Thread: JoshMcNaughts WorkBook

Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught

Dream recall was very poor last night did not remember a thing.

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Josh, I just want to say "kudos!" (congrats) for making such regular entries in your workbook. It helps you to stay focused, and I'm sure will result in the progress you're hoping for! Congrats also on your vivid dreams from the other night, there's nothing so magic as waking up from a long, fascinating set of dream experiences well installed in your memory!

Thank you, FryingMan. It's good to see you post now and then as it helps to keep me going!

I'm starting to see progress in my recall, they are becoming more vivid, like waking life.

Congrats on the excellent recall the night before last! There were also good signs that you are getting closer to becoming lucid! Sometimes we need recovery nights like the latest one, so no worries at all.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

Congrats on the excellent recall the night before last! There were also good signs that you are getting closer to becoming lucid! Sometimes we need recovery nights like the latest one, so no worries at all.

I can't wait to have my first lucid! I hope it is coming soon!

Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught

I can't wait to have my first lucid! I hope it is coming soon!

I bet it is! One thing that helps a lot of people is to continue putting in the work, but to not get too uptight or worried about whether or not you will become lucid. It's like if you are preparing for a race or test, you want to put in the intense preparation but when the starting gun fires (when going to bed or back to bed) being relaxed and confident with calm intent serves you better.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

I bet it is! One thing that helps a lot of people is to continue putting in the work, but to not get too uptight or worried about whether or not you will become lucid. It's like if you are preparing for a race or test, you want to put in the intense preparation but when the starting gun fires (when going to bed or back to bed) being relaxed and confident with calm intent serves you better.

I will echo fogelbise here: I'm sure it will be soon! Keeping your mind on the subject of dreaming and lucid dreaming, focusing on your recall like you are, will surely result in a LD soon. Anticipate it, but as fogelbise says, stay calm and not anxious or stressed. Having relaxed, confident focus yields the best results. You've already proven that you can boost dream vividness, that's basically most of the battle right there. Just keep doing what you're doing, and make it a concrete goal to be lucid in a dream. It helps to have a single thing you'd really like to do in a lucid dream always on your mind. I find that I get lucid a LOT more when I have concrete dream goals. Just "getting lucid" is not a strong enough or specific enough goal for me.

I had another good day!

Date:12/04/16

Total sleep:

Daytime Techniques: reality checks and ADA

Lucid Techniques:SSILD

Recall Techniques: laying still upon awakening

Fell Asleep:1.30

Dream Title: comp: the hot girl

Dream: they was a girl and other people I didn't know but one of the girls where super hot. More people appeared, it what looked like to be some type ot track, going all the way around in a square. Not sure what for, but I had a pen and paper, and I was kinda getting frustrated because I had to act out the writing which seemed forever impossible. As the dream moves on the house starts to take back it's form once again. It's a beautiful house! Where upstairs and her grand mother rings worrying about where she is, I was confused on what was happening, but I gone a long with it! Things got quiet, a little too quiet, her nan was ringing my phone now, I didn't want to answer it because for one I didn't know her and two I didn't know what to do. Her nan asked me where she was? I had the feeling that the girl didn't want me to tell her so I didn't and stood in silence then soon hung up the phone. While walking back and fourth with her, we was thinking when she would be back because she went shopping. We didn't know what to do. Next thing we know she walks through the door, we try to be as quiet as possible and hope that she doesn't come upstairs. She's making cakes but doesnt seem worried at all.

The dream goes somewhere else, it's a road I know iwl, but this time it's like the girl think I don't exist, like she has never met me before. As I am walking down the street I look in the shop and I see her standing there, damn, she's so hot haha, but we don't know each other thing time, I want to go in their but it feels like I am walking with her boyfriend and he tells me not and to keep on walking but I refuse and go to walk home to get some money.

I remember being with my girlfriends brother, we walked into this no existing run, it looked all metal and weird but I didn't really pay attention to it! I was on a game what felt like to be called call of duty black ops 3, but it wasn't it wasn't later out the same. I'm on it, but I wasn't holding on a pad on the dream? And it didn't even look like it was on a screen! I play on it, select the game mode but the guns seem the same and her brother goes "that's right josh" then I woke up.

