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      I've been lazy and haven't done many WBTBs recently. When doing WBTB, I would usually remember two dreams a night, easily, so I'll go back to doing that. In a few weeks, I might return to drinking apple juice as well instead of milk. It's been harder for me to move/think after waking up from a dream, so I'd like to improve that so my recall improves again. It's not bad, but I liked remembering two dreams per night.

      I decided to try DEILD again this morning. I set my alarms yesterday morning, but completely slept through them. I increased my phone volume last night, I still can't wake up very easily on my own. I read my previous LD last night before bed, and had a LD later this morning. I was so fascinated with stabilizing last time that I did a pretty decent job of stabilizing it. This time I wanted to rush into the dream, so I didn't stabilize very effectively. I mainly used a command, "Lucidity now" to stabilize. Probably not the best command to use when I'm lucid already.

      I summoned a mirror and tried to complete TOTM, but I don't remember seeing anything on the other side. I think I had started to lose the dream by that point, so by the time I pushed my head (and arm?) through the mirror, I couldn't see much, if anything. I tried to feel the cold glass as I pushed my face through, and that was the last thing I felt.

      Glad I tried a command, but I think next time I'll try to stabilize by using touch, that worked rather well last time.
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      Oh wow, that's cool that you got lucid and started the TOTM Caenis!

      I hate not being able to see much in LDs. Maybe we should start them off by summoning a flashlight hehe.

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      Quote Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue View Post
      Oh wow, that's cool that you got lucid and started the TOTM Caenis!

      I hate not being able to see much in LDs. Maybe we should start them off by summoning a flashlight hehe.
      Yeah, I thought it could be interesting. I want to see my fiancee, so I figured a mirror portal could work. The portals haven't agreed with me so far, but I will tame them yet! That's a good idea Ophelia, I keep forgetting that making a dream brighter can help. Maybe I'll summon a flashlight next time.

      Had an interesting dream last night. It was another China dream. I went to China in March, and I keep getting dreams about it. Initially it was from the sheer embarrassment of nearly missing our flight home. I traveled with my school, so...the plane waited for my family and I for an hour. Thankfully the China dreams are no longer about being separated from the group. I just get dreams where I'm on vacation in China. Maybe I'm still getting the China dreams because I still feel guilty, even though my dreams no longer include separation from the group. Maybe China vacations represent any world traveling.

      I thought it was pretty cool that DawgBone could interpret his dreams so easily, so I'm trying it now too. I'm finding it difficult to understand the meanings, and to face some of my unhappy thoughts coming out in the dreams. I'll add my most recent dream soon and explain the potential meaning in my DV DJ.

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      I decided to try using a waking journal, and to focus on mantras again. I've been doing that the past two nights.

      The other night I had a very unpleasant dream. It was a very painful dream. I woke up and was in a terrible sleeping position. Absolutely terrible on my back. I was miffed by that, and I didn't remember anything else. However, last night I recorded five different fragments/short dreams.

      Two of my dreams from last night had some sort of (small) awareness:
      1. I saw an Asian co-worker of mine get pulled into a restaurant that turned everyone into Asians. I was initially concerned, then realized "Wait, he IS Asian. What will happen to him?" He was turned into a different Asian, and seemingly lost his mind.
      2. I was in a tower with some of my cousins, and there was something coming to kill us. Someone lowered the temperature of the entire tower to absolute zero to kill/freeze our enemies. "How can we survive at absolute zero?" The dream continued on, and I forgot about my skepticism.

      I also never updated my goals:

      Short term goals:
      Increase dream recall to at least 3 dreams each night
      Increase usage of SAT
      Increase awareness/lucidity in dreams
      Stabilize next LDs more effectively
      Complete TOTM for June--jump on a moving train

      Long term goals:
      Continue to decrease the number of days it takes me to have each LD*
      Be aware all day (ADA)
      Have a lucid dream twice a week
      Complete TOTY
      Experiment with dream sharing
      Experiment with time dilation

      *I want the amount of time between each LD to decrease each time. For example, it took just over a month for me to have my second LD. Three weeks after that, I had my 3rd LD. Two weeks after that I had my 4th LD. I want to continue this trend.

      My goal for this week is to have a LD by June 22nd.
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      Lmfao "it turned everyone into Asians" I love it! That's good stuff
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      Oh cool, I hadn't realized your time in between lucids keeps cutting in half. Well done man.

