Thread: Jaasum's dream log - Advice appreciated!

Below is my first ever entry in my first ever dream journal. A lot of information on my first attempt. This is also documenting my practice at lucid dreaming, so that is where the advice comes in. I write what my dream was but also what I was doing to achieve that effect. So here goes.

8/14/07

Asleep at 12:45

Listened to music and tried a HILD, got to the stage of imagining a plane writing my name in the sky and had difficulty concentrating due to loud neighbors, the music didn't help and I began to become too hot.

4:00 AM

I awoke very briefly at 4 am, due to my alarm, but I am so trained to shut it off immediately that I did and fell asleep. I had set the alarm so I would wake up and attempt a WILD. I failed and re-awoke without an alarm, I outlined below what happened.

6:02 AM

I re-awoke at 6 am with this dream in my mind, I sort of lingered in and out of the dream state until I forced myself to wake up and write this down. I performed a reality check as I sat up to confirm I was awake.

In this dream I was a servant worker. My goal was to prepare the basement for sleep. I did this for two people. One was a younger man, nicer. One was a older man, more strict. Part of the preparation was to make sure mannequins were in tact, as some of my duties were to find replacement parts for mannequins every night.

Apart from being in a basement, most of this took place underground, or under a slat, sort of like a giant cave.

I remember sitting at a table with a woman and her child, then behind me hearing a giant splash in the fountain. The woman's child had somehow projected a giant boulder to crash into the fountain, I was irritated that the child was allowed to do this, I asker her about it kind of in rhetorical way and she replied "Oh I just let him do what he pleases."

There was also something to do with driving and friends but I can't remember in detail, I just remember the feeling of being excited seeing someone close to me and not being in a place of servitude to them (as I was with all the others). I also remember spending time in a vast rural area, and something to do with a small red house next to a windmill. This house was surrounded by trees.

All the buildings, cars, landscape seemed to be of another country, perhaps England, but I have never been. Everything seemed very aristocratic.

No lucid dreaming yet. It is sunrise outside, I have blinds but will attempt to go back to sleep using a WILD, this will be roughly my fifth hour of sleep, with two more hours to go maximum. I will set my alarm for 7:50 rather than 7:00 and 7:30 as I usually do to allow for more sleep.

6:23 AM

I will go to the bathroom and get something to drink so I can relax and focus my energy on mind awake/ body asleep. I also brushed my teeth, morning breath could act as a distraction. Even if I don't LD I will at least be more awake when it comes around time to leave for work, usually I am groggy.

6:32 AM

I will lay in bed, read some more on WILD before I attempt it and then see what happens. I will update this entry once I wake up.

7:38 AM

I did not achieve sleep. I laid in bed for maybe an hour just relaxing focusing on counting. My mind would wander occasionally but I would just keep focusing on the counting. The fleeting dreams would become more visual but nothing more than a second. I felt some slight vibrations but never entered paralysis. I think a lot of this had to do with the fact that after 6 am it is basically light outside and neighbors were waking up. I think if I was successful at waking up earlier in the night when it was still dark and not as much noise I might have been more successful. So next time I will try this, either by going to bed earlier or forcing myself out of bed. I don't usually get more than 7 hours of sleep a night (I never have) so perhaps what I must do is focus on waking up in the fourth hour. Since I did wake up briefly at four and then when back to sleep and actually dreamt, this is what I should try next. I was awoken by my carpool calling around 7:30 and I was able to respond quickly, so that is how I knew I didn't achieve paralysis. I still did a RT just to make sure.

One thing that is odd. I did lock my bedroom door before I went to bed, then when I woke up at 6 am to go to the bathroom I returned to my room, I don't however remember locking the door and it was locked when I woke up. Maybe I just forgot because I am almost certain I wasn't dreaming. Still I did a RT just to make sure. Because even if I wasn't dreaming perhaps I will be likely to perform one in a dream (a RT) and have a DILD.