Thread: Paige's Workbook :)

I had 2 lucids in my nap today! Awwwwyea I think I'm back to normal. Thank you glorious naps

It started with me coming across an idol of mine who is a famous dancer. I was lucky enough to take pics with him, and when he had to leave, I stalked him at the parking lot. As I was hiding behind cars, I suddenly thought "what the hell am I doing??" then realized i was dreaming. I tried to fly away but for some reason I had minimal control so I decided to just walk around and try to summon things behind doors. I successfully summoned some people. Aftera few minutes, I woke up slightly.

I decided to go back to bed. I got lucid, though it was a DILD since I drifted off for a minute or two before gaining lucidity. I got lucid in the same parking lot, and got lucid from remembering what previously happened. Didn't last long as I got woken up for dinner.


Wooooot I think I'm finally getting back into the swing of things. I have a loooot to do! :3

You are a leaf on the wind! Watch you soar

I caught an FA! Sneaky little bastard. Nose-plugged and then phased through walls before losing lucidity. Need to work on control and goals.

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

I caught an FA! Sneaky little bastard. Nose-plugged and then phased through walls before losing lucidity. Need to work on control and goals.

Nice catch on the FA! I'm genuinely impressed there, because for me the very first "good habit" to atrophy is how closely I guard against false awakenings. Nice phase too.

Goals are a good idea because it gives you a nice anchor to grab onto before the dream plot sweeps you back up into whatever strange quest/situation it had in mind for you. Without that desire for something specific, dream logic will press in and tend to more easily steal your lucidity.

Glad you're back and so strong right now!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Nice catch on the FA! I'm genuinely impressed there, because for me the very first "good habit" to atrophy is how closely I guard against false awakenings. Nice phase too.

Goals are a good idea because it gives you a nice anchor to grab onto before the dream plot sweeps you back up into whatever strange quest/situation it had in mind for you. Without that desire for something specific, dream logic will press in and tend to more easily steal your lucidity.

Glad you're back and so strong right now!

Thanks CL! Much appreciated as always and I agree totally, not only do goals help you remember what to do once lucid, but it also helps you get lucid faster in the first place since your mind thinks YOU HAVE TO GET THIS DONE. You know what i mean?

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Thanks CL! Much appreciated as always and I agree totally, not only do goals help you remember what to do once lucid, but it also helps you get lucid faster in the first place since your mind thinks YOU HAVE TO GET THIS DONE. You know what i mean?

Yes, completely agree! A lucid goal is an expression of serious intent and to me, awareness and intent are the two most crucial pieces of the LD puzzle. Okay, I guess sleep is more important, but you get the idea.

It's also a great workout for your prospective memory. When you've got something to do and you need to be dreaming in order to do it, that's yet another way to get your prospective memory on your side and give you that kick when you're in a dream.

This is great! Keep up the LDing. Now go forth and complete a bunch of awesome lucid goals!!

Quick update:

Had a lucid yesterday, DILD. Control was a bit limited but I played the piano and for the first time ever, the keys were messed up and I played with ease. I think I had some kind of perfect pitch in the dream, because someone was singing different songs and I'd chime in with the accompaniment directly in the correct note, and r some reason I just knew the notes once i heard them. Very interesting experience.

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Quick update:

Had a lucid yesterday, DILD. Control was a bit limited but I played the piano and for the first time ever, the keys were messed up and I played with ease. I think I had some kind of perfect pitch in the dream, because someone was singing different songs and I'd chime in with the accompaniment directly in the correct note, and r some reason I just knew the notes once i heard them. Very interesting experience.

Awesome, congrats on the LD! Lucid dream music is amazing, isn't it? I'm trying to remember whether this was the first time you'd done anything with piano in your dreams before but I feel like I recall you doing this or wanting to do it a while back...?

What's impressed me a lot of times is how nice the music is you'll hear in dreams. It can be difficult to remember but on occasion I've been able to bring back a couple bars of it. I would love to be able to bring back an entire song to waking life!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Awesome, congrats on the LD! Lucid dream music is amazing, isn't it? I'm trying to remember whether this was the first time you'd done anything with piano in your dreams before but I feel like I recall you doing this or wanting to do it a while back...?

What's impressed me a lot of times is how nice the music is you'll hear in dreams. It can be difficult to remember but on occasion I've been able to bring back a couple bars of it. I would love to be able to bring back an entire song to waking life!

Thanks, and yes I agree! Dream music is amazing. I have always played instruments (or tried to) in dreams. Unfortunately, the keys or frets always seem messed up or incomprehensible no matter what I do. This was the first time it all went amazingly. Have you read this thread (i cant remember the title) of a dude who tells about his musical hypnagogic/hypnpompic hallucinations? They were apparently a beautiful symphony in all sorts of instruments at once, and his brain was able to hear and distinguish all of them. It sounded so awesome I wish I could experience that

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Thanks, and yes I agree! Dream music is amazing. I have always played instruments (or tried to) in dreams. Unfortunately, the keys or frets always seem messed up or incomprehensible no matter what I do. This was the first time it all went amazingly. Have you read this thread (i cant remember the title) of a dude who tells about his musical hypnagogic/hypnpompic hallucinations? They were apparently a beautiful symphony in all sorts of instruments at once, and his brain was able to hear and distinguish all of them. It sounded so awesome I wish I could experience that

I haven't seen that thread but I'll have to google for it! That sounds incredible.

