2014 Lucid Goals

I can't find the thread that we did this in last year, but what is everyone's goals for this year?

Last year I had a few goals and I hit most of them. I believe that I wanted 365 LDs and I got 325. I wanted to meditate and sleep more, and I did. I really did well on my goals except for when my daughter was born, that took away lucids and sleep, and I think I would have hit most goals had I had the first 2 months back.

Anyways! My goals for 2014
1000 LDs
Draw up 20 of my lucids and post on here.
Have more persistent dream characters and worlds

Hard for me to think right now since I need a little more sleep, but meh, I will add more later if I remember them. Tell me your goals for 2014!

I kinda gave up LDing at some point in the middle of 2013, I could not have regretted it more! So for now my goal will be to get at least one lucid within January, and start building up from there. Also, well done on your 325 lucids; that's something I can only dream of :D

Same as you, brandon. I also wan't to have a dream Alter Ego and I wan't to meet my Dream Guide. :D

how do you have so many LDs

Well I dont really want an alter ego, I want to have someone to go on adventures with! Because adventures is why I decided to LD in the first place!

Jacob! I will PM you the answer so that I don't derail this thread. If anyone else wants the answer, just say and I will PM you! :)

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Well I dont really want an alter ego, I want to have someone to go on adventures with! Because adventures is why I decided to LD in the first place!

Jacob! I will PM you the answer so that I don't derail this thread. If anyone else wants the answer, just say and I will PM you! :)

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I would appreciate if you could send me a PM too =)
Thanks !

Hmmm, I think that I'll go for the 365 LDs, but I'm going to actually keep track.. I feel like I might have had maybe that many last year, but I didn't really count, I'm pretty sure that I, at least, had over two hundred. Anyways, I'm also working on a recurring dream character to go on adventures with and hopefully be able to use CILD with them because, the only way I'm able to LD right now is WILDs, and WBTBs and sometimes I don't feel like putting in the effort, yea I'm kind of lazy, but you know we'll see how this year goes. Good luck to everyone else with their goals!

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Well I dont really want an alter ego, I want to have someone to go on adventures with! Because adventures is why I decided to LD in the first place!

Jacob! I will PM you the answer so that I don't derail this thread. If anyone else wants the answer, just say and I will PM you! :)

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PM me too please! :)

I would like to greatly improve all aspects of my dream stabilization and control. 300+ LDs would be nice too.

I'll order what they did, plz(PM). :D
Sorry for the trouble, but I can't turn down a gold mine!

Edit: I would like to reach 1 dream a week, and be able to go on an adventure, only ten minutes of adventure would be great, maybe 5 of these adventures. And master teleportation using the door, and the portal techniques!!

+ START AND MAINTAIN A REGULAR SLEEP SCHEDULE!!!!!!!
+ stick with ADA/RC, take it to its max and be lucid all night, every night. I want to be Hukif, Jr. by the end of 2014.
+ frequency/consistency: average 1/day by mid-year, 2-3/day by end of 2014.
+ stability and length: make all lucids longer and stable, and additionally experience dreams of 10, 15, 20, 30+ minutes.
+ number: at least 100 total LDs by my 1-year anniversary (end of August).
+ techs: master DEILD, and LD-chain the night away...
+ successfully perform classical WILD, make it a part of my regular practice.
+ give the upper division competition participants a serious run for their money :D

@everyone
Haha! I love the goals! Mostly fryingman though. :P shoot higher than everyone else! Even though some of your goals dont match up. I expect you to be at atleast 200 by the end of your first year, since you are planning on catching on faster than me!

I have decided to make a thread for that, what I have learned so far about LDing. It will take me a week or so to put it together so that I can make a good thread with everything that I have learned. Some of it will be speculation and make you think, and some of it you have heard a thousand times!

Also, another goal I want is:
LD 90 days in a row. :P

I would recommend bookmarking this or putting these goals out somewhere so that you can remember to achieve them.

@dolphin
300 LDs this year? That seems a little low for you, I guess if you are working more on control and stabilization you won't need as many then though. :D

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@everyone
Haha! I love the goals! Mostly fryingman though. :P shoot higher than everyone else! Even though some of your goals dont match up. I expect you to be at atleast 200 by the end of your first year, since you are planning on catching on faster than me!

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Well I toned down the 1-year totals from 150...but yeah I'll need to hit multiple/night consistently or get to 1/night pretty much in 2 months to get to 200 in 8 months. Woohoo yeah let's do it!

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I have decided to make a thread for that, what I have learned so far about LDing. It will take me a week or so to put it together so that I can make a good thread with everything that I have learned. Some of it will be speculation and make you think, and some of it you have heard a thousand times!

