook

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Tonight's always another night! You can try recalling your day before bed, reviewing dream signs, and set intent to be aware of your dreams during the night.

My sleeping pattern is well, a mess! Going to bed different times each night, that needs be sorted out.

On the plus side, I feel like I'm making progress even though I haven't had a lucid dream. I'm enjoying doing my daily practices, trying to make them a habit, I feel like there is no rush and I have all the time in the world.

Things still need to be worked on though. ADA is being aware of the subtle things, I've gave it a little twist to fit what I thinks right. When I stop randomly, I ask myself "where am i"? Then instead of focusing mainly on the outside, I pay attention to my thoughts, how I'm feeling, for example if I'm laying on a bed, I will take note of how the bed feels, how my skin feels, but also paying attention to the noises and examining around the place.

Instead of focusing on one thing im bringing all of my senses into it. Then I ask the big question "am I dreaming" then perform a reality check.

Once this happens, I get the feeling that I feel more grounded to reality itself. (Does that make sense?)

I'm taking it on step a time!

I posted about my problems on my life problems page, and see that I had a reply off someone i have never seen on the forum! While I was reading it I didn't understand some of the words that was being said.

I remember my friend luke was in college and he got paid for going, so I walked up to college with him, there where 3 shutters and the middle one was open, I asked why it wasn't closing. The dream carried on and we walked into this big old grey building, me and him where smoking on my eciggarette but I notice how the smoke was getting upto the smoke alarm so I ran out the place.

That being said, I remember being in a room with my girlfriend and her friend. She gave me her phone while I looked at something and honestly I've never seen a phone like it, it barely even had a screen on it

Bolder out the stuff that stood out while I analysed my dream this morning.

I've been practising nearly 3 weeks now, I wouldn't of thought I would still be practising since I give up quite quickly! I'm sticking to it this time though! I normally focus on the negatives but lately it's different, I've Been practising a lot and I always have my goal in mind! The excitment is what makes me carry on each day!

Bed time 3.30 am - 11.29

I already had ciggarettes but I wanted more so they could last me so me and Ryan ( my friend in reality) walked to the shop. Once we arrived to the shop it looked weird as normally the cigarettes are behind the counter and they weren't. They where above head level. I stood there for quite some time trying to pick which cigarettes I wanted but I couldn't tell the price on them as much as I wanted. He offered to sell me some Cigarette lipstick and ciggarette drinks ( what the hell ) this man look to be from India, mustache and black hair. I seen an old friend out
side the shop and It made me feel uneasy so I hid in the shop. I seen another friend with him and he use to be my best mate In reality. He came into the shop and we started chatting, he said he was enjoying
secondary school. I eventually bought cigarettes and disappeared from the shop ended up on some roof top! Someone from my past was there with me that I really hate but nothing happened, we seen Windows( it was my old friends place ) and I just hear the noise of Windows smashing mentally because I really wanted to smash it, the dream carries on and I get my ciggaretes out and it seems like i smoked about 4 or 5 when I didn't even really touch them, but I give one to Ryan and one to my other mate, he shows me that he has 2 but I still give him one anyway.

I missed a part out.

the shop kind of extended and I was looking at magazines and I acknowledge too workers that work there. She moves the rack so I can see clearly but all of them are all about wrestling, I don't know about her but I had that awkward feeling.



Bolded almost the things that are unusual!

I realized in last night's dream that the dream ciggarette alcohol and lipstick was rather weird, I don't know why this didn't trigger anything!

I WILL have a lucid dream, I WILL succeed!

No recall from my dreams last night, abit pissed about it.

Alright, I'm seeing progress!
Wake up time - 533

I was on a bus with an old time friend listening to music, I couldn't remember a lot of it, but I also remember meeting another old friend which it felt uneasy on the bus,he looked different but very real. I noticed how my phone battery was about to go off. I'm not sure why but I had the feeling I was dreaming about something to do with REM, there where these qualifications I would need to get to be a certain dream searcher. We ended back at his house and my dad knew his dad and we was chatting about how my dad use to be a painter.

I woke up, not in reality and asked myself the question (why didn't I do a reality check in my dream?) (Why didn't I check my state?)

It was like I was looking back on my dream in my dream!

I remember being in wwe trying to sort thigs out the kane but whenever i tried to help he stabbed me when we hugged. There where lots of people. I remember he changed so fast for the commentators, he was now sitting down with a nice grey suit on.

Recall was awful, took me 5-10 minutes to remember a fragment. It's very weird, I remember a decent dream one night, then I hardly remember the next night and it keeps on going in that cycle.

