Grischka's Workbook

[grischkaja008]

Hello It's me Grischka. I started lucid dreaming a year ago. The first time heard of lucid dreaming was in a song by Franz Ferdinand called "Lucid Dream". It describes how the main protagonist flies all over the world to meet his love. I was amazed by the concept of lucid dreaming so I tried it out on and off. I had a break for half a year (had to much things to bother with) but now I'm starting again. I restarted my DJ here on DV and I want to keep it up actively for a time (I'm in vacation for 3 months). So for the beginning, I try DILD and than I'm gonna try the other techniques. I'm looking for a dream sign, I think I have a few, but I have to check this in the next days. I'm totally looking forward to it!

[Matte87]

Welcome to class old friend! Make sure you check out this thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/f136/begin...skclub-115831/ and the progress thread here: http://www.dreamviews.com/f136/begin...thread-115806/ It's a fun taskclub with different tasks each week to stay motivated and have some friendly competition. Just select a task or two and go ahead and try to fill your name with * * * on each week. At the moment the only task is to visit the "Dream World Academy." You can read about it here: http://www.dreamviews.com/f81/new-ac...cademy-117921/ But I intend to have atleast one sidetask included each week. Welcome once again! Feel free to post your dreams you have in here and I'll make sure to comment on them. I bet the rest of this small but very close (not that close ) group would love to aswell!

[hashmash89]

Whats up Grischka! Welcome to the class

[nito89]

Hey Grischka! Welcome to the class, it's really fun and everyone is a laugh so I'm sure you will enjoy your stay!!! Take it eaaassy man!! Nito.

[tblanco]

Bring it!

[grischkaja008]

