Competition Thread #17

[dolphin]

5 dreams-5 points WILD-3 points become lucid-5 points reality check-1 point flying-4 points basic summon-4 points dc interaction-2 points total-19 points dream-I'm trying to fall asleep when I hear my ears ringing. I wait until they stop, do a nose plug, and get out of bed. I go outside and fly over the fence in my backyard. I feel compelled, for whatever reason, to summon my fire fighter friend, which I do. I ask him what he does if there's a fire and he magically comes up with a fire hose and starts spraying the windows of houses. I ask him if there's anything else I need to do and he tells me to empty the wastebaskets in the house. He's concerned I'm running out of dream time but I reassure him I have plenty of time. I wake up. become lucid-5 points total-5 points dream-I catch a FA after a long dream and wake up a few seconds later. become lucid-5 points flying-4 points total-9 points dream-I catch a FA after I notice how dark it is outside. As I start to walk outside, a force pulls me away. I try to resist it and fly though the ceiling but I can't make it through. After a few seconds of being pulled around, I wake up. 5+19+5+9=38 points competition total-319 points Thanks for the competition Scionox!

[AnotherDreamer]

4 dreams - 4 points become lucid - 5 telekinesis - 4 dc interaction - 2 -->11 Spoiler for another fishing dream: dream - I'm fishing in the mountains with family and old family friends. I realize that one of them died a couple years ago and become lucid. A fishing pole bends really big and flies into the lake. I use telekinesis to make it fly into my hand. Only half of it comes to me, the other half breaks off. I yank the string really hard and the smallest fish I've ever seen flies into my hand, couldn't even call it a minnow. I feel its skin and it starts to break apart. I go back to the shore and talk to the DC that died. I give him a big hug and thank him for being in my life. I see my dad start to catch a huge fish. He pulls a 5 foot long koi up to the shore then he runs into the water and starts kicking it in the head so it will stop struggling. I'm a little jealous. I wake up and try to DEILD, no luck. become lucid - 5 elemental manipulation - 8 -->13 Spoiler for a fight: dream - I'm in a fist fight with some guy that jumped me outside a bar. I become lucid spontaneously when his blows don't hurt me. I make fire erupt from me in every direction with a loud explosion. He flies away from the blast and I run at him to beat him to a pulp. Wake up and try to DEILD, but I moved and it didn't work. 4 + 13 + 11 = 28 competition total - 387 + 28 = 415 Thank you soooooo much for hosting this competition again Scionox, I really appreciate all the work you put into it and it's a lot of fun!

[sprada]

2 dreams and a fragment. 2,5 points. Comp Total=33.5 Points

[Sensei]

4 dreams and wbtb fail :/ moving kind of killed my schedule, but it was a good competition anyways! Good job everyone. I don't think that we have ever had this many people score 100+ in the competition. Total = 5 points

[atramentis]

FINALLY FINISHED WRITING THIS DREAM OUT AAHH (LINK) Got lucid let's finish this *dramatic pose* Non points limit tasks. (16.5) Remembered three fragments (1.5) and two dreams (2). Two WBTB attempts, one successful (3). Completed my second three-step dream task (10)! Points limit tasks. (34) First dream (18). Became lucid (5). Flying (4), and basic summoning (4), which is my second three-step dream task. Second dream (16). Became lucid (5). Reality check (1), mass telekinesis (10, I raised a firetruck probably twice my height into the air). I also made a hole in glass just by tracing an outline of it, but I'm not sure if that counts as anything. Note: I tried to be relatively conservative with my point-counting, since my recall isn't amazing right now. Night's total: 50.5 points. Old total: 71 points. New total: 121.5 points.

[parkmeats]

last couple days... really sick... party's... 4 dreams and 2 failed WBTB.

[fogelbise]

Final night I did get another LD after sleeping way past my normal wbtb period but I don't think the wbtb or the LD counts. I got up at 7am local for my late wbtb for 30 minutes and trying to WILD and got a DILD (is the competition end time as flexible as the start time is?...for example it was part of my normal Friday to Saturday sleep and not a nap later Saturday... mainly just checking for future competition clarification because: Either way it looks like I would finish in 5th (so it may only matter to the team championship if that ends real close). 2 dreams for sure: 2pts Not sure in time: successful wbtb, become lucid, DC interact: only 10pts more anyway... Competition total: 224.5pts or 234.5pts Thank you Scionox for all of your time organizing and tracking this wonderful competition and sorry for the last-minute confusion above! super paraphrased LD: in an American style football game I played the first 3 downs in the quarterback position starting from the 20 yard line and there was a dirty play against me in the last down that made me realize that this was a dream and how I was just in bed trying to WILD. I thought it would be fun to throw off the helmet of the dirty player and start whacking him and did. After a number of whacks I am just laying on the playing field feeling tired and from there I faded back to bed.

