Thread: LbV's Workbook (of slow, slow progress)

Oh, I see! Good luck!

I'm starting to go backwards in progress now. I can't seem to keep focus on a mantra or visualisation long enough to be close to falling asleep. Every night I either drift of into a whole different train of thought and then fall asleep or I'll continue with my mantra but keep myself awake. I thought I had the knack to doing it but if I had it, it's gone now.

I need some tips, any basic tips I mave have forgotten or something new that could help me?

Thanks

Yeah, I'm having a similar problem... The first night I tried, I heard whispering during SP... after that, I never went as far.

Managed to do an RC in my dream last night that made me become lucid. I woke up pretty much instantly though, I was walking through some egyptian ruins with some people I didn't recognise, did an RC randomly, became lucid, looked around and woke up.

I don't think that's a bad considering I didn't try to MILD last night, I was still pretty drunk from a party I went to when I went to bed. If I can get that far without trying I must be on the right tracks.

That's awesome!!!

From my DJ:

Had a really short lucid this morning. I woke up for about 20 minutes and decided to try another MILD as I was still pretty tired.

I was in a big house, looking at the view from the window it made me think I was on the third or fourth floor. The impression I had of the house, even without seeing it from the outside was that it looked like a traditional childs doll house, big pointed triangular roof, white picket fence etc. The room I was approaching was clearly a childs room, all soft colours, soft toys and a crib in the corner.

As I walked through the door, I suddenly became lucid. I have no idea what triggered it, leaning against the wall I randomly told myself 'I'm dreaming' and it worked. So I did an RC, pinching my nose again. I can never remember to do any others for some reason. So far I haven't needed it but I know I should try to use them.

Anyway, I tried shouting 'dream stabilize' and 'clarify' because it didn't feel stable, it felt like I was really dizzy or drunk. Things were blurry and I had trouble walking straight. I'm not sure if that's common. The dream did get more stable after a bit and I began to think about what I wanted to do with my time here. The first thing I saw while looking around the room was a high window showing a bright blue summer sky. The window was really thin but spanning the width of the room. I wanted to fly out of it, not thinking I'd be able to do it, I just lept up, arms in front of me and aimed for the window. Slowly, I glided to the window, almost like I was on a rope. Unfortunately when I got to the window I began to lose control of the flight and went off to the right, nearly crashing into the wall. I gave up on it when I got back to the ground and went to explore the house.

After that I don't remember what happened, I probably started to lose lucidity. As I said it wasn't very stable. But this is the motivation I needed, just experiencing the buzz you get from it has reinvigorated my focus. Hopefuly it'll lead to more success.

Good job on your lucid!

Thanks for the comments everyone, really glad to get another lucid after a week of failure. Got my motivation back in time for the competition.

I'll post my three step tasks here too (I just posted them in the Comp thread)

1. Successfully stabilize
2. Fly
3. Visit a Rainforest

Good luck in the competition!

Well, I've come back. I have totally lost my way in lucid dreaming. I began to lose interest before the site went down, due to personal issues and I was having a pretty rough time for a while. I lost all motivation to try and LD. Then I noticed the site go down and completely gave up. Lately though I've had several dreams where I have contemplated the fact that I'm dreaming or told myself I'm dreaming. Never becoming lucid but always remembering the event after waking up.

I've decided I want to come back to it all. Start over and work my way back up. I know if I start posting on here regularly again I'll be more driven to do it.

So hello again everyone, sorry for my absence and what have I missed?

Had a weird one last night. Not sure if I was lucid or not. Can you be lucid without realising it?

I dreamt that me and a friend were going to try and get into this really posh party, know we had no chance. But I seemed to know that I had unlimited power and changed our outfits to really smart tuxedos, when the two bouncers came up to us I did a sort of jedi mind trick. 'These aren't the droids you're looking for.' type of thing and they let us in.

Random. Just thought I'd share.

Yeah man, you can have some really weird lucids where you kind of fade in and out of lucidity or even just have a really low level of lucidity. Sounds like you are having some progress, though

I realised after I woke up that I'd had a false awakening the other night. First time I'd ever had one. Only thing was that I couldn't see, like someone was shining a really bright torch in my eyes all the time. Visibility and being blinded by the sun seems to me recurrent in my dreams. But I remember walking around my room trying to figure out why it was so bright in there and trying to find the door. Shame I didn't realise it was a false awakening until after.

Hey everyone! I've been thinking about lucid dreaming a lot lately and really regret that I got so far just to give up when I first discovered this site. I want to try again (again). I would say as a new years resolution type thing but I hate everything New Years so much ("Time is an illusion, Lunchtime doubly so"). But maybe it'll help me work at it if I think of 2013 as the year where I learn to lucid dream. I don't know.

But I am back, would be great for all the awesome people I used to talk to would support me again, I miss talking to all you lucid-savvy people. Do you still do the competition things Matte? Also your profile picture has become a lot more terrifying since I last logged on.

Hope to talk to you soon, any advice on where to start again would be great. Guess I have to start from the ground up. Feel free to message me, really want to get back into the community here. Thanks!

Welcome back man Yeah the competition is still going on. Number 10 starts on Saturday actually, why don't you join in? We need another person in Lower League.

I've also struggled with motivation, but my position here on DV keeps me around. Going to try harder this year too, we'll see how it goes.

Yeah you should get your recall back up first of all. Second I suggest you try achieving some tasks you've already achieved and read alot of old entries to really get your enthusiasm up.

Keep on dreaming!

Thanks for replying Matte, I'll go sign up to the competition. I guess it's the same as the last time I did it more or less(?). I actually managed to recall quite a few dreams from last night but need to dig out my dream journal and start jotting them down again. I imagine reading through that could help me a lot.

I read through what I'd posted on my dream journal on here before I went to sleep last night and it really got hyped to do it again. I had forgotten how detailed my experiences had been, reading it again brought it all back.