New Year's Dreaming Resolutions

**EbbTide000** · 12-21-2014 04:47 PM

What are your dream-related resolutions for 2015?*

I want to merge with and meditate with meditative-animals, like you did with those Sloths

~Dreamer~, I like the dream I just read in the thread:

"Share your dream from last night in one sentence"

Post #8848

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http://www.dreamviews.com/general-dr...ml#post2139396

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Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

I was meditating with 2 sloths, and was surprised when my dad (who is not spiritually inclined at all) wanted to join us.

(Apparently that was less believable than the meditating sloths

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I dream of being animals sometimes (like a penguin). Also sometimes when watching David Attenborough I space-out to sense what some animal is sensing.

Like

Some snake smells that a mouse has passed by so the snake settles-in to wait for the mouse to pass by again. This snake can live 2 weeks without food before it's organs shut-down and the little snake, dies.

They had a camera watching that snake for 2 weeks. It never left it's place. It nearly died. But on day 14 a mouse happened by so the snake swallowed it and probably got to live another couple of weeks.

I imagine being that snake, living in the "here and now" meditating for 2 weeks.

Then, there are big saltwater crocodiles. If they get a big feed they won't even think of food for a month or two. Some just swim the ocean or be still with just it's eyes and nostrils above the water, hour upon hour, ... in the hear and now, ... with nothing on its mind, ... just seeing, ... hearing, ... smelling, ... feeling, ... (awareness - meditation).

Spacing-out with animals to leave the cacophony of the human mind behind and tune-in to some animal mind is deep meditation indeed.

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Dreamer, here is a WoW article about your Sloths ...

Spoiler for Sloths:

The sloth is not so much an animal as a walking ecosystem. This tightly fitting assemblage consists of:

a) the sloth,

b) a species of moth

that lives nowhere but in the sloth’s fleece and

c) a dedicated species of algae

that grows in special channels in the sloth’s grooved hairs. Groom a three-toed sloth and more than a hundred moths may fly out. When the sloth grooms itself, its fingers move so slowly that the moths have no difficulty keeping ahead of them.

The probable interplay of these three components has now been worked out by a team of biologists led by Jonathan N. Pauli and M. Zachariah Peery at the*University of Wisconsin. Their first step was to ponder a 35-year-old mystery about the behavior of the sloth.

Every week or so, the sloth descends from its favorite tree to defecate. It digs a hole, covers the dung with leaves and, if it’s lucky, climbs back up its tree. The sloth is highly vulnerable on the ground and an easy prey for jaguars in the forest and for coyotes and feral dogs in the chocolate-producing cacao tree plantations that it has learned to colonize. Half of all sloth deaths occur on the ground. The other serious hazard in its life is an aerial predator, the harpy eagle.

Why then does the sloth take such a risk every week? Researchers who first drew attention to this puzzle in 1978 suggested that the sloth was seeking to fertilize its favorite tree. Meanwhile, the algae that gave the sloth’s coat a greenish hue were assumed to provide camouflage.

Writing last week in*Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the Wisconsin researchers assembled all these pieces in a different way. They started by trying to understand what would compel the sloth to brave the dangers of a weekly visit to ground zero.

Its distant evolutionary cousin, the two-toed sloth, stays safely in the canopy, out of the jaguar’s view. The visit to the ground, the researchers concluded, could not be for the tree’s benefit, because the sloth’s dung would not make much difference to its nutrition. Rather, they assumed, it was to favor a critical component of the sloth’s ecosystem, the pyralid moth. The descent to the sloth’s midden affords the pregnant moths in its fleece a chance to lay eggs.

The moths’ caterpillars are coprophagous or, to put it more bluntly, consumers of excrement. They grow to maturity in the sloth’s dung pellets and, on hatching, flutter up to the trees to find a sloth host. Burrowing into its fur, they mostly shed their wings and live there happily for the rest of their days, mating and dying in a safe, protected environment.