[parkmeats]

Just going to add that this competition without a doubt has raised my LD'ing skills a bunch. I thought I would have one, maybe 2. But I tried really hard, and I set a new bar for myself. Thank you Scionox, so much. Congratulations to everybody in the competition for challenging yourself and hopefully becoming a better LD'er!

[Nfri]

Hey guys! You won't believe me, I've been in the sleeping laboratory and I'm going on polysomnography. It means that I will have an opportunity to proof scientifically, that I can dream consciously. I'm so excited! I've took this picture there. sleeplab.jpg

[Pickman]

Last night, nothing much to report: WBTB attempt: 1 point.

[Sensei]

Soooo... Just woken up this morning and went to the church for an hour (when I updated) and then came back and slept more. I slept till 2:15 (meaning like till 2 minutes ago) and had 3 LDs. Should I count them scionox? Spoiler for if so, then here is the scoring: Finally got it into my head that I was in a competition and did the full transformation. 4 dreams = 4 points DEILD (I DEILDed from a non lucid! First time ever!) = 2 points Become lucid = 5 points RC = 1 point Total = 8 points Become lucid = 5 points RC = 1 point Stabilize = 2 points Teleport = 7 points Element manipulation = 7 points. Full transformation = 10 points (+10 3 step) Flying = 4 points Total = 20 (+10 3 step) Become lucid = 5 points RC = 1 point stabilize = 2 points Element manipulation = 7 points Flying = 4 points Teleport = 7 points Total = 20 points Total for night = 62 points Spoiler for LDs: I am in a mall and my wife is talking to a random person there. I am so confused. It is really empty here. I wake up. I feel my all waking body and RC, then go back to sleep. Slip right into a stride. I am running to a DC. I try to call out their name, but my jaw is shut. Ah, I RC to make sure that this is a dream and I grab my mouth to pry it open. My teeth grind together and I forget about it. I run my hands together to stabilize and I don't feel it at all. I start walking and slipping from the dream. I wake up. Type up and back to sleep. I am with my wife at a doctor's office. We dexide to hve sex and when we are done I freak out a little and realize that it is a dream. RC/stabilize and teleport outside. It is a really nice neighborhood. There are lakes and things everywhere. What should I do?I'llmess with some water while thinking about it. I put ny hands up and do a water bending tech. A stream flies out of the pool and straight up. I motion my hands and it follows whatever I tell it to (last airbender series, check it out). I remember my goal to be a wolf again. I take off running and hit the ground with all 4 paws. I increase speed and decide not to terrorize the neighborhood. I switch back to human and fly to a house. I wake up. RC, try to DEILD and fail. Then just sleep. I keep switching back and forth from the doctor's office and a vacation eith my family. Then after a while I am outside the doctor's office again. I was here in a dream! I think and i look around. Ah! That means that this is a dream. RC/stabilize and climb up a wall to look around. I should do a more grand price of dream control. I see both lakes and I pull a stream of water from one and send it at a wall. I freeze it on impact. I throw another stream in the air and freeze it into a pillar. I bring a stream to me and see a window. I freeze one end of the water whip and send it at the window. I miss and the water falls to the ground and freezes. I look over at the other lake. I have another idea. I pull out a stream and send it upward, then another and another until the lake is empty. What should I do? Maybe go somewhere that has more fun dream items to play with. A space station. I close my eyes and appear in a space station. I walk around the room, but feel if I leave it I will wake. I try to leave and wake up. :/

[Sibyline]

I lost some of the NLD fragments I had due to not having saved my DJ notes properly. But never mind, I did get the following: 1 fragment: 0.5 pt 2 whole dreams: 2 pts WBTB success: 3 pts Become lucid x2: 10 pts Interact with DC: 2 pts Total: 17.5 DILD and FA - Dutch surrealism Competition grand total: 9.5+2+1.5+1+23+2.5+2+2.5+28+1+1+1.5+2+17.5=95 pts

[Ginsan]

Scionox thanks for posting the competition, it helped me get back on this website and of course back to lucid dreaming And parkmeats after all that bragging and getting fired up I ended up 6th place with 1/3rd of your score Gongratulations with your obvious win. I am looking forward to the next competition, but next time I will be in the upper league ^^

[StephL]

Hey guys! You won't believe me, I've been in the sleeping laboratory and I'm going on polysomnography. It means that I will have an opportunity to proof scientifically, that I can dream consciously. I'm so excited! I've took this picture there. sleeplab.jpg This is soo great!! Well done! And thanks so much again Scionox for running another competition!! Forgot to post 2 points for the last night - that wouldn't change anything, though - so doesn't matter.