DAY 1 Here my entry from my DJ Vividness: 3/5 Recall: 3/5 Number of dreams: I'm really confused. It happens that I remember at least 5 different locations I've been. 1. I'm walking through narrow streets in the historical part of Luxembourg-city. Its already late, the street lamps are own. It's hot outsides, it appears to be summer. I stop in front of a restaurant I've never seen before. I enter and there is a huge entrance hall. I hang my jacket on the wall, which I didn't wear outsides. I walk past a bunch of people, past the bar and I sit down on a table near a window. The window looks like my window at home, even the same lamps are standing on the windowsill. I put up a little book which lies at the the table (it's my book where I write my ideas down for further novels) and I write several pages down. But I'm not able to read it. After a time I'm leaving this lace cause I'm bored and walk past the bar, take my jacket with me and step out. Outsides, everything is as it used to be last time. Suddenly I remember that I forgot my book inside. I remember that I put it on the windowsill. I'm walking to a window. Although this window doesn't lead to the restaurant, I recognize my windowsill and see the book. I'm telling my self that I could pick it up later. I leave the place and take a ride with the bus. 2. I awake. I'm feeling very dizzy. I look around my room and grab the same book as before. I write my dreams down, but again, I can't read what I'm writing. I'm confused. I lay down on my bed and review the dreams in my head. I fall asleep. (Great false awakening, isn't it?) 3. I'm in my bedroom but it's totally different from reality. There are no bed and no shelves, t looks like a strange club or something like that. There are a few people in there, a DJ and a few friends of mine: L., Micheal, Girl N., Girl C.. There is also a fat girl I've seen two times or three before. We are dancing to the music we enjoy our time. Suddenly the music changes and the DJ plays some slow music. HE says into his microphone that everyone should join a partner and dance to the song. I wasn't pleased at all from this idea. Let me explain why: We are 3 guys and three girls. So far as good. But the choice of the dance partner is awfull: First we have girl N.: I used to have a crush on her, but she's really wicked and manipulative. This is such an occasion which she use to make you feel uncomfortable. Second there is girl C.: I like her a lot, but she has now anorexia and doesn't look really well because of her illness. Third: there is the fat girl. And , ok this sound a bit harsh but, well she's fat and ugly. So How can I survive this dilemma? In all of the three cases I'm against my principles and I would lower my self-esteem. I don't want to choose, but fortunately, I don't have to: girl N. has two dice that she rolls over the floor. It's a 2 and a 4. She says that she has to choose L. I'm not very pleased cause no I have 50 % of luck to get the fat one. But fortunately the scene changes and wee are outsides in a spa or something like that. The fat one has disappeared. There is an old lady who welcome us. I'm wondering why we aren't dancing any more. I find this odd I awake. I'm confused. But this time I get directly up. I look at my alarm clock. It's 4:15 am. I reality check the clock and the time doesn't change. I'm convinced that I'm not dreaming any more and I write down some striking words to remember my dreams when I get up in the morning. I lay down again and want to perform a WILD. but I can't concentrate and fall asleep without remaining conscious. 4. I'm in my old highschool. It looks like if I'm in a French class, well my old French teacher is there, We have to write a test, but surprisingly it's an art contest. My brother is also there. My teacher says that he has to go and we should finish in an hour or so. As he gets away, my brother and I start fighting and we try to sabotage each drawing. It's very confusing and we finish my throwing pencils at us. The teacher gets back and we stop our fight. He says that class is finished, but I remind him about the drawing contest. He says to me I should take the papers and write the names on it. I agree but it's difficult for me to write them down. I wrote like a 6 year old child with big, creepy letters. I'm than outsides, it's day and I meet the son of my teacher. I'm having a conversation, about the last novel his father wrote (yeah he's in fact also an author). He gives me his essay and I correct his essay and talk about it with him. I can't remember about what his essay went. 5. I'm on a beach. I have al my clothes on and go to the sea. I get into the water and a lot of waves crushe against me. The water is really rising fast. I get flooded away. 6. I'm in the town where my grandma lives. I'm in front of the barriers (there is a rail-road in fact) and it seems that I've finished my exams, which I finished in fact last week. There are a few other students, and on the other side of the road I see my friend Michael. He's riding a bike and he stops. Other students join him and he starts clapping in his hands like a pole vaulter before his leap to encourage his self. Every one starts clapping and he finishes riding his bike down the hill (quite impressive, huh? ). I get in my car and suddenly, I'm in a car park. I get out and I walk a few meters, the surrounding change and I'm in a bar again. There are friends and one if them waves at me to show me that there are a lot of places free. I go there and I want to sit down, but one seat his occupied by a bag of girl N., who isn't there, at an other seat, a jacket lies there. I get another place, but it's far away from the desk so I can't hear what my friends are talking I'm quite impressed. It appears that I have memorized 6 dream sequences. O my gosh! Let's analyse them a bit (it wont be too long) Well there are a lot of episodes where I see that something is odd, but I don't question it. I have to train my awareness a bit. Second, I have the impression that my dreams are quite messed up. In fact, it seems that my topics about the dreams are the stuff I think or I worry about, this includes friends, family, my writing as an author, holiday trip. Third there are some themes which always come up : 1. My old highschool: I was there a very long time, and it has marked me a lot. 2. Party/Pubs/Club: On weekends, I go out a lot with my friends, sometimes even in the middle of the week, when I have no other occupation the other day. These days mark me a lot, because there are the only times I do something what I like to do or where I enjoy my self. 3. Friends, often related to party.

[grischkaja008]

And thanks to you all for the kind welcome greetings

[Matte87]

Cool dreams grischkaja! I'll award you a * for completing the task: "Recall 5 dreams." If you complete any other tasks please let me know by saying so at the end of the post. How successful were you in doing RC's whenever a dream sign showed up? Perhaps starting to do RC's whenever one of them appears is a good idea, and visualize it Keep on dreaming!

