Linkzelda's Workbook

**Linkzelda** · 04-21-2012 08:09 PM

Since I signed up for the course, I might as well start with the workbook now.

Your Homework For This Week is to:

Start your own workbook thread in this subforum (here) ✔

Start a DreamViews dream journal (here) and write in it everyday. ✔

Extra Credit: if you notice any recurring elements in your dream journal (aka dream signs), list it in your workbook for 10 hall points.

Here are some common recurring elements in my dream journal (dream signs, etc.)

Blonde Females and Bleached Blonde Females:
Although DCs can appear in many forms, ever since I started a dream journal here, I've been seeing a lot of blonde females, ranging from Bleached blonde hair to just regular blonde hair.

I've read that blonde hair usually means one isn't living life to the fullest, or isn't having as much fun as they think they're having.

That's been pretty obvious with me, especially worrying about college/university and all that, so I am trying to fix that by creating a figure that would exhibit those qualities that I'm lacking.

The bleached blonde hair females usually try to keep a distance away from me, but I've realized that this happens because they're essentially enticing me to pay attention to them more.

But when I do pay attention to them, they reveal more about themselves to me, usually, and they also have a positive vibe towards them, sometimes a little sexual, but not too crazy.

I don't expect all of them to give this positive vibe, so even though hair color can be manipulated a lot, it always seems to be blonde hair colors.

So I guess having their hairs bleached means they have their confidence deprived compared to ones that are naturally blonde.

Regular Blonde females are usually direct with me, they're more confident towards me. They give a stronger positive energy towards me than bleached blondes.

They also seem to have a larger sexual energy than the bleached blondes, it's mostly for compelling me to be a bit more confident towards them.

Either way, I think these are projections to hint towards who my Anima could be portrayed as.

College/High School/Middle School/Elementary

College
Yeah, those are present for obvious reasons. I've been getting some dreams related to final exams coming up, and they're usually predictable in the sense that the dream is trying to tell me not to worry too much about them, but I can't help but worry because I don't want to fail any courses and possibly retake them.

High School

These dreams are mostly seeing familiar characters of people I've seen in the High Schools I've been to. Not really too much to be specific about, since the emotions DCs exhibit vary.

Middle School and Elementary School

These are a little bit rarer, but when they DO show up, it's mostly set out in a cafeteria, and me trying to get something for lunch, but always having difficulty.

Apartment

Whenever I do a WBTB+WILD, 90% of the time, I'm set in my bedroom. This is one of those annoying elements that I've seen because it's just soooo real, and I usually am too lazy to do Reality checks here because I feel like I failed the process of WILDing.

I've noticed that my mind is the clever little devil here as well, especially with light switches. I occasionally check to see if the lights work in waking life, but not as much, so that's another thing I need to work on.

Also, it's usually fairly dark in the apartment in my dreams, probably because it's associating with how I wake up in the middle of the night for a WBTB.

There's also blinds up front, just like in waking life, and usually, when I look between them, the environment is almost the same as waking life, which is another tricky element.

But when I do know I'm dreaming for sure, my mind sets what I see outside through the blinds as something different.

Lady in Red/Redheads/Gingers

Lady in Red

These appear for obvious reasons to get my attention, and they have this weird feeling to them. It's like once I acknowledge them, I get into this compelling gaze.

I've also noticed that Kaomea, a shared dreaming partner of mine, she appears mostly in red, so she overs most of the elements here as "Lady in Red."

As for the rest, I usually ignore them because they come in at awkward timing where my back is facing them most of the time, or I barely catch them with my peripheral vision in dreaming. I've had one female show up where I was going up some ledge in a sky city, and a lucid dream where a different one in red sat next to me, but again, I was distracted with something else to ask them more details as to why they are present in the dream.

Also, some of the lady in reds could possibly be elements of my Anima, since I do believe with the theories with twin souls, mirrors, etc.

I've had cases where I killed some of these females, but they were mostly in non-lucids where I was trying to hide and search for something.

Redheads/Gingers

These may not be as often as the blonde female elements, but when they do, they're more of the "beautiful but deadly" type of females.

I remember a dream where I was set in a multiplayer type of dream where it was a first person shooter. There was a lady who looked like she's going to pass out, and because of her hair, it attracted me to her.

