Dionisos' Workbook

[Dionisos]

Hey everybody, this is now officially my Lucid Dreaming workbook! yay As a short bio I guess I could say that I am a soon to be 20 year old german male who has just started with his first year in university studying computer science. I've been "into" lucid dreaming since over 3 to 4 years now in the sense that I would really really reaaaally like to have regular lucid dreams, yet I am pretty bad at keeping up with consitently doing things (aka not slacking off on doing reality checks properly and writing down my bloody dreams (i often enough take month long breaks on actually writing them down though I tell people about them so I guess that could count for something)). This, of course, has not yielded me the results, though through the ammount of research I did into the subject I would say that I know quite a lot about Lucid dreaming in general (more in a "do as I say and not as I do" way I suppose). I always had these sporadic spurts of motivation (which lead me to creating my dream views account almost a year ago now) to "get into a lucid dreaming life-style" but they always wavered of pretty quickly and didnt result in all that much. I would count my Lucid dreams at about 2 maybe if you're beeing generous as they didnt last even a minute... Ohh and of course there are the extremely frustrating "dreaming that you are having a lucid dream"-dreams which make me want to punch myself when I wake up the morning after them. My dream recall has been all over the place from weeks on end where I can remember up to 5 dreams a night to weeks on end where I cant remember any dreams at all. I would say that can most likely be attributed to my up until now lack of dream journaling and my horrendous sleep cycle. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As a step in the right direction, stemming from the most motivation I ever had on finally properly learning lucid dreaming, I started getting up out of bed at 7AM every single day to get a proper sleep cycle going as I've heard people preach how important that stuff is. Also at the moment I do several RC's basically every hour because I just think about it that much and I do my best to actually do them properly now. One huuuuge problem I still have to tackle with basically daily though is that I just cant for the life of it fall asleep in a reasonable time manner. Sometimes I lay awake for hours on end and just a few days ago when I attempted WILD it gave me insomnia for 3 and a half hours until my alarm rang. If anyone managed to bear through this whole wall of text to the end than I say: "Thanks for reading!" I will go to bed now and hope that Wake-back-to-bed will bring me lucid luck tonight. It's gotta work at somepoint, right? Statistically speaking, while I'm already lagging way behind, its nearly impossible to not have a lucid dream soon! (I hope) Goodnight -Dionisos