Thread: Paige's Workbook :)

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

In the first one, I remember what I did, but I can't remember how I got lucid.

Gaaah, this is happening to me more and more lately. I'm thinking it's because they're random DILDs, and I wake up and go back to bed so many times after without journaling. Thought that's probably not your issue.. 22 hours of no sleep probably did that haha.

Anyway, congrats on the lucids. Even in spite of your lack of sleep, you continue to be a lucid warrior.

Thanks Ophie!

This morning I almost had a DEILD. It was quite interesting how everything moved in slow motion, and the real world sounds became really distinct. I was struggling to focus on the dream because of what was happening. Eventually I just fell asleep and had some uneventful nonlucids.

How often during the day do you thInk/ or do RC ? Now that u have been doing it for awile now I was just curious if u do less rc's now or more

Originally Posted by Wurlman

How often during the day do you thInk/ or do RC ? Now that u have been doing it for awile now I was just curious if u do less rc's now or more

I do physical reality checks rarely now (fingers through palm, noseplug), probably about 3 times a day. Most of the time I just pay attention to my surroundings and do mental questions like "is this a dream? how did i get here?".

Also, welcome back Wurlman!

I had a lucid today! It was a bit hard to remember because I woke up and fell back asleep for a few hours.

It was spontaneous, and lasted only a few seconds to a minute. I was running from someone and jumped really high. I realized it was a dream and proceeded to fly. I couldn't remember any goals since I had not been planning it for a few days, so I just went with flying and trying to see my wings. They were angel-type wings (my favorite), though they looked too small. I woke up soon after that.

Hiiiii guys! I'm back from my short break, school exams just totally caught me by surprise

I had a lucid this morning, after falling asleep every hour or so (i was cramming for exams). At one point, I woke up and tried to use my ipad but the light flickered a lot and it would vibrate. I plugged my nose and realized I could breathe, and that I was dreaming! I sank myself into my bed and used that to teleport to a new location. I succeeded, though I couldn't remember any goals. So i spent the entire lucid dream looking for a certain someone, unsuccessfully.

But yeah, that lucid was totally unexpected and I'm happy I had it after a while

Awesome, Paige, welcome back! Great job on the lucid!

Only you could have an LD while collapsed from exhaustion on your desk, drooling into your textbook.

Seriously, though, great stuff. Hope your exams went well! (Are going well??)

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Only you could have an LD while collapsed from exhaustion on your desk, drooling into your textbook.

Rofl. We need to make a task thread just for you paigey, where you have to fall asleep in a different place/position/random and see if you can have a lucid. Members can submit their requests.

Hope your exams went well too!

Exams just suck. They take you by surprise and they can even totally ruin your lucid dreaming routine. Nevertheless you Succeeded achieving a lucid dream. All I have to say is good luck to you and keep on dreaming!

Thanks guys!

While I was away, I wasn't able to attend to my DJ consistently. There were days when I'd recall a lot of dreams but always put off writing it because of so many things I needed to do, and I thought it'd be fine. But just as I suspected, I was wrong. My recall dropped and I stopped having lucids for a while. I'm getting back into it though, and I promise I won't skimp out on my DJ this time!

I became lucid for a little bit this morning!

I was at my old school (as usual) and I wondered why I could jump so high. I realized it was a dream and I thought about the tasks of the month and year but I couldn't remember anything :< I woke up a few seconds after that.

I'm gonna start my old habit of recalling my goals throughout the day, and especially right before bed.

I'm still practicing MILD mostly. My usual nightly routine is:

•No electronics 10-15 minutes before bed or my eyes won't stop itching if I try to sleep right away
•Do mantras in those 10-15 minutes of darkness (and I'm gonna start recalling my goals)
•So basically I do MILD. If I wake up in the night, I try to DEILD. If I fail DEILD by falling back asleep, I can still DILD. If I fail DEILD by waking up too much, I do WBTB+WILD

Oooops forgot to note down, I had a lucid yesterday. Lately I haven't DJed as much as I wanted, but I've been getting lucid after long tiring days, so I guess I have something to be thankful for. After this week I'm gonna set things right. FU MIDTERMS FFUFUFUFUUF

HALLELUJAH! Midterm exams are finally over! Time for some much needed sleep I'm gonna sleep for a looong time this weekend, as I've only been getting 3-4 hours for the past week or so.

Wish me luck!

