Paige's Workbook :)

I think the trick to using survival instincts to your advantage would be to maintain the awareness with sleeping lightly. Perhaps that is simply trusting your instincts to kick in at the right time, or using specific practices to enhance those instincts.
It reminds me of working with your strengths. We have certain aspects and qualities of ourselves already that lend to awareness. Then if we can learn to use them to our advantage, that would increase our ability to utilize them.
Good thoughts!

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I tried Canis' nighttime MILD ritual, but I totally fell asleep. :(

I had a dream I was pregnant (yet again) and for some reason I was really terrified about it.

Then something odd happened. At lunch today, a friend of mine came over and told me she was preggo, and she was so distraught.

Interesting precog? Gaa i dont know what to think. Among the hundreds of dreams, surely one has to coincide with a real event right?

I personally believe precognition is possible. I plan to eventually experiment with that while lucid.

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I personally believe precognition is possible. I plan to eventually experiment with that while lucid.

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Cool. When you do, let me know and I might jump on board with the experimentation. Always nice to have someone else to do those with :)

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I tried Canis' nighttime MILD ritual, but I totally fell asleep. :(

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Just to be clear, the part of my nighttime MILD ritual where I start counting is designed to put me to sleep as fast as possible while I continue my mantra. I've so far never been able to count below 83 before zonking out, ha ha.

Generally, I start with a standard Laberge-style MILD, which I continue until I'm satisfied or starting to feel a little too awake. Then I flip over on my side or stomach and start doing the reverse-counting/MILD mantra falling asleep ritual. Traditionally, I'd found that doing mantras after WBTB kind of kept me up. But with this reverse counting approach (adapted from KamilV) I can continue my mantra but still get KTFO. :)

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I had a dream I was pregnant (yet again) and for some reason I was really terrified about it.

Then something odd happened. At lunch today, a friend of mine came over and told me she was preggo, and she was so distraught.

Interesting precog? Gaa i dont know what to think. Among the hundreds of dreams, surely one has to coincide with a real event right?

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That is nuts. This had to have blown your mind! Anyway, I do hope that your friend is able to figure everything out.

If in the future you have any dreams about particular stocks going up, please do share them in your workbook. :D

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Cool. When you do, let me know and I might jump on board with the experimentation. Always nice to have someone else to do those with :)

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Soon. I want to wait until Matte87 competition is over and I complete my goal making black fireballs. Don't ask why it's just cool. Also, I want to do a little research. I was having dreams like this a lot in 2006 but very few since. So I have had it in the back of my mind for awhile. I will for sure let you know.

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Just to be clear, the part of my nighttime MILD ritual where I start counting is designed to put me to sleep as fast as possible while I continue my mantra. I've so far never been able to count below 83 before zonking out, ha ha.

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Ohh I meant I fell asleep even before doing the mantras and counting, lol! x)I guess that means I technically wasn't able to try it out then? I must have been pretty beat up because I got KTFO (haha) the moment I hit the pillow :3

And just so you know, I've had 3 dream babies :l

Hahahaha

Ive pooped some pretty crazy things in dreams....Human kinds greatest power of creation is to create a brand new human being.

Maybe your creative power is emerging in new ways. :)

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And just so you know, I've had 3 dream babies :l

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As in actually given dream birth? Wow!! :shock: That is amazing!

Edit: Almost forgot to mention! Last night I had a dream where all of these things that I had predicted in-dream came true. Nobody was too impressed by this but at least I impressed myself. :) It seems that your dream precog story has taken root in my brain!

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As in actually given dream birth? Wow!! :shock: That is amazing!

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Ikr! It's so weird. It started when I was in high school. My friends and I even kept joking about it and kept a little journal because the preggo dream would recur every few weeks or so, and eventually I gave birth. Rofl

That's so cool paigey. I've given birth in dreams too, but they were all after Chris was born. I never had that happen before actually giving birth though!

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Ive pooped some pretty crazy things in dreams....

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LOL I'd love to swap stories with you there sometime. Once I "pooped" chunks of avocado, but it wasn't from my rear. O_O

I slept for 12 hours straight today. I slept so deeply too. I'm a bit disappointed I didn't get any lucids or even a small instance where I wondered about my reality. Gaaa. At least I got some awesome nonlucids! :D

Nice! I get excited just thinking about a good 12 hour sleep session like that. Has to feel awesome.

Did you end up doing a WBTB or anything during that big sleep session? Maybe one at, say, the 10 hour mark? :D

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Nice! I get excited just thinking about a good 12 hour sleep session like that. Has to feel awesome.

Did you end up doing a WBTB or anything during that big sleep session? Maybe one at, say, the 10 hour mark? :D

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Unfortunately, nope. The thing is, I set up an alarm for 5 hours into sleep, but I must've missed it, or turned it off unconsciously. The next thing I know, it's been 12 hours! Haha x)

Haha I never knew you could sleep so long!

