RareCola's Workbook

So I was having a pretty terrible night, I was recalling no dreams at all but I stuck with it. I also set my WBTB alarm for 5hr30m into my sleep cycle, as apposed to my usual 4hr30m or 5hrs, just to try it out. I got up for my WBTB, got a drink and read a book for about 20 minutes, before laying back down and mantra'ing and attempting to WILD.

I fell asleep trying to do the WILD but the dream I fell into was incredibly detailed, long and all around awesome... and then... I became lucid! for the first time in exactly 2 weeks to the day :D The lucidity wasn't as long as my first one as I guess I was already nearing the end of the REM period due to the extensive non-lucidity I had before this. So happy though.

I definitely need to start working on dream control and stabilisation though, I managed to lose the lucid again and get caught up in the dream just before it ended. I guess that's pretty normal for only my second lucid dream, though.

I'll add this lucid to my DV dream journal a bit later today :)

You're a ROCKSTAR!! I knew you would have another one soon.

Gonna read your journal now.

Only remembered 2 dreams last night, but they were both really long and detailed. I'm glad to have the insane detailing back in my dreams, even if it means recalling less dreams overall.

Also had my first layer zero minor in the 2nd of the two dreams last night. Throughout the whole dream I was doing stuff that referred to lucid dreaming. Talking about hypnagogic images, baking a cake which supposedly helped induce lucid dreaming and sitting outside the supermarket, questioning whether laying on a bench in the sun or the bed of roses would be the best place to take a WILD nap.

Sorry for double post, but I wanted some advice.

I tried a WILD nap earlier, after my non-lucid dream featuring WILD naps I thought I'd take it as a sign. I got to a stage where I was vividly picturing images and even hearing the sounds of a dream but I just couldn't push myself through into the dream, if you know what I mean? I don't think I was in sleep paralysis either, but I understand not everybody gets that. After a while I would either find myself realising what was happening and be back staring at the blackness behind my eyelids, only for a new dream scene to create itself a bit later on with similar issues.

I figure I may have been close but just need to find out how to get that extra "push" into the dream. Maybe it's just an issue where I'm not actually falling asleep?

Hmm, good question RareCola.

I know what you mean though.. give me time to think about it.

Really confusing dreams last night. I was constantly having false awakenings. At one point I was having a dream, thought I woke up and was writing in my dream journal. Really odd thing was that I wrote the time "7.45" in the dream, and when I actually woke up after writing the beginning of my dream, the actual time was "8.45". It appears my subconscious misjudged by exactly an hour xD

After that I had lots of other small false awakenings where I thought I was getting up out of bed, brushing my teeth, or maybe starting to make breakfast. All of them were only maybe 1-2 minutes long. Quite disorientating.

Last day of class! Unfortunately I didn't get another lucid before the class was over but I just wanted to post to thank both Ophelia and fOrceez for the amazing help! You guys are awesome <3

No YOU'RE awesome :)

You've been such a fantastic, dedicated student. And look at all you accomplished in such a short time. Also, it's not uncommon to have a build-up of FAs prior to an LD. Happens to me alot. Eventually you'll be able to use them to attain lucidity.

Reviving this thread just to say that it's 1 month since I started practicing lucid dreaming now, and I just had my 4th lucid! It was my most vivid lucid yet and I have this class to thank for all the great motivation and advice :D The dream's now in my dream journal for anyone wishing to read it.

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you're a rockstar dude.. going to your journal now :mrgreen:

Congrats on the lucid, man! :)

Time to start the 2nd semester!

Sadly, I'm having a terrible start to this semester. These last 4-5 days I've been going through a dry spell after being stressed with work and life in general. Dreaming has just taken a fall. Luckily still been remembering at least a few fragments, or maybe 1 dream here and there. Hoping to get this back to normal in the next few days.

Thought I'd follow Paige's lead and update with my progress and new goals:

Complete Goals:
- First lucid dream achieved Friday 4th May.
- Second lucid dream achieved Friday 18th May.
- Third lucid dream achieved Wednesday 23rd May.
- Fourth lucid dream achieved Monday 28th May.
- Stabilise techniques (rubbing hands, spinning) used Monday 28th May.
- Fifth lucid dream achieved Tuesday 29th May.

Current Goals:
- Have 4 lucid dreams in June
- Have a WILD by June 30th
- Complete the DreamViews Task of the Month for June 2012
- Have more lucid dreams where I use stabilisation techniques
- Sustain a lucid dream with reality checks, reverse reality checks and stabilisation techniques.

5 LDs in a month is pretty sweet dude, I'm proud of you. And we'll knock out your current goals for sure.

Soooo incredibly glad you're doing this class again man, and the apprenticeship. :)

Glad you're back in this!

I like your goals! :)

Ah how I've missed reporting every day in this workbook! Keeps the motivation up :D

Dry spell still in full force, only just about recalled 2 dreams today. Been a week of terrible recall and lacking lucidity now, but my hectic week is now over and I have no more work to stress me out so I plan on dedicating my day to getting in the dream mindset and with any luck I should start getting things back to normal tonight!

Somewhat fixed the dry spell. Bad recall besides a few fragments all night despite waking up constantly every few hours, but managed to recall a really long, time-dilated and completely absurd dream from the end of the night. It was so obscure and interesting that I posted it in my dream journal, which I haven't done yet with a non-lucid: The flying cabin and the tree parents [Non-Lucid, 6th June 2012] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Woo! Went to bed last night without worrying about recalling and ended up remembering 6 dreams :D Seems I fixed it. Now to get back into lucidity so I can complete the TOTM.