After they die, their bodies are decomposed by the host of fungi and bacteria in the sloth’s fur. The metabolic products of this decay, especially nitrogen, are the feedstock for the specialist algae that grow in the sloth’s hair shafts. The researchers guessed that the sloths might be eating the algae from their own fur, and that this could be the purpose of the whole system.

Leaves are poor sources of nutrition, and animals that depend on them, like gorillas, often require large guts to hold them all. The sloth, having to climb along thin branches, can’t afford a big gut. It moves slowly because every calorie counts, and it pays to slow down its metabolism. But the invention of giving over its fleece to algae farming would go a long way to solving its problem of limited nutrition.

Dr. Pauli and his colleagues guessed that the sloth might be overcoming the poverty of its leaf diet by eating the algae on its fleece, and that the moths were essential fertilizer for the algae. In their paper they report much evidence in support of their hypothesis. The greater the infestation of moths, the more nitrogen a three-toed sloth carries in its fleece and the greater the amount of algae. An analysis of stomach contents showed the sloths were indeed eating the algae.

Two-toed sloths, which defecate from the trees, also harbor moths though to lesser extent. Still, they seem to be taking advantage of the sloth-moth-algae mutualism without sharing any of the risk. What could be lower on the moral totem pole than a freeloading sloth?

Dr. Pauli said he and Dr. Peery started their sloth project in 2009 on a cacao tree plantation in Costa Rica, with the goal of seeing if the sloths could colonize the plantations when their native forest was destroyed. Studying a sloth’s movements might seem as exciting as watching paint dry but the researchers sidestepped this tedium, Dr. Pauli said, by tracking the sloths with electronic collars.

Genetic engineers sometimes dream of inserting chlorophyll molecules into human skin cells so that people could photosynthesize their own food. The sloth had the idea first, probably millions of years ago.

O.K., back to your harried, fast-paced schedules. But remember the sloth, which has solved all its problems by living in the slow lane.

Here's the link

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/01/28..._r=0&referrer=

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**dolphin** · 12-22-2014 04:47 AM

I'll change my LD goal to 1,000.

**Sensei** · 12-22-2014 04:54 AM

Originally Posted by dolphin

I'll change my LD goal to 1,000.

I tried that last year and didn't get as much progress due to the hectic nature of my life this last year. I have a new vigor for LDing taking into this next year. I hope to get this much as well.

It is gonna be an awesome year for us either way!

**Forg** · 12-28-2014 12:44 PM

- Meditate, meditate, meditate!
- After I get the hang of it, I'm going to practice WILD.
- More lucid dreams ofcourse.

**FryingMan** · 12-28-2014 03:43 PM

I've decided 2015 will be the "year of the (awareness of the) breath." It just clicked that the breath unifies everything for me: mindfulness (breath is used to "center" yourself, stop, and "enter the present moment"), meditation (*all* about the breath), relaxation for sleep (I relax more and more on every breath), RC (nose pinch is my RC of choice [despite its recent failure

]), and, with this post I found (one of the few useful posts I've ever found outside of DV), I really decided that's what it's all about for me. With my continuing-to-improve dream awareness, I need a boost to state awareness which just isn't punching through the fog of the dream state despite strong day work, somehow. I'm really excited about this. Kudos to the author Mattson:

You are now aware you are breathing.
Trippy huh?
What if I told you in the span of time it took you to read the title and this part here you were lucid?
That feeling you had upon reading the title is exactly what you want to feel to achieve lucidity. That is what lucidity feels like. What you just experienced is lucidity. You just experienced the most important feeling in the world.
Notice how I speak in the past tense? The more you pay attention the closer your lucidity gets to oblivion. It is quite the balancing act.
Familiarize yourself with this feeling. It is the key to lucid dreaming.
The next time you do a reality check invoke this feeling. Become aware of your breathing. When you lay in bed to go to sleep don't chant a mantra to yourself. Just focus on your breathing as they come in and out... focus.
Focus and lucidity are one in the same. Determination and lucidity are one in the same.
They will come. Awareness is key. You now know what awareness feels like at its purest form.
Sweet dreams.
EDIT: Oh and before I forget... REMEMBER THIS FEELING!

