Thread: Raziiel's Workbook (The Frenchy's Workbook)

Oh yes, the trailers for Doctor Strange really got me interested in all of the LD inspirations there must be in the movie! I didn't know anything about the comic but I am eager to see this!

I hope all is well!

My LD practice right now still pretty much the same, I'm trying to do a meditation session everyday, I'm trying to be as mindful as possible during the day, I'm reading things about LD and at night when I go to sleep I relax myself (almost a little meditation session), then I do the SSILD cycles and in the morning I write down or record my dreams in my head

That sounds like a good set of practices. Are you also doing RC's? For SSILD are you doing it during a WBTB?

I'm not doing any RC just wondering if I'm dreaming or not during the day and I'm not doing WBTB frequently I'll try one tonight

That wondering (reflection) is good. It is also good to couple that wondering with a RC, because in a dream that little spark of lucidity can grow to a full LD with the confirmation from a RC.

Ok, I'll try again but I don't really like doing RCs ^^

And I did a WBTB yesterday, I can only remember a long and vivid dream but nothing else, I'll do another one tonight

You should try thinking that "I love doing RCs, I love looking out for the dream state!" If you think "I don't like doing them" then you probably won't in a dream!

I wanted to share something that happened to me Friday, I was tired so I went to sleep at 23:00, I started meditating laying in bed, it lasted about 20 minutes I think, then I did a SSILD for about 10 or 15 minutes.

When I went to bed I was tired and I thought I was going to fall asleep pretty quick but after my meditation and SSILD, I was conscious but like super conscious, I was "connected" to my breathe even if I didn't wanna pay attention to it I still felt it and I was also feeling my heartbeats, I was super aware, I was in the present but that state kept me awake, I wasn't able to sleep so I decided to read but for a long time even while I was reading I was still connected to my breath (weird feeling) and I eventually fall asleep at 03:00.

Did this already happen to some of you guys ?

And how can I get over it if it happens again ?

I would try splitting up the two things…doing the meditation before bed and doing SSILD (by itself) later during WBTB (whenever you can do a WBTB; whenever you have time to sleep in). I haven't experienced it quite like that though, but my thought is that it had something to do with the type of mediation you did being combined with SSILD. SSILD is intended to be used in the middle of the night, not when first going to sleep, but I try to not discourage experimentation like that. Very interesting!

I finally saw Doctor Strange…a lot of good LD material there and they even covered astral projection! Enjoyed it!

You're probably right, I was focus during 30 or 40 minutes maybe that's too much to sleep.

I told you this is a great LD movie

Do you mean 30 to 40 minutes of SSILD? If so, I agree with you that that is too much.

I didn't watch the movie in 3D but I am thinking about seeing it a 2nd time in 3D. There were many awesome scenes!

Meditation + SSILD

I don't really like 3D movies, there're less brightness less colors and it's blurry on the sides ^^

I got lucid during 5 seconds but I succeeded

I'm gonna spare you the beginning of my dream but it was a weird one, all you need to know is that at some point, I woke up in my bedroom and still have the weird feeling I had the day before in the dream (due to something I ate or drank) and so I went to the bathroom and look at my face, my eyes were so weird you should have seen that and while I was looking at me I started loosing my teeth and I though "WTF is happening I shouldn't have done all of this, this shit is real !" and at this exact moment I thought "No it's not real you're dreaming" and I looked again in the mirror and thought about something I can't remember and 1 second after I opened my eyes I did a RC to be sure that it wasn't a FA and then I dont remember any other dreams of the night.

Tonight I'll get lucid again and improve my dream stabilization, I need to remember to stay calm, rub my hands and scream "LUCIDITY" ^^

I love looking in mirrors in dreams; that sounded interesting with the weird eyes. Congratulations! Yes, stabilization will come with time and practice but you could very well have a very stable LD on your next one! If you want to, you can update your LD count.

Keep up the great work!

I'm not sure about the LD count that was only 5 second and a while ago I got lucid for 2 or 3 second and for me that doesn't count as a LD I'm gonna have a long one for sure !

Yes! If you keep it up, I know that you will!

Hi, yesterday I tried guided meditation on Youtube, I was usually doing meditation on my own or with an app called "Headspace" (at the beginning but then you need to pay) and I loved it, I did it with this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jyy0ra2WcQQ

At the end of the session I was feeling so good, I was kind of disconnected from my body, I was in a deeper state than with my usual session

I also wanna try meditation with binaural beats or isochronic tones because I read a lot of good things about that, do you have any ideas or any good link I could use to do that ?

I think I only tried binaural or isochronic once, so I really don't have the experience to suggest anything there. That sounds like a good result from you youtube guided meditation. When you are in that deep state it should be a great time to give your mind suggestions like "The next time I'm dreaming, I realize I'm dreaming" or anything you like.

Originally Posted by fogelbise

When you are in that deep state it should be a great time to give your mind suggestions like "The next time I'm dreaming, I realize I'm dreaming" or anything you like.

Sound like a good idea I'll give it a try because usually when I get to this point I'm just being, not doing anything and not thinking at all

Do the same thing next time you have a LD !

Hi there, Happy New Year !
I wanted to say thank you to all the people that have helped me during this year, I've discovered LD almost a year ago and I'm really happy to be part of this community even if I only had 1 little LD and 2 sparks of lucidity ^^
Lucid dreaming made me discover a lot of things about the brain, the sleep schedule, the dreams, the meditation and a lot of other things.
It has change my way of perceiving life and I'm really happy about it, I feel better than ever and I hope this journey will continue
Thank you again

Exactly! Through this practice we learn and grow in wonderful ways.

I hope to see you keep at it.

Happy New Year to you as well!

Hey, it's been a while again !

I wanted to keep you up to date, I didn't give up the practice, my perception just changed a lot thanks to meditation and I'm now into astral projection (here is my thread about it if you're interested http://www.dreamviews.com/beyond-dre...rojection.html).

I wanted to know, what do you think about astral projection and out-of-body-experience ?

My personal take is that they are all lucid dreams where you begin in your room. That said, I respect the approaches used to achieve them, and I intend to study them and add them to by "WILD" toolkit.

Thanks for the link!