Thread: Sensei's Workbook

Good job! Which one did you achieve?

Advanced task II spell November backwards!!

Alright cool I see you've got your wings there, nice one!

So, I started the competition on a good note. I was a little frustrated when I woke up after 4 non lucid dreams. I got up and went around for about 15 minute (my normal WBTB time) and went back to sleep set on having an LD.

So, I am with The Lord of the Rings cast and we are hanging out in this creepy house. The non hobbits (I was somehow cast as a hobbit, I am 6'1) were trying to get us hobbits to go back to the place where we were shooting the movie. We kind of got there, kind of just appeared at this really big even creepier house. There was this huge horse and someone put a spell on it to make it angry. Gandalf showed us how to defeat it, and I cut out a piece of hair and through it on the ground. The horse collapsed. Gandalf left and said something about a maze. It flashes forward again, but this time there is a maze made out of plastic (think ET) in the house. Everyone is going around cautiously and then Gandalf disappears. I get confused and start passing out wands (like Harry Potter). This girl says she is getting ready to go outside and points out the window. I see the horse outside awake. I become lucid. I somehow have two wands in my hand. I hand one to the girl and tell her good luck. She leaves to go after the horse. I notice that there are people everywhere. I want to get some more light and remember that I am holding a wand.
"Lumos." I yell. A little light at the end of my wand. It stays while I am walking in the dark, but then dissipates. I remember the girl was going to be in a fight so I decide to help her with "Expecto Patronum!" a little animal jumps out and scurries downstairs after her.
I decide to stop and think about doing something epic that is not in the dream scene already. I remember my goal! to break through the ground! I decided to use Chidori. I dropped the wands and realized I needed to stabilize and make sure I am in a dream before proceeding. I looked at my hands (My only RC I ever use, it always works for me, but no one else uses it (note: I do not count my fingers)) and then felt around me and looked around. I always forget the other senses.
I start the hand signs for Chidori and when I finish I imagine lightning in my hand. A little flicker shoots up, but then the dream destabilizes. I try to look around again, but it was almost gone. I spun as a last ditch effort, but I was done.

A couple of the things were because even though I knew I was dreaming, I was still concerned about the DCs around me. I make this mistake a lot.

I just saw "The Hobbit" yesterday haha. Nice LD there. I wouldn't say that's Advanced Summoning though, advanced is more like your DG, something huge or extraordinary.

I also look at my hands when I RC, but I count my fingers half of the time. Usually just spread them and focus my eyes on them and things stabilize.

Keep on dreaming!

Alright. I will change it in the other thread. It was sooooo fun. I wish I wouldn't have lost stability when I tried Chidori though. I have a plan of what to hit that with when I do get it.

Exciting and boring LD this morning. Exciting because it was a WILD, you'll see why it is boring.

I woke up to my alarm and talked to my wife. Mentally noted the dream I had before so I wouldn't forget and hit snooze. I finally get still and it takes a few minutes for a dream to appear. I take one step forward with the thought "I'm dreaming." Going over and over. It takes like five seconds for me to realize that that meant I was in a dream. I am in a random room with a bed near where mine was, but it was bright outside and one of my friends was sitting on a different bed like twenty feet away from me, next to the fridge. I walk over to the fridge and open it up. As I open it my friend tells me that it is empty. I open the fridge and freezer and both are empty. I close the door and open it again, this time expecting food. There was some in there, but I don't know what it was. I started eating and my alarm went off again.

Blarg. Frustrating dream.

I was in a dream about being in the basement of a school and i was talking to some people in the dark. Then it started collapsing around me. i then realized that it was a dream. I jumped up away from the dream I was just in. It was scarier when lucid. I did an RC and stabilized, halfway through I could feel the dream slipping, so I tried a method I had been thinking as a last ditch effort. I spun and created fire on my skin to overload my brain with the sensation, smell, and sound of fire. It didn't keep me in the dream.

Yipee! 3 LDs. Only one was alright, but I forgot my tasks. The other 2 I got distracted easily. Here goes.
lucid 1
I am trying to go play basketball before work. I am heading to the gym, but someone wants me to stop at my parents house to eat. I get in the basement and realize I am dreaming. I double checked the clock as an RC because I thought it changed too quickly. I stabilized and was trying to remember what to do. Couldn't think of anything so I looked at my parents and my sister. They were just staring at me. I thought about it for a second and said to my dad "did you know that this is a dream?"
"That is interesting." He replied and just seemed to ignore the fact. I left the room and then thought I should go back in and change one of them to another person. I opened the door and I was in my apartment alone.