**~Dreamer~** · 01-01-2015 07:55 AM

Awesome resolucids, everyone!

In 2015, I will:

- become comfortable and confident with WILD

- make WBTB seem less daunting by changing my perception, thinking of WBTB as an exciting opportunity to have a lucid dream, rather than a struggle to drag myself out of bed

- incorporate MILD meditation into my regular routine

Sweet dreams to all, and happy new year!

**Sensei** · 01-01-2015 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by ~Dreamer~

Awesome resolucids, everyone!

In 2015, I will:

- become comfortable and confident with WILD

- make WBTB seem less daunting by changing my perception, thinking of WBTB as an exciting opportunity to have a lucid dream, rather than a struggle to drag myself out of bed

- incorporate MILD meditation into my regular routine

Sweet dreams to all, and happy new year!

Woah! I forgot that I used to be super annoyed by WBTB too! I thought that it was like the devil and didn't want to do it, but I did make myself and now when I WBTB I am super excited that I have more of a chance to LD and will have better dreams.

thinking about it!

This makes me realize that I look at dream goals almost in a bad light because I feel like they make me lucid less unless I am on a really good streak. I shall work on my attitude towards goals this year.

**Eonnn** · 01-01-2015 10:43 AM

-start a DJ and record at least 1 dream per night
-remember to pause and stabilise when lucid, then recall dream goals.

**AnotherDreamer** · 01-01-2015 10:48 AM

In 2015, I will be more aware in my daily life. I will also be more diligent about improving my recall while I'm in dreams and when I wake up.

**TravisE** · 01-01-2015 11:13 AM

For me, it's to put an end to the stagnation/plateauing of my overall LD skill over the last several years: It's time to start doing unprecedented, amazing stuff again. That's pretty much it!

My current ideas for achieving this:
- Improve self-awareness
- Improve conscious access to memory during LDs

Simple goal, simple plan.

**Wasatch** · 01-01-2015 12:17 PM

Mine are basic:

- Improve dream recall.
- Attain lucidity again. If I can have one LD a week, that would be wonderful.
- Don't get discouraged by slow progress.

**Kain** · 01-01-2015 02:51 PM

Having my first lucid dream is all I want :-(
Well,I wouldn't mind having a second or third one,but let's start by taking small steps haha

**alanaelease** · 01-01-2015 08:22 PM

I think a RESOLUCID (lol) for me, is to be more consistent with my dream journal. I used to journal everyday, but slacked off. My excuse was I didn't have time in the mornings, BUT NO EXCUSES THIS YEAR. I would like to journal daily, but once a week is my minimum.

**StephL** · 01-02-2015 12:12 AM

Not sure about resolutions yet, but I enjoyed your sloth-info EbbTide000!
And - sweet thread ~Dreamer~!

**FryingMan** · 01-02-2015 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by Sensei

Woah! I forgot that I used to be super annoyed by WBTB too! I thought that it was like the devil and didn't want to do it, but I did make myself and now when I WBTB I am super excited that I have more of a chance to LD and will have better dreams.

thinking about it!

This makes me realize that I look at dream goals almost in a bad light because I feel like they make me lucid less unless I am on a really good streak. I shall work on my attitude towards goals this year.

Aaa ah, yes embracing WBTB is a serious resolucid, as is conquering return-to-sleep

**Eamo24** · 01-02-2015 09:57 PM

My resolucids are:

- Better LD consistency

- To become better at staying lucid once in a dream, and

- To become better at dream control.

**StephL** · 01-04-2015 10:50 AM

This is going to come in separate parts, but there are some things:

I'd like to give this indirect-methods-Raduga-phase-DEILD a proper testing, motivated by Searcher's successes and my intuitive feeling, this could be working great.

Then afterwards, if it works or not, I'd really like to get my first "proper" WILD with direct techniques.
I dream of learning a tech which works at any time incl. upon going to bed.

