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AWww, nightmares are such a bad thing to have during childhood :/ Hopefully she gets some better sleep tonight - and you too! |
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Did lots of reality checks today since there was a lot of out of the ordinary stuff with it being mothers day and all. Reality checks at the inlaws, reality checks at my moms, even a reality check when I saw a frog climb a window Reality checks when I thought I'd already posted this and apparently hadn't too, lol. |
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Haha I hate the layer But at least it's a heading for the right direction. |
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I'm going to dust off my workbook real quick and report on my progress since I stopped posting in the class. I've had three lucids, all in the last two weeks. Before those though, I hadn't had any since that short one on the 12th. I'm still having control issues, but I think I'm getting a bit better, or at least figuring out how to work around things I'm also getting past the excitement thing we had talked about before where I would get really excited and wake up every time I got too close to Kurasawa. Last night I actually was lucid, and when I woke up from being too close to him, I kept my eyes closed and remembered what it was like to get to that point of the dream, successfully re-entering the dream, and then kept my distance from him to prevent waking up again... at least until I started losing lucidity. Without Ophelia's advice to distance myself from the situation, I would probably never have gotten that far! |
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Now that the dream journal system is working, here's my dreams from the night before last and last |
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So good to see you again Mydera! |
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Here's a pretty good video I found on youtube: |
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6/4/12 |
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Awesome recall Mydera, as usual. |
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Well, My kids aren't actually in school yet :p But we're going to have to start making sure we get them used to a school like sleep pattern (because the whole family is up until midnight, and then me and the kids sleep until about 10 in the morning, lol) I'm finding that with insomnia every couple of weeks, WILD is just not going to work for me because I struggle so much to go back to sleep. I have managed to DEILD a few times though, so I'm looking forwards to trying to DEILD more. I think the new sleep schedule will help with it because I'll be going to be going to bed much earlier, and will be woken by my husbands alarm just an hour before I'll have to get the kids up. If I can train myself to not open my eyes when the phone starts vibrating that should make an excellent DEILD opportunity. I'm going to pour into the reality checks too, especially when I'm doing something likely to bleed into my dreams since most of my lucids so far have been dream induced. Also, even if I fail to wake up during my husbands alarm, as long as I'm dreaming there's always the chance for a DILD. |
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6/8/12 |
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6/9/12 |
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Ok I get the kid abandonment dream sometimes too, complete with the panicky "Oh my GOD what have I done?!" |
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Spam away I enjoy the conversation, lol. I think the reason I dreamed of leaving the kids alone was because my little boy is growing up. He's starting kindergarten this fall, and he's going through this HUGE independent and "I'm a big kid" phase. He's constantly trying to take on the role of the parent with his sister. I find him constantly trying to tell her no, and what she can and can't do... We're having to remind him, "Your not the parent! Let Mommy and Daddy deal with her when she misbehaves." He's also told me a few times, "I'm a big kid now mommy, so I can watch Clover and you can go to the grocery store by yourself." and we have to explain that he can not watch her, he's not even close to being old enough to be home alone yet! He sees the other kids in the neighborhood who are in their preteens and teens coming home alone after school, and thinks that school age means old enough to be home alone. I'm pretty confident that this dream is a reflection of this phase he's going through, and my emotions on the whole thing. In the dream, I left him home alone like a big kid, then realized after I left, he's not as big a kid as he wants to think he is and it was a terrible idea. Since we've had a lot of these moments lately where he's trying to be the parent, (it extends to things like wanting to cook lunch his sisters lunch in the microwave and wanting to pour her drinks and take her to the potty... He's really trying to step into that grown up role, though I keep trying to tell him he's not that big and he needs to let me handle it :/ ) that it's just bleeding over into my dreams in worst case scenarios. |
