Competition Thread #16

[VagalTone]

Today results: - 2 dream fragments on my DJ ( it could be more if i had wrote ) - 1 - 1 lucid ( soon entry on my DJ ); lost my vision 3 times, but did stabilize twice ( do i count twice ? ) - 5+2 ( 5+4 ?) Total competition: 8,5 + 8 ( 10 ? ) Edit: DJ updated

[Nfri]

<night two> 3f - 1,5 2d - 2 wbtb f - 1 = 4,5 total = 43,5p

[Zoth]

Sorry for the silly question but do I just come back here each day and write my evening's doings? simply as that? No need to do it daily as long you keep your score updated, some people come here every 2 days. You just need to make sure to update at least once a week, but naturally it makes it easier on everyone if you do it regularly.

[Bharmo]

No lucids again. Four dream fragments, one WBTB attempt = 3pts Total: 5,5 + 3 = 8,5pts I might try forgetting about LDing next night and see if that helps in the following ones At least, I cannot complain about my recall, it could be worse.

[JoannaB]

Night 3: 0 points - not enough sleep and stressful night; Total continues to be 5pts

[Pickman]

Not my best night. 2 dream fragments = 1 point in total.

[Sensei]

3 dreams WBTB fail. 4 points. I really need to start sleeping more again.

[Scionox]

<DJ Entry goes here> <DJ Entry goes here> I did said i will have lucid! 2 fragments, 2 dreams, 1 WBTB Success, 1 Lucid, 1 Teleport. 18 points. Spoiler for Lucid entry be here until i catch up on DV DJ: I was in some tech corridor, like one of those space station corridors, and was talking to some person in red uniform. There was a small dog following him. Then as i went to one of doors dog started following me instead and person said something about it. Then dog turns into a different dog and shortly i feel that i am dreaming, i remember that i wanted to teleport into certain place, so i focus as the place fades out. Darkness. After a while in the distance i see a white magic circle. Then shortly teleportation finishes and some force holds me in the center of that magic circle, which is floating in the air. I look around, it's a rocky area, like mountains and it is night and i see a few dragons around. Some kind of power starts channeling into me, i feel it, i accept it. Then a loud noise starts as channeling finishes and shortly the force that holded me in the magic circle moves me to the ground. Dream fades. if naps count towards this Naps definitely counts! I'm still unsure of whether or not to consider the fragment/hallucination as a actual fragment or to not? I'd say, if you feel it was closer to dream then fragment, otherwise could have been HH. So that would be, 11 points No, that would be 21 points, becoming lucid is 5 points by itself. And congrats on lucids! Sorry for the silly question but do I just come back here each day and write my evening's doings? simply as that? Up to you, just be sure to do it regularly enough, at least once a week. but did stabilize twice ( do i count twice ? ) If it"s during the same dream, then only once, same for all other dream control tasks.

[dolphin]

2 fragments-1 point 3 dreams-3 points total-4 points

[she]

2 dreams - 2 points total - 45

[DreamingGhost]

3 fragments = 1.5p 1 Dream = 1p 1 failed WBTB = 1p Had three very missed dream sign again. I sure hope this is not going to be a thing and I become lucid. Night total = 3.5 Comp Total = 10.5

[AnotherDreamer]

Night #3 (11/14-11/15) 1 fragment - 0.5 1 dream - 1 Lucid - 5 Eat something - 4 (I guess, technically I drank something, does this still count? Sorry for asking so many questions) Interact with DC - 2 Telekinesis - 4 DC Changing - 4 Total = 19.5 + 1.5 = 20.5 Competition Total = 52 + 20.5 = 72.5 http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/anot...gin-out-53550/

[StephL]

Hi StephL! You've been lumped with a novice! I will do what I can. Had the most productive week of dreaming ever last week...maybe 20-30 dreams (inc 1st LD) followed by 5 dry days. Time to turn it around! starting tonight But first - first night of the comp ~~3 dream fragments. Sorry for the silly question but do I just come back here each day and write my evening's doings? simply as that? My three tasks -flying -interact with DC -object change Cheers for running this! John. Oh - we lump together just fine, I find - last night first LD after a dry seven days - before it a bit success - and years ago. I find it really nice to get to know you like this - I have something, which I wanted to tell/show you - see spoiler! Lets have fun with this competition together! Spoiler for instead of pming..: Hi imDJ from Steph! I looked a bit about, who you are - and I found this post: In parallel with the meditation practises presented by sivason here I have started practising the zhine meditation presented in the book TYODAS. Which consists at the first stage of focusing on the Tibetan A - in particular a version with the traditional colour boundaries. I've attached the image I use. As a beginner it is not easy to clear my mind but after about 5-10 mins I notice a distinct change in my vision. The colours and the visual phenomenon they generate are really amazing. Personally I even feel as though the image starts to float, as in it doesn't remain motionless. This could be the small movements of my body as I breathe but the affect becomes very noticeable as my concentration increases. I would love to know whether this visual phenomenon I notice from the colour borders is intentional and perhaps a sign of good practise. Certainly at those moments where the image is most vivid my mind is most clear, however the act of noticing this of course draws my attention away from the image. My intention is to mix up this meditation with those sivason presents. For now I'll spend a few days on this before switching. I think, we share a fascination, imDJ! Maybe you like this thread: http://www.dreamviews.com/lounge/147...illusions.html I first thought, the pure white 2-D symbol is somehow alien to the natural seeming ground, which looks a bit like 3-D stone. And I didn´t see as to 3-D in the symbol - so I thought, maybe it floating is a result which follows from that.. But now I do see a hint - lower portion to the right.. got to look at it some more... Aand I promise to try and unearth something you will like: There was an article in Scientific American some more than 10 years ago. It was about the Tibetan Sand Mandalas - Wikipedia makes no mention of these findings, though. What they did, was having computers analyse the pictures - and they could then make visible a three-dimensional structure, the dimensions of which had been perfectly encoded by the two-dimensional mandalas. There were pictures of this - the mandala - and over it a computer 3-D graphic. And interestingly - well - or logically - these 3-D graphs were showing exactly what the monks were claiming, they show. Like a "body-model" for example. This is my memory - I might have gotten things wrong - but not the basic element, that you can make visible with computers the 3-D patterns encoded in the mandalas. There is more to them, than meets the (untrained) eye. See you soon in dreams - I hope! Aand - WhoophoopdiDuhuu!! Finally Lucid Again - Being Hugged And Swirled And Keeping Eyes Closed TOTM - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views This is: 2 dreams - 2 1 fragment - 0.5 WBTB fail - 1 Lucid - 5 Successful RC - 1 DC-interaction - 2 11.5 points please!