The range of experiences that our minds can produce is more vast than the range of what we can actually experience in waking life. It's astounding what sort of experiences lucid dreaming can unlock.

It reminds me of that Emily Dickinson poem:

"The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside"

Had a lucid this morning! Woke up at 2 am to study (more like cram) for a test, then after exactly 2 hours, decided to go back to bed doing. Just though of doing my mantras, without realizing I did my ideal WBTB which is 2 hours. I had a very vivid lucid and even yelled at random DCs as a way of stabilizing the dream. I just kinda went "IM DREAMING, IM GONNA STAY LUCID. DONT EVEN DISTRACT ME PLEASE EINOFNOFINOUENEDINIRINF!!" Oddly it worked so well, it went smooth and stable and clear.



I had sexy times dont judge me okay.

Awesome, Paige! Congratulations.

I wonder whether studying during your 2-hour WBTB helped to really activate the logical part of your brain and make you tat much more likely to recognize that you're dreaming. I've been toying with the idea of playing with some kind of brain game during WBTB but haven't actually tried it yet.

Very glad to hear that you're making time for your lucid beastliness even during your cram sessions.

Ooh thanks! And idk, i haven't even realized that possibility! Perhaps because im too sad and depressed while studying, and thinking of just getting it over with, that i dont think about how it's affecting my dreaming mind.

:O

I had two lucids today! I slept early, but I kept waking up every hour. This is why:

I had a ton of homework to do, but the internet service provider was fixing stuff so I was waiting for the internet to come back on so I could do my homework which needed research. I was sleepy though, and tired, so I set an alarm for every hour so I could check if the net was back on. Unfortunately it never did (until now), but the microawakenings fueled my DILDs so no complaints here!

First one was about a minute long. I didn't get to do much because on DC was pestering me nonstop. Second lucid was nicer, got to play the piano and experience the perfect pitch thing once again, plus something funnier. Gonna post it in the snippets thread.

Nice job with the lucids! This sounds a little bit like the CAN-WILD technique. Have you heard of that one? The idea is to have a series of alarms going off every so often, maybe every hour, and then attempting to DEILD after each one. From what I've heard it's exhausting but effective. (You were hitting DILDs, so it's a little different.)

But either way, well done! I love that you keep getting to play perfect piano in your dreams.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Nice job with the lucids! This sounds a little bit like the CAN-WILD technique. Have you heard of that one? The idea is to have a series of alarms going off every so often, maybe every hour, and then attempting to DEILD after each one. From what I've heard it's exhausting but effective. (You were hitting DILDs, so it's a little different.)

But either way, well done! I love that you keep getting to play perfect piano in your dreams.

Oh yes I have, though I haven't really read about it a lot. I guess the only difference is that I didn't intentionally set the alarms for LDing, i just happened to get lucky! And thanks!

I envy you PAIGEY! Ur damn good at what u do!

Lol Wurlman, thanks!


This morning I had a DILD! I was getting away from a bad guy and got lucid. Flew away via angel wings and landed at a mall area where I tried to turn night into day. It took a lot of focus to do it, and I was only able to make it semi-night/twilight-ish in appearance. It wouldn't work with simple open and close of the eyes (which I usually do for dream scenes), but it was fun to stare at the night sky and actually see it go bright within a few seconds.

Had 2 lucid today. They were both very hazy and all I got to do was run fast. They were both DILDs and probably got them because i kept waking up for a few seconds this morning.

Oh wow it's been a while since I updated. Been very busy with school, plus sickness. But i've had 2 lucids within the last 2 weeks and the one I had today was extremely vivid. I even remember thinking woah this is extremely vivid haha. Anyway I got to waterbend again (yippeee) and it felt so great. I also did some martial arts thingy which was also cool.



Still MILDing for now, don't have any chance to WBTB :< that's all for now

Nice, Paige, congratulations on the lucids, particularly the one that had the high level of vividness!

It's great that you got to waterbend, too. Did you waterbend anything interesting? Didn't you waterbend toilet water once?

I watch my first episode of aviator the other day pretty cool stuff

@CL ahahahahaha yes i did waterbend toilet water a few times, but it was in real life; i'd flush the toilet and pretend it was me making it move haha and nah i during that lucid I didn't waterbend anything interesting, just swirled around and removed the water from the grass around me then threw it across

@Wurlman nice! It gets waaay better in later episodes, too :3



In other news, I had a lucid today! It was the OBE-type too, where i got lucid, then because i was having a hard time moving my dream body, i decided to 'move out of it' spiritually (?) then went out and everything was like real life. I even told myself to memorize things that were happening then compare it when i wake up to see if these astral thingies were true. Unfortunately everything was really just a dream and nothing simile happened outside while i was asleep. Fun experience though

Just looking at my workbook and reviewing some stuff for inspiration. Nothing going on here folks, carry on. Ayayayyaa




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