I then woke up. Looked at the clock. It said 8:00 I needed to leave to work at about 6:50, so I freaked out. Got ready
I woke up again.
I looked at the clock and bit was like 9. I am dreaming! I got up and my wife was still there as well. I got out of the room and stabilized.

^ this happened about five times.... jump to the last one.
I am dreaming. I don't feel like going outside. I want a different dream. I didn't think I would ever do this, but I woke myself up.

lucid 2
I laid still. I tried to DEILD, then I heard someone rummaging through the drawers near my wife. I looked up and nothing. I RCed and I was awake.

I went back to sleep and I was finally at the gym. I had something from my work with me. I looked at the time on it! I checked the time again as an RC and I was dreaming. I checked the time over and over because I thought it was funny. Someone asked me what I was doing. I just told him I was checking the time. I checked the time like 10 times because I thought it was funny for some reason.


lucid 3
I RC and double check the time. I am awake. I went to the restroom and wait a bit for a WBTB. Have some trouble falling asleep. My mind starts wandering and I barely keep it in check. I feel like I am spinning and then I step out of my car. My wife hands me the keys. I drop them and she leaves, but so does the light. I am in the snow in complete dark. I thought about ways to get light, but I decided to summon the sun. I remembered something Sivason said about pin in the ground, but I did it a little different. I summoned a sun dial to the ground and spun it to change the time. It only clicked 1 hour at a time. I had to stabilize after every spin, going from midnight to 6. I was expecting the sun at 6, but I woke up as soon as it hit 5.

Even though they're mostly short, having them that frequently is awesome. Keep on working on your stabilization skills, you have to try different ways of stabilizing. Some people need to not think on the fact that they're dreaming and others need a constant reminder to remain lucid. Going with the flow is something you could try, with some casual RC's every now and then.

Thanks for the advice. I have a way that works for me, but I usually forget about it. I remembered it in the last dream, but sight is the thing that stabilizes me the most. I should have got some fire in their as a light, but I didn't think of that. something else I forgot to mention is that every time I spun the dial the whole world turned and almost knocked me out of the dream.

Yay! Another LD. Seems like I either forget to stabilize or forget my goals.

Pretty fun dreams to start the night off. Entering video games and a new version of helicopters that Isaac was showing me. My wife woke me up later because she had a nightmare (pregnancy nightmares ) I held her for like 20 minutes and then got up and read some in my DJ and on the forum to get a longer WBTB then I normally use (40 minutes instead of 20 minutes.

I don't remember anything of the dream till my phone started messing up. WTC? I started pressing buttons to no avail. If it doesn't work again than this is a dream "don't be stupid Brandon." My wife said next to me. I got out of the bus and noted that the phone wasn't working.yippee! Dream goals are... telekinesis! I can't see anything to move with my mind. I see a door half open. I lift up my hand in true force fashion. I slammed the door shut, not good enough though. I opened it again and slammed it shut 5 times until the glass broke. Super strength (I spent a lot of time yesterday deciding the best way to get back to infinity, so that is probably why I forgot to stabilize) time! I looked down at the asphalt. Lifted my arms up and charged the strength, let my hands slam into the ground and asphalt shot around every way. I saw the sky under the ground for a second until the asphalt hit me in the face and woke me up.

Been trying DEILD lately and got one last night. I spent 4 dreams at the same mall.

Woke up and was a little frustrated that I hadn't gotten lucid. I had noticed that it was strange when I was doing laps around the mall. I laid still and then started walking. BAM! I am in a dream. I started talking to someone for a second thinking "this is a dream" then I stopped talking and actually realized that. I looked sf my hands. Two fingers were really far on one side, two on the other. I rubbed my hands together and decided to try and break the ground without hurting myself. I did the hand motions for chidori, but no lightning came. I didn't put any energy or imagination in. Fail. I smacked the ground and started talking to a shop owner there. I woke up

Back to sleep.
I am in a different shop. I look at my hands. Quite a bit different, but the right shape. definitely dreaming. I start talking to a shopkeeper there (I am too interested in the things I see to leave). I stay there for a minute and then wake up.

Kind of forgot how to do my "ultra stabilize technique" I have only been able to do it like twice. couldnt make it to infinity, but I have hopes for tonight! Gonna be lucid all night long!

new under here

Glad I wrote it down here. June 12, 2012. I have some goals until I hit my two year mark.

I haven't been on here in a year, I am gonna use it to track my goals and things. If anyone wants to comment or has any questions, please ask. I accept advice as well.

So, I have been saying lately that I haven't been achieving goals, but looking back at all my goal journals and such, I have completed most of them (I really have a hard time with TOTY since it is a goal that didn't come from my head). Realizing that I do complete goals, I decided to post some of my goals here. In dream and not, so that I can keep some motivation up and remember them.

