Ballex's Quest For Lding

[Ballex]

Hi everybody! I'm new here and this is my first post. I'll start by telling you all a little about myself. I am 18 years old, becoming 19 in Feb 27th. I live in Sweden, done so all my life at the same place. Latley I stumbled across this place and about all this LDing stuff. I've known about it for maybe 2-3 weeks now, so I haven't yet had a lucid dream. I've started to work on gaining better dreamrecall and now I'm starting a Dream Journal. My goals with this journal is: <blockquote>¤ To gain better dreamrecall ¤ Write a good and hopefully interesting DJ, and getting some usefull and valuable feedback. ¤ If needed, getting adopted and exchanging experienses and good tips with a more experienced LDer. ¤ Finding my dream guide. (Though I'm not so sure what this is. I'm going to look further in to it) ¤ Finally, of course, becoming clearminded and attaining lucidity in my dreams.</blockquote> Looking forward to LDing!

[Ballex]

29-01-07 Monday 23.10-07-15 1. Jacket shopping Me and my mother took my fathers car to go and shop for a new jacket. We went to a store that's in our nighboorhood (not irl, just there in this dream). The place was runned by an old man and woman. They said that they had stopped selling clothes and only works as a computer store from now. The old woman askes me about my bank account number, I don't understand why so I ask her why she should wan't that. She sais that she is going to send cards (postcards I guess). I look to my mother, (she's an auditor) she sais it's ok. Suddently my mother asks about somekind of door that's under the desk. The old couple say that it's a doggydoor and suddently a door pops out of it. 2. Work I am for some reason working at the local mine. (Worked there a few times in my real life.) I am there with some people from my team. I am on a break, alone, and I'm walking around taking pictures of stuff with my camera-phone. There is a car showing of an unintroduced car, a red sporty convertible car. There is a girl rubbing against it, a girl I went to school with many years ago. Suddently there is an erruption of water. My workingoverall was left and it became burried in water and gravel. I went outside and started to talk with my coach and some other teammates. Inside were the eruption was there is 2 guys with 70's glasses trying to shovel away all gravel. We talk about how lazy the people who work here are and I say (don't know why) "Maniana maniana". My coach says that even a eye-test takes 19 days for them. ----------------------- I am getting a pretty good dream recall, so I'm going to build up some second-nature reallity checking. Still need to get better DR though. Had trouble falling asleep, even though I felt very tired. Seems that I think about all this to hard to doze off. Eventually if I'm not getting any DILD's I'm going to try to WILD. Can I try that now or is it to soon, since I haven't had any real lucid yet?

[mademoiselle]

Hm I'm not sure about WILD. I've tried them too and it gets very hard when you are just lying there in bed thinking to yourself "Ok I just want to go to sleep now" You could try it though. It just takes a lot of practice and patience.

[Ballex]

Yeah, WILD is going to be a later project. First of all I'm going to need to get some better DR. Lately I have getting to little sleep. Couldn't remember any of my latest dreams. Hopefully this will change tonight, since I'm getting atleast 8 h of sleep tonight. I am setting my alarm clock for 4½ hours after I fall asleep, then 1½ h more, and finally 1½ h again. Hopefully this will make me remember atleast 1 or 2 dreams.

[Ballex]

02-02 Thursday Yes! Finally, my first lucid dream! I can't quite remember any other dream than this. I woke up at 4.30 trying to remember my dream. I couldn't really figure it out so I wen't up and pied. Went back to bed and tryed to fall asleep again. As I'm lying there and I guess by this time I'm already dreaming (I'm dreaming that I'm trying to fall asleep I think). I suddently feel like I'm starting to shake like hell. It feels like someone is holding me down, and I can remember doing somekind of noice, sort of a whining noice. I open my eyes and immediately do a RC (counting my fingers). I don't even have to count my fingers, because they are wierd looking, kind of diffuse. I realize I'm dreaming. I get up from the bed and look around me. I seem to be in a hotel. Then this blonde hot chick comes up to me with a tray of cokes. Weird, since I never/seldom drink coke. Suddently she starts to run, grabbing a suitcase on her way as it's me she is running from. The weird thing is that now there is this other guy who runs after her and kick her down. I walk up to her as she is lying there, but she isn't hurt. She looks at me with this look, and I see what she wants... From here it gets a bit dirty, but I awake almost the same instant. Wow. I mean WOW! This is so cool, knowing you're dreaming! I guess I could've controlled it more but still, it's my first lucid. I'm bummed that I didn't fly though, I long for flying I'm really hoping I will get more of these soon, can't wait to be able to fully controll my dream. Not be as passive as I was this time. One thing I thought of was how easy it was to remember! I remember this dream so well after I woke up, could remember ever little detail. I who don't have such a good DR yet. Amazing.

[B0xT]

Congratulations with your first lucid! I've had my first one this night, just like you. I really got to control some stuff and it's pretty cool. Hope you have luck getting more of them soon!

[Ballex]

Thanks B0xT This weekend I had matches so I didn't really have the focus and time to keep my journal. I hope this week will be a lucid one.