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Haha I never knew you could sleep so long!

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Hahah! Don't be so sure! I even slept 19 hours straight one time. I felt like a sloth. When I woke up I had forgotten what day it was :lol:

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Hahah! Don't be so sure! I even slept 19 hours straight one time. I felt like a sloth. When I woke up I had forgotten what day it was :lol:

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19 hours!! That is amazing! That actually sounds... really fun! That must have been some kind of crazy post-all-nighter recovery. You manage to fit any LDs in there? :)

Maybe you did feel like a sloth after that. But I bet a happy, well-rested sloth!

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19 hours!! That is amazing! That actually sounds... really fun! That must have been some kind of crazy post-all-nighter recovery. You manage to fit any LDs in there? :)

Maybe you did feel like a sloth after that. But I bet a happy, well-rested sloth!

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The happiest and zombiest sloth in the world! And yep, I think I got one LD that time, but I can't be certain. All i remember was that I had some really weird dreams that lasted a very long time, and some false awakenings. :)

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Today I was gonna take a nap. But then it took 8 hours :O

This is starting to be a problem for me. I set up at least 3 alarms whenever I sleep so I can wake up for WBTB, or to wake up from naps. But lately, no matter what I do, I can't seem to wake up to them. Or I wake up and turn them all off unconsciously. I can't even remember. This was how I was before I got into lucid dreaming, and I used mantras and autosuggestion to help with that. I'm doing it again now, but to no avail so far. I plan on still using them, hoping they'll take effect sooner or later.

Any advice? :)

Judging by these last few posts, you are sounding like a very deep sleeper! I have to admit, this sounds really wonderful. I don't tend to sleep quite that deeply but I can list off the few ideas that come to mind.

In my sleep-deprived college days, if I'd stayed up really late studying for a test, I used to put a whole bunch of crisscrossed tape over the switch that turned off the alarm. I had to work so hard to get that tape off that all of the thinking required would inevitably wake me up.

One thing that you could play with (although it has downsides) is drinking various quantities of water before bedtime and possibly during wakings. If I want to wake up many times in the night, this definitely seems to work. The downside is that it's not all that restful having to get out of bed and sprint to the bathroom. I spent a couple of weeks drinking more "pee water" to wake up more and while it worked really well, it just didn't feel as restful and led to more awakenings than I really needed. Xanous, though, said that he'd just sometimes sleep on through in spite of the pee water and wake up with aching kidneys. LOL. Not too good. But perhaps you could experiment with gently increasing the amount of water you drink right before bed and see whether it lightens your sleep a little.

Also, my brother-in-law is an amazingly deep sleeper. He would sleep through every alarm clock he used. Even his cat sitting on his face didn't wake him up sometimes. We bought him this alarm clock designed for deaf people that would just shake the hell out of the bed like it was an earthquake. I thought it was called a "bed buzz" but I can't find anything called that on the net. It's been a while so maybe they don't make it anymore. Anyway, this thing would wake up absolutely anybody! It wasn't a particularly relaxing wake-up, though.

You know what they should make? Some kind of alarm clock or phone app where you have to solve 5 mildly difficult math problems to make it shut up. :)

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You know what they should make? Some kind of alarm clock or phone app where you have to solve 5 mildly difficult math problems to make it shut up. :)

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Alarm Clock plus for android. It has many useful functions and the option for math equations and you set the difficulty.

Thanks guys! I love the idea of that app, except I'd have to wake up to the alarm clock in the first place. And the earthquake alarm thing! Haha genius.

i'll definitely try out the water thing though, wish me luck! :3

Good luck Paigey! Water usually works well for me, as long as I drink enough. I'm usually too lazy to chug the two full glasses of water it takes for me. If I drink too little I end up like Xanous, I'm wake up around my time and I'm like "ohhh shiii gotta get to the bathroom NOW"

Try a mantra like "I will wake up in 5 hours". Worked for me, and you have a chance to DEILD rather than WBTB during the awakening

Thanks guys.

I tried out the water thing this morning, along with doing mantras as usual. Didn't work today :( I think it may also be because I normally am able to hold my bladder for extended amounts of time. I think I'm gonna up the dosage tonight.

:D

I wasn't able to drink water last night, since I wasn't planning on a WBTB due to an appointment I had in the morning.

But I did have 2 lucids! The first one was a DILD and the second a DEILD. :D

B*tchfight with Samara from The Ring (Lucid #89 and 90)

Spoiler for October lucid goals:

•Have a table flip me
•Jump into a black hole and see where it leads me
•Capture a soul and put it in a jar (optional - smell/taste it)
•Cook something
•Morph into a mystical creature
•Make a dream character laugh
•Have at least one proper WILD
•Have at least 10 lucids

Lucid count: 10