Mydera's Workbook

I had a DILD last night :) First lucid since this class started back up. YAY! In the DILD, I just randomly realized I was dreaming, but through the whole dream I knew I could do abnormal things and that my thoughts effected my environment, but not that it was a dream. Then towards the end of the dream I wanted to take a picture of a flower, and realized that was a stupid idea because I'm dreaming and it won't transfer to real life. As soon as that happened, I realized, "That's right! I'm in a lucid dream!" and I started to run off and look for Kurasawa as usual :roll: Then I stopped myself and reminded myself I wanted to work on control and stop running off looking for him everytime I got lucid. The mini goal I've set for myself and been trying to do for the last week or so is grow cat ears and a tail and be a cat girl :) I've been reminding myself before bed, and trying to imagine what it would feel like, so that when I am lucid it'd be at the front of my mind and I'd have an easier time doing it. Well, I tried imagining it as I was lucid, and it worked... I'm pretty sure. I never reached up to touch my ears or tail, but I could feel the air swishing around them when I moved them. Then I turned a DC who looked like Johnny Depp but then changed himself to look different, back into a Johnny Depp look alike. It was a short lucid though, maybe 3 or 4 minutes at the most before my phone started ringing and woke me up. I swear I had that thing on Silent, but I guess it was just on Vibrate -_-

Still RCing more than ever and actually getting pretty close to all day awareness as I'm remembering that I could be in a dream most of the day thanks to seeing this ring. Yay for progress ^_^ DEILDing isn't going so well though, I keep forgetting to keep my eyes close and not to move. Still, a lucid is a lucid regardless of the method and I'm pretty happy right now ;)

LOL, You posted while I was typing! That sounds like an awesome tree house! You couldn't miss that for sure. I bet your son would love it too. The ring I got does look just like the one in the dream, but my camera phone can't figure out how to focus on all the sparkly stuff and blurs it out when I tried to take a picture. I can give you the link to the items page where I ordered it: AVON - Product The professional cameras don't blur it like mine does!

Thanks so much for the input on that weird thing yesterday. So you think it probably was a DEILD about to happen? I've managed to get back into a dream after waking up before, but never got the vibrations... the difference being I had already been lucid BEFORE waking up and therefor was able to just "relive" the moments of the dream before I woke up instead of getting random mind created stuff. But still, double YAY! I'm probably making some progress with DEILDing too! I'd much rather get good at DEILDs because they're not random like DILDs, lol. Any advice on how to make the disorientation more bearable? like I started feeling disoriented and wanted to roll over or something to make it stop. How do you stop yourself from moving at that point? or did you just eventually get used to it an it doesn't bother you anymore?

I totally dreamed of watching those videos from the chat last night, lol. I wonder if I learned it better in my dreams, or if I got it all jumbled up now with dream logic inserted. I also had a pretty cool dream where I was fighting zombies with a blade tipped staff. That was a ton of fun to dream, not so exciting written down though... decapitating zombies doesn't seem repetitive when your dreaming it, it does when your writing/reading it, ha ha.

I am still reality checking like crazy, so I'm sure to be lucid soon! The last couple nights though I've been forgetting again to keep my eyes closed and try to fall back asleep lucidly. The next couple days we're having the roof replaced, so I definitely won't be able to sleep in -_- Thinking about setting an alarm to wake me up for deilds around 5 and 6 am instead of relying on my body to naturally wake up from a dream. I usually wake up several times at night, so I haven't really bothered with the alarms yet... but maybe that alarm would be the different ingredient that makes my DEILDs successful.

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Originally Posted by Mydera

Any advice on how to make the disorientation more bearable? like I started feeling disoriented and wanted to roll over or something to make it stop. How do you stop yourself from moving at that point? or did you just eventually get used to it an it doesn't bother you anymore?

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I'm not sure what you mean by disorientation? I know the rollover feeling you're talking about though. And honestly, the mornings where the need to rollover is too unbearable, I don't usually DEILD. The times I DEILD, I'm usually tired enough, even after sleeping in, that I don't feel the need to rollover, or open my eyes. In fact, I'm so comfortable and relaxed that it actually takes tremendous effort to move or do anything.

Congrats though on the DILD and growing cat ears!! :mrgreen:

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. No new progress and fighting insomnia again -_- Still reality checking very often though :) at least a couple times an hour now, it's crazy how often I'm asking myself. I can't wait for that to kick over into dreams, lol.

I'm sorry about the insomnia Mydera, I know it can be torture. But I'm glad you're still doing RCs. For some reason, replying to yo about insomnia just now gave me an idea. I wonder how beneficial it would be to RC during bouts of insomnia during the night? I mean, who knows if I'm actually tossing and turning and trying to get back to sleep, or if I'm in a midnight FA? I dunno, food for thought.

I will make it a point to RC more when I've got insomnia for sure. I was able to sleep last night and I ended up with a dream that I think was actually several dreams chained... like I think I was trying to DEILD and managed to get back into the dreams but not be lucid. I'm only assuming there because rather than being a continues dream like I usually do, it was a lot of dream shifts, in one place one moment and another place the next. The last dream segment though I was "semi" lucid... like I knew something was different in the dream and it wasn't "normal" life, but the idea of it being a dream didn't strike me :/ There were a couple points where I thought things were off, but I didn't RC :facepalm:

Gaaa! I hate those kinds of dreams where you know something's wrong but shrug it off, then you wake up and go, "damn!" hahaha I guess I should do more RCs too, been forgetting them a lot nowadays :( Also, I get a lot of those confusing dream shifting stuff, that sometimes when I wake up I'm so confused I don't bother to recall them anymore. (Do not follow this example! lol) Good luck, you'll have lucids real soon :3