When I got closer to her, she grabs my head, and literally takes some of the air out of me, and feels better after that.

Another one is a lucid dream where I I woke up near the nurse's office of some sort, and the lady in front of me was nice. Then when I go to the hallway with her, things started to get darker and darker, and I started to choke in the dream. She did try to help me by holding me when I fell down, but I was paranoid that she was merely putting up an innocent facade to suck out my energy or something, lol.

Code Lyoko

Code Lyoko is a French anime that also had an English dub to it as well. I've had experiences with some of the main characters in my dreams, and most of the time, I don't really see my dream body a lot in these.

The reason why I have these sometimes is because I loved the show because of the sci-fi kind of element to it with virtualization to a digital world, fighting a mult-agent program named X.A.N.A., and the fact that one of the main characters uses a supercomputer to return to the past to prevent X.A.N.A. from accomplishing his goals to eliminate the main characters and various regions on earth.

Metal Gear Solid/Guards

I have some Metal Gear Solid dreams where I meet a few characters like Eva, Solid Snake, Naked Snake, etc.

I underlined Eva because I've had a lucid dream where I almost met her, but that was a while ago, and I also had some non-lucid dreams with her, but she was more of a person that ignored unfortunately.

She gave me a grey letter with the letter "M" written on it, which is why I searched for her a lot when I had the non-lucid dream with her for the first time.

I even went to the point to where I started to become obsessed to her, I just liked her character in the series, despite of the fact that she's fictional.

I've started another search for her, but it isn't as crazy and ambitious as last time. I'm doing it because she's a blonde female, which ties in to me hopefully finding out why I really do have these dreams with blonde females.

I've had some cases where I was Snake, or watched one of the two Snakes in the series do something like infiltration, etc.

Guards

Whenever I see this element, I'm usually on the run, always trying to be aware and quick with my movements.

Sometimes, the guards are invincible, so not matter how hard I try to shoot them in rage, or some other means, they come back even more aggressive.

I've also notice I don't care much about their lives when I do kill them, and sometimes turn a little too sadistic in killing them.

I think these are the type of dreams where I'm stressed out the most, and I feel like a different part of me I'm not too aware of is taking control while I'm just seeing the experience.

Golden Objects, Armor, etc.

I put this one last because it's sort of subjective at the moment.

A DV friend of mine, Sinoblak, has had a dream where she saw me wearing golden eagle masks, and having a golden eagle pet.

She's noticed that I'm more laconic with my words, and more independent, which leads me to speculate if this is probably my higher self being projected towards her.

This another thing I'm after as well, because it relates to blonde hair color and bright colors.

I've noticed that I feel free, relaxed, having emotional attachments in waking life eradicated when I become lucid.

I'm also more naive, seeing as I'm still new to lucidity, since I remember the non-lucid dreams more.

But when I do have a lucid dream, those are harder to forget, and I can literally have them lingering in my mind all day long without much effort because I remember snippets or some kind of eidetic memory which leads me to remember my emotions and dream characters' emotions, and these lucids are generally longer than the non-lucids.

Sorry for the long list, but these are what I've noticed through the majority of my Dream Journal entries.

I would presume that if I knew all of these, I would be used to DILDing by now, but it's just that before, I didn't do as many WBTBs, so my mind was always oblivious, despite remembering a lot from the signs.

I'm doing more WBTBs, and trying to relax sometimes as well, so that the dream can come to me naturally.

As for what I do every night....

It's kind of sporadic on how much I sleep before waking up from an alarm.

I usually sleep 4-6 hours, mostly 4, and I have an alarm set to wake me up around those hours.

Then I try to stay up 15-20 minutes for a WBTB.

Then when I attempt to go to sleep, it's depends on my interest at that time to try a WILD, DILD, or even a MILD.

I try to incorporate the fundamentals of WILD from several guides (KingYoshi, Mancon, Puffin, Mzzkc, Jeff, and more).

I'm pretty good at keeping my mind blank after some relaxation, but by the time I'm relaxed, I might slip into being unconscious, instead holding on to a thin rope of awareness and slipping back to sleeping.

I have more dream signs, but those are kind of for experimentation, they might fade away quickly.