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Schweeeeeeet! Can't wait for that. I think it would be a fabulous service if all the consistently successful more experienced practitioners put together a thorough "My LD Practice" thread. More than anything else, this helps the newbies understand how to bring together all the various tutorials into a practice that produces results. Examples of how you took what you read about and how you adapted it to work for you would be priceless!

Added TOTY to my goals. Had to wait and make sure that they were something I would enjoy doing.

@fryingman.
I think that I am going to put my "exhaustive research" on a thread. This will include all the steps I took and all. Should be really fun to type up. It would be cool if it caught on and everyone started posting that. It would make my search for the singularity a lot easier.

Also, you don't need to hit 1/night to get there, you will just have to get more than one a night later on. :P DEILD chaining will really jump up LD count if you let it, as you have seen through some of our convos.

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Jacob! I will PM you the answer so that I don't derail this thread. If anyone else wants the answer, just say and I will PM you! :)

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so where's that PM

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Originally Posted by Jacob46719

so where's that PM

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@fryingman.
I think that I am going to put my "exhaustive research" on a thread. This will include all the steps I took and all. Should be really fun to type up. It would be cool if it caught on and everyone started posting that. It would make my search for the singularity a lot easier.

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He's making an entire thread about it, don't worry.

My goal is to simply to be able to LD! >_<

How long will this thread take

Jacob. 3 years, somewhere around there. :P

I am not waiting for this thread to be over to make another one. I am trying to put up a whole history of things that I do and things that will help others LD. I will send your impatient self a small very abridged version in a PM tomorrow or the day after so that you can get a general idea.

Thank you BB for taking the time to do this, it will be a priceless document for the LD community!

My LD goals for 2014

1. Go on a date with that hot chick that plays the new Carrie
2. Go on a full blown skateboarding session around the city without loosing lucidity
3. Save the world from the government that now controls 99% of the world
4. Jump from space to earth and land on Mt. Everest with a snowboard
5. Shapeshift into a girl
6. Shapeshift into a dragon and save the world from aliens
7. Survive a zombie apocalypse
8. Try to create a reapearing dream character that aids me in all of my lucid dream adventures
9. Learn to control the dreamscape
10. Learn Fire,Earth,Wind and Water magick

That's all i can think of now, but i'll think of more when i get atleast 3 of those done!

Have a 30+ minute LD
Sex!
Be a badass knight and go on a quest
Go back in time

@Leo
haha, had to cross check your age with hers. :P A little creepy at first thought.

Zombie Apocalypse FTW!

8 and 10 are also awesome. I am working hard on 8, and 10 has come pretty naturally. I would recommend using an anime style to start out with it.

@WN
Adventure! Always go on adventures!

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@Leo
haha, had to cross check your age with hers. :P A little creepy at first thought.

Zombie Apocalypse FTW!

8 and 10 are also awesome. I am working hard on 8, and 10 has come pretty naturally. I would recommend using an anime style to start out with it.

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Hahahaha yeah, she's just a year younger, but really attractive to me!
People in real life tend to think i'm kind of a pedo too, but that's before they realise that i'm way younger than i look :D

I've used fire magick before and it was a breeze, but i think Earth and Wind would be a bit harder for some reason, but thats okay. I'd like for it to be hard, it woudln't be fun if it were easy now would it :)

Hard to tell how old you look by your avatar. I think that the term pedo is really used too much, and we need to start only using it for people that are actually after kids way younger than them. Especially looking 100 years back, we would say that they were all pedos.

Fire came really easy for me as well. Wind is really fun! You can really do it easy with handsigns from Naruto. I did lightning that way (Chidori).

It is pretty fun easy or no, but it is fun to work hard for something.

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Well I dont really want an alter ego, I want to have someone to go on adventures with! Because adventures is why I decided to LD in the first place!

Jacob! I will PM you the answer so that I don't derail this thread. If anyone else wants the answer, just say and I will PM you! :)

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I would like to know too...

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Originally Posted by ninoslavi

I would like to know too...

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He's gonna make a thread about that:D

Learn to fall asleep consciously and use it to have LDs

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Originally Posted by vagaltone

learn to fall asleep consciously and use it to have lds

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wild?

Yes, at bedtime and throughout the whole sleep cycle, rem and non-rem.

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Originally Posted by VagalTone

Yes, at bedtime and throughout the whole sleep cycle, rem and non-rem.

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Wow! It's gonna be impressive if you do that!

