Duncan's 30 day awareness challenge.
Duncan's 30 day awareness challenege!!
Yeah, I heard about lucid dreaming and thought it sounded cool so I went online and learnt the basics, I even had a few really amazing experiences just because I knew it was possible, after a while I wanted to get more action so I started to reseach DILD WILD FILD DEILD HIGGEDYPIGGELDYJIGGELY....ILD and tried the techniques for a while. some worked okay and I became lucid on occasion but usually only for a short period and I didnt quite achieve the things I wanted to. Ive even kind of lost a little bit of intrest now.. I wish I had my motivation back...
Sound familiar??
Well, read on!
Introduction
This challenge is for those of you who have had experience with lucidity but are dissatisfied with results thus far (myself included). It will be a place to compete, share, learn, motivate and succeed with like-minded people.
Using a points system I will run a friendly competition where the aim is frequent, vivid, goal achieving lucid dreams.
I am a strong believer in awareness being the key to lucidity. For this reason the challenge will be centered around the awareness technique as defined by King Yoshi. For those of you who have yet to read his enlightening tutorial, here it is - http://www.dreamviews.com/f49/all-da...gyoshi-113253/
The challenge (dun dun duuuuuuun)
Points will be awarded as follows:
-Practising awareness for a little while (eg 15 - 20 minutes) - 2 points
-Practising awareness for a decent chunk of your day - 5 points
eg three hours with QUALITY awareness and reality checks every 15 minutes (read King Yoshis tutorial for a definition of quality)
-Practising awareness ALL day (within reason) - 10 points
-Writing in dream journal - 1 point
-Recalling and Writing a "story-like" dream down - 3 points
-Achieving lucidity - 5 points
-Achieving "story-like" lucidity - 15 points and a high-five from me **
-Completing the current task - bonus 15 points and you get to choose the next task
**When gaining points for writing in your dream journal, the best thing you did will count as your score. Eg, even if you write down three dreams you will still only get one point. however if you write down three dreams and one of them is a story like lucid dream, you get 15 points. The reason for this is to encourage quality over quantity - a key aspect of awareness.
These are just some base rules, I will be leaving this thread open to discussion for a few days before we get under way, any ideas, clarifications, more rules etc are greatly welcomed, I really want this to work.
Post an introduction of yourself if you wish to be included in this challenge, I will try to update the scores every day once we get started.
I frequently hear some amazing ideas about the potential of lucid dreaming on this forum - ideas that go above and beyond typical adventure type scenarios. Ideas such as memory palaces, communication with subconcious, mental health care and training for sports etc just to name a few. Sadly a lot of the time these ideas come from people unable to execute their aspirations, which is frustrating to say the least. If this challenge can deepen the pool of 'efficient' lucid dreamers then I have achieved my goal. It would be nice if this thread could be a home for some of this discussion as well as a home for the competition.
Happy awareness everyone!
EDIT: for those of you who can't wait to start I am offering two points each for these challenges before we get underway (one dream one challenge):
1) Find and wear a "healing ring" and describe what happened
2) Ask a DC to give you whatever is in their pocket and describe what happened
3) Visit a memory from your childhood (Il give you 5 points for this)
4) sketch something and then re-sketch upon waking
5) visit a fortune teller and describe what happened