**Linkzelda** · 04-21-2012 08:46 PM

Do at least one reality check a day, and list it in your workbook.

Going to try and do some nose plug reality checks, seeing as that's my most reliable way of knowing I'm dreaming or not.

I plan to do it tonight where I wake up after 4-5 hours sleep for a WBTB (hopefully).

I'll do the finger movement thing with FILDs for 1-5 minutes after relaxing, and do an RC.

I find that when I do these types of things where I relax, reposition, and repeat, by the time I make the final shift to the left or right, and keep my eyes closed, I start feeling pulling sensations and usually end up in a dream state...mostly FAs.....so doing the nose plus RC is going to help tonight.

http://www.dreamviews.com/f49/finger...eam-fild-4779/

**Linkzelda** · 04-22-2012 03:10 AM

Went to the discussion tonight, realized there could be something missing in my WBTB. I usually chill in the bed and try to type up my DJ entries, but I'm going to try and write just notes down for those dreams, and try to do something more active.

Maybe a little exercise, few crunches, push-ups, or sit-ups.

Since I find myself hitting SP or feeling my body going numb faster when I had a hard day, so maybe this might be effective with a WBTB when I'm more relaxed.

This might give me the optimal state of being awake, but not too much, and still being able to fall asleep.

Will also try to drink a glass of milk, or a half glass tonight because of 5-HTP that can help with dreaming.

Will also try to think about meeting Eva, or find some shared dreaming partners of mine.

Should try to go for 5 hours of sleep instead of 4, so I'll probably sleep a little earlier than usual, maybe 10:30 PM GMT -5 time (9:10PM right now).

And because I should motivate myself to find Eva, I think I might even watch this video sometime during the WBTB, of even before sleep that I use to watch that was a tribute to her and Snake:

Edit: I feel too embarrassed to show that video on YouTube...lol.

Sounds silly to think about a fictional character, but it's better than doing nothing at all in a lucid.

**Linkzelda** · 04-22-2012 12:21 PM

Woke up around 5:40 AM, which is way earlier than the alarm I set for 6:30 AM....had a few dreams, writing them down on the Dream Journal Program that appeared in the Grandfathered DJ section.

Actually had a dream with Eva, me floating and view a small globe, and a few more....

Did a nose RC check after I met Eva because it was kind of scary what happened...my own recklessness.

I think if I had been more QUIET and PATIENT, and shot the guards silently along with Eva, I could've found the Akashic Records for the first time in my life.....and I SCREW IT OVER with not being stealthy...........sigh....

Can't complain, made a mistake, so it's time I find Eva again, now that I know what she looks like in my dream...and hopefully find the library containing the Akashic Records

Edit: Never mind on the WBTB, don't have enough time to risk 1-2 of sleep to possibly get a non-lucid when I can get some stuff done in waking life.

**Linkzelda** · 04-22-2012 02:55 PM

Green Globe, Pool of Toy Balls, Is that a Dragon, Eva and Akashic Records?? - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I noticed some apparent dream signs, guards, library (school), metal gear solid elements, etc.

Obviously, there was something of important value, but the thing that made me predict what it could be exactly was the fact that I saw people in white robes, which I presumed to be something related to Egyptian descent or something, and that my mind did an homologous association with a video I watched last night before sleeping.

I did a nose plug reality check when the dream faded with me and Eva possibly being inside the area for Akashic Records.

The fact that I woke up, still had my eyes closed, and saw a really dark green atmosphere behind my eyes, I could've DEILD pretty quickly if I remained calm, but I was too horrified to see how Eva would like like with a shotgun shot to god knows where....her stomach....her legs, or even her head?

I couldn't do that....it was just too scary to enter the dream, and it was all my fault that I decided to be stupid and whistle out of the blue to see if a guard would come near me.

I've noticed Eva....she....looked so used up, like.....there was something about her, I could do nothing but respect her for appearing in a slightly degraded state, and still wanting to help me.

We didn't even say one word to each other...I think there was a dream reset, but I'm sure that's just a lapse in my memory there.....

The lesson I learned here is that Eva was weak in this dream (because she was injured) , but knowledgeable because she was guiding me somewhere, and I had to protect her, seeing as she didn't have a gun with her, and I made the foolish mistake to make the guards more suspicious...