Anymore recall tips? I use mantras before sleep, reading my dream dairy before I nod off and when I wake up I remain still and try and remember.

Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught

Alright, I'm seeing progress!
Wake up time - 533

I was on a bus with an old time friend listening to music, I couldn't remember a lot of it, but I also remember meeting another old friend which it felt uneasy on the bus,he looked different but very real. I noticed how my phone battery was about to go off. I'm not sure why but I had the feeling I was dreaming about something to do with REM, there where these qualifications I would need to get to be a certain dream searcher. We ended back at his house and my dad knew his dad and we was chatting about how my dad use to be a painter.

I woke up, not in reality and asked myself the question (why didn't I do a reality check in my dream?) (Why didn't I check my state?)

It was like I was looking back on my dream in my dream!

Great in the true definition of a lucid dream that is a lucid dream keep going keep going keep going

Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught

I remember being in wwe trying to sort thigs out the kane but whenever i tried to help he stabbed me when we hugged. There where lots of people. I remember he changed so fast for the commentators, he was now sitting down with a nice grey suit on.

Recall was awful, took me 5-10 minutes to remember a fragment. It's very weird, I remember a decent dream one night, then I hardly remember the next night and it keeps on going in that cycle.

Anymore recall tips? I use mantras before sleep, reading my dream dairy before I nod off and when I wake up I remain still and try and remember.

Time, consistent repetition, and intention. Really feel how important great dream recall is to you. More important than the words in the mantra is the feeling you get, that internal understanding, that "I remember my dreams."

I will sometimes spend up to even 30 minutes reviewing dreams in the morning, reaching and waiting for more memories to come in. As much time as you can do on a regular basis really helps to build the channels in your brain related to retrieving dream memories.

Also, train yourself to pay attention to all your experiences, both waking and dreaming. We remember best that to which we pay attention! I have 3 links in my signature, one to my recall tips, one to my "pay attention" suggestion (unified theory of lucid dreaming), and one to the interesting/informative links to other LD discussion threads.

Also, putting off any waking thoughts until you're out of bed is very important I think.

As I write in my tips, a great way to kickstart recall is to set intention to notice every waking during the night, and using that time to recall any prior dreams.

I remember roaming around with a smelly sock on, I put in my friends face in it and he puked! It turns out that It was a battery pack and that the sock was connected to a phone. The dream faded and I remember entering to what I would call a black void, in this I was watching myself sleep and It was like I was watching my sleep cycle for any dreams I've had in the night.

What if this could be a method for better recall, instead of just practising it in our waking life, we should practice it in our dreams.

We where in old down town, a very old town but there was one problem everyone seemed to have their own problem. The thing about this dream is that if you knew how to WILD your where good as dead. Lots of people fighting, running, screaming,jumping! I came up with an old friend again in a previous dream who was chasing me and i would bump into me of times. I woke up, I felt the dream fade, I kept my eyes still and body still and wanted to perform a DEILD but I stumbledand didn't know how to 're enter. Back asleep I go, awake one again, I was with all my old friends again but this time I was more violent, I was goin through the past with the people I've hurt

Having dreams related to REM and WILDs just indicate that my first LD is on its way!

I remember standing off a corner of the street; my corner street and I had something that some body needed, I dont know what but it felt like I was in a cage. Repeatedly through the dream 2 strange people would come up to me and ask for it. One was polite and the other wasn't, I felt like he was the type to just come and get what he wants. The dreamscape changes, I'm on my old secondary school playing and we have this battle, it feels weird. We just end up beating them apart for no apparent reason until they are hurt. I woke up and thought I had a false awakening but I never, but I'm my mind I still performed a reality check just in case.

I was online on dreamviews, I noticed how I seen yuppie was online.

Wait I remember some other details. Scooby doo was having sex with the hot girl and then I take his place, the sex felt nice. She didn't want me to cum in her but i felt it coming until she stopped me and it slipped out then began talking and It looked like her vagina has green mould on.

Nothing as off last night as I had to get up early to go to a money management course.

Just started practising Stephen Laberge Present state of consciousness exercise but with a little twist.

I have a timer that goes off every minute, each sense lasts a minute, each day I will increase the time I spend on a sense by I minute.

Moved it upto 2 minutes on each sense.

