Thread: Lucas(Potter)'s Workbook

Last night didn't go well. My dreams were all annoying and weird and depressing. No lucid dreams.

Whoa, this is AWESOME!!!

Going to bed soon! Later than usual, but I don't have class on Fridays, so yay!

For some reason, I feel like tonight I should try to WILD. I've never had any success with it, but... why not, right?

Yup, if you feel like, go for it! Remember to do it in WBTB or nap and not when normally going to sleep though, and it's also good to try because it can also increase chances of DILDs in WBTB/nap. Good luck!
Edit: By the way, new competition sign up thread is live: http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...read-14-a.html

Oops. I tried when I went to bed already. It never works, I can sense how the hearing goes different, I feel the pressure on my chest and the lights we see with our eyes closed go super crazy and almost create faces or places, but... that's as far as I get. I'll try doing that in the middle of the night tonight!

While I had no lucid dreams last night, I did realise something. When I first got here, I had a terrible problem falling asleep. I'd lay there for two hours before finally getting unconscious. Then I started trying to WILD and I never had any success, but I can sleep just fine now! Last night, while I was trying to WILD, I could feel my whole body completely relaxed and that's something that I learnt how to do because of this site. So thanks!

Oh, and about the competition... I really want to join, but considering I can't even had LDs yet, I think it's better if I sit this one out... next LD I have, whenever that happens, I'll try the task of the month and see how it goes.

Joining can increase chance for that LD to happen as well though!

I would join if I were you. The last competition we had, I did not succeed in LDing during the competition but it boosted my dream recall and then I had an LD after, and in general almost all my LDs since I came back to this hobby have been tied to these competitions, so I can attest that they are powerful stuff. If you are at all competitive, this may be just what you need to bring you over the edge into LDing. Plus people are really nice and encouraging to oneanother, and there are no negative consequences for not LDing, so really you have nothing to lose by joining the competition, and you may have something to gain. Come on! It's fun. Oh and most of us really are competing against ourselves, so do not worry if your points are not comparing well with others, it's how they compare to your own expectations what really counts.

Edit: Besides, I joined in the competition, and it is in my best interest if more people join sooner because the competition won't start until enough people have signed up. So you would be doing me a favor if you signed up soon.

I'm very competitive and a sore loser, so this could either really help me or make me "Angelmoody". But you know what? I'm not having LDs at the moment anyway, so might as well try it, right?

Something I've noticed about my dreams: when something happens in my life, I tend to dream about it a couple days later. For example, I had a six-day marathon of Game Of Thrones. A week after I was done, I saw Tyrion Lannister in a dream. I've been watching four episodes a day of Community for the past five days. Last night, Britta was in my dream.

It's interesting. Although some things are never in my dreams. I read a lot about the concentration camps (my major in college is Hebrew, so I read a lot about Judaism in general, I'm just more interested in the Holocaust), but I've NEVER had a dream about it. Once, I had a dream where I was running away from a dark, huge camp. Could've beem a concentration camp, I guess, but I wasn't afraid of Nazis. In another dream, I was Jewish and I was hiding in a nice German family's house. But then the dream changed and I was just having fun with that family, hanging out at their place and we were all friends.

As I said... interesting.

I'm going to bed soon. Going to try WBTB tonight!

Goodnight! Good luck. Me I am in bed but I can't seem to wrap my head around the idea of going to sleep tonight. I am thinking putting down my phone may be a good first step.

It's not uncommon to dream about things we enjoyed recently, that's how some dream signs get born and it's nice that you have noticed it.
And good luck with WBTB!

I slept a lot (about eleven hours! ), but my dream recall has been getting a little worse. I remember very little.

And I didn't even get to try WBTB. I woke up twice (that I can remember), once I was so tired that I let myself fall asleep without a second thought, the second time I was TOO awake. Maybe tonight?

Ah, that can happen, but there's indeed always next night and those 11 hours are still a good sleep! think positive!
Also when you wake up during night for rather short period of time, be it short WBTB or Micro-WBTB or just waking up for a bit, it can help to write recall using some tags to be able to recall it later more easily when you get to writing an actual entry.

Since my recall is usually pretty good, I've never bothered with writing keywords for my dreams everytime I wake up, but I think I'll give it a go for a week... if it works, it works!

Crap, it's 4AM. Sure, tomorrow is Sunday, but I wanted to keep a nice schedule. That's out now, I guess...

Anyway, I'll try writing down keywords from my dreams whenever I wake up. I'll also try WBTB, though I'm not sure that's a good technique for me. I usually wake up in a bad mood because I hate having to wake up. I will try!

Also, I've started watching The Walking Dead. I've never liked zombies and I've never been afraid of them, so I hope my brain doesn't give me creepy, zombie nightmares.

Btw I'm totally making the TOTM my goal if I do get a lucid dream. The easy one, though, asking someone the meaning of life. If I do manage to do that, then I'll go on with my personal goals.

If you are not afraid of them then it should not be a problem, and zombies can actually make some fun dreams too.
And good luck with TOTM!

No lucid dreams, but I think I only have myself to blame. I don't do reality checks as often as I should. I was doing well with the app for the first two days, but then I paused it, forgot to unpause it and I have to get back on it.

I had three dreams last night. When I woke up from the first dream, I could remember everything about it and I kept telling myself "it's a tsunami dream, remember that, tsunami!" ...now all I remember is the tsunami. It was a really cool tsunami, though. Then I had a really disturbing dream that... ew. Not even going to talk about it. And finally I had a really long dream about my mum and driving, helping her get the car out of the garage, then she was teaching me how to drive her car.

I'm going to sleep some more. I had to get up to take my dog out for his morning... needs. So I figured I could update my workbook. Gonna write on my DJ later.

Dream journal updated!

No lucid dreams, but at least my recall was better than yesterday!

I'd like to celebrate one of my goals getting accomplished. I've come and gone many times here on DV. The last time I came back, though, I promised myself I wouldn't give up and just leave again. I may not be getting any lucid dreams, but I've been definitely active around here lately:



So at least that's something!

Bedtime. It's late.