Get at least five sessions of lucid darting in, and see if that benefits my game.

Go to space.

**BlairBros** · 01-05-2015 08:20 AM

Its a bit late but I've had i since the first so:
-Keep my dream recall to at least a dream every night, or as close to as possible
-Work my way up to at least having 1 lucid a week
-Stay motivated for the ENTIRE YEAR rather than going in bursts of a few weeks.

Ps. 100th post and I hink i've just got 1000 community hall points lol, woohoo!

**Sensei** · 07-21-2015 05:04 PM

How is everyone doing now that six and a half months are done?

Still working on setting up my "alpha version" of my dreams. I have my inventory set up and I am training with my dream dad to become better at "anti lucid control" and I have had a couple off months I think. I haven't been as good with keeping track of my lds, I know the total, but not weekly and monthly like normal.

**~Dreamer~** · 07-21-2015 05:24 PM

Originally Posted by Sensei

How is everyone doing now that six and a half months are done?

I was just thinking about this thread the other day!
I have definitely not focused on WILD and WBTB like I planned to (so far), but I have become better at DEILDing, which is a good start!
I am going to read through Sageous' WILD class lessons soon to get on track with this.

Despite not sticking to my resolucids yet, I have had a great 6 months of lucid dreaming, both in terms of frequency and positive experiences.

**dolphin** · 07-21-2015 05:28 PM

I'm currently on pace to hit 372/1000 LDs by the end of the year. I had about 350 LDs all of the year before so it seems I'm on a huge plateau as far as all parts of my LD game are concerned, including stabilization, control and DEILDing. I try to break though every night, though!

**FryingMan** · 07-21-2015 07:10 PM

Dedication: A
Mindfulness, maintaining extended reflection moments: A- / B+
Breath awareness: C (more or less focusing on general mindfulness rather than mindfulness of breath, breath is just one of the triggers to regain mindfulness)
Meditation: D- (as in the formal seated/lying type, walking meditation I consider "Mindfulness/reflection")
WBTB: F (I just hate WBTB, what can I say, gotta keep working that waking up formula)

LDs: going on 30, about my steady long-term average of 1/week (but they come and go in streaks)

Dreaming: Density/frequency of epics on the continued slow rise since the 2nd half of 2014. Lots more semi-lucids in 2015. Recall ups and downs corresponding with life stress and sleep schedule. Some really truly amazing non/semi-lucid epics. Fun fun fun, can't live without these!

Best hot streak yet (on a business trip in May): 10 LDs in about 8 days.

So not bad all told!

**Sensei** · 07-24-2015 05:51 PM

Dreamer, fryingman, dolphin. Nice to see you guys enjoying yourself with LDing. I am working on something in my dreams right now (if you read my latest DJ entry you will see my attempt) that is super fun and exploratory and both my waking and sleeping mind agree that it is awesome.

I think that the thing I have learned the most this year is to get dream goals that I can be excited about at all times. In Dream and out. Because sometimes dream me thinks that waking me has boring goals.

**TravisE** · 07-27-2015 03:16 PM

Originally Posted by Sensei

How is everyone doing now that six and a half months are done?

I still feel it's a little early to say for sure, though I'm seeing some hints that I'm headed toward major progress (just in small, very gradual steps, rather than in major rapid breakthroughs)—eventually, if not by the end of this year! One thing is certain, though: I've learned a lot of interesting stuff over the last 8 or so months that I never knew before. I've been experimenting with and learning about self-awareness/meditation/self-observation, and I'm becoming very familiar with the nature and content of my dreams, regularly recognizing day residue in dream content (sometimes even in cases where it would appear to be completely unrecognizable). Even things like my waking-life thoughts, daydreams, dreamlets, dreams, and even HI/HH, which all look like totally different things on the surface, seem to start looking more and more like the same thing the more I study them.

I never anticipated this, but this is intriguing enough that I think my long-term goal might be changing a bit now: Instead of just LDing, I want to LD and do some reverse-engineering/hacking of my mind and personality.

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