Matutinalbliss' Workbook

So glad you're teaching this class! And glad it's not too late to join :). I've already got a fairly lengthy collection of dreams in my written DJ. Not so many posted in my DV DJ. I'm looking forward to the next lesson!

Here's a great one from the other night:
I was somewhere outside a neighboring town and I don't remember how it started, but I do remember flying up out of the woods near the west branch of the lake. It was nice because the shores were just forest and it seemed untainted by populace. But wait a second...I'M FLYING ON THE BACK OF A HUGE WHITE WOLF! It was so vivid. First time I've ever flown in a dream. I seemed to have some difficulty keeping the wolf aloft, however. As I looked at the water, I could see the rocks on the bottom. I think it was unusually shallow because my mind wanted it to be. I don't like deep water. I came down gently on the east shore and walked into the woods. My wolf then shrank to pocket size! I carried him. Then in the woods, I encountered another white wolf, this one with a pink spot on his back. He was vicious, so I desperately tried to make my wolf fly so that I could flee. We flew up and over this suburban neighborhood. There were red-brown houses with nice courtyards and enclosed patios. One family saw me and started to freak out. I landed next to my own family in this strange suburbia. I wanted to protect my wolf. The family that had freaked out showed up. They claimed that my wolf was their dog. Yah, bullcrap. I believe I woke up before anything bad could happen. But the whole flying experience was just amazing.

For the past few days I've been increasing my awareness by stopping whatever I'm doing, looking around and trying to remember how I got there. I also look at my hands and feet. When I can, I try to find a mirror to see if I can recognize myself and see that my blemishes and what not are all in the last place I saw them.

Sorry for the delay in my posting. I now have homework posted for lesson 2.

You are doing a great job. Keep journaling and working on your awareness.

Hmm. Looks like I lost my reality check homework in the meltdown...I believe it was nose-squeezing and finger-through-the-hand triggered any time someone walks through a door and when I feel the stone in my pocket.

The other night I had my first LD!!!!!! I haven't posted it to my dream journal yet because I'm really behind in posting the stuff I have written down, but the jist of it was that I distinctly recalled setting my alarm for the time I was supposed to wake up in the morning. It wasn't very lucid, and it's not like I had attained a higher state of awareness nor very much control over myself. However, I did know I was dreaming for a bit, so it was a lucid dream :D. Also, I watched Inception for the first time last night before bed, and naturally I had an Inception-style dream. Unfortunately, the dream I had was about lucid dreaming and wasn't actually lucid. I dreamed that I was dreaming and I knew I was dreaming the dream within my dream but I thought that the first layer was the waking world, so I was unaware of my real body at home in bed. That wasn't lucid, was it?

Just pulled an all-nighter after graduation. Prepare for crazy REM rebound!

I had three (five with FA's) more DILD's!!! all in one night :D. I just spent almost an hour writing my dreams down so I'll wait a little to post. All in all, I counted 8 dreams total with 2 (lucid) false awakenings that did not lead to a real awakening that I know of. Three pages of dreams after a long dry spell. Strange how that works.

I also found that the finger-through-the-hand RC doesn't work at all, but the nose-pinch does. I could breathe perfectly every time.