[Ballex]

Long time since I've had time to write. Had a just one couple of dreams that I've recalled. Forgot to date them so they are sometime between this and my last post. 1. I had a dream about 2 childhood friends. I was in their home, someone was watching tv. I went into his room and there was this wierd soft doll. J was also sitting infront of a tv. L was just about to leave and I search real hard for a toilet. All I can remember. This other one was much more clear and must have been during later sleep, because it seemed so long. 2 It was me and my mom, we where about to go to the sportscenter to watch a match (don't know what sport). We were going out to the car, I was in a weelchair for some reason. I remember me thinking: Why am I in a wheelchair, I'm not even hurt. My mother starts so sweep the snow away from the car, I can't help since I'm in a wheelchair. I remember wearing sweatpants. When we pass our neighbours I see that there stands my friend T. He is talking with a man (that's not my neighbour) that he wants to buy ski's. As we are going in my mothers car I remember asking her if she could turn around, because I would like to change pants. She refuses to go back, we are already late. On the way we see my coach on the sidewalk, she stops the car, goes outside to talk to him. Wake up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So this night I'm going to try WBTB. Wish me luck Ps. Should I start thinking about adoption? Ds.

[Ballex]

WBTB failed hard since I smashed the alarmclock down on the floor in my sleep. Didn't wake up when I was supposed to and fell asleep. Though I recall a pretty long and vivid dream. Not lucid unfortunetly 1. I'm sitting outside of my school with 3 other people, one of them is my mom. We are playing cards and suddently it's starting to rain. I decide to go inside the school and up some stairs (didn't look like the stairs we have at school). As I'm walking up somebody whistles behind me but I don't care to look back and see who it is. When I come up there is a place that looks like a hotel resturant. Seems that there is breakfast served. I walk over to where all the food is and start to load my tray. I take cereals with straw- and raspberries, milk, eggs, coffee and 2 sandwiches. As I'm waiting in line I eat one of the sandwiches. When it's my turn to pay, I say that the club will pay (handball team) for it. I ask for a glass but before I get an answer I take a bottle of water instead. Then my teammate S walkes up to take some coffee and I ask him if he can pour some for me. When he does I see that it's not coffee but choco. I walk over to a table where my coach is sitting. He is talking about drinking beers . I walk back to the place where the food is and I notice all the eggs are broken. The personel are starting to take away everthing and as I'm just going to grab a cup they take it away. When the man who took away the cup sees I was going to take it, he compensates me with a whole egg. I get another cup and fills it with cube sugar. I pour some (what I think is coffee) from a coffeepot but I see that the liquid is all slushy. As I'm walking back to our table I take a used glass from an empty table and scrape all the sugar in to the glass with a spoon. After that I wake up. ------------------------------------- Really boring dream, wish I could've made it more interessting. I'm starting to think my team and teammates are dreamsigns, since I often dream about handball. Going to put the alarm clock for tonight so I hopefully recall a few more dreams tonight.

[Ballex]

Long time since I've been here. Back with some dreams, a few vivid ones, no lucids :/ 1. I dreamt I was in school with my class. We where outside my old english teachers office (don't have him anymore). Don't really know why, I was kind of just tagging along. Through the window inside his office I could see my friend N picking up beer cans, and I remember thinking "so he got a job". Suddently a girl in the ladies team comes up to me and she is crying. I ask her why and she replies "I missed my religion exam" I then say to here "It ain't the first time in the world history that happends" in an attempt to comfort her. Then I start walking down the corridoor and suddently I'm on a train. (Feels stupid that I didn't realize I was dreaming with such a rapid sceen change) My brother is there and his gf, and my classmate H. He gets an sms of some kind, can't remember what it said but it was from a girl. We walk to the end of the train as it stops and at the end its some sort of terrace, a big platform to stand on. There is also a kiosk. Everybody who is out on the terrace is smoking, everbody exept my friend M2 and his gf who stands there cuddling eachother. I walk up to them and say Hi. His gf touches my crouch (in a non sexuall way) and I walk back in to the train. As I'm inside the train again I see my brother and his gf coudling in their bed, M and his flirt in another. I walk to a bed and turn on a nearby tv. ...Then I wake up from my alarm clock. Kind of weird dream, seems everybody had their girlfriend/date with them exept me 2. I was cleaning a bit from my school, outside a kiosk. I and some other people were sweeping the ground with brooms. Some brooms were red and others were green. As I'm sweeping, B sort of run sweeps (moving alot faster then me) past me. When there is nothing left to sweep we go to a car and dump our brooms in the trunk. I spot my friend M's dad and his youngest brother. They are walking over to me. I assume he is going to give me more work so I hide behind the car, but I soon hear he talkes about fire safety (he is a firefighter). He points above the car at a cord with lights. He sais that it is a fire risk since their is a tree there. The tree catches fire, and I ask if I should call 911 but M's father is already on it. I ask how they will put the fire out and he replies that they will use a firetruck and use water. But that's not how they do it, they come with a helicopter and blows the fire out with the air from the propeler. Wake up.

[Ballex]

Well, haven't been here for a while. I guess my progress in LD hasn't come very far. Although I've been really intressted about hypnosis and self-hypnosis. Simply put, hypnosis is just a deep relaxed state, kinda like LD I think, except you are awake with hypnosis, and very suggestable. I'm going to try to figure out a way to interact theese to with eachother, so by selfhypnotising myself to lucid dream more often. Sounds like a good idea? Edit: If there are any guides/posts/info about this, please post me a link!

[mark]

its a shame you never kept you dj up, I really liked your dreams especially the lucid Self Hypnosis is a good thing for some, I think there may be a tutorial in the tutorial section. Have you read exploring the world of lucid dreaming? That has some good stuff in it and is worth checking out

[Ballex]

Sorry, for not posting for so long. As you might have guessed I have no succeded lucid dreaming atempts. Although I can't say I've tried that hard. I've been having a rough time in my personal life so I haven't really been able to put the effort I would wan't in to lucid dreaming. Going to set my alarm clock for tonight anyway and log my dream. Haven't done any selfhypnosis sessions about ld yet. One good thing is that I've been doing more rc's during the days of this week so hopefully it will show some results.