Hi all,

This workbook is both a way for me to deepen practice as a lucid dreamer in general (specifically trying to overcome an infrequent access to lucidity) and also as a focus while I’m here in India, with immersing in practice as a core intention, and at the moment I’m in quite a spacious place where I’m creating a dream yoga retreat-schedule to help practice to flourish!
The workbook seems like a great way to share bits of the experience and efforts, another way to reinforce intention and build momentum as well as receive feedback & help and hopefully work with some of the challenges in my practice.

I’ve been into lucid dreaming for about 6-7 years now but really sought to develop it as a committed path in the last 4 years. …It’s been a real mix! Overall I know I’m in it for the long haul, though have found it (very similar as my friend Patjunfa describes in his workbook) a slower journey than I’d like - with a spectrum of results along the way of course.
At times I may have a few lucid in a month, sometimes long gaps despite regular and committed efforts and then other times, unbidden, really rich experiences.
Dream recall at the moment is quite good and it’s pretty much a constant - as in actual recall may fluctuate but dream journaling is pretty much a consistent practice I keep up.

I think my main issue in becoming lucid more regularly is not having a technique I feel I have solid enough to make reliable use of. Probably my most frequent trigger is DILD either through reality checking (as a habit that’s very well developed in waking though hasn’t fruited as much as I’d expect in dreaming) or after WBTB, though this too I haven't found my niche with and would say that maybe 1 in 4 WBTBs lead to some sort of lucidity.

So one thing I’m looking for in this workbook is feeling more at home with a technique, but also as my daytime momentum is usually quite good I’d like to explore more how this can translate to nighttime lucidity in DILD.

As part of the retreat environment here, the main things I’m wanting to give focus to are hypnopompic awareness (which has been an edge of mine at times, so would like to really sharpen it as a more ready tool), napping (I usually find it hard to make use of my naps for WILD or lucidity in general, would like to get better with that. Often can notice hypnagogia well but then feels like a lighter sleep that’s hard to probe lucidity with), having time for writing on lucid topics, and daytime intention setting.

This is actually my second time coming to this place for DY immersion, though I really valued the first time I only had a brief lucid, so this time I’ve changed some focuses and had a significant lucid the night before arriving so I’m feeling more confident!

So I’ve been here 2 days but that’s been a mix between arriving and getting (still a good bit of) practice in. And playing with a schedule that fits.

My current dream goal is to revisit asking the dream about the health of a family member (though I’m open to non-lucid guidance).
Second goal in mind is calling out ‘what can I do to have more lucid more often?’
Though overall progress I’d be happy with is becoming more adept with reliable induction & frequency - perhaps about 3 stable lucids per week.

Also Patjunfa having started a workbook at the start of the month has been good motivation and momentum to do the same - so again, helps with the lucid mindset of “I can lucid dream” and confidence around efforts.

Any feedback welcome and even just comments that give me a reason to keep fuelling the workbook!
Thanks