Thread: Azaleaj's workbook

Meditated before bed and did usual induction techniques.

Dream about trying to get to work on time, need to drop the dog off and feel I don't have enough time. I'm in a 3-4 story house. Realize with delight I'm dreaming. Yes!

Get down on the floor for some reason. Taking things slow, not worried about waking up. Want to experiment with increasing clarity. I look at my hand then back at the room. Average visual clarity. I state, " increase clarity now" several times. This does nothing. I think, "I should fly around just exploring the environment." I jump out the window without any fear and fly through some trees. They become hyper real, very detailed and beautiful.

I'm then floating in the air and remember my goal to examine each sense. Smell and taste =nothing. Sound= sounds like a busy public place despite the fact I'm floating alone in the air in a country setting. Sensation= I think I felt a breeze on my skin. I think I entered the void here (blackness)

New scene. I'm in a busy hallway and see a big monster like man. Scary, I feel I may have a LD nightmare. Something I've never had before but read about yesterday. Oddly I also feel attracted to him. (Fade to blackness again)

Now I feel I'm just making up a story of going into some room with him. I think I was waiting for the scene to re form. I'm not sure what happened next. I think there were other parts to the LD I lost. It felt longer than what I wrote out. I never really felt in danger of waking despite the darkness.

I think I need to actually write my LDs down before going back to sleep. I usually just go over them in my head before going back to sleep and loose parts of them.

I'm loving these LDs where I'm not worried about waking up. I need to take some time and really think about what I want to focus on in dreams. I haven't spent much time on that lately. Without worrying so much about time maybe I could focus on more difficult tasks.

I've had 90% success rate this month with LD attempts. I've had 5 short, 5 med length and 5 long LDs, up to 15 mins approx. I must admit, I'm relying on sups to help. I feel a little guilty about this. I take them twice a week. No side effects so far. I read something Robert Waggoner posted about an experiment his friend did. He had his partner give him galantamine or a placebo randomly to see what the results would be. Apparently he did as well with the placebo. I know Leberge did an experiment where he found a 4-6 x increase in LD frequency with galantamine. So I'm curious about the placebo effect here.

I've set up an experiment for myself. I've put galantamine pills in gel caps and counted out an = number of caps without pills in them 10 of each. I wrapped then in foil and numbered them. I noted which numbers have actual spills in them, (long numbers so I'll never remember which are which). When taking them I'm going to note the number, open the foil without looking and take the cap. I'll keep track of my success rate and in the end look at the numbers. I'll do this after the galantamine study I'm in over the next month. I have the caps all ready to go.