LouaiB

mmmm... indeed. It is what flowofmysoul claims this. He might be an exception to the rules, but he seems to have friends that do that as well, listening to him might be something that we all should do, but then again, he might just be an exception. It is also impossible to know if you do or not really, because some people like oreo and hukif don't have any non LDs, so technically all their REM and NREM would be lucid. However it seems like the mind skips time throughout the night, dream or no dream, REM or NREM. I have felt this before when a 1 minute WILD (close my eyes, instant LD, walk around, play on computer, wake up) took about an hour. Somehow my mind blotted out 59 minutes without me feeling like any time had passed and somehow remaining conscious the whole time. Food for thought.

Vagaltone, what technique are you using for this? Do you plan on accomplishing this this year?

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LouaiB

mmmm... indeed. It is what flowofmysoul claims this. He might be an exception to the rules, but he seems to have friends that do that as well, listening to him might be something that we all should do, but then again, he might just be an exception. It is also impossible to know if you do or not really, because some people like oreo and hukif don't have any non LDs, so technically all their REM and NREM would be lucid. However it seems like the mind skips time throughout the night, dream or no dream, REM or NREM. I have felt this before when a 1 minute WILD (close my eyes, instant LD, walk around, play on computer, wake up) took about an hour. Somehow my mind blotted out 59 minutes without me feeling like any time had passed and somehow remaining conscious the whole time. Food for thought.

Vagaltone, what technique are you using for this? Do you plan on accomplishing this this year?

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Something like this happened to me once, when I was doing a WILD. it was midnight, and I was WILDing. I am a heavy breather, but I needed to breathe in a calm way through my nose. I did that, and fought the urge for oxygen, hoping I would calm down, and my heart rate would slow down(foolish me). After a minute, I gave up(I was fully conscious) , and saw my dad. I asked him the time, and he said 5. What!? I blacked out because of the breathing thing, but I felt it only literally a minute or less, and I was fully conscious(of course, no dreams or nothing).
I don't know if you meant something like that

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Originally Posted by LouaiB

Wow! It's gonna be impressive if you do that!

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Yup, that would be cool :D.. falling asleep consciously*, seeing the beginning of dreams, being lucid, returning to the void of sleep, dreams again..

* perhaps hearing my occasional snoring ( you can only do that if you retain some consciousness right ? ); Btw, at sleep onset, i sometimes hear myself snoring and know i am sleeping, but very soon i get totally unconscious and fall asleep.

I don´t know if while in conscious non-rem sleep is possible to hear sounds, or some faint sounds. Is it ? That would be good news for snorers, i think, because they would have a feedback sound. People only snore when they sleep ( that is, when they loose their muscular tone and throat collapses ).

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Vagaltone, what technique are you using for this? Do you plan on accomplishing this this year?

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Well, i have tried it sometimes, not consistently, but i've been having this intention for some time. I would like to accomplish it this year but i don´t know..i have heard that some people try for years and others just have a natural talent..

Regarding techniques, i have read some buddhist literature ( specially Allan Wallace's ) and they use some main techniques:

-->following hypnagogic imagery ( like normal wild technique i guess )

-->meditation
1: awareness of awareness, or shamata without a sign* ( just resting on the feeling of being aware, very simple, not concerned with the senses or mind contents, just the feeling of being aware )

2: watching thoughts and mind contents ( that's close to WILD hypnagogia when one sees random flashing images but one watches passively, and it´s also close to mindfulness in terms of detachment )

-->visualization of a small white light orb at the chest centre ( heart chakra )

-->or trough lucid dreaming ( closing one's dream eyes and resting in awareness ).

* I will probably follow this one. I find more difficult to fall asleep while watching phosphenes or hypnagogia, but this is a promising avenue. Visualizing a small light orb, the size of a pea, it´s also easy to do and fall asleep with.

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Btw, at sleep onset, i sometimes hear myself snoring and know i am sleeping, but very soon i get totally unconscious and fall asleep.

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I was WILDing this afternoon. After 10 minutes(seems that I WILD fast:D), I caught myself snoring(I was conscious, but not much, but definitely not asleep). Also, that made me realize that the thought that I got lost in was starting to forming a dialogue(I was thinking of a conversation, and I could hear it as if it were actually happening).
So, in my case, I became fully conscious, but my brother walked in to me and ruined the WILD(don't know if I lost the attempt when I became conscious either).
But interesting though, I feel that I can WILD easily, since I fall asleep very quickly usually(seconds), but I always thought that it was hard, and liked DILD because it was like the job is done for me, I just do some random exercises during the day , but not any more!

2014 is a long time, I don't know where I'll be in terms of lucid dreaming by the end of the year, but my current goals are to increase lucid dream awareness (my lucid dreams always turn into non-lucids from lack of concentration), then master some skills such as flying and getting to dream scenes that I want to get to.

