Thread: RareCola's Workbook

2 Lucids! Remembered the TOTM, but failed at it. More information in my latest DJ post: 21st July 2012 - 14th & 15th Lucid Dreams [Maybe successful WILD?] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Congrats Jase!!

HAHA either your mom crash landed, or you dropped the cup on her head. I laughed so hard at that whole part with your mom.

Well done on the lucids!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

HAHA either your mom crash landed, or you dropped the cup on her head. I laughed so hard at that whole part with your mom.

Well done on the lucids!

She's quite the character in my reams. I do love how my subconscious has decided to portray her, because she's nothing like that in waking life. It's interesting.

Great job ur doing so well how's ur awareness during the day? What do u ask urself or from what I have read u don't ask questions do ya just look closely to what u feel and see?

Originally Posted by Wurlman

Great job ur doing so well how's ur awareness during the day? What do u ask urself or from what I have read u don't ask questions do ya just look closely to what u feel and see?

Pretty much. I'm aware of the environment and more importantly myself, and then think about what I was doing a little while ago, leading up to where I am now. Then I think about what I'll be doing soon.

Another lucid, fairly short but it was significant enough for me to count it, so I've officially met my 6 lucid dreams for July goal Although, counting the less significant dream diarrhea at the start of the month I think I'm up to about 10-11.

It was funny, I was trying to make this girl's hair blow up, as if wind was blowing it. Instead of the hair poofing up when I gestured at her, she just repeatedly shouted "POOF!" until she looked at my angrily and I woke up.

EDIT: DJ Entry for lucid: My sub-conscious sure is creative....

That's awesome RC!! congratulations




and another one:

7th lucid dream this month! 31st July 2012 - 17th Lucid Dream [Ice-cream is delicious] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Goal Update for July:
- Have 6 Lucid Dreams [Completed, had 7 lucid dreams.]
- Complete both DreamViews Tasks of the Month [Half-Completed, only managed to do the Basic Task.]
- Have a proper WILD, not a DEILD [Not Complete]
- Initiate a scene change with the door trick, or something similar [Completed, not using the door trick but by walking through a wall.]
- Try out magical powers, such as morphing water or other elements. [Half-Completed, almost morphed air.]

August goals will be coming up tomorrow!

Also, I just noticed that I've got my green ball of awesomeness for having 1000 hall points

That was quite a dream! So sorry the ice cream thieves got you in trouble. At least you still have your lucid flipping skills. It's a bit Herculean of you.. he tended to throw things into space as well when they pissed him off.

Goals for August:
- Have 7 lucid dreams in August
- Have a WILD by August 31st
- Complete both DreamViews Tasks of the Month
- Summon a Dream Character
- Initiate More Scene Transitions

Goals sounding good! ;D Good luck with them! Seems your lucids are getting more regular so it shouldn't take you too long to reach your 7

So, a retrospect on where I am right now with lucid dreaming:

Spoiler for Restrospect:

It's been over three months now and thinking about how far I've come since I first started this workbook is amazing, although I feel that lately I've been losing sight of why I originally started lucid dreaming. I think this becomes increasingly problematic with the more lucid dreams you have and getting wrapped up in your every-day practice of lucid living, it starts to become more of a habit, particularly when life gets in the way.

My first lucid dream happened a week after I started practice and I'll never forget the feeling of having that DILD, waking almost instantly, laying in bed in complete awe and fading back through fully conscious into another lucid dream with a DEILD and waking up after that experience being overwhelmed with pure joy and emotion, it's a really hard thing to describe to somebody unless you've experienced that yourself, and it's a shame because it seems so rare that people really do have the "true" lucids, the ones that completely blow you away. Over these 3 months thus far and all of my 17 lucid dreams, I think only 2 or 3 have felt that amazing, and I long for more of them.

I've also been reading over Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming and I've been noticing how much schemas have been affecting my dreaming. I seem to have slipped into this unnecessary stream of schemas which I'm needing to break, I need to get back the purity of when I began lucid dreaming combined with the knowledge and experience that I have now. Knowledge can both be a blessing and a bane on your dreaming (or anything, really). Sometimes it's important to remember the basics.

Starting right now I'm going to get back to real lucid dreaming, and hopefully bring back more of the fulfilling, full conscious lucid dreams and expand upon my limits thus far. I think it's been about 3-4 weeks since my last radically vivid, "layer four" lucid dream, and although the summer heat over those weeks didn't help with my dreaming, it's not really an excuse to hide behind.

Hopefully I'm also going to keep this workbook slightly more up-to-date and it can follow along with my progress, as soon as I figure out where I want to begin.

Tomorrow will be 2 weeks for my dry spell, matching my longest dry spell to date.

I think in general it's just a mixture of heat and hayfever. I tend to wake up at the moment either sweating or with hayfever wanting to possess my soul. Recall is kinda sucking because of this too.

I'm sorry Jason, I know how frustrating that is. You'll break your dry spell before long.

So... I borrowed some lucidity from oreo.


/me gives jason a lucidity hug



OKAY I STOLE IT OKAY STOP JUDGING ME!!
:3

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

So... I borrowed some lucidity from oreo.


/me gives jason a lucidity hug



OKAY I STOLE IT OKAY STOP JUDGING ME!!
:3

I could trap one of those moscitos and mail it to him.

Brief lucid dream last night. I was in my kitchen when for some reason I decide to reality check by closing my eyes and trying to replace my refrigerator with another one. It worked and I became lucid, noseplugged to make sure. The dream then started to become really wobbly and I felt dizzy, so I fell over onto the floor and tried to stabilise but when I stood up the dream ended. I think my eyes started twitching or something because through the blackness of the dream ending I could see flutters of my waking life room.

Tried to DEILD after that but I think I just fell back to sleep.

Progress none-the-less!

Very nice RC I like how u changed ur refrigerator I'm gonna have to implement that into my daily routin as well!

Yayyy!! Congrats Jason!

Oh and heard the latest podcast. Great as always!

Finally, a proper lucid dream for the first time in August! My extended WBTB awareness and the fact that there was no electricity on my street so it was really quiet must have made for the perfect environment to become lucid despite going to bed late!

Posted it in my dream journal: 25th August 2012 - 18th Lucid Dream [Meeting my mother in her childhood] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

congratz on breaking your dry spell,and i was wondering,when is your next podcast with opehiliablue,it very informative and funny

Originally Posted by areyoume

congratz on breaking your dry spell,and i was wondering,when is your next prodcast with opehiliablue,it very informative and funny

Next one will most likely be Thursday 7PM CST, although we usually record on a Friday.

I know I congratulated you in chat.

But CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN!

and your dream is really interesting ;D