[hashmash89]

Nice recall and dreams grischka

[grischkaja008]

Day 2 My DJ entry Hours of sleep: 9.5 Vividness: 3/5 Recall: 4/5 Numbers of dreams: Yet again, was a productive night. 6 dreams, each connected to another one 1. I don't see really clear, I see just the table where I am sitting to. It appears that I'm in a bar. In front of me sits Micheal and another friend, but I cannot remember who it was. We are planing a trip to Holland and we don't find a way to get a common decision. Another friend sits down and he says that he cannot participate to our journey. I leave this place after a few minutes or so, because I want to go home. Outsides it's dark already. 2. I'm driving with my car home. It's night. Next to me sits my brother. We are talking about some stuff. I don't realize that the traffic light went red and I drive through it. I'm angry and blame my brother for it, because of his talking I couldn't concentrate. In the back mirror I see, that there is a police car. I get even more angry. But it appears that he didn't saw it. 3. It's day and I'm near my home town somewhere on a field. There are a lot of people there. I think that I'm on a journey or something like that. I ride a bike and I'm heavily equipped with bags and such stuff. We want to go on the top of the hill. I ride my bike and I'm not really moving fast, I'm exhausted and I start feeling pain in my legs. But suddenly, we are at the top. There are a few mini-rails and we start plying with toytrains I awake, do a reality-check. I'm really awake and look at my alarm clock; it's already 5 am. I am a bit angry that I couldn't recall much about the previous dreams. I tried to remember but I couldn't. I went a bit disappointed back to sleep. 4. It's really free in the morning, it's a bit chilly outsides. I stand on a long road, on one side there is a forest and on the other side, there are fields. At the left near the feels, there are a few cars parking. I'm looking for my car to leave, because something tells me, that I'm going home from some party. After a minute or so I find a car and open it with my key. I realize that it's a Mini Cooper and this isn't my car. I wonder why the doors opened with my key. I realize that this model doesn't even have a key-slot but it's opened via a remote. But I'm just thinking: hey it's an awesome car, why just use it?I get in, just to sit at the drivers seat. I don't want to drive it, but it starts driving slowly from itself. I push the break but it doesn't stop and drives into a nearby town. I finally manage to stop and I get out of my new car. Suddenly Nathalie appears and ask me if everything is okay. I tell her, that I have problems with "my" car and I want to drive back. She offers her help, I get on the passenger seat and she takes the drivers seat and drives back. The way back seems to be more long. She starts talking about her life, how good everything went and such a stuff. I'm a bit confused. In addition it seems that Nathalie looks much more amazing than she already looks like, that confuses me even more. Every time she talks about a subject from her awesome life, the surroundings in the car are changing to take form of the current subject. For example as she speaks about her boyfriend, the car changes into a field with flowers and a man appears who gives her kisses. I think that it's in my imagination, but I get scared a bit, so I simply go out of the car. It appears that the car is back at his place, but there are a lot of other cars there. I get into my real car and drive away. In the meantime I see two friends of mine riding on a bike. I realize that they are the owner of the car and that they are now driving home, cause they didn't have their car. 5. I'm at a place that looks similar. A few friends are there and we are relaxing in chairs. We also have a barbecue. On of the girls says that she has to leave and we should pay attention on her laptop, which lays on her seat. After a few minutes or so, a few teenagers walk past. One of them takes the chair with the laptop and leaves the chair there. A friend reminds me of the laptop. I stand up and run towards him, he starts running too. I cross the street, get nearly hit by a car and finally match to capture him. I'm really angry: - You little dick-sucking bastard! What do you have in your brain? Give me this laptop back. - But I don't have it sir! He drops it and it lands on the ground. - Here you have mister! Me: Pick it up you bastard! As he leans to the ground, I give him a kick in his ass and he falls to the ground. I take the laptop with me and give it back to my friend, who was already waiting. 6. all my closest friend are together and we go to an journey through a city. It's a strange mix of Luxembourg-city, Paris, and all other place I've been. There are mountains, there are a lot of houses with narrow streets, there is a river, in the background there are a few mountains. We first get into a boat to drive to the city. The boat is really narrow. When we finally arrived, there were a few strange American tourist. They were speaking in English. They ask us if we visited a place called the academy, a lot where referring to a castle or something like that. We were a bit confused but we left them alone. We are now in front of some city walls, there are a few towers. We are a bit lost, cause the place seems to be Luxembourg-city but the streets are different, there were houses which we could simply enter, everywhere were a lot of people. In the meantime, it seems that someone is sitting on my shoulders. It's a girl on our age and it seems that she's drunk and isn't able to walk any more. We enter in a house or a hallway, I let her off and she walks towards a bathroom. There is a woman who says that she's drunk. I ask her which way we should take and she gives us some directions. The girl gets back and she seems to be fully conscious and not more drunk. We take the way, walk through narrow streets. It gets dark, outsides are a lot of people partying outsides. So what happened here? The evening before I rewind my day in my head. Strangely all the relevant passages weren't in my dream. However, it seems that all the dreams are based on a single sentence I heard of. For example I dreamed a lot about camping, going on a journey etc. That's because yesterday a friend told me that we totally should go on holiday together, to camp somewhere Achievement I'm not quite sure, but there is a passage that intrigues me: My last dream. It seemed that I've been near a place called the academy. Was it perhaps the dream-academy? The place were I went looked very familiar to me, but some things weren't as they should be. Does this count as being close to the dream-academy or was it just a familiar place which changed a bit?

