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This is my workbook for the MILD-1 course starting on Wed. Sept.22 2010.
I will post all recalled dreams as well as assignment results for the durration of the course. Please comment on my posts if you have any advice or guidance. LD's are a new concept to me and I would like to be able to discover how far I can take them.
9.20.2010
I set my alarm for 6 to try and wake up in the middle of a rem cycle. I didn't recall much when I first woke up but after falling asleep again I was able to kind of guide myself into the dream but once it started it just kind of took me where it wanted. I didnt recall anything but playing along to some jazz music on my guitar.
9/21/10
I've been waking myself up at times when I expect to be in the middle of a rem cycle then going to bed 30 minutes later focused on recalling the feelings in my dreams. I can't remember if this dream was before I woke up the first time or after going back to bed, because I didn't recall it untill about an hour after I was awake.
I'm walking down a country road at night. A young man is getting arrested for posession of marijuana right in front of me. At first I feel this sense of extreme anger that this poor kid is getting treated so horribly by the cop and there's nothing I can do. Then I noticed that the cop was wearing an apron with two huge pockets in the front and what else is in these pockets but an abundant variety of beautiful, warm, sugary donuts. Then my mood quickly changes to intense longing to just reach out, while the cops too busy with the young man, and snag one of these donuts and then just take off running. Sadly I don't remember how this one ended but I had a major donut jones when I woke up.
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9/22/10
Didn't recall anything today, pretty busy at work all day. I tried to affirm my intention of recalling my dreams right before I went to bed. For the purpose of this class I'll start to focus ona mantra like "I Lucid Dream" I'm also going to continue the practice the WBTB thing. Thanks Percylucid the first class was very informative. I'll be sure to be pressent for the next one.
Thanks for the compliments and well done with the mantra.
Share your last minutes before falling asleep. What are you focused in? Feel excited about LD and you will in no time!
It's been a real busy week but I'm trying my best to stay vigilant and at least write in my dream journal by my bed. I'll catch up on what I can recall in this post. Thanks for the advice PercyLucid, I tend to just use the mantra until I fall asleep instead of focusing on feeling, so I'll make that my goal for the new week.
9/23
I'm sitting outside my house trying to keep two shady looking characters away from my yard. We exchange threats and insults from across the street. I feel an extreme sense of excitement and fear build up inside of me. The dogs escape from the house and I have to wrangle them in as two wolves approach from the woods. I get the dogs inside and pick up my guitar by the door, then sit back down on the porch and begin to play "The Gulf of Araby." The situation then starts to settle in and I realize that I don't know how to play that song, I check my hands and watch my fingers disappear and reappear at random. I take one last look at the "Bad Guys" and go inside. I realized that I was dreaming but had no control over anything.
9/24
Nothing recalled today accept for an awesome beat that sounded like an old video game. I did notice that after WBTB I would see very short glimpses of landscapes. It was very peaceful, though I knew that they were dreams I couldn't even move around in them, just look.
9/28
I went to bed early last night after an evening with my sister and some friends, as well as some very special brownies. :shadewink: I knew that it wasn't going to take long for me fall asleep so I immediately started to focus on the excitement of lucid dreaming. When my mind would wander, I would repeat the mantra " I lucid Dream" until I got back on track. This is what I remember from my dream;
I'm standing in the doorway to some kind of house boat. There is a rediculously annoying girl talking my ear off about some random thing that I have no interest in. I hear her say something about the smell and I realize that it smelled like the brownies we made earlier, but all the brownies were eaten, but there are more on the table, so this is a dream. I watch my hands as my fingers disappear and reappear then test the gravity a little. I focus on the feeling of being lucid, its like a familiar excitement mixed with a rush of nervousness. After looking around at all the crazy things my subconscious comes up with, I feel kind of silly for not realizing earlier that it was a dream. It then occurs to me that the girl is still rambling on next to me. I try to fly off but just wake up instead.
9/30
Before falling asleep I put on some instrumentals and began to meditate. I focused on LD's and the feeling of being lucid. I could feel an exitement start to pulse through my body. I don't recall becomming lucid at any point but I believe I understand the feeling I am looking for. What I do remember is very vivid and I feel like I would have done everything the same had I fully realized it was a dream. So maybe somewhere inside I knew it was a dream just because of the exagerated emotion of everything that was going on.
Because of the personal nature of the dream, I'm not going to post it online but I have recorded it in my written journal.
This is the first moment I've had the time to sit and update my workbook so I've going to cover the big stuff. A couple of days ago I took a nap in the middle of the day with the intention of lucid dreaming. I put on some instrumentals and began to meditate on flying through a field, I tried to imagine what it would feel like to accomplish this goal and hold on to that excitement. After about 15 minutes of this I fell asleep and had a series of false awakenings. They were all quite brief, or at least my memory of them is vague. In the first dream that I recall, I wake up in my bed and realize that I'm dreaming. I'm not in a field and I can barely maintain the dream so I decide to just work on levitation. After levitating over my bed for a bit, I have another false awakening. Although my hand appeared to be missing, I had convinced myself that I was born that way and that this was reality. I didn't become lucid again and I'm not going to count the first dream of that cycle as lucid because it's such a blurry mess in my head.
I love FA and naps usually can trigger LDs!
Keep the napping up if possible and you will hit one, for sure.