I remember being in a dream with my brother and there was another hot girl, damn feels like pornhuh tonight haha, all is going well, but something bad happenied in the dream eaelier on which I don't remember so I'm casually sitting in her bed room with her, he keeps messaging her on Skype, flirting with her and so I kinda get jealous, I'm always the jealous one haha! I felt angry like I wanted to kill him lol, it feels as if she has feelings for me the way she responds to him. Time seems very fast in the dream world though, he sent a message and then next thing it said he had been offline for 42 minutes.

Awake:7.57

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)1 hour, then they got shorter

Emotions:

Dream Signs:dream world

Tags (optional)

I will echo fogelbise here: I'm sure it will be soon! Keeping your mind on the subject of dreaming and lucid dreaming, focusing on your recall like you are, will surely result in a LD soon. Anticipate it, but as fogelbise says, stay calm and not anxious or stressed. Having relaxed, confident focus yields the best results. You've already proven that you can boost dream vividness, that's basically most of the battle right there. Just keep doing what you're doing, and make it a concrete goal to be lucid in a dream. It helps to have a single thing you'd really like to do in a lucid dream always on your mind. I find that I get lucid a LOT more when I have concrete dream goals. Just "getting lucid" is not a strong enough or specific enough goal for me.

I think for now, it's doing reality checks and stablizeation. I'm thinking about lucid dreaming alot now and just waiting for mt awareness to kick in.

I'm not stressed about it, I'm casually just being patient but also working very hard to get it soon.

Something weird happened after SSILD, mind was wandering, after a couple of minutes I was in a dream, but I woke up being confused, it felt like a dream but at the same time it felt like it wasn't.

I was questioning myself was it a dream or not.

Congrats on the good results again! I read signs that you were questioning things, which is great and indicates your are still heading in the right direction.

Originally Posted by JoshMcNaught

Something weird happened after SSILD, mind was wandering, after a couple of minutes I was in a dream, but I woke up being confused, it felt like a dream but at the same time it felt like it wasn't.

I was questioning myself was it a dream or not.

See my PM response and let me know in this thread if you have any questions. Also feel free to expand on what you mean in the quote above (what the dream in question felt like or consisted of, etc).

Date: 13.4.16

Total sleep:8

Daytime Techniques: reality checks

Lucid Techniques:SSILD

Recall Techniques: mantras and stay still upon awakening

Fell Asleep:1

Dream Title:

Dream:I was in town with a friend of mine called Neil,he has just bought a dog and it was the cutest thing ever! He wanted to go to Mexico but I said no because I'm terrified of planes. I was questioning whether I should of not, I was eager to! But apart of me wouldn't let me! So, he tells me to follow him, and we end up in a street we know iwl and we are at the bus stop and waiting for the number 76 bus, but the weird thing is that the 76 doesn't stop at that bus stop! There where 2 girls there that where absolute stunning, Neil started chatting to them and I went kinda shy so he introduced me to them and one of them said "he's shy" then suddenly mt attitude changes and I become so cocky. One of them States that she went to my primary school. We see the bus, and I'm thinking is he going to pay for me or what? So I tell him that I'm going to walk home, even though it's going to take me ages.

The dream changed, I walking the opposite way from home and find this bar, it's got my old friends in and they own it! The main character was called Steven and was dressed rather odd. We went inside having a little chat, I felt abit awkward but I never knew why, I was suppose to go to Mexico but didn't. He then grabbed me and pulled and sat me down and changed my name title to green as if I was apart of a website and I was being promoted. I wake up trying to remember my dreams not knowing it was a FA and when I remember my dreams I go straight back into the dream, things have changed, there is someone there that seems violent, he tries to kill me but I'm all honestly it was like I was in a game, I could see his health bar and we had colour guns so it was no doubt a game! Then I woke up.

Awake:

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

Awareness: (1-10; or lucid)

Length: (how long it felt like! Because that matters)
Felt like 2 hours

Emotions:

Dream Signs: the whole dream world

Tags (optional):

I remember talking to my friends and wondering how to have a Fa, they where wondering the same. There are a man that tried to make me meditate in a dream, I don't know why he just did. This man also seemed to be a killer as it felt like I was in a dream. He was trying to be someone else I knew but he wasn't and I find out for myself kn the end.


Hell kicked off as Jack came into Hannah's room trying to be a big man, so he later a finger in me and so I screamed in his face, thays what happened when you don't have respest for family family members. I also remember being on a football field and a and an old friend was there from school and my actually real care worker IWL. I didn't want him to see him but I think he might off, where just casually started kicking the all around the field doing weird tricks. My phone dissapeared as we where playing so it was like I needed to find my phone but I don't want to just get up and leave and start finding it as it might be a bit rude. We stopped playing and sat down so I went to find my phone then but it wasn't to be seen, I kept looking and I pick up the grass then there it was just laying there.