[Matte87]

Travelling is a cool dream theme as you get to see so many cool things Very nice recall man. The task is to visit it in a lucid, but it definitely got stuck on your subconscious and that's probably why you dreamt about it. Two times you were close to getting lucid, close but no cigar! Good luck tomorrow man

[grischkaja008]

Ok I'm really feeling that I get slowly back on track, I've never remembered 12 dreams in 2 days I'm really looking forward to become lucid

[Matte87]

Haha that's more than I will have recalled this entire week Good! Set up a day on which you will do a WBTB. It was one of the earlier tasks. Perhaps Saturday morning is good? Get up, visualize and go back to bed with the intentions of getting lucid! Ofcourse the things you will do is what you will visualize.

[hashmash89]

Nice dreams Grischka. Lol @ "and then we started playing with toy trains." Thats pretty crazy the way the tourists were talking about the academy. Interesting stuff!

[grischkaja008]

@Matte 87: I plan perform WILD Monday morning, the other day I'm too busy. @ hashmash89: I too loled very hard when I remembered that part As good as I remember there were 5 or 6 different rail-roads and I ended up getting in an argument with one of my friends, because we couldn't decide witch one is better

[hashmash89]

I ended up getting in an argument with one of my friends, because we couldn't decide witch one is better Lol nice

[grischkaja008]

Day 3 My DJ entry Hours of sleep: 8 Vividness: 3/5 Recall: 1/5 Background: The dreams take place in France, Brittany in a small sea-town. I go there on holiday since I'm 6. 1. I'm on the beach. It's summer and I'm in my holiday. I don't remember if it was hot outsides, but there was bue sky. I walked a bt on the beach and stopped in front of some rocks. There is water trapped between them and I look at it to see if there were animals trapped inside. I do this everytime when I' on a beach . I saw some snails and two little fish, nothing spectacular. After a minute or so something appeard. It started to pray on the snails. At first I thought it was a crab or something like that. An DC appeared next to me. Me: Have you seen that thing in the water? DC: I don't know what you are referring to... Me: look there under the rock There were a few crabs walking toward the minicave under the rock but the something appeared. Now it looked like a snake, but it has feet too. DC: What the hell? Me: I think I know what this is. In the sea live some worm-like animals. They usually live in seaweed and pray o small animals. But his exemplar here is one of the bigger species. DC: Quite impressing! We should catch it to sow some scientist. Maybe it's rare Me: I wouldn't touch it, it's maybe poisonous. 2. I'm in the same region but now I'm in the port of the city. Surprisingly there is a friend of mine here and some other people. I don't remember who it was and t seems to me there was another friend too. We take a boat and there is a coach also there. We drive to a small bay which is very close to the port. There are a lot of waves. I walk around the boat without falling or something, I just walk naturally. All the other characters are in trouble and they can't walk without slipping or hurting. I manage to drive a bit the boot away from the cliffs we were slowly approaching. Coach: You are terrific sir! It seems that we have a natural navigator here! Me: I'm very used to this sea, so it wasn't difficult for me. In addition I'm seriously thinking of making the driver licence for boat! Boat.... There was something with boat.... I remember that I was talking somewhere else about boats and such stuff.I think about it a bit and I remember a sentence: "You can drive drunk a boat, but it's not allowed for cars!" I get a flashback and I remember talking to a classmate during a party. He told he did the licence and that he went a lot to South France to drive there and to party on the boat. I'm a bit confused. I'0m certain that this memory has something to do with this scene. Wait a minute... How did I manage to get on a boat? So close to get lucid! I'm felin that my "awareness-training" slowly starts to work. However, I didn't manage to do some RC after seeing someone familiar. I think this point needs a bit more attantion. It's only three days ago that I started doing RC when I meet a friend, sometimes I do them a bit too late. But I have plenty of time to practice this part.