ONGOING GOALS
Persistent characters
Persistent realms
Muscle memory (from dream to waking)
Explore the limits of details of the subconscious
Use my watch every LD
Fight
Start using SAO menu

SINGLE GOALS
Read a book from start to finish (might take multiple dreams, might be something I do always later on)
Start a DEILD chain on purpose and see if I can complete the same small task over and over and over so that I can perfect a technique (takes a few LDs to pperfect a technique, and if done in the same, it is always easy) and study the amount of mind power it takes each time.
Chop off an arm

LD GOALS
600 LDs total by 2 year mark (83 days away) 458/600 (or 0/142)
1000 total LDs by the end of the year is happening as a low goal, so the high goal is 1000 LDs for the year.
60 LDs in a month by 2 year mark

How I am doing.

Persistent characters.
Have seen a few characters multiple times in LDs. It seems easy to have a character to appear in the same night, as well as the same place in the same night.
Old man, Jason, and Emily.
Those are the three that I am working on.

Realms
The mall is nice. It is in essence almost endless and a common dream sign if I realize I am dreaming at any mall, I can pretend that it is "the mall" and go to a dream store. Makes item shopping easy.

Muscle memory
I have practiced a few times. My throw and catch is getting a lot better, and my fighting is impossible to tell. When a dog is trying to kill me at work I feel at ease and have no issues fighting off two without breaking a sweat, so that seems to be working. I want to practice something a little easier to test out, maybe ping pong or volleyball

Explore... Blah blah blah.
I do this often just by going anywhere. It is just observing. Video games and board games all seem to be able to make up rules that work without flaw very quickly, which is wierd because it takes a long time to solidify rules of a board game because of the rules. So that seems to show that subC is pretty powerful

watch
Kind of forgot about this one till now. It is my first dream item that I used in multiple dreams and it is a RC/stabilization tech that only works if I use it at the beginning of the dream. It also has mystical properties.

Fight
Been doing good with fights. Will post them as they come up.

SAO menu would be good. Haven't tried this. This is the only new one.

LD amount goals.
2014 has been a terrible year thus far. Sleep schedule, hard work through snow, and sickness staving off any big LDing runs I could have. Gonna start getting more hopefully now that sick season is over, it is nice outside and I am fully moved to a new house. This month I am on par with goals so far. Each month I will post how I did in LD count.

Yay! I got my fight on.

I am looking at my swords... Time for a fight. I am totally dreaming. Look at my swords again. I have a matching pair and a broadsword. I look at the broadsword and the handle is too big to hold. I drop it and realize that I have run out of time. A witch flies by (no broom, witches are like LDers with their powers. I always say witches and dont know why), and I think like I have been. ignore me, I'll kick your butt, this is about me. (witches always ignore me and their barriers always keep me from them completely). I grab my swords and zoom at her around a building. She materializes a sword, I wasn't expecting that. I have issues using two swords. I have only ever used one or fantasized about one, so I drop one and keep attacking. I get the sword out of her hand and it seems like she is really afraid of sword. She flies away and I grab a kunai knife and throw it at her. It disappears I zoom really close and sheath my sword. Two kunai knives right at her heart. Completely disappears. I pull out the sword and she materializes another two swords. I have some issues against both and she disappears. Haha, they can't ignore me anymore.

I can't believe that I forgot this goal! I am looking forward to this the most.

Build a DC, using parts from other DCs.

I have a question about the game rules.
You say that the rules are made up very quickly and flawlessly. Then this means that creating a full-fledged persistent magical world with all kinds of powers and cool stuff and rules and limitations, leveling up and gaining skills is pretty easy for your subC mind, right?

Originally Posted by Ginsan

I have a question about the game rules.
You say that the rules are made up very quickly and flawlessly. Then this means that creating a full-fledged persistent magical world with all kinds of powers and cool stuff and rules and limitations, leveling up and gaining skills is pretty easy for your subC mind, right?

Which one are you pointing at specifically? Just persistent realm? I think that havekng a persistent realm with XP would be a second or third realm. First one limits are gonna be easy rules. Having xp would fall under "limits of subconscious" I think that I have played enough RPGs for my mind to get all of that without my help as long as I set up the realm. That is far away for me though!