I remember watching some guy get chased by something while on a skateboard and thought hell yeah that's awesome! I try it, I'm outside, I'm looking for my skateboard, it pops upto me and I go, it seems like a video game and it's hard to turn the wheels, I figured that I was driving it the wrong way and had re-adjust the comtrols haha so it was easier. As I'm riding along the streets, I see a beautiful car, a very shiny read car, it looked so amazing I got off the skateboard and wanted to have it for myself so as I go to get it, it suddenly dissapears.

There where something to do with wrestlers and one girl wrestler, I don't know what they where doing and I don't know why, but they started doing some long speech about there carrer, they looked sad, they came out and said that they where all going to fake there death then moment they perform there entrance with all excitement and ripping off all there clothes.

I was with some random DCs and one of them was talking about lucid dreaming, about how he couldn't get lucid, one of them said "it takes upto a month" so then I'm shown a little memory, of how a DC has missed being lucid, I was kinda frustrated in the dream! Then we started to talk about WILD, and watch a DC have a successfull WILD! Too bad I didn't realise I was dreaming! There was a girl that had been missing but didn't know where she had gone, but she left her phone in the house and everytone one was worried.

I was in the school hallway, it was random, I didn't recognise ot anyway, I notice how one the girls in their try to hit on me, not knowing it was a Dream i totally forgot about my girlfriend, Hannah. My phone kept going off so I had to keep recharging it for some reason. Something weird happened that I cannot quite grasp one once I woke up. The dream turned into like a big screen and she was showing me all the programming language a that I needed to do a specific thing. For android(my phone) it looked like HNDROID.

I was in a class room with a man that wasn't even teaching, just sitting there, you get the one of two students that think there funny because I went outside I went to see how they where and one then just acted like a complete idiot so I went back inside, argumenta arise and so they tend to get a little bit cheeky so the teacher sat them down and completely just knocks them both out haha. I come back in and ask him if I can punch them but I wasn't allowed to. As the dream carries on they come back causing more trouble trying to have a fight with me but that doesn't happen. So they kinda just disappear from the dream for a bit, I felt like I was being tormented but i was glad because they teacher had my side. I was thinking to myself, the teacher is going to get kicked out if he's doing that to students it's bad, but I just realised I don't give a shit have. The teacher then does somehing funny, he goes into the other room and jumps on the teachers back and pulls her skirt down and replays a couple of times. I was getting ready for my family to come to school but I don't know why they where coming, as they got here, my step Mum said "I'll tell them your my son" and I just completely agreed and then my dad walk in I was shocked he didn't say a word and just sat down. It Carries on and turns into a bus, I have no chlothes on accept underwear, and me and Hannah are suppose to be getting off next stop. I thought that Hannah got off the bus with me but completely didn't! As I got off it changed, the enviroment changed, everything changed and I was lost, but then I realised Hannah's was only round the corner, as the bus went it looked like my dad was crying and Hannah sitting there sad. It drove away and as I step into the middle of the road this fast yellow car comes along and I nearly get ran over, I was so terrified!

Originally Posted by Habba

I was with some random DCs and one of them was talking about lucid dreaming, about how he couldn't get lucid, one of them said "it takes upto a month" so then I'm shown a little memory, of how a DC has missed being lucid, I was kinda frustrated in the dream! Then we started to talk about WILD, and watch a DC have a successfull WILD! Too bad I didn't realise I was dreaming! There was a girl that had been missing but didn't know where she had gone, but she left her phone in the house and everytone one was worried.

I was in the school hallway, it was random, I didn't recognise ot anyway, I notice how one the girls in their try to hit on me, not knowing it was a Dream i totally forgot about my girlfriend, Hannah. My phone kept going off so I had to keep recharging it for some reason. Something weird happened that I cannot quite grasp one once I woke up. The dream turned into like a big screen and she was showing me all the programming language a that I needed to do a specific thing. For android(my phone) it looked like HNDROID.