[hashmash89]

Nice dreams grischka! Yeah it definitely seems your awareness was slipping into that second one That worm animal was pretty interesting as well.

[grischkaja008]

I have thought a bit about the animal and it reminds me now of the novel The Idiot from Dostoevsky: there is an dead-ill young man, which speaks about his recurrent nightmares where a scorpion or worm like creature appears in his room and tries to attack him. His description fits exactly in the view I had on the worm-animal: it's black, has many feet, looks like a roach or a scorpion and it's long. I just don't know why this stuck in my subconscious, cause the last time I read the novel was last year in october.

[hashmash89]

Wow thats cool, good thing it wasn't attacking in your dream That is strange it popped up after so long. Haha good thing you warned the DC, he probably would've just gone and grabbed it.

[grischkaja008]

Haha good thing you warned the DC, he probably would've just gone and grabbed it. I had the feeling that he wanted to cook it or use it as decoy xD

[grischkaja008]

Day 4 DJ entry Yesterday was Friday and traditionally (lol) I went to a party. Result: I went late to bed and had moderately alcohol in my blood. When I went to bed I did't expect I would remember a dream. When I awoke at 7 am after 4 hours of sleep, I couldn't remember something. But after the last 4 hours of sleep I'm able to recall 3 fragments. Hours of sleep: 8 Vividness: 3/5 Recall: 2/5 1. I'm on vacation and I'm in a shop of the town, I went previously in a dream. I remember that I bought holiday cards. I ask the seller of much they cost and he sayd me 42 €. I thought I had not understood the seller and I asked again. He confirms the price. I think about it a second and remembered I had retrieved previously some money, so I was able to pay this unbelievable price. Side Note: I went to the bank last evening to get some money. It seems that my memory is good, but not good enough to recall that I'm at home and not in Brittany. 2. I'm a secret agent and I've been captured by my enemy. He plans to gather all the electromagnetic energy from earth to sell it. What an evil plan! I got trapped in a chamber where he tested his weapon. It started and I felt really dizzy, I started to see the surrounding change in colour. I looked at my digital watch. It showed me anomaly electric-fields and the display disappeared. Somehow I manage to get out of the laboratory. 3. It seems that I'm still this secret agent. I'm at the train-station from Luxembourg city. There was snow and it was cold. I felt extremely dizzy and had not much energy. There was a big screen somewhere. There was a TV-speaker who told, that the earth entered an energy crisis and that the world powers where negotiating with a businessman who holds all the energy left. I realize that it's my enemy who caused the collapse. I walked as fast as I could to get a bus to inform the secret service (nice plan, isn't it? ) But I'm too groggy and I fall to the ground, The 500 meters remaining I crawled through the snow and ice. I finally see a bus coming. I awoke cause my bedroom-door opened and my brother walked in to wake me up. I got scared, cause the last image in my head was the bus and the first image I recieved was the face from my brother So that's it. Sunday night I will perform my first WILD in ages. Let's see what tonight brings me. Tomorow I will perform WILD

[hashmash89]

Wow some epic dreams Grischka! It's always strange to rem little things from waking life in our dreams, like in your first dream. The secret agent ones are pretty cool, its funny the way your brother woke you up. You should've been like "Dude I'm trying to dream!!!"...

[grischkaja008]

The secret agent ones are pretty cool, its funny the way your brother woke you up. You should've been like "Dude I'm trying to dream!!!"... At first I was like "dude what's going on" Than I was like "are you kidding me?" But finally I was like "OMG that was epic! "

[hashmash89]

Haha nice!