Hopefully, I'll be a little bit more thoughtful about her instead of trying to lure some guards to kill....

**fOrceez** · 04-22-2012 11:58 PM

Dayuum, Link! You have as many dream signs as melanieb!

**Linkzelda** · 04-23-2012 06:50 PM

Didn't have any interesting dreams last night...mostly ones involving my father and mother and me together.

I slept pretty late, around 2-3 AM, so I set an alarm to wake me up around 7:00-7:30 AM.

Woke up, forgot my dreams, then slept to wake up around 8:30 AM, probably did an nose plug RC somewhere in between, not dreaming.

Set the alarm for 11:00 AM I believe, but I woke up a little earlier than that.

Started to remember a few dreams, and more from previous times that I slept.

No common dream signs, except for seeing my parents, but that's about it.

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/link...ooftops-32475/

**OpheliaBlue** · 04-23-2012 10:02 PM

So who is this Eva?

**Linkzelda** · 04-23-2012 10:20 PM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

So who is this Eva?

She's a fictional character from a video game called Metal Gear Solid 3.

She appeared in Metal Gear Solid 4, but she's like 70+ years old in that game I think, so I don't really think too much about her figure in that one >.>

I saw her appear in a non-lucid during my earlier months here on DV, and she gave me a gray letter with the "M" written on it. I don't remember what the M stood for, but I searched for her ever since I met her when I got on top of the ladder from escaping some kind of military laboratory.

I was trying to kill some guards, but ended up failing horribly, so after I went on top of the ladder, the alarm system reset for some odd reason.

She's a blonde female, and I've been finding her to hopefully allow her to be my projection as to why I have blonde females show themselves frequently in my non-lucids (lucids as well, but I don't get a lot of lucids unfortunately).

Spoiler for Eva:

Recently, I had a dream about her showing the way to what seemed to be how my mind associated with how the Akashic Records would be.

She was a bit different than what I expected her to look like, but it was her for sure.

At first, I wanted to create a DG based on her looks, for personal reasons, then I gave up on that ambition, then I came back to finding her again for the same reasons again, except this time, my mind is creating her naturally instead of me forcing to create one.

Like I described with how blondes exhibit a positive energy towards me, I wanted to use Eva as the epitome of that, but the dream I had with her helping me sneak in a library full of guards, she was a bit laconic towards me, almost depressed, but still willing to help me.

And how she didn't disappear when I was distracted a few times proves that my mind is getting closer to actually make her a potential DG for me. Who knows....I'm not sure who my real DG is as yet, so I'm just presuming it's Eva for now.

Maybe she could be my astral guide to find the Akashic records in both my non-lucids and lucid dreams.

**OpheliaBlue** · 04-23-2012 11:04 PM

Oh cool.

So how often do you see Eva in your dreams?

**Linkzelda** · 04-23-2012 11:06 PM

The last dream with the Akashic Records was my only encounter with her after I gave up searching for her months ago.

**Linkzelda** · 04-24-2012 10:11 AM

All right, typing up some dreams I remembered, and staying up a little bit longer for this WBTB. Will try to move around a little bit after these dreams are recorded.

I think I might go for Eva again, and hopefully find one or two of some of my shared dreaming partners

-Kaomea
-littlezoe

Edit: I can't find them if they're not going to sleep at the same time I am, or at least in their REM cycles.

Guess I'll find Eva...

Still using nose plug RCs.

**Linkzelda** · 04-24-2012 04:58 PM

So much for that WBTB...I stayed up for 60-90 minutes, doing some nose plug RCs, and checking my hands as well. I tried to really pay attention to the dark since it was around 3:45AM I woke up....

After I took care of some things, like typing the dreams I remembered, I still left the fan on maximum, and threw my bed comforter on top of the other bed on the floor. I laid on my back, turned my head to the right side, since I didn't want to worry about saliva to be a bother if I did have a lucid (I had a WILD where I almost choked in the dream, and I woke up probably gagging on built up spit.....wasn't really a pleasant lucid, almost thought I was going to die in it.....

Anyway, I flexed my muscles, starting from bottom to top, then I did some reverse blinking, but I didn't to it for long since I was starting to get too tired to open my eyes.

