Thread: Alyzarin's Workbook

Hey Ophelia!

I see, I see. I guess I'll have to start looking into it then and see where I left off!

Alright, let's try to get this back on track. >w<

DJ Entry - When Did We Become A Resort?, My Demon Pals

In the neverending struggle between having god-like powers and unlimited potential during the night vs being high and doing nothing during the day that is my life, the latter was again declared the winner yesterday. However, when night came around I passed out in front of my computer rather than actually going to bed, and so when I eventually woke up I had to go turn off all the lights and stuff in the house and get undressed and all that, and this wasn't until after a few hours of sleep already. This technical WBTB is probably what saved my recall for the night. Maybe I should start doing WBTBs more often....

Once again I was at high school, which is one of my more useless dream signs. I really should go visit the campus and walk around doing reality checks or something. Nothing else too crazy worth noting though, at least about the dreams.

What was cool was that I woke up into sleep paralysis, and I stayed totally calm through it (though still not entirely lucid). I used to pretty much just become really disoriented until it ended, but I've been getting better at controlling it lately. I was even able to move my arm using an imaginary body while leaving my physical one in its paralyzed condition. I've actually done this before, but never as this stable; I would always pop back to where my actual body was a second later. It'd be great if I knew a way to guarantee that I was going to enter sleep paralysis this way, that way I could really train myself. I think that if I was able to remain more lucid during the experience I could use it for OBEs easily.

I really should start practicing WILD and DEILD more seriously....

DJ Entry - Flying Around School

I didn't get to really remember that much last night since I smoked again. I did become lucid, though. (A DILD.) Once again I was at school....

I didn't do a WBTB because I kind of needed to stay awake after I woke up originally, so I'll have to start that tomorrow at the earliest I suppose. I've been thinking about trying to give it a shot with not smoking too close to bed but then smoking with a WBTB again. I tried it once (though mainly I just woke up, smoked, and went back to bed) and I entered hypnagogia extremely easily, though I was also disoriented by it and lost focus, resulting in me waking up. It certainly seems promising....

And just as a note for later:

Potential role of the cannabinoid receptor CB1 ... [Neuroscience. 2003] - PubMed - NCBI

Originally Posted by Potential role of the cannabinoid receptor CB1 in rapid eye movement sleep rebound.

Abstract

Sleep is an unavoidable activity of the brain. The delay of the time to sleep (sleep deprivation), induces an increase of slow-wave sleep and rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep (rebound) once the subject is allowed to sleep. This drive to sleep has been hypothesized to be dependent on the accumulation of sleep-inducing molecules and on the high expression of these molecule receptors. In this study we selectively deprived rats of REM sleep for 24 h by using the flowerpot technique. One group deprived of REM sleep was treated with SR141716A, a cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1) receptor antagonist and then allowed to sleep for the next 4 h. Two other groups were killed, one immediately after the REM sleep deprivation period and the other after 2 h of REM sleep rebound (REM sleep deprivation plus 2 h of rebound). In both groups we determined the expression of the CB1 receptor and its mRNA. Results indicated that SR141716A prevents REM sleep rebound and REM sleep deprivation does not modify the expression of the CB1 protein or mRNA. However, REM sleep deprivation plus 2 h of sleep rebound increased the CB1 receptor protein and, slightly but significantly, decreased mRNA expression. These results suggest that endocannabinoids may be participating in the expression of REM sleep rebound.

Hmmmm....

Congrats on the DILD! Question though, when you phase through walls, do you still just end up from room to room? Or does going through a wall transport you to entirely different places? I was just curious because I've gone through mirrors before, but never tried walls.

Thank you! Yeah, when I phase through walls the environment doesn't change, it's just like an easy way to move around. I pretty much never use doors or stairs anymore, I just float straight through whatever walls are in my way. I'd love if it actually did change the setting, though! I really need to give that mirror one a shot.

Watching really over-the-top fantasy anime a lot lately is reminding me how awesome it is to have a world where you can do absolutely anything you want, so I'm making this post in an attempt to force myself to remember to start logging my dreams again. So, I'm starting a to-do list.

First two steps to becoming omnipotent:

1. Master long-range telekinesis with nothing but thought (no cool poses or anything like that) to attain complete control of the three-dimensional space of the dream world.

2. Master summoning things directly in my line sight to attain the ability to directly modify my field of vision.

Annnnnd... GO!!

no cool poses or anything like that

But..but..but...

x)

Good luck on your goals

Oh I know, it's a habit that's extremely hard to break.

And thanks!

Edit: Oh, guess I should log this too....

DILD last night, I don't remember much other than walking through a hallway of what appeared to be cartoonish cat statues or toys or something all staring at me, and then I went swimming in this really cool resort area. There was some other girl in a black bikini there, but before I got to do much I started feeling like my balance was off and I grabbed the girl by the waist to catch myself, but things kept swaying. I think it was just the dream ending though because shortly thereafter I woke up.

Short and sweet, but a lucid nonetheless.

Darn, I had a dream to log but I got distracted when I woke up and now it's gone forever. I think I vaguely remember something about a game, a video game maybe... but it's all just a haze now.

Bad self, remember to write things down next time.

Thanks, paige. It wouldn't bother me so much if it weren't for the fact that I'm pretty sure it was really, really interesting lol. I remember flashes of something about superpowers.... *sigh*

Hehe, I've pulled that off a few times now, it's great fun.