Thread: Chickens workbook

This week I won't be doing anything here on DV because I don't have the time but I fill in my DJ later on after my exams and do a RC at least once a day.
I will write down my dreams in my paper DJ (which is very pretty by the way ) as I am doing every day since I started lucid dreaming 5 months ago.

No worries, Chicken There's no rush. Good luck on your exams!

Well we will miss you this week, but we'll make sure to fill you in when you get back Looking forward to reading your journal entries when you are able to post them.

And what fOrceez said, good luck on your exams!

Thank you guys for your support
My exams are done and hopefully succesfull.
Funny thing happened during that week, I had two DILD's without WBTB. One was very long, the other one shorter and less dreamcontrol.
Thuesday, when I am back home I will post all my dreams in my DJ.

I failed a few of my goals, in my long DILD I wanted to smash a window but it didn't break, I also did a finger through palm RC but failed
I also didn't stabalise what so ever, didn't even think about it, in my WBTB lucids I thought about stabalising the moment I was in the dream.

I also noticed that DILD's without WBTB are less vivid, but it was really fun anyway.

I have a question for the proffesors, the question raise after my last DILD; What makes a dream lucid?
In my last dream I knew I was dreaming and did a nose plug RC but could it also happen in a normal dream?

Grats on the lucids!
For most of the time, it is generally awareness. What's actually magical about your RC is that during that time you RC, you are supposed to question your reality. If done frequently and consistently enough, (because what you do in waking life carries over to your dreams), hopefully that awareness and the check will both carry over
Yes, that is what a DILD is - Dream Induced Lucid Dream. It means from a normal dream, you become lucid throughout it.

Thanks Forceez! They were kind of accidental because I wasn't thinking about lucid dreaming at all.

This week I am getting back to my normal routine. I will do WBTB on wednesday and in the weekend (thats when I can sleep longer) and try EILD for the rest of the days.
I have bought a socket timer and when I connect it to my CD player I will hear the CD play for 1 minute. I hope I will hear it in my dream and become lucid from it.

I will do these things after 7 hours of sleep, I have learned it is the best time for me because I wake up naturally at that time. After less sleep I am ussually too tired and sleepy to do anything and just fall back to sleep.

The last few days I was a bit sloppy on RC-ing and didn't remember any dreams, I hope it is getting beter now because everything will be back to normal.

Ok I will make a list of dreamsigns altough I don't believe it is the way to induce LD's in my case. (I instantly know I am dreaming and just do a RC to confirm it)

Reoccuring things in my dreams:

- Tornados and northern lights, they are not scary and I want to photograph them (something I want to do in RL) but it usually fails
- My dreams are often at the house I grew up, never at the places I lived after that (except for the WILDs I had, they were at the house I now live)
- Being at a store that sells really cool stuff
- My family and boyfriend, my boyfriend is often in my dreams to reinsure me and make me feel save
- Having sex with other men, in my dreams I can be a real slut
- Animals, in the loveliest and cuttest forms

Thats about it I guess

Updated my DJ and did two RC's today

Originally Posted by Chicken

Ok I will make a list of dreamsigns altough I don't believe it is the way to induce LD's in my case. (I instantly know I am dreaming and just do a RC to confirm it)

Sorry Chicken if I didn't clarify in this week's lesson, but you don't have to keep listing dreamsigns in your workbook this week. This week is just more about choosing a technique and sticking with it. You are already doing EILDs (and accidental DILDs ), so that's great!

The dreamsigns are handy for folks who are having a hard time attaining lucidity at all, and can have a better chance of DILDing as a result.

The lessons are clear, I am the one who isn't clear

EILD didn't work last night, I will put the volume up a bit,see if it helps.
Only a dream fragement, still a mess because of my really bad nightsleep on Friday. No WBTB tomorrow morning because I need my sleep, just EILD again.
Did three RC's today.

Aww, sorry about that. I hate trying to recover from a poor night's sleep as well. I don't blame you for skipping the WBTB tomorrow morning.

Good luck next time when you try the EILD with the volume a bit higher

Thanks OpheliaBlue Unfortunatly this night the EILD didn't work either. Tonight I will set my alarm so I can check if the timer works properly, maybe I set it wrong.
No dreams also last night

Aw, poo Take more time to just recall your dream in the morning upon waking up. Good luck for tonight!

Just a short dream last night. I set the timer wrong, last night it worked but it woke me up, tried to lay stil but I was very uncomfortable and I rolled over and fell back asleep.

My dream recall is normally quit good, last month I remembered a dream every night so I am not worried. It will get beter soon!

Did my RC's today.

Woke up by my CD player again. No succes on any lucids so far but I will stick to it for the next week.
Try WBTB tomorrow morning.

Had a dream last night (reported in my DJ) and a strange thing happened this morning; I dreamt I had a very important conversation with a woman when my alarm went off, it took a while before I realised it was a dream. The conversation was so real I wanted to go back to bed to finish it, after a while I realised it wasn't real.

Oooo I have dreams like that. Usually conversations with my boyfriend. Later in the day I'll remember one, and I actually have to ask him if the conversation took place or if I dreamed it.

Good luck with the WBTB tomorrow.

Thanks ! I took some dreamroot just now, hope it works this time. I took it before, just a piece of root and keep it in my mouth for a bit but the only thing I got from that was ulcers in my mouth Now I made foam and ate that but it makes me gag, I don't know why just hope it was worth it !

Eck, i hope it tastes good! :/ What is dreamroot used for?

Oh I definitely want to know the results of the dreamroot chicken!

Forceez: African Dream Root
(I've been curious about it myself)

Dreamroot is a root that should give you more vivid dreams but so far it didn't work for me, maybe I didn't take the right dosage or used it wrong. I have left some more so I will give it another go sometime.

The WBTB's were no succes either, saterday I just fell asleep and this morning I had to pee like four times and when I finally fell asleep I just had a normal dream. Next time I will try some energy drink with lots of caffeine so I will have to drink less.

I will continue to post my dreams in my DJ here on DV but just a shorter version. I keep a paper DJ and record my dreams in there and it takes me a lot of time to translate the dreams and write them all down.

Originally Posted by Chicken

Dreamroot is a root that should give you more vivid dreams but so far it didn't work for me, maybe I didn't take the right dosage or used it wrong. I have left some more so I will give it another go sometime.

The WBTB's were no succes either, saterday I just fell asleep and this morning I had to pee like four times and when I finally fell asleep I just had a normal dream. Next time I will try some energy drink with lots of caffeine so I will have to drink less.

Maybe if the dream root is so unpleasant, it's better that it doesn't work. If the dream root did work, you'd be tempted to ingest the stuff regularly/occasionally. I hope you can find something tasty that also helps your dreams.

Having an energy drink before bed? Wouldn't that make you more awake?

Originally Posted by Caenis

Maybe if the dream root is so unpleasant, it's better that it doesn't work. If the dream root did work, you'd be tempted to ingest the stuff regularly/occasionally. I hope you can find something tasty that also helps your dreams.

Having an energy drink before bed? Wouldn't that make you more awake?

It isn't the taste that is unpleasant, it was just eating the foam that made me gag You can also make tea out of it, I will try that next time.

The coffee helps me to be awake enough for lucid dreaming, it worked before. I can try a WBTB without coffee, just breakfast. I will try all kinds of different things to find out what works best for me.

Woke up from the music but I had a dream when I woke up (set the timer 30 min. earlier)
I think that snoozing is bad for my recall and I will try to quit it (gone be hard )
Also a funny dream last night about a guy that looked like santa but without the costume.