What do you want to be writing in your DJ tomorrow?

[JadeGreen]

So this is sort of along the same lines as the "Post in this thread and you will have a lucid dream tonight" thread. But I want to do things a little differently. This is a thread for writing 'practice' dream journal entries. I've done this privately a couple of times, but now I want to try it in public. The best part about this is, you can do as many fake entries as you want whenever you want. Some tips for making this work a little better: -Don't go too ridiculous or outside of your capabilities as a dreamer. It's most effective if you keep it more realistic. If you are well aware of how lucid dreaming 'feels' for you, try to stay in that feel, perhaps pushing the boundary just slightly. For example, My longest WBTB chain had three lucid dreams, so I probably wouldn't write a practice DJ entry with more than four. -If you having trouble where to start, write about a non-lucid dream and then pretend you became lucid partway in it. What do you do? You could mash up multiple non-lucid dreams to make a new kind of non-lucid dream. Use your dream signs too and have yourself become lucid because of them. -Keep in mind the ways you get lucid. For example, I often get lucid with the use of a nose-pinch reality check. So chances are, In a good fraction of the lucid dreams I write, that is how I will see myself coming lucid. -Most importantly, use it to practice what you need to work on. I always forget to stabilize in my dreams, so I might be having to remind myself to stabilize in my dreams more often. Got a goal in mind? A lucid dare or wanting to do the task of the month? You can practice that here. -Use your DJ's formatting. If you have a color code, use it. If you like to include pictures, include pictures here too. Try to make the DJ entry feel as real as possible. -You could even write completely nonlucid dreams if you felt inclined to do so. Good for practicing recall and putting your dream signs together.

[tblanco]

I want to write that I looked at my hands.

[UncannyFAE]

I just want to write down 2 normal dreams. It would be a major improvement from either a very short dream or nothing at all

[JadeGreen]

Ill kick us off with the double WBTB I wanted to have this morning. I'm actually going to use the non-lucid dream that I had last night to get it started. This is just a visualization exercise. I remember dreaming that I was at some kind of campsite, with my parents. I was hungry, and we had forgotten to pack any food. I remember I looked through our stuff for awhile trying to find food. I eventually found some silver cans that I assume contained either ravioli or beans. I took them out and set them on a log and told my parents we should heat a couple of them up for dinner. But something weird started happening. Whenever I stopped looking at the cans, they started to move. And I found them appearing and disappearing all over the campsite whenever I was not looking. I thought this was weird, but didn't think to reality check. The dream transitioned to my bathroom. I was looking at myself in the mirror and saw that I was incredibly skinny, as though I were a starving person. I noticed how my stomach seemed to be distorting in strange ways and shapes. This eventually caused me to become lucid. I looked away from the mirror and did a nose pinch reality check. I could breathe through my nose very clearly and noticed how much noise my breathing seemed to make. "Aww, yeah!" I said to myself. I looked back in the mirror and changed my appearance a couple times until I got more of the look that I wanted. I decided I would go outside. So I walked out of the bathroom, down the stairs and out the front door. I remember further stabilizing the dream by focusing on how my hand felt as it went down the banister. While I was doing this I had a strange feeling of awareness about how my waking body was in bed in a laying down position and my dream body was standing upright going down the stairs. As I got to the bottom and went outside, I got worried that I might wake up from my dream. I tried to remember the magic word that my dream guide taught me for stabilizing dreams, but it didn't come to me. The word is (looks in my autosuggestion notebook) Metatiakiatientes. I decided it wasn't worth my time. When I got outside I saw that the tree in the front yard had been replaced with a giant red and white mushroom. There were some large quartz crystals spiking up from underneath it. For some reason the mushroom and the crystals were particularly vivid in the dream. I remember the rest of the neighborhood looked pretty strange as well. The grass in every yard was much taller. Many of the other yards had strange things for plants as well. I remember one of them had a palm tree and yet another had a huge willow tree so big it overshadowed the house. Off in the distance were giant trees. I remember there was a layer of fog beneath them and I thought it might be an interesting area to explore. I also remember that the sky was orange and there were two suns low in the east. There was also fairly large planet with craters directly above. I tried to remember my dream goals or lucid dares but nothing came to mind. I decided I would fly and explore the woods areas nearby. I tried to take off but the first time was a failure. I then decided to get a running start. I remember looking and seeing someone coming on down the sidewalk on a bicycle. He was a big fat guy wearing a black tee shirt. He had long black hair in a ponytail. The bike he was riding was one of those old bicycles with the really big front wheel. I ran forward and took off. I was flying fairly low as I made my way across the street and past the houses opposite me. I looked down and saw an ice cream truck turning into my subdivision. My feild of vision focused into the ice cream truck and I was thinking about something to do with ice cream sandwiches. I lost the dream and woke up. I woke up. I wanted to do a WBTB. I started to fall back asleep. I remembered that one of my dream goals was to try to do a shared dream with someone. I was on a beach somewhere. I remember there were sand dunes with grass on them behind me, and an old wooden fence. Out in front of me was a turbulet sea. I remember big waves rolling in onto the coast. I also remember that the sky was very dark and cloudy. Though it looked like it was sunny way out at sea. I remember there was a cold breeze coming off of the ocean that I was paying close attention. For some reason, I was paying attention to how it felt on my legs. I then remembered why I was paying attention to the breeze, because I was trying to lucid dream. I put my hands in the sand and felt the way the sand felt between my fingers. I remembered that I had my dream goal of trying to shared dream with someone. I decided I would need Manei to help me by doing the energy exchange to access better dream control. "Manei, Kuansen Axio Sosumbule" Nothing happened at first. I had to say it a second time for her to appear walking out from between two of the smaller sand dunes. She came over to me. I told her I wanted to try shared dreaming. She replied by saying something about 'jumping the dream'. I asked her if we should use the energy link. She said yes and we took each others hands. This being the fourth time we did it, it wasn't too difficult. I was kind of disappointed that the sensation was not more intense, since the energy exchange feels really good. Something kind of cool did happen in the sand though. When we started doing the exchange, the sand started spinning around us, like it was blowing in the wind. There were actually two rings around us, spinning in opposite directions. We spun around one another, changing the dream. (We actually did the binary dream spinning once in a lucid dream. In fact just about every part of this LD was pulled from other LDs.) When we stopped spinning we were still on the beach but it was sunny and clear weather now, and there were other people everywhere. The beach felt much bigger now. I remember there was someone sitting at a folding table selling swimsuits. I then thought I saw DawnEye11's guide, Eye sitting on a towel. But he kind of looked like the drawing of him that I made, but superimposed onto the 'real' world. He got up and looked at me with this sort of demented smile. I asked where she was but Eye told me some technicality about how this really was shared dreaming because as DawnEye11's guide he is a part of her. I got kind of frustrated. I lost the dream and woke up.

[LDman]

I just want to write in red, cause we all have our colour codes you know...

[Prune]

I want to write that I realise I'm doing something comletely nonsensical in a non-lucid dream.