Pastelpeach's Workbook

[Pastelpeach]

Hi, I've always find dreams fascinating so I started to record them down using dreamjournal.net! I dream everyday now so I type them all down. I've known about lucid dreaming for a while and started using WILD because that was the first method I learned about. I've only ever got as far as sleep paralysis, twice. I found out from dreamviews that a beginner should start with MILD so I tried that and got my first lucid dream six days later Lesson I: My Reality Checks: 1. Finger through palm 2. Pinching my nose EC. My Dream Signs: 1. Arcade 2. Mall 3. Roller Coasters Lesson II: I'm currently using MILD, and my mantra is "A dream character will ask me if I am dreaming and I will do RCs in my dream." but the first time I had a lucid using MILD I just did RCs, no one asked me if I'm dreaming. I've only had one lucid dream so far, it's kind of disappointing so maybe I should change up my mantra. When I do dream recalls every morning, I remember different places with different plots, but I see them all as one dream. I don't really know how to tell if I'm having separate dreams or just appearing in different places. Lesson III I think I'll stick with MILD, but I'm changing my mantra to "I am dreaming." ( Thanks to melanieb's suggestion ) I'm also going to start visualizing to see if it helps.

[melanieb]

Welcome to the forum! MILD is indeed a good technique. I might suggest shortening your mantra to something simpler, something basic that will carry over for you. "I am dreaming" is a good one. Short and simple and in the present tense. Keeping mantras in the present tense seems to work better for most people. As long as the mantra works for you all is well. Work on dream signs and recall. I might suggest reading over the stabilization tutorial as well. Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views Use this workbook daily. It really helps! Pleasant dreams!

[Pastelpeach]

Welcome to the forum! MILD is indeed a good technique. I might suggest shortening your mantra to something simpler, something basic that will carry over for you. "I am dreaming" is a good one. Short and simple and in the present tense. Keeping mantras in the present tense seems to work better for most people. As long as the mantra works for you all is well. Work on dream signs and recall. I might suggest reading over the stabilization tutorial as well. Dream Stabilization and Clarity Tutorial - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views Use this workbook daily. It really helps! Pleasant dreams! Thanks for the suggestions!

[paigeyemps]

Just a thought: August is coming up! Why don't you create a list of personal lucid goals you would like to achieve this month? It can help motivate you and put you in a better mindset to get lucid sooner! Good luck.

[Pastelpeach]

Just a thought: August is coming up! Why don't you create a list of personal lucid goals you would like to achieve this month? It can help motivate you and put you in a better mindset to get lucid sooner! Good luck. That's a good idea, thanks!

[Pastelpeach]

I didn't try to be lucid last night, I was really stressed out. I recalled a bit from a dream this morning, it will be in my DJ. I also remember waking up feeling really happy from another dream, my mom was really nice (we had a major fight yesterday in RL). I hope I'll get to recall more dreams soon.

[paigeyemps]

Hey there! Welcome to the class! Well, melanieb has said it all I guess. Good luck! And don't hesitate to ask questions or anything!

[Pastelpeach]

Hey there! Welcome to the class! Well, melanieb has said it all I guess. Good luck! And don't hesitate to ask questions or anything! Thank you!

[OpheliaBlue]

Welcome to the Intro Class Pastelpeach! Good job on the workbook, and on having one lucid so far. I look forward to reading about many more

[Pastelpeach]

Alright, so I added another dream in my DJ, it was non-lucid. I ate a banana last night about an hour before going to sleep, I'm not really sure if it helped or not. I also found this thread about Subliminal Audio, http://www.dreamviews.com/f44/audio-...ository-55276/ and decided to try that out. Sad to say, I didn't have one single lucid moment last night. These few nights, I've been waking up a lot and that goes for last night too. I woke up 2 times last night feeling like I'm in a dream, because things were fuzzy and my body was heavy but RCs proved me wrong. I woke up 7 hrs later and surprisingly don't mind getting out of bed, but I realized that I should probably be in REM right now and decided to go back to sleep. After that, I had my dream. I'm gonna continue to try the audio, but this time I'll listen to all four of them instead of just one.

[SirCronus]

already having lucids! nice xD i've been doing the banana thing a lot to lol. I havn't found it helping, but then again i'm sure it doesn't hurt haha. Good luck , and wish you the best with your LDs!

[Pastelpeach]

already having lucids! nice xD i've been doing the banana thing a lot to lol. I havn't found it helping, but then again i'm sure it doesn't hurt haha. Good luck , and wish you the best with your LDs! Thanks! I pretty much forgot to do the banana thing after the first try... Maybe it will work after a while since we're not used to it yet! I wish you the best too, have fun on your first LD!