Had a lucid today It was quite short. Got lucid spontaneously when I was at a mall. Just walked around and tried to change the scene but I woke up very soon.

Hi Paige!

Thank you for commenting on my workbook, it is nice to see there is an established community at Dream Views. I have been browsing through your workbook and noticed you said that the WBTB and MILD combo is basically a guarantee lucid for you. Do you mind going through this process a little more... What time do you go to bed? Wake up? How long are you awake for? What do you do? Etc...

Any help would be much appreciated. Thank you.

I am also employing your technique on reality checks, every time I enter a room I am going to check my hands. Foolproof! Thanks again.

Had a lucid today, posted on the snippets thread! I think it may have been because I kept waking up in the middle of the night. It started with a false awakening where an old friend from grade school called me up. She was talking nonsense until I realized it was impossible for her to have my number. I did a noseplug to confirm, and yep, it was a dream!

Just a little update: I've been having vivid dreams lately, the problem is, I seem to forget them right away. I try to journal them as quickly as I can, but after a few moments it all fades. I'm pretty sure this is because of stress and school lately, so hopefully it gets better soon. I'll try to go to sleep with a peaceful mind so I get better dreams. Hmmm, yep that's it for now

Things have been going awfully. :s

My recall is alright, but I haven't gone lucid in a while. I'm still keeping up ADA, but for some reason nothing's happening in my dreams. I've tried resetting everything and relaxing for a few days, but nada. Hopefully this will pass soon.

No sweat, Paigey. If you're anything like me, it's probably just a process of climbing down from stress. I know they've been working you guys over in school and that really takes a toll. When I went through a couple of stressful weeks at work, there was a lot of carryover into dream life. Things got pretty dry for me... even basic dream recall was the pits.

If you can, see if you can avoid putting in too much stressful work right before bed. I know that's a lot to ask of a student, but one huge killer for my dream life was logging on close to bed time, getting stressed about some difficult problem, and slinging code right up until the moment I went to bed. Stress is just a real bear.

The good news is that once it passed, in-dream happiness and confidence returned. That unlocked the old me and the same thing will unlock the old you.

You have an ultra-high level of skill, and once your stress levels settle back down, you will be right back in the swing of things! There's no doubt in my mind.

YESSSSSSSSSS I BROKE MY DRY SPELL TODAY!

I woke up at 2am and went back to bed at 4am. I wasn't really planning on going back to bed but I was too tired, so it ended up being my ideal WBTB (2 hours).

I got lucid 3 times, in different dreams. The first one was spontaneous and the others were because I remembered being lucid before them. Couldn't remember any of the tasks though

In the first lucid, I tried to firebend and airbend, but I couldn't. The second one, I tried to look for someone, but couldn't find them. In the third one, I saw a neighbor BBQing so i went over and touched the burning coals to see if they would hurt. They didn't. So I started eating it. So crunchy, bro. So crunchy.

Oh, there is something i think is worth noting down.

Lately I've been getting weird perceptions of time. I'd sleep at like 8 pm and wake up 30 minutes later, but it feels like 3+ hours have passed already. I would reality check a lot because of the weirdness it makes me feel. This has been happening everyday for the past week or so, and it's so strange. I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not, but it's definitely an odd change. The upside to it is that when I take a short nap, it feels soooo long and refreshing.

Any idea what this is?

Same thing with me. The 30 minute sleep I got last night lasted until 9 AM. Is there something wrong?

According to science your brain only needs a small amount of rest every night. All the other hours are for the body. Maybe your brain is recharging super fast?

I don't know how or why that is, but if you figure it out please bottle it up and send me some.

But seriously, it happens to me on and off when I sleep in. Especially if it's in between snoozes on my alarm clock before I gotta go to work. Some times 10 minutes feels like it's been 30, and I have to keep checking the time to make sure I didn't sleep too late. It only happens to me once in a blue moon though.

I'm back! Went on a little break from forum-posting due to some stressful schoolwork, but I'm back now!

Just a little update:

Recall's been a bit better, I'm remembering around 2-4 dreams a night and most of them are vivid.

I haven't done any MILDing at all this week though, because I'm usually so swamped with work that I just crash and doze off. But I'm gonna get back on the wagon now.

Oh, I had two lucids two days ago, one after the other (I suspect it was because I snoozed the alarm after the first lucid and still maintained awareness). Anyway, both dreams involved a DV member and the second one had zombies! Mannnn they felt so realistic they scared the crap out of me D: