Thread: Maple's Workbook

Hi again! This is the kind of thing I look for when examining. Look at the back of my hand; in a dream it has little detail, but in life it has hundreds of little hairs and many veins I can see through the skin. If I do see veins I will see it they squirm and move about because the dream will struggle to stay consistent. I will look at a clock then check again to see if it makes sense and stays the same number. I look at something written like a sign or label. In a dream the letters are messed up and the words are confusing; repeat this just like the clock and see if it changes. I will touch something like my pant leg very lightly and and brush the finger tips over it. Finger tips are far too sensitive for a dream to replicate the sensation of light brushing over a surface. If it feels completely normal and vivid I am probably not dreaming. this whole process may take less than 1 minute.
Meditation is very helpful. Look at the Dream Yoga stuff to get ideas for types of mediation that may be more useful at first compared to the basic "stop thinking" type of meditation.

Dream recall has vastly improved wrote 3 pages from one dream last night

Anyone else feel like the days have been whizzing past?

Hello! Yes, I think meditation is very helpful. I like walking meditation: because it simulates the environment of a dream very well. I practice remaining in the present moment, aware of my awareness, aware of all the things I'm experiencing, and critically reflecting on the dreaminess of it all, doing RCs whenever I feel the need or desire to, and always when something dream-like or unexpected or surprising happens.

Don't stress about trying to hold on hard to self-awareness: just continually notice when your attention has wandered, then gently relax and let go of your distraction, do an RC, and center yourself in the present moment again. Each time that you "come back to yourself" is a moment of lucidity, to be celebrated! Repeating this process over and over (the "lucid moment" of returning your awareness to the present experience) will, over time, with consistency, start to move in to your dreams as well.

Haha, its been a while since I've been on this website! Started to record my dreams with a voice recorder, it's much more quicker then writing down dreams :p.

I've naturally lost the ability to LD (or perhaps I just forget any that I have since I haven't recorded my dreams for a while)

Dream recall has been improving each day, I tend to do RCs whenever I just remember really and I really need to get a consistent sleep schedule in, since I assume having a consistent schedule is also improtant to LDs.

How has everyone else been?

Oh and does everyone else have a recurring enviroment in their dreams? For me it's usually my old school mates / people I haven't spoken to in a long time.

Aswell, as it feels like I sometimes predict the future in WL from my LD haha, for example if I see a person in my dreams that I haven't seen in a while, I see them in WL in some kind of way.

Maybe dreams are time travelling dimensions!! (just kidding)

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Usually in my dreams, the characters within it sometimes asks me what have i been doing? and I usually recite my memory of the dream so far. Maaybe its my subconscious slowly shifting towards trying to remember my dreams.

I'm also quite lucky because for me (when I am lucid) flying is very easy and it's my most favourite thing to do in LD! All I gotta do is just lift my arms up in the air like superman then BAM I'm flying ahah.

WILD is really annoying to me, when I focus on trying to be in this dreamscape, keeping my body still and not roll. It's pretty difficult to fall asleep and i'm still "alert" but when I do get these bodily hpyangogic sensations, my breathing gets faster and then I lose the hypnagogic sensations... annoying. So I just say to myself I give up! and just relax then I fall asleep normally lol.

Went to bed bit later then usual, woke up at 6 in the morning and tried WBTB and WILD, nothing really happened. I couldn't fully relax my body enough to get that hypnagogic stage so I just rolled over and just went to sleep normally.

Dream recall was kinda bad but that's probably becauase my sleep schedule is everywhere.

Dream recall has been improving, been waking up after a few dreams and able to recollect them. Had one LD experience but very very short and fuzzy.