      Quote Originally Posted by Caenis View Post
      2. I was in a tower with some of my cousins, and there was something coming to kill us. Someone lowered the temperature of the entire tower to absolute zero to kill/freeze our enemies. "How can we survive at absolute zero?" The dream continued on, and I forgot about my skepticism.


      Oh man that would piss me off. You even questioned it! I hate when that happens.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Wurlman View Post
      Lmfao "it turned everyone into Asians" I love it! That's good stuff
      Yep. Later on I tried to turn people back into their original races, and I accidentally turned an African-American man into a white man. He was pretty upset about that. My dreams are very silly, but they tend to entertain me.
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      Oh man that would piss me off. You even questioned it! I hate when that happens.
      Yeah, I miss a lot of the big stuff. But eh, at least there's some awareness in my dreams.

      I forgot to write in my waking journal last night. However, my recall is still...good? The past two nights I've had between 3 and 6 fragments remembered. Or I'll remember good chunks of my dreams, but they're very fuzzy. I'm glad I'm remembering a lot more, but I like remembering dreams vividly too.

      Current mantras: I remember all of my dreams. I always have lucid dreams.

      I'm going for a lucid tonight! I'm going to complete TOTM! I'm a lucid dreaming BAMF. No non-lucid shall stand in my way tonight.

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      Make life take the lemons non-LDs back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons non-LDs, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson Caenis lemons non-LDs!
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      HAHAHAHAHAHAAH them asians x)





      [waitwhut, i'm asian too lol]

      Maybe it's a dream and if I scream, it will burst at the seams.

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      I'll be gone for the next two nights, and then the weekend. My phone seems to hate DV, so I probably won't be able to read/respond to much. The darn thing crashes when I view a thread.

      Decent dream recall, usually just 3 dreams a night or so. Relatively normal dreams recently. I'm trying to focus on SAT, I stopped focusing on that for the past week or two.
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      Ok, see you when you get back.

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      I woke up multiple times all of the nights that I was away, which was generally an inconvenience. I did manage to have a lucid while away though! It was a short and dark dream, and even less productive than my last LD, but it was a LD nonetheless! I'm shooting to have another LD by the 23rd. Hopefully I succeed this time! My dreams are consistently not vivid, so I'm going to drink apple juice again tonight. I had some great vivid dreams while drinking apple juice, so maybe there was something to that? I've also dropped WBTB again. I'll start doing WBTB again, now that I'm home.

      In other news, I realized why I've been having the China dreams regularly! I never competed an assignment for my Chinese history class, and my teacher is still waiting for it. So instead of pointing out that I have an essay to write, my dream focuses on a trip to China.

      I also tried to WILD this morning, but I was probably trying too hard to keep myself conscious. Parts of me--particularly my arms--felt tingly at times, but it didn't seem to progress more than that. Once or twice I got dizzy, but that also didn't last long.
      Last edited by Caenis; 07-12-2012 at 04:16 AM. Reason: Included WILD attempt.
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      Ohhh congrats on the lucid! Lol China.

      And hooray for apple juice! Apple juice is..just...awesome. Gives me the best dreams as well.

      Maybe it's a dream and if I scream, it will burst at the seams.

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      Agreed, apple juice is very handy. I think it helped last night, my dream was more vivid than usual.

      I had a lot of difficulty staying asleep this morning, so that negatively affected my recall. On the plus side, waking up regularly might have helped me become lucid! I was on IRC, but I seemed to be aware that I was in my bedroom. I heard my father and a friend chatting downstairs, and realized that my friend would have no reason to be at my house 7 in the morning. I used the nose plug RC four times. My friend's voice sounded extremely realistic, so I had to RC a few extra times to be confident I was dreaming. I decided to stabilize and started rubbing my hands. I realized I was rubbing my real hands. >_< I RCed again, and confirmed that I was awake.

      I suspect I was in a light sleep, so perhaps taking the extra time to RC several times carefully caused me to wake up. By the time I was trying to stabilize, I don't think I could see much, if anything. I didn't think to keep looking around while I was RCing, I just focused on the RC and the results.

      It's a little frustrating: for the past several LDs I've had, I thought I would need to visualize actions in order to do them, as if I was daydreaming. When I finally remembered in a dream to stabilize with my dream body, I wind up using my real body to stabilize.

      Balls.