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Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

I have felt this before when a 1 minute WILD (close my eyes, instant LD, walk around, play on computer, wake up) took about an hour. Somehow my mind blotted out 59 minutes without me feeling like any time had passed and somehow remaining conscious the whole time. Food for thought.

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I've experienced a number of these discontinuities over the last months. I think it's pretty clear that we're not actually conscious the whole time. Where could it be? It could be the time right around where the dream forms. We feel that we're conscious all the way into the dream, but perhaps it's an illusion.

- more consistent LDs (at least 2 per week)
- improving my prospective memory as to increase my chances of having more MILDs
- first successful WILD and DEILD
- completing my whole list of things to do within my LDs
- breaching the 2,000 mark of dreams (NLDs and LDs) that I have recorded in my diaries

and most important staying motivated, being consistent and of course HAVING FUN :)

-Regain interest and will power for lucid dreams PRIORITY!!!
-Have a huge fantasy army battle :D
-Meet DG

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Originally Posted by VagalTone

Yup, that would be cool :D.. falling asleep consciously*, seeing the beginning of dreams, being lucid, returning to the void of sleep, dreams again..

* perhaps hearing my occasional snoring ( you can only do that if you retain some consciousness right ? ); Btw, at sleep onset, i sometimes hear myself snoring and know i am sleeping, but very soon i get totally unconscious and fall asleep.

I don´t know if while in conscious non-rem sleep is possible to hear sounds, or some faint sounds. Is it ? That would be good news for snorers, i think, because they would have a feedback sound. People only snore when they sleep ( that is, when they loose their muscular tone and throat collapses ).



Well, i have tried it sometimes, not consistently, but i've been having this intention for some time. I would like to accomplish it this year but i don´t know..i have heard that some people try for years and others just have a natural talent..

Regarding techniques, i have read some buddhist literature ( specially Allan Wallace's ) and they use some main techniques:

-->following hypnagogic imagery ( like normal wild technique i guess )

-->meditation
1: awareness of awareness, or shamata without a sign* ( just resting on the feeling of being aware, very simple, not concerned with the senses or mind contents, just the feeling of being aware )

2: watching thoughts and mind contents ( that's close to WILD hypnagogia when one sees random flashing images but one watches passively, and it´s also close to mindfulness in terms of detachment )

-->visualization of a small white light orb at the chest centre ( heart chakra )

-->or trough lucid dreaming ( closing one's dream eyes and resting in awareness ).

* I will probably follow this one. I find more difficult to fall asleep while watching phosphenes or hypnagogia, but this is a promising avenue. Visualizing a small light orb, the size of a pea, it´s also easy to do and fall asleep with.

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Shamatha without a sign is incredible, I've achieved it once, even though it didn't result in a dream, I was conscious in NREM sleep stages 2 and 3. Very difficult without weeks or even months of shamatha, seated meditation practice.

It's nice to have this thread; referring back to it, it will be easy to check up on progress during the year.

My plan:

1) Have 100 lucid dreams
2) Reach an average length per LD of 4 minutes, or better, for the whole year
3) Get a firm and detailed understanding of how my mind works during sleep and dreaming
4) Successfully employ LDs to improve the quality of my waking reality

another goal.
I want to make a dream base out of my parent's basement. :3

Sigh, couldn't get many people to post their goals. :(

Here is my thread I made about how I LD, not 100% everything, but the parts that really differ from the norm.


HERE
http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...ml#post2075390

lol , I'll add another goal:
Start sleeping well
Become good at WILDing
Use self awareness, expectation/intention, and MILD together in a smooth DILDing way!

I'll read that thread now and place a reply, thnx!:D

Another goal:
Become good at DEILD!

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Another goal:
Become good at DEILD!

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If you become good at DILD then you have many opportunities to become good at DEILD :cheeky:

Yup, practicing everything now! Except SSILD...hmmmm......
I made a flow chart about DILDs, anyone interested? I need to approve it first

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I made a flow chart about DILDs, anyone interested? I need to approve it first

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Yes definitely! :D Show me/us as soon as you are done, please :)

I would like to see it.

I'll get my hands on a high quality camera tonight, and send it to Sageous to aprove it, then I would post it, maybe in my thread "my take on LDing techniques"

A scanner would probably work better.

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A scanner would probably work better.

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Don't have one :/

Here it is! Sageous approved it!^^
But sorry for the quality, plz bare with me

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Wow 365 in a year. I probably couldn't even hit 20. Lol. But my goal is to learn the abilities like flying and all that and stabilization.

To manage to get atleast a pair of stable dreams every few weeks.:cheeky: