It is important to keep a constant schedule, a continious sleeping pattern will only help you figure out the most likely times you will be dreaming. |
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If nobody has noticed, I'm only really active for random short periods of time here on the forums. This is applicable to my general interest in dreams too. Although I do know myself to have issues committing to a project, I can definitely say that a lot of the blame for this issue goes to the fact that these things can be challenging to fit into a school schedule. I do know that with patience, I can attain a pretty decent lucidity rate and dream recall status. However, even though it may be asking too much in my situation, I'd like to know of any possible ideas for an optimal schedule. I also have a few questions. |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
It is important to keep a constant schedule, a continious sleeping pattern will only help you figure out the most likely times you will be dreaming. |
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i'm a really active and busy student too! (lazy also..lol). i sleep at 9-10 o'clock and wake up at 5 oclock. at 5, i write my dreams in my DJ, take my dogs for a walk, perpare for school, and stuff.. |
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Last edited by reyfran; 03-10-2013 at 12:25 AM. Reason: Wrong sleeping time
I go to school to. I just WILD on the weekends. |
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I use the Dild method and try it on school nights, although I haven't had an LD on a school night it still works out well my dream recall has increased greatly and also I go to bed at 11:45 wake up at 6 then off to school at 7 and I tried Wild but that's best for napping times and I don't have time for that, so I would stick with Dild for some time and stay consistent same bedtime same wakeup time, and mantras help a lot before going to bed |
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DILD=1
WILD=0
DEILD=0
LD BUCKET LIST=[]Be Naruto And Defeat Pain With Rasen Shuriken-[]Fly Across The Pacific Ocean-[]Be Bobby Pendragon-[]Do A Series Of LD's To Go Through One Of The Harry Potter Movies-[]Be Finn In Adventure Time-[]Be A Wolf-[]Be A T-Rex-[]Be A Cat
Just sleep 8 hours every night. You should see an improvement in your school/work/LD in a couple weeks. |
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Sounds like I'm definitely sticking with DILD, especially since in all of the time that I've used it, it's never really caused me any problems. The only problem with it was that everybody would look at me like I'm a madman when I pinched my nose or counted my fingers. Then again, that wasn't even ever that bad, I just explained it to them as it was and they understood. |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
I recommend doing both at the same time. I do not know why people say that. It will be much more effective with recall, but it is good to get used to. You should check out my tutorial for DJing in my sig, it should help with your recall a lot. |
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I do have one little inquiry though. |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
When it comes to WBTB, normally the best amount of sleep to get is six hours, correct? As in like before you use an alarm or whatever to wake yourself up. Also, does using an alarm harm the effect of a WBTB? The only natural way I can think of to force myself into it is to drink a glass of water or something before bed so I wake up in the middle of the night needing to go to the bathroom. One more little inquiry as well, I've heard using an aesthetically pleasing dream journal seems to make it more effective. I was kind of thinking of forging together my own and was wondering if it would have a positive effect on my dream recall. |
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Last edited by kvxdelta; 03-10-2013 at 08:52 PM.
V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
I use an alarm, because I don't want to get in the habit of waking up in the middle of the night, so I'm less tiered for school. |
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I think it helps. I have a notebook for scribbling down things when I wake up, like an A4 size of detailed notes (In fairly big writing because I'm half asleep). But my more interesting dreams AKA 90% of them, I write up in microsoft word when I get back from school. I use a lot of colors for different things, and I make sure it looks very neat and professional. I then print it off at the end of each month and put them in a binder for future reading. I also use Brandon's DJ technique by the way. |
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Lucids (2013):
DILD - 7
DEILD - 1
Lucids:
I wake up whenever I want. I find that waking up like 4 or 5 times a night helps a lot with recall. I am not in a "habit" ofwaking in the middle of the night. I am just kn 100% control of when i wake up. Using an alarm kills recall and changes your awareness to the alarm away from dreams. So I WBTB after about 2 hours and then about every hour after. |
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How would you go about controlling when you wake up? I understand mantras can be highly effective but I don't recall *slight pun intended* ever seeing them have such a drastic effect. |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
The way people did it for thousands of years without alarm clocks. Just think when you want to get up. I can tell you how, but it starts as a mantra, so you lose that for LDing for a while. Later on it isn't a mantra as much as it is you just think once "wake up at 3,4,5,6, and 7." And you do. It is really weird when you wake up and look at the clock and it is exactly what time you wanted it to be. |
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Wow, I really ate my own words last night. I said a mantra to get myself to wake up at 6:00 so that I'd have time to DJ. I woke up at 6:30 AM. Unfortunately though, no dreams that night. ); But either way, I do have to say that was pretty cool. Thanks for the help, it's genuinely appreciated. Anyhow, I think I've drained myself of all these questions, at least temporarily. Once again, thanks everybody, you really cleared up a lot of the things that I was having trouble with. |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
Didn't know mantras worked that great, will try it tonight and see how it works, but will have a backup alarm just in case |
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DILD=1
WILD=0
DEILD=0
LD BUCKET LIST=[]Be Naruto And Defeat Pain With Rasen Shuriken-[]Fly Across The Pacific Ocean-[]Be Bobby Pendragon-[]Do A Series Of LD's To Go Through One Of The Harry Potter Movies-[]Be Finn In Adventure Time-[]Be A Wolf-[]Be A T-Rex-[]Be A Cat
Neither did I... Hey Brandon, have you ever tried using mantras to get to sleep at a certain time? Last night I tried to get to sleep at 10:00 PM but ended up finally getting to sleep at around 2:00 AM. I doubt that the mantra's success was accidental because I had no alarms, usually wake up at 7:00 AM, and stayed up really late. Surprised I didn't sleep in later. I'm going to continue to try that. I'll also be trying to see if mantras could get me to sleep at a specific time, as that would be absolutely WONDERFUL. |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
Sorry if this thread has just become a storm of questions to sate my curiosity. Anyhow, does anybody have any advice for those complete dream recall dry streaks when you can't even remember any dreams? I'm not recalling a single detail. I'm not even recalling the feelings. I've been going to sleep at 10:00 PM every night now. I've also tried staying still but no matter what, I can't remember anything. Not even reciting mantras has had any effect on this dry streak. Am I supposed to just wait it out, or is there a solution to this problem? |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
Go over your old DJ entries before you go to sleep and when you wake. This should be the same type of memory you are activating. |
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Just start thinking of random, stuff I totally forgot a dream in the morning than I was thinking about some person then it triggered my dream and I recalled the rest of the dream, seems to help me out |
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DILD=1
WILD=0
DEILD=0
LD BUCKET LIST=[]Be Naruto And Defeat Pain With Rasen Shuriken-[]Fly Across The Pacific Ocean-[]Be Bobby Pendragon-[]Do A Series Of LD's To Go Through One Of The Harry Potter Movies-[]Be Finn In Adventure Time-[]Be A Wolf-[]Be A T-Rex-[]Be A Cat
Wow, I took a look through my old DJ recordings today and half the time, I was like, "I remember this!". Then I was like, "Wow, look at all of those grammatical errors". The oldest dreams I found dull because they were just old and stale, they didn't have the same "style" (I guess?) as my more recent dreams do. Some of the recent ones though really just clicked into me, I get a good feeling that I'll remember some of tonight's dreams. Also, I'm still slightly confused about something. I've had maybe 12 LD's now. All of those were in a very short period of my newbly newb days. (First two or three weeks maybe?) Yet, I look at people who have clearly had tons more time and practice than me who have only gotten two to four LD's. It's absolutely mind-boggling. I'm pretty sure the undying craving I have for LD's isn't any more intense than that of everybody else. I don't think I'm practicing better either. In fact I'm pretty inefficient with my practices at times. I am bewildered, dumbstruck, and confused. |
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V: Who? Who is but the form following the function of what, and what I am is a man in a mask.
Evey: Well I can see that...
V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation. I'm simply remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
- V for Vendetta
Well. There are quite a few factors. The main one I think is that you might have found a tech that works well for you, and the others have yet to find one. |
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