Thread: Lucidmats´ Workbook

Hey there! My name is Mats and I am a beginner lucid dreamer and I am hoping to help here with my questions (I already got a lot of help, thank you all!) and to be a part of the community.

I am not a natural and i think I only knew i was dreaming once when having a nightmare over and over again. I found LD by accident on Google and kept reading about it.

I have only had 15 lucid dreams so far, in 5 of them I was actually able to carry out some action. The times before I instantly lost the dream and woke up after noticing me dreaming. I started out by doing random RC´s in a dream and becoming lucid. In my last couple of lucid dreams (after some practice) I started noticing something strange, did a RC, becoming lucid thinking wow I didn´t actually think this was a dream, well that explains a lot.

I have been using mainly DILD techniques mixed with a little MILD prior going to bed. I have read ETWOLD from Stephen LaBerge and tried his prospective memory exercises. I got better after a couple days at remembering my goals and I really made some progress there. Apart from waking life I don´t think I had that much success with it though.
I have had some success with FILD and a little with WILD, although I carried out my 2 FILD´s during a false awakening so I am not really sure if that counts as WILD or a DILD.

I started out by buying a nice dream-journal and increasing my recall. Beginning with one dream every other night and I am at about 2-3 pretty vivid dreams now. Hopefully I can keep that up, as for my long-term goal, I want my "dream-recall-ratio-per-night" to be arround 4-5 vivid dreams.

My biggest problem is stability! At first I kept losing my lucid dreams instantly after getting lucid, now I am at a point where I can keep them up for some time if I remember to stabilize correctly. Out of my couple lucid dreams I only managed to pull it off in my last one, so this is my biggest problem, exept getting lucid in the first place

I had a little streak (evry other day) after trying ADA but it looks like I am dry-spelling right now, if a beginner can even use that word
Anyways, ADA á la KingYoshi and mindfulness á la Sageous, paired with RRC´s and really mindful RC´s seem like a good way to go!
As a lot of people already pointed out, practicing mindfulness really get´s your head out of that zombie-like life, doing your everyday routine and living on auto-pilot.

My short-term goals are:

-Flying
-Eating something tasty
-Teleporting "Jumper from the X-men style"
-Driving
-Party with some hot dream chicks
-Have a persistant dream realm (this is a big one!)

My long-term goals are:

-Being able to lucid dream on demand (at least 1 lucid dream per night)
-Connecting with my inner self
-Helping other people to learn this awesome skill, since I got terrific help from a lot of people and I´d like to share my experience and help others when I am at a level where I am not the one who needs that much help anymore

My RC´s are:

-Nose pinch (most reliable one)
-Counting my fingers

My mantras are:

-I am dreaming
-I will notice that I am dreaming
-I will have a lot lucid dreams tonight

Any advice is welcome and needed!!!