Competition Thread #16

[VagalTone]

Some short lucid fragments, some semilucids and poor recall. I don´t know how to put this in clear words. One interesting thing that happened while i was DEILDing was a big hand i felt above above me, which helped me get out of bed. So, i am glad to ask for 1,5 pts ( 3 dream fragments ). Total :93,5 Happy new year !!

[StephL]

Two dreams only.. 2 points - DJ later.. New total: 166

[Scionox]

4 fragments, 1 dream, 1 WBTB fail. 4 points. And competition end time has been reached, so it's now is officially over! You can still post dreams you had before this post and from Monday-Tuesday night to get points, but any other dreams from now on do not count towards score. Also those who haven't posted DJ entries for lucid dreams before please post DJ entries or update your previous posts with them. I will verify the scores tomorrow and winners will be selected!

[Zoth]

2 fragments in the past 2 days = 1point. final total: 31

[DreamingGhost]

Bad recall and bad sleep I had 3 fragments = 1.5 3 dreams = 3 2 failed WBTB = 2 Total = 6.5 Would this be considered lucid still since it was very very short? In one of the fragments I remember walking down a street trying to get somewhere but I kept getting lost. I get really upset about this because I never get lost, I stop and do a nose plug RC and become lucid long enough for me to remember to try and do a basic tk. I think I levitate a small pebble from the street before I wake to cats jumping on my chest chasing a bug. If this counts as lucid then here are the points for it:Lucid - 5p, Rc - 1p,Basic tk - 4p , second step task - 10 For a total of 20p Comp total = 108 adding the lucid points it would be 128

[dolphin]

4 fragments-2 points

[vasiona]

Night 17 2 whole dreams (2 points) 1 fragment (0.5 points) Night total = 2.5 points Night 18 No sleep at all (0 points) Night 19 Caught up on sleep, had false awakenings and became lucid ^^ 4 dreams recalled (4 points) Became lucid (5 points) DEILD (2 points) Flying (4 points) Telekinesis (4 points) Basic summoning (4 points) – I think flying along a street and intentionally imagining/causing cacti to grow out of the ground in my peripheral vision (but which still remain there when I turn my head to look at them properly) counts, but correct me if I’m wrong First of three step tasks (5 points) Night total = 28 points Competition total = 103.5 points *Note: I’ll definitely update this by the end of today with both the DJ entry for today’s LD and also the ones for nights #6 and #7, as I just realised I forgot to ever post those x.x Edit: DJ entry for nights #6 and #7: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/vasi...ralysis-53978/ DJ entry for night#19: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/vasi...arkness-53983/

[AnotherDreamer]

lucid - 5 telekinesis - 4 rc - 1 dc interaction - 2 basic summoninig - 4 -->16 deild - 2 eat something - 4 dc changing - 4 -->10 3 fragments - 1.5 27.5 + 627.5 = 655 Somebody got Killed - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[fogelbise]

wife has me running around doing errands but quick post here... Night 19 / Last entry 4 fragments, 3 dreams, wbtb success - 8pts Wild/become lucid, dc interact - 10pts My first of two painfully short lucids. I finally made sure I woke up enough to maintain awareness all the way to sleep and used a motion based entry when I felt I was close...was bounding higher and higher which brought on vibrations and I found myself in a car at a gas station with my wife looking at me strange asking me what am I doing. I thought about giving her a more specific answer but I said I'm just lucid dreaming. She starts arguing in the dream and it wakes me up into what I later realized was a false awakening but nonetheless out of lucidity. Dild become lucid, dc interact - 7pts I was close to wilding again but lost consciousness and found myself in a big Department Store with just me and my wife and as I ask where is everyone because no one else is around I realize that I'm dreaming. After a short interaction I hear my wife IWL moving around the room and wake up. I was able to get close to conscious REM a few more times with some advanced HH's but lost awareness before entering the dreams. Competition total - 265pts Now to see if Bossman overtook me... Great comeback either way...

[FryingMan]

wife has me running around doing errands but quick post here... Night 19 / Last entry 4 fragments, 3 dreams, wbtb success - 8pts Wild/become lucid, dc interact - 10pts My first of two painfully short lucids. I finally made sure I woke up enough to maintain awareness all the way to sleep and used a motion based entry when I felt I was close...was bounding higher and higher which brought on vibrations and I found myself in a car at a gas station with my wife looking at me strange asking me what am I doing. I thought about giving her a more specific answer but I said I'm just lucid dreaming. She starts arguing in the dream and it wakes me up into what I later realized was a false awakening but nonetheless out of lucidity. Dild become lucid, dc interact - 7pts I was close to wilding again but lost consciousness and found myself in a big Department Store with just me and my wife and as I ask where is everyone because no one else is around I realize that I'm dreaming. After a short interaction I hear my wife IWL moving around the room and wake up. I was able to get close to conscious REM a few more times with some advanced HH's but lost awareness before entering the dreams. Competition total - 265pts Now to see if Bossman overtook me... Great comeback either way... Way to rock the final night, fogelbise!

[bemistaken]

12/31/2013 I had a dream, but by the time I reached over to get my journal it was gone . So just a WBTB (fail)= 1 point Total= 1 point HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

[Sensei]

1 LD from last night. 6 dreams = 6 points WBTB success = 3 points lucid = 5 points Interact with DC = 2 points total = 16 points No RC stabilize or anything because I only got lucidity for a second. I took a nap this afternoon to get my sleep schedule back and get some more LDs in before the new year. I had 3, but they were after the time :3 Spoiler for LD: I am Chuck again, but this time Dr. Cox from Scrubs is my handler. I am in a meeting and someone pulls a gun on us, I duck for cover and pull out a gun. I start shooting when I get an open shot, but my aim seems off, I drop down and really line up the shot. I realize that I am dreaming and put some dream energy into the gun. The man drops to the ground with a bullet in his head. I jump up and Dr. Cox takes me outside. I look up and immediately forget that I am dreaming. There are 3 ships the size of star destroyers (star wars) that are fighting in the sky. Two of them are enemy ships and one is ours. The one that is ours looks like a fighter jet and the other two look like a huge futuristic gun. I watch our ship take out one bad one and start chasing the other, they take up most of the sky, so it is strange to see manoeuvrings like that. The explosion was pretty small because they were high in the atmosphere with little air. I flash on the ship and walk around the corner, I see an ID on the ground and flash on that as well. I did a few more things, but most of them don't make much sense. Only dream sense.

