Thread: Hashmash's Workbook

From what I read, your mind is influenced by dreaming, which makes you have dreams about dreams. This is great, perhaps use that as a Dream Sign? If you have alot of dreams about dreams. Whenever you think about dreaming or is on DV, RC.

Good job on the DEILD attempts, you were close for sure The cat was hilarious haha. I love random stuff like that. Keep it up!

Sounds like a good idea as dreaming is often a theme in my dreams Ill start rcing whenever im on DV and whenever i'm talking or thinking about dreams.

Had a very short lucid this morning. I had woken up at 5 and decided to do a proper WBTB. It worked perfectly and i reality checked in my dream. Despite it seeming to be very stable it ended very quickly. Had an interesting FA after.

June 18 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Im glad that i actually thought about and remembered my goal in the dream, this will be helpful in the future

Just regular dreams this morning. Hoping to eat something in my next lucid. It's only been a day but i'm tempted to try a proper WBTB again tonight...ill see how it goes

June 19 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Atleast you're recalling something I've gone 6 days without recalling anything, it was pure hell! Good look on your WBTB man!

Just non-lucids. Hoping to get this weeks tasks done tonight and tomorrow night

June 20 and 21 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Some more non-lucids. Im hoping to get at least one task done before tomorrow. We shall see...

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Ah some dreaming related stuff and that thing with the teacher was interesting. What our minds make up I mean. Good luck tonight man, I believe in you as always, but the key is for you to believe in yourself!

Class might be delayed today (or canceled) have alot of things I need to do. I'll update you guys later on.

Recalled a lot of dreams last night but none lucid. Some were still fun/interesting though so its all good. I did try a proper WBTB but couldn't get back to sleep afterwards so it was kind of counterproductive. No class today, im gonna use that as an excuse to take longer with this weeks tasks

June 23 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Shouldve gone lucid after a proper WBTB last night but didnt quite make the shift in awareness. Still had some cool dreams, I know another lucid is just around the corner

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When I read the dreams, I had the feeling that you were so close to getting Lucid. Better close than not at all though

Thanks Matte and yes I agree it feels so close, just more non lucids today though. I tried WILDing quite a bit this morning and I am starting to wonder if this technique just isnt for me. I have enough trouble getting back to sleep at night as it is and WILD attempts just make it harder. I want to try DEILDs some more, but even last night I woke up once and remained perfectly still, eyes closed; but was unable to fall back into sleep/dream and just lied there for a while. Perhaps I should just start doing a shitload of excersise before bed or something. It makes it interesting trying to dream when after 4 or 5 hours of sleep i can get up for the day

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BTW nice driving in your lucid last night

What do you do when you try to DEILD? Do you visualize anything at all? I find it pretty easy to DEILD once I get into the right mindset. Just forget about your body and focus on the things you're visualizing. Also that's a nice amount of dreams, they were all amusing. And thanks

I pretty much do what I would try to do during a WILD, usually focusing on my breath and kind of trying to, someone on the forums called it "meditate myself to sleep." But no I dont visualize anything. Ill give it a shot focusing on my visualisations, perhaps focusing on my breath keeps me too aware of my body. Any other tips or should i just give that a shot tonight?

Yeah I think that's your main problem. The few times I've WILD'ed and DEILD'ed I always have trouble succeeding if I focus 100% on the technique itself. It's when I just let go and relax completely and visualize something or pay attention to the images I see that I succeed. Try it out after 4½ or 6 hours of sleep

Ok cool sounds good Matte. I'll give it a shot tonight

Tried to DEILD once and got pretty close. I didn't focus on my technique i kind of just thought about what i wanted to do and visualized it. My imagination began getting pretty vivid so i think i may have been falling asleep. Unfortunately for some reason my leg flinched and hit the wall pretty hard, it was really strange. Later in the morning i did a WBTB and tried to MILD. It took a long time to fall asleep so i think my mantra must have worn off a bit. When i did finally fall asleep it was into a light sleep and i feel i couldve easily maintained awareness during this time. This gives me confidence to keep trying the WILD technique. So yeah non-lucids today

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Ah very good man Keep the spirits high! Also once again it sounds like you're close to getting lucid, you question things alot.

WILDS are fucking hard and took me a long time to get it. Make sure you are late in the Night Sleeping, 3rd or 4th REM. But they are awesome. When i get the wild it's So Far always a False Awakening.
Yoshi's guide is pretty good.

Thanks tblanco i'll keep that in mind, im trying to think of natural ways to just make myself more tired as well. I read through Yoshis WILD guide a LONG time ago so i could probably benefit from another read through

Just had some fragments this morning. I didnt get a chance to DEILD, but I did try to WILD when I woke up at 7. Felt like i was getting close and i wasn't focusing on a technique i was just kind of falling asleep. Didn't make it all of the way though and couldn't get back to sleep at this point so only a few short dreams remembered. I'm hoping to have a nice long lucid before thursday, we'll see how it goes

June 27 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

You'll get it one day man, and after that it's going to get easier and easier Also make sure you tune in on IRC on thursday!

I think the hardest thing about wilding is you can't get excited about it. If you are excited about LD then the wild fucks up. When i do it, i have a fan running and i just listen to the fan while i go to sleep. I also imagine some of the things i want to do when i LD, but in like a blah autistic way.