There is some girl that I feel like she has been cursed, it's just she's just saying random stuff to me and I'm just like "Go away". It seemed like I was at my old father's house at the time but Iy changed. It was pouring with rain outside. The room exapded there was a big freezer in the middle of it, a bunch of wreslers where by it, I thought hell was going to break loose but it doesn't, there was just anger in there faces. Anyhow I woke up and performed a WBTB then went back to sleep with the intention to lucid dream. I was finding myself playing a game of zombies( I was actually in the game) it was so awesome, I had the Raygun and MG42, as I'm watching the other people take on the zombies he gets in the air and stays in there and I want to be able to do that, next thing I know my gun randomly stays in the air, I jump on it but still won't put me enough in the air. So I get down. The room was very small, very old, grey bricks. We start shooting again but then next minute it says 3 times revive ( when no one needs to be revived ) and so we still keep shooting. Any who that dream chaned now and I was with an old mate again, I was by my father's house, I payed attention though, there where no people except from my friend, and no cars. I try to some sell him the new call ot duty and I say it's "epic" but in reality it's aload of crap.

I was in a random house with my family and the hot tv star Alena Gilbert from vampire diaries. It was all going all good until we received freaky phone call a from the other side ( spirit world) this started to freak us out, there was a brown round table, it had all sorts of object on and the floor seemed to be white with a pattien on. We was having a laugh and ignored the phone calls but they got serious, they got life threatening, whatever is was, It was present with us and gave us a nasty feeling. I feel like it was a attached to man who owned the house. He was quite popular on Twitter. Talking about the hot tv star again we where then on the side of a swimming pool side and Elena jumps into the pool, It felt like she was tryin to drown herself, but little did we know it wasnt Elena. This escalated quite badly, cadles where blown out and whichever which way I wanted to run she would dissapeare and reappear infront of me. We ended up back on the house talking about it then a close carer for me shows up in the dream he knows how to get rid of negative spirits and what not, so the phone rang again, and it was the spirit so he answered and it said doesnt anyone wanna speak to me? So he asks who wants to? Being the idiot I said me, he refused and told me to ignore it, for everyone to ignore it.

When I first started I barely even remembered my dreams. Now, I'm writing more, there becoming more vivid. Remembering around 2-3 a night now so it's not bad!

Let's by starting this one and say that I was a human in the tv series vampire diaries. I was merely just investigating with Elena and Daemon since. It would feel like I was watching it also, daemon has been trying to get on the good side to win back Elena but it wont just happen because of Stephen. They where in some weird town, like some big hill full of darkness, stairs, grass, trees, skeletons, but when watching one travel through it feels much larger, like the dream expanded. I remember part of the dream where Elena comments "why are they doing this to them?" They where running, but not on fear. Elena had a beautiful white dress while daemon was wearing all black.

It is great to see you putting in the work and continuing to work on your recall. It looks like you are having some interesting dreams. Enjoy them as you work towards lucidity. Have we talked about acting out dream actions during your day? (best when alone )

Originally Posted by fogelbise

It is great to see you putting in the work and continuing to work on your recall. It looks like you are having some interesting dreams. Enjoy them as you work towards lucidity. Have we talked about acting out dream actions during your day? (best when alone )

Thank you! I'm starting to be more present in my dreams and nope not yet.

Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught

Thank you! I'm starting to be more present in my dreams and nope not yet.

Your welcome. Since we haven't talked about it, it basically involves finding fun dream-like solutions and scenarios in your everyday life. Stuck in traffic, imagine how in a dream you fly up and out of traffic (with your vehicle or not). You have some obstacle in front of you while walking, imagine flying up over the obstacle. See someone cute, imagine locking eyes, love at first sight and you just can't resist each other. Find ways that inspire you and combine them with your RC's and you may find yourself doing this in your dreams before long. It also brings more presence and attention to your RC's or other day practices. Also, WBTB is excellent for awakening the lucidity in those dreams where you are becoming more present.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

Your welcome. Since we haven't talked about it, it basically involves finding fun dream-like solutions and scenarios in your everyday life. Stuck in traffic, imagine how in a dream you fly up and out of traffic (with your vehicle or not). You have some obstacle in front of you while walking, imagine flying up over the obstacle. See someone cute, imagine locking eyes, love at first sight and you just can't resist each other. Find ways that inspire you and combine them with your RC's and you may find yourself doing this in your dreams before long. It also brings more presence and attention to your RC's or other day practices. Also, WBTB is excellent for awakening the lucidity in those dreams where you are becoming more present.

Thank you for help, will add this to my Reality Checks starting tommorow. I've started doing WBTB lately, I've noticed that I remember more dreams by doing this.

