MILD-1 DawgBone's Workbook

[DawgBone]

Workbook for PercyLucid's MILD class!

[DawgBone]

Black Snake - 5:30 am, 9-24-10 A friend and I are hanging out at my place. As we are talking, a large black snake slithers across the floor. My friend grabs a stick with the intention of killing it. I tell her not to kill the snake. We can catch it and release it outside. I take the stick and pin the snake's head to the floor. Then I grab it right behind its head. The snake coils it body around my arm and opens its jaws, moving its head from side to side, trying to sink its glistening white fangs into my hand. He can't bite me. I'm holding him the right way, firm and secure, but without injury to the snake. I take him to the backyard and let him go. He slithers into the brush. Apparent Meaning: There is some day residue here. Two days ago I saw a large black snake as I was out jogging. Seeing a snake is always a shock. They are so strange, so alien. He was there beside the jogging path, motionless. I discretely sidesteped him and continued my jog. When I came back around the next time, he was gone. I tend to see snakes when I start doing any kind of energy work! This has happened a dozen times. If I start a serious program of yoga, pranayama or chakra visualization, I almost always see a snake. Sometimes before. Sometimes after I have begun. Snakes, of course, are a symbol of kundalini energy. The kundalini goddess is often portrayed as a woman with a snake's body. The spinal cord through which the kundalini travels is itself snake-like. Sometimes the snakes I have seen have been threatening, coiled and prepared to strike. Sometimes they have been passive. I take this very seriously. If the snake is threatening, I ease up on the energy work. Kundalini is not something you want to trifle with. The snake in my dream was not threatening, and I held him the right way, "firm and secure." I take this to mean that it is a good time to do energy work. But watch out for those glistening white fangs!

[DawgBone]

First Class PL's enthusiasm is infectious. I think this will be an interesting class and a good opportunity to make some real progress. I've started eliminating TV an hour before going to bed. (I should eliminate it entirely) Instead, I am going to either meditate or read a LD book. I 'm currently rereading ETWOLD. I've also started using the affirmation, "I lucid dream", 10 minutes before bed and while falling asleep. As I fall asleep, I try to relive the feeling of being in a lucid dream. It is a very distinct feeling which I can clearly remember, and I can easily get excited about feeling that way again. MILD is goal oriented and depends on day residue. This means you should focus on your specific goal numerous times throughout the day. If the goal is flying, you should imagine yourself flying. You should imagine how you will feel once you successfully fly. You should do this as much as possible. Doing this repeatedly will tend to make you dream about the goal. That's how day residue works. But repeatedly focusing on your goal will also tend to make the goal a dream sign, and as a dream sign it will help you become lucid. Interesting how that works.

[PercyLucid]

Well, I see you followed the instructions pretty well. Well done!! Keep me posted about your daily work on this and be assured you are going to lucid dream very soon!!

[DawgBone]

Wounded Healer 6:30am 9-29-10 A friend of mine is ill. I am searching for a way to help her. Conventional medicine has not helped. If anything, it has made things worse. My friend is desperate. I go within, seeking a solution. An image of a woman appears. She is a powerful healer, but she herself is wounded in some way. She sits in a chair, wearing a bright red dress, giving aid to those who come before her. Apparent Meaning: This was a short, but very interesting dream. There is a tradition of "wounded healers". It dates back to the mythological centaur, Chiron. Chiron taught music, astrology, hunting, riding, combat and especially the healing arts to many of the heros of ancient mythology. Achilles, Jason, Actaeon, Peleus and Hercules were among his students. Chiron prepared his students for their own personal quest, whatever that may have been. He taught them to act out their destinies in the best possible way. As a centaur, Chiron was literally a combination of human and animal, intellect and instinct, mind and body. The implication is that in order to achieve our own personal quests, in order to be healed and made whole, we have to integrate mind and body, intellect and instinct.

