Thread: Paige's Workbook :)

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:

Had a lucid last night. Gonna post it in the snippets thread in a bit.

First night in weeks where I slept more than 5 hours straight!! MAN THAT WAS SO REWARDING IN SO MANY WAYS! I woke up in such a good mood, plus I just had a lucid (even though I didn't get to do much, still).

Gonna work on my goals next, since my recall is getting much better now.

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Had a lucid last night. Gonna post it in the snippets thread in a bit.

First night in weeks where I slept more than 5 hours straight!! MAN THAT WAS SO REWARDING IN SO MANY WAYS! I woke up in such a good mood, plus I just had a lucid (even though I didn't get to do much, still).

Gonna work on my goals next, since my recall is getting much better now.

Congratulations, Paige!!

And a lucid on only five hours of sleep! That is outstanding! I tell you, they are just working you guys too hard over there! What's up with that?

Great work. You are going to be a friggin force of nature if they ever let you get another one of your epic 19-hour blocks of sleep.

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

First night in weeks where I slept more than 5 hours straight!!

I would die!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Congratulations, Paige!!

And a lucid on only five hours of sleep! That is outstanding! I tell you, they are just working you guys too hard over there! What's up with that?

Great work. You are going to be a friggin force of nature if they ever let you get another one of your epic 19-hour blocks of sleep.

Thanks! Im on my last semester for the year so it's reaaally crazy! But i'll be having vacations around the 23rd so i'll be sleeping for like 5 days straight haha!

Originally Posted by Xanous

I would die!

I am dead. Like right now, for the past few weeks. :p


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I had three lucids this morning!!

They were all DILDs, caused by my insistent snoozing of my alarm clock. The first one was so vivid, I had an FA and realized there was a frog on my bed, and that it was a dream. I slowly walked out of my room, greeted my dream mom and started walking out the door and thought of what to do. But someone messaged me in real life and I was wearing earbuds so the sound of the message jolted me awake

Anyway i went back to bed after replying and had another lucid. This time I couldn't remember my goals, as I hadn't been working on remembering them lately. So I ended up flying a few meters before I woke up to my snooze alarm. Went back to bed again and got lucid. A DC was telling me something about school, and how I had to get up because my alarm wasn't gonna go off anymore. I woke up shortly after that and I realized the DC was right! I had turned off the alarm the last time I hit it, instead of hitting snooze.

Cool eh? Subconscious is looking out for me

Gonna work on my personal goals this weekend, hopefully I get to do something worthwhile next time.

That's it for now.

HOLY HELL I HAD A *slightly* CRAZY LUCID THIS MORNING!

So I was studying this dawn, and ended at 5:55 am. I decided to take a 20 minute nap before I started getting ready for school so I set an alarm for 6:15 am and proceeded to sleep. I fell asleep instantly.

So I had a dream that my alarm clock was showing 6:25 and I somehow got lucid because of the weird dream atmosphere. I told myself I should wake up just in case I actually missed my alarm, since I had no idea what time it actually was irl. So I closed my eyes and tried to reopen them, hoping I'd wake up. But I couldn't! When I'd open them, all I could see was darkness. I tried a few more times to no avail.

So then I closed my eyes again, and reached out my left dream hand in front of me hoping I'd actually move my real hand with enough intention (like I'd actually wake up and move physically). And I felt like I had actually moved my hand when I FELT A FRIGGIN BABY'S HAND GRAB ME. And I was so sure it was a baby's hand because it was really small, and soft and kinda blubbery in texture like a newborn's. And the way it moved—the hand wrapped around two of my fingers, like it was trying to hold on. I was like HOLY CRAP and pulled my hand back. I stayed calm from then on, reopening my eyes every few seconds, and seeing only darkness everytime I had them open (in the dream). After about a minute of doing this, I finally opened my eyes in real life! Though the actual movement of my eyes opening was reeaaally slow and groggy compared to when I was closing and opening them in the dream. I looked at the time and it was still 6:06 am! It only happened within 10 minutes :O

So yeah it was pretty cool and a very vivid and interesting experience.