Small fragment.
I remember being on the bus with Hannah and she wanted to sit on a clean bus seat so I moved all he rubbish, she sat down and so did I then she started hugging my leg. The bus was rather empty.

Date: 10th April 2016

Total sleep:8 hours

Daytime Techniques: Mainly Just reality checks

through out the day.

Lucid Techniques:MILD

Recall Techniques: "I will remember my dreams" and laying still upon waking to make it easier to recall.

Fell Asleep: 1.50am -- 2.15am

Dream Title: recall boosted up! Long vivid dreams.

Dream: i awoke 3.58 I was in a jungle with a bunch of random people, didn't know what I was doing there, probably just roaming a little bit. I had this sense that my body parts where peices to another world, like there was another world to experience. I was then transported to a place, you as was limited on what you knew, if you was ever successfull you could carry on, I was approached by many Muslim deaths on the floor but didn't think of nothing off it. I was with sensei, I couldn't see him but had that "knowing feeling". We was doing some experiment on him and suddenly he starts shaking. Next thing you hear is "don't - wake up don't wake up." Then I woke up.

I remember going down to the store to see if I could find any books on Ouija Boards or paranormal experiences books, I could see my old friends luke and immediately shot over to him and said hi, and Ryan appeared to, he said that he has been sending messages to me so I get my phone out and check so I do. (I already knew that he has). We started talking about the past how I use to get jealous of when I use to shout at him for speaking to a certain someone's so I drift of looking around the shop, I stumbled upon the book section and a bunch of books showed up, can't remember names sadly.

I remember then just being on the bus with my girlfriend, we was going somewhere but I don't remember, but there was this girl I was arguing with and it was like some sort of fake memory as I don't think it really happened. She got me off the bus to distract me, what for? We find out soon enough. So as I'm sitting on the bus I cannot even make a single word without complaining. But as I got to say something my sister from reality is there! I was made up because I don't see her iwl, but then there was hell on earth I felt my skin burn up, goin red and about to cry with anger that she didn't tell me she was pregnant (she didn't tell m iwl) and so I get off the bus, and so did they and I got tricked, you know how i said about the fake memory? Yeah i feel like i taken off the bus and put back on, but it never really happened. It turned out the bus number was wrong. It was pitch black it looked as real as reality, I was brought to some park and was locked inside. Lots of people where there, the place has a nasty vibe to it, I didn't like ir one bit, but it turns out that I know the owner! He got a steel bar and let me out, it's a big tunnel, I didr know it was a water slide until I get in! So I get ontop off it and nearly fall down the whole lol, so I jumped carefully! And off I went, there where challenges though, going under water in alcohol, I didn't like it! Then as I carried it the dream wanted me to show a message from me and girlfriends chat so it pops up, clearly to read and bam awake I get!

This dream was long but I might have a clue where to start, I might cut it short as these detailed one take me like 15-20 mins to write up. I feel like I've had the same part of the dream before, weird. I was with a house with some sex freaky pest and some hot women, we where all alone, so you know, she ripped her pants, and well you know we had sex, I don't think I need to go indetail on the details. But I ejaculated so quickly that I didn't even feel it! She ran off and now I remember being back in some room, it must of been back in time because a man was locked in a horse cage haha. His brother comes in, and says she he doesn't want to help him and gives him a key secretly and pulls out a gun. .... then I wake up

I walked home and seen that that a few boys at my door, I excuse the lads and walk in, Tony (my support worker) wasn't there so I looked at the tv, it was stuff on a certain lead (for example example HTMI) and I see a laptop on the table, suddenly he walks in and complains that he cant find the house remote.

Awake: 3.58, 5.48, 8.21, 9.30

Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness)

Awareness: (1-10; or lucid)

Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters) like an hour, second dream felt like over an hour

Emotions:

Dream Signs: the whole dream world

Tags (optional):sexy, scary, shameful

I felt really drained yesterday, hence why I went to bed at 10.30PM.
Date: 11/4/16
Total sleep:11 hours
Daytime Techniques: present state of consciousness and reality checks
Lucid Techniques:
Recall Techniques: wbtb and lie still upon awakening
Fell Asleep: 10.30
Dream Title:Fragment
Dream: I remember traveling along the sea just to have a like a 3 course meal which a bunch of people I don't know.

I also remembering being at a theme park with some friends from the past.
Awake:9.30
Vividness: (scale of 1-15, 10 is waking life vividness)10
Awareness: (1-10; or lucid)
Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters)
Emotions:awkwardness
Dream Signs:
Tags (optional):