Konsei's Workbook

Hey everyone, great to be on the forum again after many years. My name is Eric - I'm 26 and began lucid dreaming in my mid teens. While I stopped practice for many years, I recently got back into it and have been going through a lot of books and listening to podcasts. I am currently interested in working a bit on DILD as well as WILD, and have a medium term goal of 3 LDs per week - to keep motivated/inspired! I've had a few in the past month, but definitely need to get my recall up to par (I've been using written dream journal as I like to keep it next to my bed). Additionally, I've been meditating for quire a while, so I'm definitely interested in incorporting some of those techniques gradually as well. I've probably had somewhere around 200 or so total lucid dreams throughout my life. I would consider my first WILD a life changing experience due to its intense clarity, and was eager to continue for some time. I've had a handful of WILDS throughout the years during periods of practice, but most have been DILDS. I'm very eager to learn from experienced LDers, and those with excellent tips to enhance recall and imiprove frequencey etc. The individual feedback from members would be amazing. Excited to begin the course - thanks for the support!

Practicing a lot of reality checks and trying to incorporate some of the All Day Awareness techniques throughout the past 2 days. I started usuing a voice recorder along with my DJ in order to capture pieces of mid-night dreams (worked last night!). Still haven't had an LD, but I'm going to keep working on the dream recall and still going to use some affirmative mantras before bed and what not. Feel free to add suggestions!

Welcome Konsei! :) It sounds like you have a good amount experience coming back into lucid dreaming. Are there certain day and night practices that you would say that you enjoy the most? If not, there are some ways to make some practices more fun and thus sustainable and a steady, longer-term approach is recommended. DILD's are both FryingMan and My strength so you have come to the right place. Feel free to note progress, challenges and questions here. Do you have any questions at the moment?

Remembered 2 dream segments last night after setting intentions/using mantras. Practiced mindfulness of breath meditation for 30 mins a bit before bed. No LDs this night, but continuing reality checks, and a bit of the reverse self awareness throughout the day. Working on building recall still at this point - any tips would be great. I am lying still and trying to rewind to previous segments as much as possible, and auto suggesting that I'll be able to remember etc.

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Working on building recall still at this point - any tips would be great.

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FryingMan has incredible recall when conditions are right. He listed some great recall tips in this post: http://www.dreamviews.com/lucid-chal...ml#post2144901 One of the tips involves recalling your day before bed and I work backwards much like with most of my dream recall and it sounds like your's as well with your rewinding.

Hi Konsei!
It sounds like you are doing great and will recover your former abilities soon, I'm sure!

I have a couple links in my signature, one is to my recall tips, and one is to my "unified theory of lucid dreaming." I believe that having vivid and present dreams, that you can recall in good/great detail, is the foundation of lucid dreaming. And the key to having any vivid/present experience, be it waking or dreaming, is to train yourself to pay attention to your experiences. If you learn to pay attention to your experiences, reflect upon them (with the particular goal of identifying the dream state), and practice recalling them, that's basically the best track towards frequent lucid dreams.

Also in the sticky posts at the top of the DILD class, there is a thread with links to other interesting/important discussion threads. I think working your way through those can give you some great ideas of how to build your practice.

To emphasize it again, I believe the key to great recall is learning to pay attention to your experiences -- all the time. It's much better to be the same person when sleeping and dreaming than trying to be one way during the waking day and being another way at night while dreaming. For one thing, if you only spend effort on being aware in dreams and not during your waking day, progressing will be much slower and more difficult, because the dream state is much more challenging. You're also missing an opportunity to train your brain to operate in lucid mode if you don' t work on becoming lucid while awake.

If you have any other questions, just let us know!