Do you guys have any ideas on how to wake yourself up from a dream (in case you actually have to do so)? In my case I would've liked to maybe inflict pain or something, but it was hard because I couldn't see anything at all and I couldn't feel my body (except for the baby grabbing me).

Cheers!

OMG that is craaaazzy! Was is maybe REM atonia?

Try holding your breath next time. It works for SP I don't see why it wouldn't work for other experiences.

I wont be around the next week or so because of final exams

But before I go... I had a lucid this morning! It was quite long and stable (10-20mins). But I was too foolish and spent most of it trying to summon someone which was really hard because the DCs' faces kept shifting .__.

All right, Paige, congratulations on that LD!! 10-20 minutes sounds great! And don't worry too much about getting too caught up in a single goal. This is something that I often struggle with as well. As long as you get lucid and have a good time, you're doing just fine.

And good luck on your finals! We'll be eagerly awaiting your return. And hopefully... hopefully, they will finally let you get some sweet sleep to crank out some more of these LDs. I'd say you've earned it!

Hello I'm back!

I had a lucid each on the 15th, 18th and the 21st. They were all around 2-3 minutes each and i mostly flew. I also tried to change the dream scene dramatically but failed horribly ;___;

Anyway, that'll be it for now.

Oh gooood i had an intense morning today.

I fell into sleep paralysis today THREE TIMES. I kept waking up at dawn but snoozed every time. Until i woke up, amd my eyes wouldn't open all the way (If they were even open at all really). And i could see this little girl leaning on my left shoulder area, screaming in my face. She was soooo heavy though, and i couldn't see her hands, but i felt like she was choking me. I couldn't move at all. I was instantly aware i was in legit sleep paralysis, so i tried to calm down (which was honestly quite hard). I imagined myself sinking into the bed, and the sensations kept fading until i 'woke up'. I did the noseplug and i could breathe! I plugged again and breathed in and out heavily to make sure, because it was so realistic. I got up, did one of my personal goals, until i woke up and ended up in SP like the first time. I got lucid again, but before i could do anything, i got sucked into another SP yet again. It happened three times, and i got lucid three times. After that, i had a bunch of false awakenings i didn't catch anymore.

But hooooly crap that was such an intense experience. Which reminds me. I never really thought about this before. But my sister told me today that yesterday i was sleeptalking. Then i remembered i used to do this a lot, though it was never anything major, it was mostly just me lightly whispering some random things.

I was wondering, does this mean my REM atonia doesn't work quite right? And if so, that means im more prone to sleep paralysis right? ㅑㅇㅅㅇ ㅕ

Wow, that is hardcore SP right there. You even had the "demon on your chest" sensation. I'm glad you knew how to handle yourself.

Can you imagine how terrifying this sort of thing was before science could explain these phenomena to us? Particularly in a day and age when people still commonly believed that demons existed!

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

I was wondering, does this mean my REM atonia doesn't work quite right? And if so, that means im more prone to sleep paralysis right? ㅑㅇㅅㅇ ㅕ

No, this all sounds pretty normal. Sleep talking and sleep walking usually occur on the border of deep sleep, not REM sleep.

Originally Posted by The Article

Sometimes, however, there are strong pulls both to wakefulness and to deep sleep, and the result is that part of the brain continues to be in slow wave sleep, while another part is simultaneously in a state of wakefulness. The behavioral consequence is one of the NREM parasomnias: sleep walking, sleep talking, sleep eating, confusional arousals, night terrors.

Why do people sleep talk? | Psychology Today

There are rare sufferers of REM behavior disorder, where they simply don't experience REM atonia. Needless to say, people without REM atonia are very dangerous people to sleep near! This doesn't at all sound like what you have, though. Sleep talking like what you do is very common. But that's all NREM. A sufferer of REM behavior disorder can break into a run, suddenly spring into full-out combat, etc. Scary! Wikipedia: Rapid eye movement behavior disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Got lucid this morning, put it in the snippets thread.

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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