SAO menu
I wake up still in the middle of the night and realize that I am sooooooo close to just jumping into a LD. I close my eyes and push away from my body (DEILD without previous LD) and I then feel my dream body... my arms and legs are lifting. Not quite in the dream, I have had this ruin my transition before! I use my dream arms to push them down (ask if you wish to know). I jump out and I am in my room in a dream. I try to get out and the door is closed, not extremely aware I get angry and wake up. I do things similar to this too many times to count until this dream:
I step on my bed and look at the room. I can get out of here, I have control of my dream, I am aware that this is all in my head. I put my hands beside me and remember my dream goal as I pose for a kamehameha wave, I can do the SAO menu after I blow out the ceiling. I recite it and release. The ceiling is vaporized. I fly up and am immediately teleported back to the room, still flying and my head is on the ceiling. Screw it! I just want a dream goal done, this room is boring, but I can do it. I put my hand in front of me and pull up the menu, instead of just having the normal SAO menu:


There are extra buttons, including one that is a skull and crossbones. I hover over it and it says opens the tab "death" is all it has as an option. Wish I would have clicked it, but I looked around the menu more. It started getting blurry and I tried to memorize it as much as I could, but the only option I remember was death. I wish I would have hit it now.

Doing some fighting!

Dream 1
I am walking down a road. There are a couple DCs with me. A big lger guy stops me and my group. I tell him to get out of my way, looking for a fight a bit. He jumps at me and I try to just use my power to beat him up (power of me in waking). He smacks me in the back of the head and sends me flying a long ways away. I try to find my way back to him, but he is gone.

Dream 2
I walk down the same road. I see him and I decide to use all my dream powers when I get to him. I run at him, and he send three of my DC friends flying (I don't know who they were). I throw a house at him and he steps towards me too fast for me to see. When he hits me I throw up a forcefield in front, and it didn't have much in it, but it slowed him down so that the fist wouldn't hit me. I charge a fist and release it at his head. He disappears and I don't see him, but I feel him to my right, before I have a chance to react I feel myself breaking through a wall and into a house on my left (he hit me fast and hard). I think I woke up here.

Dream 3
Angry, back to sleep. I fly to the spot that he was at and see him. I will have to think of some cheap powerful moves if I want to stay on par with him. I don't want to just "be the dreamer" and make him weak or disappear, I wanted to have an ability wicked enough to beat him. He sees me in the distance and I warp space (three dimensional warping) for a second, reach inside of him and solidify the energy I feel there, I tear it out and warp to another area. It is solidified as a green round thing (shaped somewhat like fancy cheese (http://www.holland.com/upload_mm/8/4...er_560x350.jpg) and I put my mouth to it. I don't want to eat it, because I know after being close to him that this was about a quarter of his power, and he should be able to find me. I suck the energy into my body and I feel him coming at me. I am a little scared at what the fight will be like after this since I know now that I have about as much energy as he does now that I have eaten some of his (my full energy + 25% of his energy = 75% of his energy). I jump at him and knock him through a wall with my charged fist and start preparing a kamehameha, alarm clock wakes me up.

^^ Freaking awesome. Is each dream a DEILD / DILD or what were the transitions like?

Love the picture, that's exactly the sort of thing that I envisioned for a dream control menu. I'm going to meditate on this picture to incubate this!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

^^ Freaking awesome. Is each dream a DEILD / DILD or what were the transitions like?

Love the picture, that's exactly the sort of thing that I envisioned for a dream control menu. I'm going to meditate on this picture to incubate this!

Yeah! It was one of the fist pictures when I googled SAO menu. I was pretty ecstatic when I saw it. There is a keyboard on the menu as well if I hit it. So good.

My transition:
Start feeling both bodies, focus on my waking one for a second. When I am completely in it I push away to my other body... I basically just reverse the whole feeling of waking up. Only way to describe it!

Originally Posted by Sensei

My transition:
Start feeling both bodies, focus on my waking one for a second. When I am completely in it I push away to my other body... I basically just reverse the whole feeling of waking up. Only way to describe it!

That's awesome! But at what point did you do that? Just realize you're awake and have that "feels like I can do the body push trick", or you were WILDing for a while before that feeling, etc., in other words, how did you get to that point where it would work?

Originally Posted by Sensei

Yeah! It was one of the fist pictures when I googled SAO menu. I was pretty ecstatic when I saw it. There is a keyboard on the menu as well if I hit it. So good.

My transition:
Start feeling both bodies, focus on my waking one for a second. When I am completely in it I push away to my other body... I basically just reverse the whole feeling of waking up. Only way to describe it!

I dreamed about this last night! non-lucid, but I activated a menu with 3 entries (just like the guy is touching in the picture, but that's all there was, 3 lines with text), with choice of location, and one (the top one?) was an option to replay a portion of the dream .

Originally Posted by FryingMan

I dreamed about this last night! non-lucid, but I activated a menu with 3 entries (just like the guy is touching in the picture, but that's all there was, 3 lines with text), with choice of location, and one (the top one?) was an option to replay a portion of the dream .

That is awesome Fryingman.