Thread: RareCola's Workbook

Originally Posted by fOrceez

Hey matey, welcome to the class We've met in IRC before, my name was fOrwhopz.. it got changed, ha!
Keep up your dream journalling, it is very important (if not the most important thing) to lucid dreaming. There'll be no point attempting to lucid dream without being able to remember the experience. Try and aim for an average of 3 dreams per night.
Upon wakening, try not to move too much and/or think about the day to come. Just relax and try and empty your mind of thoughts. You'll most likely have a flush of images from the last (or last few) dreams come back
As for your reality checking, make sure you do not do these half-heartedly. Reality checks should be done frequently, consistently and being fully aware each time. Half hearted reality checks may result in you performing a reality check within a dream but the reality check not working.. and trust me, that sucks
Congrats on your first lucid dream and welcome to the class!

Yes, I remember you from the IRC

I try my best to record my dreams, and tend to be able to get 1-2 after a WBTB but I just cannot seem to grasp remembering dreams from before a WBTB, and if I do they're never as detailed as with WBTB. Not quite sure why, it's very frustrating. I'm consistently trying a "Tonight, I will wake after each dream and recall it perfectly" mantra at the moment, without much luck, but I'm going to keep it up for a while to see if I see any change.

As for my reality checks, I tend to do fall into the half-hearted trap at times, where I remember to do them but I don't become fully aware of everything around. That said though, when I ever see something odd or somewhat suspicious, I make sure to do a thorough reality check.

Thanks for the tips, though! Can't wait to progress more

Welcome RareCola!

Originally Posted by RareCola

I just cannot seem to grasp remembering dreams from before a WBTB, and if I do they're never as detailed as with WBTB. Not quite sure why, it's very frustrating.

I'm totally the same way. My best recall, and most lucids, are after a WBTB. I'm cool with scrapping the dreams from before the WBTB. I just consider those dreams to be necessary brain garbage removal, and I don't count them as missed opportunities for attaining lucidity. After my WBTB is prime lucid time in my opinion. Although I mostly DEILD and not WILD, just fyi.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Welcome RareCola!



I'm totally the same way. My best recall, and most lucids, are after a WBTB. I'm cool with scrapping the dreams from before the WBTB. I just consider those dreams to be necessary brain garbage removal, and I don't count them as missed opportunities for attaining lucidity. After my WBTB is prime lucid time in my opinion. Although I mostly DEILD and not WILD, just fyi.

Makes me feel a lot better knowing someone else experiences the same thing! I can probably stop stressing with trying to remember the dreams before my WBTB now.

I haven't tried DEILD nor WILD yet, only MILD/DILD and SSILD, obviously my most success being with SSILD as that's what triggered my first LD.