I was in a class room with a man that wasn't even teaching, just sitting there, you get the one of two students that think there funny because I went outside I went to see how they where and one then just acted like a complete idiot so I went back inside, argumenta arise and so they tend to get a little bit cheeky so the teacher sat them down and completely just knocks them both out haha. I come back in and ask him if I can punch them but I wasn't allowed to. As the dream carries on they come back causing more trouble trying to have a fight with me but that doesn't happen. So they kinda just disappear from the dream for a bit, I felt like I was being tormented but i was glad because they teacher had my side. I was thinking to myself, the teacher is going to get kicked out if he's doing that to students it's bad, but I just realised I don't give a shit have. The teacher then does somehing funny, he goes into the other room and jumps on the teachers back and pulls her skirt down and replays a couple of times. I was getting ready for my family to come to school but I don't know why they where coming, as they got here, my step Mum said "I'll tell them your my son" and I just completely agreed and then my dad walk in I was shocked he didn't say a word and just sat down. It Carries on and turns into a bus, I have no chlothes on accept underwear, and me and Hannah are suppose to be getting off next stop. I thought that Hannah got off the bus with me but completely didn't! As I got off it changed, the enviroment changed, everything changed and I was lost, but then I realised Hannah's was only round the corner, as the bus went it looked like my dad was crying and Hannah sitting there sad. It drove away and as I step into the middle of the road this fast yellow car comes along and I nearly get ran over, I was so terrified!

Oh that is brilliant. You are doing so well. Let's keep at this together till we have the complete hang of it.

Originally Posted by DannyCool

Oh that is brilliant. You are doing so well. Let's keep at this together till we have the complete hang of it.

I would of had recalled one or two more dreams if I would of wrote them down. I woke up and my phone was dead so I thought I would mentally tag the important parts. Once I put my phone on charge and went back asleep I woke up and forgot the previous dream.

Dreams seems to be getting more vivid and intense.

Can't remember much for now.

Dream Journal Goal Completed [x].

I recalled 19 dreams within 6 days.

I was in a house but it also felt like I was also on some website receiving private messages from a person about world peace. If I remembered correctly "dont aid it". I feel nice and calm and peaceful upon awakening. Although I had the sense that Hannah was there and we got into some sort of an argument. My recall has dropped this last 2 days my recall is less vivid. I was thinking about a reality check. But as I'm writing this down it feels as though I done a reality check and nothing happened.

I'm pisses off... whyyy

Recall can ebb and flow, even for the best, so fret not! And you already know that you are capable of good recall and sometimes recall just takes a breather. If you did do an RC in your dream, that is important progress! I think if you had the feeling that you did, you probably did. As with recall, sometimes the best we can do is remember a general feeling from the dream. Many of us have had good recall that we did an RC in a dream and it showed we were awake and went on with the dream as normal, but that also shows us how close we were and edges us nearer to becoming fully lucid. Keep it up

I had a rather sexual dream last night, i was trying to get in touch with my sister but all she does it blank me 2/7 so I know the end result but that doesn't stop me sending her a message. I sent her a message, saying that I have a baby and I was waiting for her to reply I wanted her to reply, I kept thinking about if she would read the message. Next thing I know I'm having sex with some random stranger, I can't see her face or nothing only her bottom half of her body.

I remember being in some house sitting with Hannah and the rest of her family, just caually doing nothing but sitting there. There where about 2 tablets and my phone. I was thinking she doesn't have a phone IWL and she looked sad, I felt awful, I was on my phone just browsing until one of her family members comes over and asks for a go. His name his sam and I give him a go, next minute you just start to see the phone menlting on the table, it's impossible to many! How has that even mebtled? I crumbled up and didn't know what to do because I couldn't post on DV anymore but I got on with it,I told Hannah to look at my phone because all you can see is that it turned into a gaint egg! Sam comes back over and puts his hand in the egg and pulls out a leg of chicken and I was can i eat it and he says no.

I haven't really put any thought into what I want to do while I'm lucid.

Lucid dream Goals.
--Focus on stabilizing the dream.
--Walking around immersing all my senses into the dream world.

It's nice to see your recall improving!

Originally Posted by Habba

I haven't really put any thought into what I want to do while I'm lucid.

Lucid dream Goals.
--Focus on stabilizing the dream.
--Walking around immersing all my senses into the dream world.

I would suggest to think of something fun or exciting to add to your goals there. The 2nd one can be rather exciting, but I am not sure how tangible that one will be to your mind. You might want to add something specific like flying or floating, or anything that gets you excited about lucid dreaming and if you imagine doing them while awake it can make your RC's and day work have more impact.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

It's nice to see your recall improving!