[DawgBone]

Second Class Summary: Incubation is the foundation of MILD. MILD depends only on the resources of your mind. Focusing on scenery, enjoying it vividly. Visualization varies from person to person. Some people are visual. Some people are tactile. Whatever senses work best for the individual should be used. Engage your body as much as possible. Visualization is not necessarily visual. Incubation is based on Day Residue. Whatever we experience/thinking about intensely during the day often winds up in our dreams. As PL says we should "abuse" the day residue, that is manipulate it to suit our goals. You do not have to incubate the entire dream - spend 5 minutes incubating. Incubate the first scenery, several times during the day. When you imagine the scene, recall the feeling of being lucid. Feel the excitement of being lucid. Feel the freedom of being lucid. Add as much detail to the visualization as possible: sounds, touches, tastes, smells, etc. Look around and visualize the sky too. Focus on becoming lucid. Feel the excitement and visualize yourself starting to fly. Feel the wind in your face, your body floating, the "bird's eye view". Daydream the first minutes of your dream, and enjoy them. Do a lot of visualization, but don't obsess or bore your mind with it. Visualize your dream when you wake up in the morning. If you do WBTB, it should be a continuous incubation of the dream. (More next class) Visualize your dream before going to bed. Whenever you are in bed, think about your mantras, turning lucid and incubate your dreams. Driving is a good time. Visualize a static image of the dream when falling asleep. Visualization during the day should be dynamic. Self confidence is important. Tell yourself that you will lucid dream and believe it! Celebrate your success after each visualization: "Damn! I had an epic lucid dream! I have to hit DV and post it right away!" "Saying out loud, "Yes!!! Yes!!! I dreamt it!!!" "How cool will your nickname look with those fancy wings?" "How nice would be to say, hey Percy! I earned the wings!" Rewards for success: The Task of the Month, the wings and orange name. First Goal: Dream yourself flying in the desert. You don't have to do anything specific. Just be lucid and see yourself flying, for a few seconds at least. This was a terrific class! PL clearly has genuine knowledge of this stuff. Very different from just repeating ideas. His insights are inspiring. Unfortunately I've had the flu the past 2 weeks. :-( It has interfered with my dream work, but feeling better today. Starting today, I will visualize my dream first thing in the morning, at 10:00, at 2:00, at 4:00 and before going to bed. I will reread this summary daily, until I have totally assimilated it. The adventure begins!

[DawgBone]

Okay. Here's where we're going:

[DawgBone]

Flying Wing Chair 6:00 am 10/4/10 I am in a classroom. I have arrived late and have gotten behind in my work. The teacher is upset with me and the class. We are not performing up to his expectations. I try to get my act together and do the work properly. I go to the pencil sharpener to sharpen my pencil. I notice that my pencil is large and thick like the ones used by children in elementary school. I try to sharpen it, but it breaks the pencil sharpener! The teacher sees this and scolds me for my poor performance. The scene shifts to my house. An enormous wing chair is in the living room. It has rollers and can easily move about. It start rolling, gaining speed. As it travels it bumps into furniture leaving dents and scratches. I try but I can't seem to stop it. It causes a lot of damage. I wake. Apparent Meaning: This was a precognitive dream. I am taking PercyLucid's MILD class, so the classroom part is literally true. Percy is a great teacher with genuine knowledge, but I have gotten off to a slow start. I caught the flu and being sick has interfered with my sleep and my dream work. In the dream I "arrived late" to the class. I have also recently been interested in various forms of flight. As a child I flew in my dreams all the time. I still do occasionally, but a major LD goal will be to regain this ability and develop it. As part of this effort, I have been working with two flight simulator programs. The day residue of flying the simulators will probably show up in my dreams. But basically the simulators are just really neat toys. The physical interface to the simulators includes a joystick, a throttle control and rudder pedals. I have the throttle and joystick attached to the arms of an old rocking chair. The rudder pedals are attached to the floor in front of the chair. This simulated cockpit is totally excessive, I know, but I don't care. :-) The rolling wing chair in my dream is a perfect symbol of simulated flight. Note that it moves and is a "wing" chair! LOL! And it is causing damage. It is distracting me from my serious LD work. I had this dream several days before I constructed the rocking chair. A truly amazing precognitive dream symbol.

[PercyLucid]

I love your flying rocking chair... it is an excellent tool! I know you are super busy lately, so do not worry, you are welcome to re-take the course!