[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 - 415(30) BrandonBoss - 355(5) Nfri - 334(30) dolphin - 319(15) fogelbise - 234.5(30) FryingMan - 187.5(5) Scionox - 169 she - 137.5 StephL - 114(15) Mikasan527 - 109 VagalTone - 18 StingPT - 13 Lower League parkmeats - 199.5(5) atramentis - 121.5(15) Sibyline - 95(5) seank12 - 91.5(5) KonchogTashi - 90(5) PKJacker - 76 Ginsan - 67 ParadoxOwl - 48 DoctorKwack101 - 47.5 Sojatofu - 45 Chessica - 44.5 Pickman - 43 Mismagius - 42.5 dreambh - 37 sprada - 33.5 JoannaB - 16 pnb1 - 12.5 Silentium - 11 LouaiB - Quit Reporter - DQ lucid555 - DQ TheMmaker7 - 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 Lumen - 505.5 Team Natura - 449 Team Aqua - 411 Team Ignis - 398 Team Draco - 351.5 Team Ventus - 155.5 Lower League Team Herba - 279.5 Team Aurora - 143.5 Team Sol - 129 Team Glacies - 120.5 Team Aer - 110.5 Team Lapillus - 106 Team Umbra - 72.5 Team Metallum - 55 Team Flos - 51 And the winners are... anotherdreamer wins in Upper League, but the Team Lumen wins the team Upper League! parkmeats wins in Lower League and the Team Herba wins as well! Thanks to everyone who participated and congrats on all lucid dreams!

[Scionox]

I did get another LD after sleeping way past my normal wbtb period but I don't think the wbtb or the LD counts. WBTBs do count as long as time is reasonable, which it is in this case. Soooo... Just woken up this morning and went to the church for an hour (when I updated) and then came back and slept more. I slept till 2:15 (meaning like till 2 minutes ago) and had 3 LDs. Should I count them scionox? Sounds like a nap, so didnt counted.

[Sensei]

@scionox. Thanks for running the competition. you were in my dream last night constructing a city. Everyone was pitching their ideas to you. Lol. @anotherdreamer. Good job on the competition! I'll get you next time. @fogelbise and nfri Good job! Y'all are getting better and better, way to take the team. Most of the time the person that wins team wins, but y'all did great and stole it! >_> @all upper league +parkmeats and atremitus I had better see both of you next competition. I love having so many close battles! I'm back in stride too, so we had all better go to our respective training grounds and come back like beasts.

[fogelbise]

I am looking forward to the next competition, but next time I will be in the upper league ^^ I think you will and along the same lines, I want to recognize a couple of my great DV friends FryingMan and StephL for challenging themselves to the upper league!! Just going to add that this competition without a doubt has raised my LD'ing skills a bunch. I thought I would have one, maybe 2. But I tried really hard, and I set a new bar for myself. I agree! And congrats on the win as well as anotherdreamer with BrandonBoss very close behind, and Nfri and Dolphin right in there! It definitely helped me refocus on pre-bed work, review of dream signs, and to not be so lazy with the day work! I am happy to have been lucid 8 out of the 15 nights of the competition and again last night after the competition making 5 out of the last 7 nights and some nice memories. And FryingMan was basically right there with me in the standings and honestly inspired me with all of his awesome progress (check out his DILD workbook if you want to see how he carved out his own success). @fogelbise and nfri Good job! Y'all are getting better and better, way to take the team. Most of the time the person that wins team wins, but y'all did great and stole it! >_> Thank you Bossman and also for your help early on ~12-13 months ago. Nfri did the most of course, but it is a nice feeling to be part of the team and contribute significant points to the team. And thank you again Scionox! I hope you are on DV forever friend! Sorry for rambling...I sound like someone who thought he won...haha.

[Sensei]

Thank you Bossman and also for your help early on ~12-13 months ago. I am glad I could be of help, even if I dont remember helping you.

[JoannaB]

And once again, I became lucid soon after competition ended: Short LUCID: why van parked in mid street, caught RC fail but not FA - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[Sibyline]

Awww Joanne. Sod's law! But you had a lucid again, so congratulations!

[Mismagius]

Congratulations to anotherdreamer and parkmeats, and Team Lumen and Team Herba!! Congrats to everybody else too! \(^o^)/ Haha, same thing happened to me JoannaB

[Sibyline]

[Sensei]

Becoming lucid isn't "all in a day's work". It takes a couple weeks to get the mindset going. Weird. I have never heard it called Sod's law. It is Murphy's law.

[Sibyline]

Weird. I have never heard it called Sod's law. It is Murphy's law. They are not quite the same, although there is some overlap.