Intro/DC-1 AstralFae18's Workbook

[AstralFae18]

Dream Journal Entries 17th/18th August 18th/19th August 20th/21st August 22nd of August - 3rd of September Assignments Class #1 Go through your dream journal and analyse where the content of your dreams comes from. Is it mostly day residue? Do you notice a lot of false memories or faulty logic in them? Class #2 Go through your dream journal and see if you can notice any reoccurring signs that are popping up. Make a list! Bonus marks: Find out which sign occurs the most and incorporate reality checking to the sign into your daily routine. Class #3 Review your current sleep schedule. Taking what you know about DILDs and WILDs, which technique would best work for you for inducing lucid dreams? Bonus: Knowing this, you may want to look into signing up for that specific course when it’s offered next. Class #4 Think of 2-3 goals that you would like to accomplish. They could be anything! If you need some inspiration, check out some tasks from the Task of the Month forum. How would you attempt each goal?

[AstralFae18]

I can only remember one dream from last night >< and I had to try really hard to remember it because I was too tired to get out of bed and write it down D:. I was getting ready to go out to my grandparent's house with my mother and my sister, when we start fighting and then I decide to go over to my friend's house instead of going with them. She'd asked me earlier on in the day (in waking life) but I was reluctant to accept it because of some stuff that's happened, but in the dream it was the better alternative so I went with that XD. After I went back to sleep I had a second related, but much shorter dream, I can't remember any of it though ><. Mundane dream, I'll admit XD.

[AstralFae18]

Go through your dream journal and analyse where the content of your dreams comes from. Is it mostly day residue? Do you notice a lot of false memories or faulty logic in them? It is mostly day residue for my dreams, especially in the last few weeks. Whatever I'm thinking/worried about, I dream about it but I only realize what it was I was really dreaming of when I sit down to give it some thought. Once, I had this dream about a couple of golden retrievers, but it made more sense that the dream was about my relationship with my brothers because of a lot of the things that happened in the dream. I never really noticed many false memories o_o I just accept things at face value normally in dreams, I don't think "oh this is the way it is because of this and that." Faulty logic D: yes! XD I'm gullible enough as it is in real life, but in dreams? Pfft XD.

[Serenity]

Faulty logic D: yes! XD I'm gullible enough as it is in real life, but in dreams? Pfft XD. LOL! Awww It's okay, so am I I mean, I hang out with the Beatles in my dreams and it's perfectly normal!

[AstralFae18]

Lol glad I'm not alone! Some of the things I was willing to believe in my dreams XD omg.

[AstralFae18]

I don't remember any of my dreams from last night :/.

[AstralFae18]

I can remember two dreams from last night, but I'm really reluctant about sharing them because of how embarrassing they are XD. First dream I can remember is me running around, wanting to get pregnant (I should say that there was nothing sexual about this dream, I think pregnancy was something you could "catch" here, and also the last thing I'd ever want is children XD just saying!) and I found this device with three heads on it, two white and one colourful head (red with yellow and blue), and if you press the heads, something jumps out. The first two were boring, but if you pressed the third head (they looked like the heads you would expect from a worm plushie) a lot of little alien looking things jumped out and followed the red one around, and they mimicked its every move. If the red one ran, they ran behind it in a straight line, if it jumped, they jumped etc. At one point I think they were with child XD what a stupid dream. So anyway, I'm being chased at the same time as those little things are running around. By a silver car in a big garage. Yep. You can imagine the mayhem, but suddenly the scene changes and I'm on an examination table with my mom and my aunt to my side, where I find out, I'm pregnant! So first thing I do is send my mom out the room and ask my aunt (who's a doctor in real life but doesn't exactly handle babies and deliveries XD) that when it was time I wanted her to "knock me out and perform a C-section" (I'm pretty sure those were my exact words during the dream). After that I either wake up, or this miserable dream just transforms into an equally miserable dream where I'm at my high school with an old friend of mine, someone I've lost touch with. We were hungry so we headed to the cafeteria and the only thing they had that they actually did have when I was at school were the spring rolls, so at the end that's all she decided she could eat, and I laughed a little because of the hell she used to give me for eating them before XD. Meh >__>.

[AstralFae18]

Go through your dream journal and see if you can notice any reoccurring signs that are popping up. Make a list! Bonus marks: Find out which sign occurs the most and incorporate reality checking to the sign into your daily routine. I was thinking about this question before the class, and surprisingly both of the dream signs I could recall showed up in my last dream. My biggest dream signs are my family and my old high school. I think in the last year I've dreamed more about my high school than I've been there in real life since my exams. In the last two weeks I've had two dreams that have taken place at my old high school. And my family? Uhh, yeah XD I'm not really sure if that's day residue since I see them everyday or not, but they are in my dreams a lot of the time, even if I don't see them or interact with them, sometimes I just know they're there, or they're waiting for me someplace, or I should be really careful because they're going to get here any minute XD. My old friends from high school are also dream signs, I've seen them more times in dreams than I have in real life o_o whether I'm still in touch with them or not they tend to show up in dreams sometimes. I could start reality checking around my old high school but I don't think I'm going to be there again unless they ever decide to hold a reunion. Maybe not even then XD. I'm going to update this post if I can think of any more dream signs.