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Yeah I agree with the nursing back to health thing. I get attached to people, animals, things really easily, and when something bad happens I will try to wear myself out trying to repair it. I'll have to see what's going on in my life the next time I have a dream with helpless or wounded animals. |
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6/10 |
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Oh we don't want insomnia, that's for sure. |
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last night was the first night I actually made myself NOT write notes when I woke up and tried to remember to keep my eyes closed and go back to sleep. I wouldn't say I had success, but my third dream was "close" or by the "5 Layers" system it was a Layer 0 Major. I didn't realize I was dreaming, but I felt like I was in another world where I had special abilities and a bit of control over the things around me. I didn't bother to use it though except to let myself walk on the wall when the floor became water. It was an odd dream for sure. I reality checked often the last several days, even though I'm not writing in my work book like I should :sorry: Most important ones being whenever I talk about dreaming, when I'm in the car, and out of the ordinary things (like someone's been carving bears out of stumps randomly along the roads in my county.... I have to question reality every time I see them, it's just not something I expect to see, lol) I figure my recall is going to suck with trying to DEILD, but at the same time I'm hoping that I can master this and get lucid more often. |
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Have you ever tried to pick key words for your DEILDs, and then link them together for recall? I find it helps immensely, and you don't have to write anything, or move, or even open your eyes to do it. It just takes a few seconds in between dreams and you will be amazed at how much more you remember when you wake up in the morning for good. |
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Last night I had a few alien dreams, thanks to the book I read before bed, lol. The other two weird and emotional. It was definitely one of those nights fueled by emotions more than reasons. And my reality checks for today were the bear statues again, going out without my kids, and as always dreamviews and anytime anyone would even mention dreams. As for the bears, I have no clue who's doing them or why. I live in the foothills of north carolina, so not really IN the mountains where you'd expect this sort of thing... more like about an hour out of the mountains. It's not something we're used to seeing here,it's totally random, lol. I was surprised the first time I saw one, and really had to question if I really saw what I thought I saw, then I saw three more, so now It's more like a scavenger hunt for the kids when we go out I think it's someone from the power company or the DOT because they're in areas where trees are close to power lines and roads, and there are usually several trees cut down and only one bear. I don't know if it's some sort of marker, or just someone's practicing their art, or even if they're doing it for kids too see, but it's pretty cute and a good reminder to RC. Now if only I could get them in my dreams, I'd be lucid in no time, ha ha. |
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I'm still having trouble keeping my eyes closed when I wake up and remembering to DEILD. But I had an interesting experience last night that I'm wondering if it was HI or just a dream? I am pretty sure I was asleep, I felt like I had been asleep, but I woke up and my body wasn't shaking hard, but it wasn't soft vibrations, more like something in the middle, and I saw six different scenes in front of me (I couldn't concentrate on any one so I can't tell you what the scenes were of, just that I was baffled that I saw them all at the same time) it was like someone had taken three tv and stacked up on top of each other, then pushed them up against a stack of three other tvs. Only, I felt like I was somehow in all six places at once, I wondered, "Am I dreaming?" then everything faded to black. Then it happened a second time and I rolled over because it was so disorienting the only thing I could think of was I need to roll over and make this stop! I rolled over, and at the same moment my daughter rolled in her bed and rolled right out of bed. I jolted, then jumped up really quick and ran to her, so I wasn't in sleep paralysis. I'm not sure if I had woken up, and then felt those things because I was drifting back to sleep and about to successfully DEILD, or if those things just happened in a dream and I was dreaming I was DEILDing or what, lol. Anyways, I thought it might be progress, and I'd report in |
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Hey mydera, I've had an experience like your before with the TVs. Only in mine it wasn't 6 TVs, it was like a mini movie screen and it was shoved straight up in my face. It even had an old fashioned sound to it like an old projector, and was in b&w and depicted some old turn of the century scene. Anyway the point is, it was preceded by vibrations, and kept coming and going. I finally did slip into a DEILD chain after that as a result. So I think you may have done so yourself except your falling daughter woke you up completely. Anyway, that's just my 2 cents on that. |
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