I would suggest to think of something fun or exciting to add to your goals there. The 2nd one can be rather exciting, but I am not sure how tangible that one will be to your mind. You might want to add something specific like flying or floating, or anything that gets you excited about lucid dreaming and if you imagine doing them while awake it can make your RC's and day work have more impact.

Hey! Lucid Dreaming in general makes me over all excited, I maybe do what you have said once a day, flying and telekinesis. I will start to do this several times a day.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

It's nice to see your recall improving!

I would suggest to think of something fun or exciting to add to your goals there. The 2nd one can be rather exciting, but I am not sure how tangible that one will be to your mind. You might want to add something specific like flying or floating, or anything that gets you excited about lucid dreaming and if you imagine doing them while awake it can make your RC's and day work have more impact.

I agree 100% with this. I had the (abstract) goal for a long time of "narrating the dream" (sort of doing a running DJ entry for the dream while experiencing it), but it took a looooooooong time for this to finally happen. I find the more concrete and immediate my goals are (for example, performing a task from the Task Of The Month club), the sooner and easier I achieve lucidity. I also have a running goal of immersing my senses in the dream experience, but I find that is too vague to trigger lucidity reliably.

At the same time, it is very useful to practice/rehearse while awake your "I just got lucid!" moment. The more you do this, the easier it is to perform. I like to form an acronym for the things I want to do/remember when I get lucid. My phrase is "B.E. S.T.R.O.N.G.". Things like "breathe, enjoy, stabilize/slow down, remember [waking body in bed], narrate, goals." In my experience that is a few too many but I've stuck with it so far and it's easy for me to remember in a dream because I've rehearsed it so many times.

I think that lucid ritual is where you should put your reminder to immerse your senses into the dream world, but also maintain some changing/evolving/exciting concrete goals (like: flying, going to space, visiting a fantasy world, teleporting, etc.)

Okay, normally I say that I'm with Hannah because she's my girlfriend but this is a different story, and I was with a friend and and I was with another girl. I can't really describe where I was it kept changing, sometimes a house sometimes a bout. I'm with this, I notice that I have been with her before by the way I feel. I actually like her for some odd reason. There was a man, not sure what he looked like, but he threatened to bomb surrey! I was so made up with the idea I loved it! We are talking about where he placed the bomb, he said he placed it by a couple of Windows and approximately 9 people would die, I thought there was going to be alot more but I was happy with 9. So I was just waiting for it to go off, then I suddenly see this image that it went off.... it felt good. I asked a very awkward question to the Man, "are they dead"? The dream shifted again, back to relationships, I dont know what the girl looked like but she was trying to tease me about someone else, but I wasn't really bothered. We was talking about breaking up and what would happen if we did, I had a image in my head that I said she could keep my clothes but when we break up I take them right back off her.

Fragment - I was trying to figure out what was around with the man because he wouldn't tell me.

I was having a conversation on how I was going to get possessed, one of the dcs came up with an idea and next minute I started to change. I started to act differently, I want downstairs to see everyone and I thought I would act normal, but I was having too much fun! They knew what was wrong with me.

Woke up after 4 hours then set it to go off every hour. Had quite a few dreams but they felt foggy.

Just make sure the alarms aren't affecting your quality of sleep. If so, switch to the water method. The water method seems to wake me at the end of REM, but I guess that depends on how bad you have to pee! Are you still trying SSILD, even if only on the weekends?

Originally Posted by fogelbise

Just make sure the alarms aren't affecting your quality of sleep. If so, switch to the water method. The water method seems to wake me at the end of REM, but I guess that depends on how bad you have to pee! Are you still trying SSILD, even if only on the weekends?

I don't mind using alarms, I get atleast 8-12 hours of sleep per night. I do SSILD now and then, but since I've been waking up 3/4 times a night so I could practice SSILD during my wakings.

Hannah was disguised as Kim
Kardashian, damn, she looked so hot. It was weird, we was in a weird scenario. I didnt exactly know what happened but Brock lesner was there from ufc/wresling. Anywho, hannahs mum was there, it was her birthday and shraon and Jack appares too, hannahs brother and auntie. She was smoking a ciggarette and Hannah have her device to monitor her levels while she smoked it. She put it on her foot while her sick was on, I asked why not take your sock off? I don't remember the reply. She puts margies presents on the bag and the thing that stands most in the cake haha. I'm walking upstairs and Margie is going to the bedroom, I say happy birthday and give her the stuff, I expected a hug but then I got that awkward feeling and we went down stairs and as an looked in the bag she said "another scotch".