[JoannaB]

Last night I had no recall. I remember one fragment from the nap after we returned home exhausted from our travels, but this nap does not count. I look forward to the next competition during which hopefully I will not just struggle with basic recall. Thanks, Scionox!

[VagalTone]

Thanks Scionox ! Congratulations everyone !

[Shalink]

I had 3 dreams and 1 fragment the past three nights. Would have had another dream but sadly that dream took place in between 3-4 PM. It's been fun everyone, hope to see you all in the next competition. Competition total = 26 points

[LouaiB]

27.5 + 627.5 = 655 !!!!!!

[StaySharp]

So here's my final update of the past days: 8 Dreams: 8 Points Lucidity: 5 Points Final Competition: 85 I got lucid 3 times this competition, which is not all that bad. 655 Just... wow, impressive!

[Sensei]

Good Job anotherdreamer! I shall have a good two weeks next competition and you shall have a challenge. Believe it! Thanks Scionox for running the competition and extending it for us all. Holidays is a hard time to LD, but if I didn't have this I might have had a hiatus from LDing like I did last christmas time (last time I took 3 weeks off because I was so busy I forgot about it). I still had a reasonable amount of LDs this month because of you, so thanks for the christmas present of lucidity.

[FryingMan]

Yes, thanks again to Scionox for running the competition, we had a big turnout this time and it was certainly a lot of work checking counts and updating so many scores every day! I shook off a long dry spell and ended up with my best frequency yet (6 LDs in 12 days), which I attribute to the competition!

[StephL]

Yepp - I chime in - huge dragonic thank you Scionox! You have given us all a wonderful x-mas present with this competition and all the motivation and fun and excitement it caused besides loads of lucidity and recall. Loving your dedication and enthusiasm to elucidate others! Otherwise - I am again nerved to not even be able to edit my DJ into my post from yesterday*. That is silly - will go back into my meta thread with this topic once more.. So anyway - not as interesting as the title might suggest - here it is: Goethe Visiting - Sentient Gable-Tree - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views *maybe new-year effect - but anyway..

[Scionox]

Final Scores Individual Scores (Note: In parentheses is how many points out of whole are gained from three step tasks, for the ease of checking/counting) Upper League anotherdreamer - 655(30) dolphin - 305(15) Scionox - 276 fogelbise - 265(30) BrandonBoss - 238 she - 202.5(30) vasiona - 103.5(5) StaySharp - 85(5) Zoth - 31 TheModernNinja - 1 Lower League FryingMan - 179 StephL - 166(30) DreamingGhost - 128(15) Nfri - 111(15) VagalTone - 93.5 dreambh - 92.5(30) bemistaken - 67.5(5) Pickman - 59 imJB - 40 pnb1 - 37 Miau - 33 AstralMango - 28 Shalink - 26 JoannaB - 15.5 MyCooky - Quit mdluffy113 - DQ Team Scores (Note: In parentheses is how many points out of whole are gained from team tasks, for the ease of checking/counting) Upper League Team Libra - 705 Team Scorpio - 525 Team Ophiuchus - 277 Team Pisces - 271 Team Leo - 269 Lower League Team Aries - 238 Team Taurus - 176 Team Aquarius - 146 Team Capricorn - 130.5 Team Gemini - 111.5 Team Virgo - 90.5 Team Sagittarius - 88.5 And the winners are... anotherdreamer wins in Upper League and the Team Libra wins as well! FryingMan wins in Lower League and the Team Aries wins as well! Thanks to everyone who participated and congrats on all lucid dreams! And Happy New Year everyone!

[StephL]

Huge Congratulation Fryingman and anotherdreamer!! :bravo: Do I see this correctly that nobody has done a team-task? Was this different last time? Were it shared-dreaming-believers who did them in the past - or was it also done as you say - just take/make a DC and identify her as the partner and then do sort of just special DC-interaction tasks? Hm - now I think of it like this - I would probably have found it more attractive with "advanced DC-interaction" or some such label. If they do get put up again in a future comp - I will look at them a bit differently.

[Zoth]

Congratulations to the winners! Glad to see how the overwhelming majority kept going until the end, and that several people broke their dry spells and took on a long round of lucids, especially in lower league. Thanks for organizing the competition once more Scionox

[FryingMan]

Huge Congratulation Fryingman and anotherdreamer!! :bravo: Do I see this correctly that nobody has done a team-task? Was this different last time? Were it shared-dreaming-believers who did them in the past - or was it also done as you say - just take/make a DC and identify her as the partner and then do sort of just special DC-interaction tasks? Hm - now I think of it like this - I would probably have found it more attractive with "advanced DC-interaction" or some such label. If they do get put up again in a future comp - I will look at them a bit differently. Oh believe me it was not through lack of desire on my part that no team tasks gone done. On no fewer than 3 LDs I knew I wanted to do competition actions, and in 2 LDs I remembered my teammate's name (but was occupied with a PTC), and in one LD I avoided all temptation (it helped that I was alone) and started summoning him to do all the team tasks, but I woke up .

[Bharmo]

Congrats everyone, and huge thanks to Scionox!