(Woo quadruple post, but it's been a few days since I've posted here)
Still no lucidity, but my dreams have been really crazy lately, it's quite awesome.

One dream last night involved a huge travel adventure with a group of people, we ended up "at the edge of the world" and sitting atop a cliff side we were overlooking an extraordinarily large, almost arctic, environment. It was breath-taking. We ventured in, skiied down slopes, saw penguins and even came across a "void" in the snow, basically a small rainforest amidst the arctic wasteland. Inside the tangled trees were these orb-shaped cryogenic chamber-like things with people and animals inside of them, and huge tubes winding around the branches.

In another dream, I was dreaming that I was lucid. I was talking to somebody in the dream about how lucidity feels and as I'm telling the story to this person in the dream I sort of.. become the story. I'm atop these roofs sneaking about and leaping from rooftop to rooftop. Eventually I "conjure" a small town far down below, I leap from the roof and down into the town and it's completely disorientating because everything in this town in shades of blue, the floor, the walls, the buildings. The dimensionality of everything was messed up because there were seemingly no lights or shadows so even though buildings were on the ground it seemed like they were floating. There were also this group of people building a lucidity elevator, which supposedly just brought you into a lucid dream if you rode it and then out of it if you rode it back while in the dream. They were arguing whether the elevator should go up or down through the world, though. They couldn't decide it would be best suited to "elevate upwards" into lucidity or "elevate downwards" into lucidity.

Should probably have posted these in my dream journal, but I couldn't be bothered writing out the entire things so thought I'd paraphrase the dreams here.

Haha wow man. Your dreams could inspire Stephen King novels I think!

You know, your dream about the chambers within the trees reminded me of the movie Beastmaster (the first one, from the early 80's). I'll find the scene for you. (this video @ 9:30 The Beastmaster - Part 3 - YouTube )

The dream where you're dreaming that you were lucid is interesting. Did you ever come to the conclusion that you were in a dream? Just curious. It seems like you had a fair amount of control.

Wow nice recall both in ur workbook and DJ.

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Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Haha wow man. Your dreams could inspire Stephen King novels I think!

You know, your dream about the chambers within the trees reminded me of the movie Beastmaster (the first one, from the early 80's). I'll find the scene for you. (this video @ 9:30 The Beastmaster - Part 3 - YouTube )

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It was a lot like that actually! Though, the chambers were more tightly packed and spherical, with ice melting over them.

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The dream where you're dreaming that you were lucid is interesting. Did you ever come to the conclusion that you were in a dream? Just curious. It seems like you had a fair amount of control.

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Nope, it was literally a non-lucid where I dreamt about having lucid powers. As I said I was talking to somebody about how lucidity felt, and how immersive it can be because of the realism and as I was telling the story I sort of... became part of the story. There was a scene change and my voice faded out and I was just living the story of lucidity. Not once did I realise I was dreaming and actually become lucid.


Still no lucidity last night, getting quite frustrating now. I'm enjoying my non-lucids though, recalled 4 total and had 2 more false awakenings which I somehow failed to pick up on and even dreamt about trying to DEILD. First dream of the night involved my zombie dream sign again. I was in a mansion and a horde of zombies were approaching, me and a girl living in the house with me ran upstairs to a room which just happened to be filled with sarcophaguses and we locked ourselves inside them for the night to hide from the horde. I remember hearing the zombies outside the sarcophagus and eventually they started trying to pull the door off, but I was never scared in the dream, more jokingly handling it. I remember one of them managing to get the door open and I found a small blue sharp shard type thing inside the sarcophagus which I used to stab it to death while yelling "Taste blue shardy death, zombie!"

Think I'm going to go through and add some more non-lucids to my DV Dream Journal, may as well!

Dude my girlfriend and I was talking about the incubation processes last night that u messages me about. I've been asking her about her dreams from the time I started a year ago. And she just messages me " I had my first lucid" the texted read. im so happy for her I'm sure it was a combo of my constant talking about it an ur incubation tec.!!!!!! Wahoo. She said " now I know why ur so interested in lucid dreaming now" I'm so happy!

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Originally Posted by Wurlman

Dude my girlfriend and I was talking about the incubation processes last night that u messages me about. I've been asking her about her dreams from the time I started a year ago. And she just messages me " I had my first lucid" the texted read. im so happy for her I'm sure it was a combo of my constant talking about it an ur incubation tec.!!!!!! Wahoo. She said " now I know why ur so interested in lucid dreaming now" I'm so happy!

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That's awesome! It's great to hear my technique worked :D Maybe you can get her on DreamViews now too, haha.

I will def. run that by her!

Think I figured out the cause of my lucid dry spell. I've been researching into dry spells so I can more actively fight against it and come across a guide which suggested dry spells are frequently just "mental blocks" set in place by your subconscious accidentally and they've just stuck. I think when I was having my stressful week of work I kind of settled with "I won't become lucid" in my mind, and I guess that ingrained itself into my subconscious a little more than I expected.

I'm going to change up all my techniques, write up all my old dreams on my computer and go over for new or changed dream signs as well as try to spike some huge motivation/inspiration for dreams over the weekend. I'm determined to break this dry spell next week!