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      Balls indeed. I wonder if your LDs are happening too close to when you would wake up for good?

      Still, congrats on getting lucid!

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      Next time I lucid dream, I'll try the command "stabilize now." I'll try staring at things more too, hopefully that'll solve the problem.

      I am going to have a weird sleep schedule for a bit because I need to take D'Brickashaw out to the pond early in the mornings. So I guess I'll just have a long WBTB or a bi-phasic sleep schedule for a bit! We'll see if that positively affects my awareness while dreaming.

      I had a non-LD this morning with a bit of control. It's pretty interesting, when I control my non-LDs (I only have control for a short time), I make myself or the environment invisible to other DCs. I don't have control in non-LDs often, but it's fascinating when it does happen.

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      So you guys think apple juice definitely helps with recall? I guess I'll have to buy some next time I go to the store.

      "You Can't, You Won't And You Don't Stop"
      Lucid Goals: [Ask a DC: "Am I dreaming?"] [Ask a DC: "What are you?"]

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      I've found it more helpful than milk, yes (milk is supposed to help induce LDs, but I had no LDs while drinking milk). I've had my most vivid dreams recently while using apple juice. It could just be the power of the mind, but hey, I'll take what I can get.
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      So I've been waking up naturally the past few days in the middle of my sleep cycle, that's been cool. I woke up twice this morning and remembered 4 dreams, also cool. Sadly I only wrote down three words for my first dream, so...I can only remember a few minor details from that dream. I wound up having two LDs on July 19th, so that made for an average of one LD a week in July.

      I like paige's idea of having goals for August, so here's the list of goals:
      1. Have more than 4 LDs in a month
      2. Use the CALD technique when I'm lucid next, ask a random DC to help me out.
      3. Create a DG for myself--Excaliboar. He's going to be a very round boar with little stubby legs that can't support his weight. He'll float, be a golden brown color, with forest green eyes. I decided that instead of speaking to me, I'll just know what he's thinking. He's part of me after all, so that shouldn't be an issue. He may or may not have a ridiculously small top hat on. He'll have a scar stretching down his back, just like me. Once Excaliboar exists, I'll ask him to remind me that I'm dreaming too.
      4. Basic surgery TOTM!
      5. Consistently practice WBTB.
      6. Keep reading Sageous' lessons and try to WILD once a week.
      7. Keep track of the colors in my dreams, and try to use that to become lucid.

      Last night I incubated finding Excaliboar and becoming lucid. While I did not become lucid, I did see my pig, Hamlet in my dream. And I reacted to him exactly as I imagined myself reacting to Excaliboar. I had a zombie dream too, after telling Wurlman to have a zombie dream. =| I RCed a dozen times after I woke up to make sure zombies weren't going to jump out at me.
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      Ahahaha that sounds neat! I especially like the part with the possible Top hat

      Good luck!

      Maybe it's a dream and if I scream, it will burst at the seams.

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      All right, it's been a while, but I'm going to start up my workbook again. I fell out of the habit of practicing awareness, RCing and writing my dreams down. I am currently remembering 1-2 dreams per night, but they're not very vivid. I haven't had a LD since August.

      Goals for the next month:
      1. Remember more than two dreams per night.
      2. Use WBTB again.
      3. Incorporate awareness into my routine.
      4. Have one lucid dream.
      5. Use mantras or DDA before falling asleep.

      I'm a bit disappointed that most of my progress has been lost. On the bright side, my dream recall isn't too shabby.

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      Caenis! Welcome baccccck!!

      Maybe it's a dream and if I scream, it will burst at the seams.

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      Its always good to focus on the basics no matter how advanced we become. A strong foundation and all that blah blah...

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      Thanks paige, it's good to be back. I hope I get back into the swing of things soon! It's been far too long since I've had a LD.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Caenis View Post
      I'm a bit disappointed that most of my progress has been lost. On the bright side, my dream recall isn't too shabby.
      You're going to find that you've lost far less than you think. Once you shake off the rust for a couple of days, I know you'll find that the old gears still turn just like they're supposed to.

      Rather than learning how, now you're just remembering how. And all of this with dream recall still intact! That's a great place to be.

      Welcome back!

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      I suppose you're right Canis! To help those gears turn faster, I'm going to read over my old LDs before I go to bed tonight. I'll see if I can purchase some apple juice this week too, to help my dreams be a little more vivid.

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