Paige's Workbook :)

:banana: Aw yeah! Congratulations on the lucid, Paige! Glad to see you back in top form after all that stress from a couple weeks ago.

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

At some early point in the lucid, I told a security guard (i was at my old school) to remind me to stay lucid after a few seconds. And he did! It worked. I might try this a lot from now on. Mehehhee

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What a cool way to employ prospective memory! Did he sort of keep following you around and droning on about how lucid you are? Sounds handy. I'd need to recruit an extra to DC to remind me not to obsess about stupid stuff. :D

If you want to really have it made, get those DCs to come find you the next time you're dreaming and remind you that it's all a dream. :D I tried getting my wife's DC to do that and it kinda worked once or twice, but never was consistent enough to get me lucid a lot.

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Did he sort of keep following you around and droning on about how lucid you are?

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Nah i even forgot about him, he just popped up behind me and said 'hey you're still dreaming'

Had a lucid today. Grew angel wings but wasnt able to fly because alarm woke me up.

Bombom had another short lucid, put it in the snippets :)

I need to make a new list of goals!

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Bombom had another short lucid, put it in the snippets :)

I need to make a new list of goals!

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Cool, looking forward to stealing ideas from your new list!

This made me take a quick look at your original list of long-term goals. One stood out at me, since it's one I took a stab at once myself but want to do more with:

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Converse with and benefit from my subconscious

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Did you ever have any luck with this one? Any interesting responses when you attempted it? I somehow always wind up forgetting this one because I am too busy trying to fly around, teleport, or just generally be a little kid. :P

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Did you ever have any luck with this one? Any interesting responses when you attempted it? I somehow always wind up forgetting this one because I am too busy trying to fly around, teleport, or just generally be a little kid.

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Hmm well i've had plenty of conversations with dcs, but the thing is they weren't really thought-out convos like i aimed for. So i dont think it really counts. Plus, they usually replied with mundane things like 'i dont believe you' or 'why should i answer that?'. :<

I don't believe you.

I really would like to question my DCs more but I usually find myself occupied with other thoughts. I must be too boring. I'm going to try imagining I'm your age and see if that helps.

I find I'm always having really normal conversations with DCs. This morning I was discussing headache treatments, and I became lucid...and continued the conversation. :P

At least my DC knew their stuff. ;)

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Hmm well i've had plenty of conversations with dcs, but the thing is they weren't really thought-out convos like i aimed for. So i dont think it really counts. Plus, they usually replied with mundane things like 'i dont believe you' or 'why should i answer that?'. :<

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Robert Waggoner suggested "addressing the dream" itself for questions directed at the subconscious. Now, when I tried this my voice sounded really strange and I didn't get an immediate response. But the next DC that I spoke to gave me a very thoughtful, interesting answer to my query. (I just said, "Tell me something important.")

So while addressing the dream directly didn't yield an answer right away, it seems to have ultimately got me there. Could be something to try.

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Originally Posted by melanieb

I find I'm always having really normal conversations with DCs. This morning I was discussing headache treatments, and I became lucid...and continued the conversation. :P

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:chuckle: Must have been a pretty good conversation. Once I get lucid, I become like an 11-year-old and then I'm just in "up, up, and awaaaay!!" mode.

Ah crap I put my dream in the snippets but forgot to log it here. Had a lucid the other day! The one with the car and phasing :D

Also, recall is getting much better after getting 1-2 hours more every night :D

Goals: spontaneous combustion and/or bioluminescence (preferable violet in color hehe)

Congratulations on the lucid! :D It's great that your recall is picking up and moreover that you are finally getting some sleep. It's well-deserved!

Ooh, I love the bioluminescence goal! I don't know whether you ever find yourself caught in really dark buildings or anything, but this would be the perfect skill to make those problems go away!

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Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Congratulations on the lucid! :D It's great that your recall is picking up and moreover that you are finally getting some sleep. It's well-deserved!

Ooh, I love the bioluminescence goal! I don't know whether you ever find yourself caught in really dark buildings or anything, but this would be the perfect skill to make those problems go away!

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Thanks and yeah, I was watching some documentaries on youtube about 'extraordinary people' and i've always wondered how these things work or feel like. Then i thought hey i could do that in dreams! One other thing i'd like to experience also is synesthesia (you can google it if you're unfamiliar). There is another DV member who is a good friend of mine who has synesthesia and the type of synesthesia she has is related to colors. Basically when she sees or hears or smells something, it is associated with a color that pops up in her mind e.g. My username is blue in her head, or the smell of bacon cooking is orange, etc. It's really interesting :D

Hmm interesting, Here's some advice:

Do NOT sneeze.

Regards,

Fin "BruteForce" Phillips

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Originally Posted by BruteForce223

Hmm interesting, Here's some advice:

Do NOT sneeze.

