Thread: Azaleaj's workbook

I’ts been a while since I’ve posted on here. I have not had a lucid dream in a while mostly due to laziness and fear of failure. I do still keep a daily dream journal and take a twice monthly dream interpretation class which is really enjoyable. I plan on getting back into my lucid dream practice and know it will take some effort. No work tomorrow so I’ll give it a go tonight. Hopefully posting on here will help hold me accountable and up my motivation a bit. I’m amazed to see a few of the same people on here still working diligently! That is admirable.

Tonight I’ll do a visualization and set my intention before bed. I’ll set a few goals of things I want to try. I’ll also do WBTB and use the MILD tecnique after about 5 hours of sleep. Wish me luck!

Originally Posted by Azaleaj

Wish me luck!

Good luck! It sounds like a good plan. Let me know if you need any help.

Hi,
I thought I would check in after a long time away. I think it is wonderful that you continue to run this thread Fogelbise. Can I ask you how much effort you have to put into your practice at this point? I see you have had almost 1,000 LDs since 2013. You must have a pretty high success rate! How do you stay motivated?

I find myself very motivated in the day but when I’m going to bed I feel ambiguous about what I want to work on which makes me less motivated. I took Robert Waggoner and Ed Kellogg’s lucid dream/lucid living online workshop and it was actually really good. I went from no LDs to 3 a week for the full month. I think all of the goals they had were quasi spiritual but based on actual experiences so appealed to me. I loved working with a group on one goal each week then reporting results. It was really interesting reading about the results others had as well.

One week we worked on healing in lucid dreams. I have been suffering from restless leg syndrome for about a year and it was causing me a lot of distress. I wanted to work on curing that. In a lucid dream I poured blue light and for some reason creamsicle light onto my legs. Later that night I dreamed I was taking too many blue pills. In the morning I looked at my vitamins and stopped taking Sam-E, an over the counter antidepressant I have taken for 6 years when I was depressed, I’m not any more. I have not had restless legs since that dream. I was very skeptical about the whole thing but I found that pretty impressive. We worked on some other things loosely based on Waggoner’s book.

Anyway, since class ended a couple of months ago I have only had one LD. I still try to do WBTB but often push my snooze button for hours or just do it briefly. There was something about having an organized agenda and doing it with others that I found motivating and inspiring. I will probably do the class again in the fall but I would love to find a way to work with others on similar goals in a group of some kind. Not sure how to go about that. I did inquire in the main LD thread about whether there would be any upcoming contests. I have found them helpful in the past.

I hope all is well and any advice would be appreciated as always.