[Serenity]

Good job! Keep it up!

[AstralFae18]

Review your current sleep schedule. Taking what you know about DILDs and WILDs, which technique would best work for you for inducing lucid dreams? Bonus: Knowing this, you may want to look into signing up for that specific course when it’s offered next. At the moment, I sleep from five to three >_< I need to try to fix that... I think personally I'd go for DILDs while my sleeping's all messed up like this, I'd have a hard time doing a WILD when trying to fall asleep and I don't take any naps to attempt to do it then. If I was doing a WBTB to WILD, I don't know how successful I'd be at getting up at the right time and not abusing the snooze button anymore XD I have much less motivation to wake up when my sleeping's like this, but I guess because the sun's up I may have an easier time actually waking up. Whether I get out of bed or not though is another story .

[AstralFae18]

Think of 2-3 goals that you would like to accomplish. They could be anything! If you need some inspiration, check out some tasks from the Task of the Month forum. How would you attempt each goal? Ride a Unicorn - This was last month's task of the month that I wanted to try. I think I'd try to just turn around and find one then try to mount it XD but I know I'd have a hard time controlling it for a while. Visit Ariel's Grotto - Pre-destruction, preferably XD I'd transform into a mermaid and swim to it! I haven't had trouble transforming into a mermaid before, now if I can find a suitable body of water... Be a Mahou Shoujo XD guilty pleasure! What can I say? I think the hardest part for this one is getting the outfit right, because I've used some forms of magic in dreams before just fine, but I don't know if I was ever dressed for the part to be honest XD.

[AstralFae18]

I'll admit, I've been pretty lazy with this o_e I haven't been thinking much about dreaming at all (university in two weeks! D: ) so I'd always forget to write down what I can remember of my dreams when I wake up, besides that I haven't been remembering very much. I got my braces tightened recently, which resulted in a couple of teeth dreams (I'll only mention one though because the other one is pretty unsettling for me and I don't like to mention it >_<) and I had another dream with someone from high school in it. And my uncle. I can remember certain aspects of a third dream but I can't really remember much else. Dream #1 I was about to go brush my teeth, when my sister offers me meat flavoured cheetos (they looked good!) I kept declining because I was about to brush my teeth, and she's still offering some to me by the time I am brushing my teeth. Nothing out of the ordinary here except that my tooth paste burns more than it usually does. This is one of those dreams that are just an inconvenience to have though because if I spit in a dream, I end up waking up spitting in real life o_e so much for sleep paralysis, eh? So I guess we know how this one ended. Dream #2 I was at my grandparent's house and decide to go use a computer. Thinking back now, the computer I wanted to use is broken in real life, and has been broken for years. But anyway, so I was using it for a while before my uncle comes up and tells me about a celebrity who had died a while ago and how he died during a stand up routine. He linked me to either the performance, or articles about the performance, and when he was dying people were more concerned about the spelling of his name and not the fact that he had just died in front of them. For some reason I get the feeling that the general atmosphere in the avenue where he was performing was an anti-semitic one and the performer was Jewish, hence the indifference towards his death from the audience. I don't really know what this means though :S "just cool it with the anti-semitic remarks" is all I can think to say when remembering this one XD. What's really weird about this dream is that in real life, my mother and sister have a built in... something XD and they can tell if a person's Jewish almost immediately and that's always baffled me, so I don't know how I got that feeling in the dream. Odd dream. Dream #3 I was at my grandparent's house-turned-store and there were loads of other ladies in the place. This girl I knew from high school walks in and we hang out, even though she's with five more girls we happen to be alone a lot. At one point we're sitting on a couch and I offer her some pens to use because she needed some. The pens come in an oval plastic case with a black cover around it. It's bigger than the same pen case I have in real life and the black cover is my iPad's cover XD I don't understand the logic behind this one to be honest. So I lend her my pens and leave for a bit because I have something to do, when I get back I find her gone with my pens on the couch. The cover is missing and I get really upset by this because I hate losing stuff that was part of a package, so I run out to where she just got in her car to leave and ask her where the cover is, she hands me the case (which I completely forgot was missing too!) and I spend the rest of the dream looking for the cover which she lost >_< I never found it though and had to settle for just the case and the pens. I was really sad here XD woke up feeling a little resentment I'll admit! Even though I haven't seen this girl for four years XD.