Regards,

Fin "BruteForce" Phillips

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Fakyo

yeah folk him

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Thanks and yeah, I was watching some documentaries on youtube about 'extraordinary people' and i've always wondered how these things work or feel like. Then i thought hey i could do that in dreams! One other thing i'd like to experience also is synesthesia (you can google it if you're unfamiliar). There is another DV member who is a good friend of mine who has synesthesia and the type of synesthesia she has is related to colors. Basically when she sees or hears or smells something, it is associated with a color that pops up in her mind e.g. My username is blue in her head, or the smell of bacon cooking is orange, etc. It's really interesting :D

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This is really cool. Experiencing synesthesia is also one of my goals! And in a dream you can get even wilder and do things like actually walk up to your favorite color and taste it. :content:

So are you talking about NewArtemis? She's the only synesthete that I know on DV. Are there others? Anyway, it's really cool stuff... she has experienced it on occasion in her dreams and I thought hey, why can't I?

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Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

This is really cool. Experiencing synesthesia is also one of my goals! And in a dream you can get even wilder and do things like actually walk up to your favorite color and taste it. :content:

So are you talking about NewArtemis? She's the only synesthete that I know on DV. Are there others? Anyway, it's really cool stuff... she has experienced it on occasion in her dreams and I thought hey, why can't I?

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Oh I didn't know NewArt is a synesthete! Other synesthetes on DV i know are Dead and enso :D

I had a dream recently where wet was purple but it wasn't a typical night and all very embarrassing and unpleasant. I was drooling copious amounts after an Amanita Muscaria experiment. Never again!

Been having a dry spell for the past week. Dream recall is stable though, and dream content is the usual kind of weird. Also been pretty busy this past week or two. Sooooooon. Soooooon. Lucid i'm coming to get ya.

I'm back fom my vacation! No lucids for a month now, though I have had so many awesome nonlucids. I am sure that my whacked up sleep schedule and stress from taking care of so many things for my vacation played a huge role, which is funny because im supposed to be on vacation in the first place.

Anyway, i am hoping i get lucids again soon, especially since school is starting and i'll have a consistent sleeping sched by then.

As for now, i'm journalling as always, practicing ADA as best as i can, doing MILD. I think i'm gonna try WBTB again this week since i havent done it for a while.

You're a lucid beast. I think WBTB will get you back on track in no time. NO MORE DRY SPELL!

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

I'm back fom my vacation! No lucids for a month now, though I have had so many awesome nonlucids. I am sure that my whacked up sleep schedule and stress from taking care of so many things for my vacation played a huge role, which is funny because im supposed to be on vacation in the first place.

Anyway, i am hoping i get lucids again soon, especially since school is starting and i'll have a consistent sleeping sched by then.

As for now, i'm journalling as always, practicing ADA as best as i can, doing MILD. I think i'm gonna try WBTB again this week since i havent done it for a while.

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That's a very solid plan. I have very few lucids without WBTB, and maybe one or two in my life that took place when I wasn't getting proper sleep. Sleep is the ultimate lucid aid. :)

I know that feeling of needing a vacation from your vacation. :chuckle: This is why I'm such a huge fan of vacations that require me to plan as little as possible and spend as much time lounging on a beach somewhere, stirring only to read or to eat/drink something delicious. :content:

Good ol' pagie Hows things girl? Hope ur dry spell ends hear!!!

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Originally Posted by Wurlman

Good ol' pagie Hows things girl? Hope ur dry spell ends hear!!!

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WURLMAN WHERE ART THOU?? Thank youuuu! AND YES I HAD 3 LUCIDS TODAY IN MY NAP! JESAS IM SO HAPPY HILGRRIONGDTOINGDRILNLEIGRAAAGHHHLIHDGRIL

Update:

I took a nap today at 4pm, and woke up at 8pm. This is my first decent nap in a looong time. I got lucid in a norma, dream, then woke up because my sister is on my bed playing with my ipad. The sounds were quite loud and I didn't wanna tell her to tone it down because i would be too awake, plus she wouldn't listen anyway. So i shifted a bit and tried to DEILD, and it worked! I could see my previous dream kinda floating in my mind, and it was such a struggle to actually enter it lucid because i had a stroooong urge to drift off. Anyway after much struggle, i got in and started walking around, being so happy that i got to be lucid again after a long time. I recalled how awesome it felt :D then after a few seconds i got slightly woken up again because of the sounds and DEILDed again successfully, back into the same dream dreamscape. I started walking and marveling at my dream again but after like 10 seconds my mom woke me up for dinner.

That is all. Bjkselinsdflninlidrfnlerfnlk i r so vry happeh ¯\_(°‿°)_/¯

Congratulations on that ultra-lucid nap and that ultra-broken dry spell! I've only managed to squeeze 1 or 2 LDs out of naps in my whole career, so 3 in one go sounds insane!

Nice work using your sister screwing around with your iPad as a DEILD alarm. :)

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Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Congratulations on that ultra-lucid nap and that ultra-broken dry spell! I've only managed to squeeze 1 or 2 LDs out of naps in my whole career, so 3 in one go sounds insane!

Nice work using your sister screwing around with your iPad as a DEILD alarm. :)

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Oh, i didnt intend to really..but now that you put it that way~

thanks