[FryingMan]

First night and I get lucky. Before sleep I watched two motivational videos - Rise and Swim (Welcome to the Grind) - YouTube and How Bad Do You Want It? (Success) HD - YouTube I've especially remembered this phrase: When you wanna be succesfull as bad as you wanna breath, you'll be succesfull! Apropos from the second one: "I'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, you gotta be wiling to give up sleep" 00:00 Sunday 2013-12-15 comp #16 night #3 1 fragment - 0.5 2 dreams - 2 1 WBTB attempt - 1 night total: 3.5 competition total: 13.0 meh, very weak night, need to kick into high gear.

[AstralMango]

Didn't sleep well as we just moved into a new house, but managed to get a few dreams. 16.12.13 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views One full dream: 1 point, two dream fragments: 1 point, and a WBTB fail: 1 point. C'mon, lucids, stop hiding! Night total: 3 Competition total: 6.5

[StephL]

Apropos from the second one: "I'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, you gotta be wiling to give up sleep" Ha - took the post out of my keyboard - rather I left it be.. But yeah - bit weird as dreaming-motivation.

[Nfri]

"i'm here to tell you today, if you're going to be successful, you gotta be wiling to give up getting up" *adjusted for ld*

[Sensei]

Give up sleep? No, sleep more. Sleep is the first leg of LDing (sageous idea). Don't give up sleep. Also about the 30 minute WBTB, I would recommend starting at like 5 minutes of time and then add a minute each night until you find the spot that you woke up too much that you can't go back to sleep. You want to find the point that keeps you up enough that your mind is awake but you are still able to go to sleep. Start low and move high so that you don't have more than one night that you can't go to sleep. Of course this time changes depending on sleep schedule, stress, diet, and exercise. After a while, the time doesn't matter, you will be able to "feel" it. That feeling will get you more DILDs and WILDs. SSILD can help with this. I would recommend long cycles if you do it. it will help you find that feeling.

[bemistaken]

12/15/2013 WBTB fail= 1point Remember 3 dreams= 3 points Fragment= 0.5 points http://www.dreamviews.com/intro-clas...ml#post2067092 Total points: 4.5 points Thankful for the recall !

[fogelbise]

Finally posting... Night 3: 3 dreams - 3pts 1 successful WBTB - 3pts DILD Become Lucid - 5pts Fly - 4pts DEILD - 2pts Successful RC - 1pt 18 pts, 48.5 pts competition total

[imJB]

One dream - 1pt Comp total 2.5pts

[JoannaB]

1 fragment 0.5pts. Total: 5.5pts Stress level has affected my recall, yikes.

[Zoth]

Insomnia again....took me around 2 hours to fall asleep, and got up 4 hours later. Nothing recalled. This only makes me more motivated, gogogo

[Miau]

Ah well - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views 4 dream fragments, which would be 2 points. And I got super speed but I don't know if it counts. Does it count only when you're lucid?

[FryingMan]

Give up sleep? No, sleep more. Sleep is the first leg of LDing (sageous idea). Don't give up sleep. Also about the 30 minute WBTB, I would recommend starting at like 5 minutes of time and then add a minute each night until you find the spot that you woke up too much that you can't go back to sleep. You want to find the point that keeps you up enough that your mind is awake but you are still able to go to sleep. Start low and move high so that you don't have more than one night that you can't go to sleep. Of course this time changes depending on sleep schedule, stress, diet, and exercise. After a while, the time doesn't matter, you will be able to "feel" it. That feeling will get you more DILDs and WILDs. SSILD can help with this. I would recommend long cycles if you do it. it will help you find that feeling. Yes of course (sleep more) but you ARE giving something up -- continuous, restful sleep, IMO. You may be getting the same total hours, but there is a difference in getting up 4-5 times per night vs. getting up zero times per night. You are expending your will to get your butt up out of that warm bed into that cold room in the middle of the night and journal and do WBTB. That's the point. And after watching these videos I adjusted my mantra, which clearly had become too familiar for my SC, from "I wake up after every dream" to "I wake up every 2 hours" and as a result I woke up 4-5 times last night with decent recall on all but the earliest one (there was a dream there but it slipped away). First time in a few weeks I've woken up that many times, a big improvement. Never mind that in the last dream of the morning I had giant puffy hair-roller-sponge lips when I looked in the mirror after some DC told me I had chapped lips, and all I had to say about this was "Yeah, I guess they're really chapped". We also had parked our car in a small office, the car became a toy push-car sized car and I was trying to push it out of the office, and all I could say about this was "I really like small cars"!!! Now I need to find a way to apply the same increased will and motivation to getting LDs.