I tried counting, but then I started to get off count from 20 lol, so I just tried repeating 1-10 instead, and I even turned to the sides after a few minutes....then the fan made everything too cold for me since I was just in my underwear.

I kept my eyes closed, and got up to get my comforter on the other bed, doing a nose plug RC in the process, and then I went back to the other bed and tried to cover myself up, feels much better than the cold.

After a while, things got too boring, I obviously stayed up way to long for the WBTB, or I was just too impatient. I wasn't looking for to SP, HIs or anything of that sort, I just wanted to feel myself relaxed, because that's when the vibrations occur....

Kind of depressed that I stayed up for that long, it's like my mind told me after I woke up, "you wasted alll that time...poor you

And you still didn't get lucid?! trololololol!!!"

Ugh.....

I made Sidenote about Eva....Loooool a sidenote....xD

A Sidenote of Eva - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Here's last nights dreams, or this early morning's dreams.

Snapshot and Dragon, Turning up Food Volume?, Handsome and Humble - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

The dreams were kind boring, nothing special, just vague metaphors for something....or maybe just complete and utter randomness, since most of them were probably NREM sleep.

**OpheliaBlue** · 04-24-2012 09:48 PM

Sorry for the frustrations Link. But you get a big fat A for effort!

I wonder if you might have some more success if you tried going for being lucid in general and see where it takes you, instead of focusing on seeing Eva. Or did you give up on her months ago?

**Linkzelda** · 04-24-2012 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Sorry for the frustrations Link. But you get a big fat A for effort!

I wonder if you might have some more success if you tried going for being lucid in general and see where it takes you, instead of focusing on seeing Eva. Or did you give up on her months ago?

I am trying to get lucid in general, but I want to have a goal in mind, because most of the time I'm lucid, I'm just looking around where I am lol.

Nah, I'm still trying to find her, it's a month or so since I started getting back to finding her again.

**OpheliaBlue** · 04-24-2012 11:45 PM

Well I hope you find her again

Have you had any lucids recently, or since you started the class?

**Linkzelda** · 04-25-2012 12:02 AM

My most recent lucid was since April 9th, and that didn't last long since I got distracted somehow.

It's been mostly sustaining daily dream recall. I'm worrying a lot about finals lately, so I can't be so ambitious until I become a sophomore in college.

I just feel afraid of my grades, so I'm just being dormant until all final exams are settled. Eva is just a little thought in my mind, but I have more intentions than just her, it's just that going for those other goals means I need more time. :/

**OpheliaBlue** · 04-25-2012 01:13 AM

Oh I understand. I mean, I don't have finals anymore these days, but when I work those 10-14 hour shifts, I don't even bother with lucid dreaming. I'm just happy if I get 8 hours of sleep

**Linkzelda** · 04-25-2012 05:32 AM

Going to try and do a WBTB still after 4 hours of sleep, and then just hope for the best.

**Linkzelda** · 04-25-2012 11:05 AM

Hm....Stayed up for 30-45 minutes, waaay less than last night...here goes.

And using this link like I normally do for the alarm

http://moods.onlineclock.net/

**Linkzelda** · 04-25-2012 03:18 PM

Loool, so much for decent recall, only remembered one dream, and that's after I woke up after doing a WBTB. I wanted 30 minutes more of sleep, and what do I get? One stupid dream.

Hell, I could even post it here because it's just one sentence.

But I will admit, before I woke up after the WBTB, I got pissed and opened my bedroom door did the nose plus RC several times, nada, nada, NOTHING.

**OpheliaBlue** · 04-26-2012 05:13 AM

Awww man

sorry

Is there any way you can try a WBTB after 5 hours of sleep? And preferably if you can still afford at least 2 or 3 hours after that?

Just making sure you're getting enough sleep man.

**Linkzelda** · 04-26-2012 05:24 AM

Thursday, Friday, and the Weekend Nights, yeah, I'll try to sleep for 5 hours.

**Linkzelda** · 04-26-2012 12:17 PM

Wow, the last part of this video actually is something I'll consider doing (propping a pillow under your mouth to stop the roll over signal of keeping your jaws tensed when trying to WILD)