[Pastelpeach]

I can't believe I missed another DVA chat... the power was out yesterday I had a harder time falling asleep last night than usual. I wake up a lot too. I think my mantra's not working out, maybe I should change it to "I will lucid dream", that's what I used when I got my first LD. I added in 2 more entries to my DJ, both are non-lucid. I had a total of four dreams last night, one is private and I couldn't recall the first one. While doing WILD last night, I visualized hanging out with my best friend but one of my dream was me ignoring her, what. I think I found one more dream sign, public bathrooms, but I'm not too sure since it started recently.

[OpheliaBlue]

That's ok if you missed yesterday's chat. We always log them if you want to read over them: http://www.dreamviews.com/f151/chat-...ml#post1920546 Also, the chat from the day before covered mantras vs auto-suggestion if you're interested. RareCola was especially helpful at defining the two terms, as well as differentiating between them: http://www.dreamviews.com/f151/chat-...ml#post1920132

[Pastelpeach]

I had a non-lucid dream about an arcade last night. It's one of my dream signs, so I should have been aware and do RCs but I have no clue how to remember that as a dream sign if I'm not even lucid... This is frustrating

[SirCronus]

Well if you go to the arcade often, i'd say to RC then but if you don't go there often i'm sure you can opt in with RCing when you think about the arcade? I can get how hard it is to RC when you aren't physically seeing it. I almost had a lucid last night. when i was dreaming i was seeing the dead comedian Mitch Hedburg in concert. I should've realized that he was dead but my dream character told me he wasn't -___- i'm soo gullible xD

[Pastelpeach]

Well if you go to the arcade often, i'd say to RC then but if you don't go there often i'm sure you can opt in with RCing when you think about the arcade? I can get how hard it is to RC when you aren't physically seeing it. I almost had a lucid last night. when i was dreaming i was seeing the dead comedian Mitch Hedburg in concert. I should've realized that he was dead but my dream character told me he wasn't -___- i'm soo gullible xD I rarely go to the arcade so that's a problem haha Awww, good luck on your next one!

[RareCola]

I had a non-lucid dream about an arcade last night. It's one of my dream signs, so I should have been aware and do RCs but I have no clue how to remember that as a dream sign if I'm not even lucid... This is frustrating I've found dream signs can be iffy things, general awareness has always seemed to work out better for me. If you're aware then dream signs aren't an issue, and you generally don't even need to focus on them to realise them when you're in a dream. Have you checked out the awareness tutorials in the Links & Resources thread in this board?

[Pastelpeach]

I've found dream signs can be iffy things, general awareness has always seemed to work out better for me. If you're aware then dream signs aren't an issue, and you generally don't even need to focus on them to realise them when you're in a dream. Have you checked out the awareness tutorials in the Links & Resources thread in this board? I've read some tutorials, I just need to start acting on them. Thanks!

[Pastelpeach]

I've had my 2nd LD this morning! It was really brief, even shorter than my first one but still! This time, I didn't do RCs, cause I had a strong feeling that it is a dream but I did do the 5 senses activity to stabilize myself, everything was vivid. A moment later, I observed my left hand and thought to myself that I probably don't need to do that yet since nothing was fuzzy or fading out. As soon as I'm done with my hand, it went black and I woke up. I had 4 dream recalls, the most I've ever had Pretty good dreams too haha I went to bed right after the soundtrack at 1AM, focused on my breathing to relax myself and then fell asleep without saying my mantra... I woke up 4 hours later and went back to sleep. An hour later, I had my first non-LD. An hour later, I had my LD. I said my mantra "I'm going to lucid dream" and had 2 more non-LDs. I told my friends about LD yesterday so maybe that helped me get lucid? I also read about dream yoga before I went to bed.

[SirCronus]

I've had my 2nd LD this morning! It was really brief, even shorter than my first one but still! This time, I didn't do RCs, cause I had a strong feeling that it is a dream but I did do the 5 senses activity to stabilize myself, everything was vivid. A moment later, I observed my left hand and thought to myself that I probably don't need to do that yet since nothing was fuzzy or fading out. As soon as I'm done with my hand, it went black and I woke up. I had 4 dream recalls, the most I've ever had Pretty good dreams too haha I went to bed right after the soundtrack at 1AM, focused on my breathing to relax myself and then fell asleep without saying my mantra... I woke up 4 hours later and went back to sleep. An hour later, I had my first non-LD. An hour later, I had my LD. I said my mantra "I'm going to lucid dream" and had 2 more non-LDs. I told my friends about LD yesterday so maybe that helped me get lucid? Sounds like you had a lot of dreams!

[Pastelpeach]

Sounds like you had a lot of dreams! Yup, I didn't know I had the last two dreams till I really thought about it You will get a lot too, soon!

[Pastelpeach]

I updated my DJ. I can recall 4 dreams this morning, all non-LD. I woke up thinking I didn't dream at all. I laid there and snippets of them came back to me, it's amazing!

[RareCola]

I updated my DJ. I can recall 4 dreams this morning, all non-LD. I woke up thinking I didn't dream at all. I laid there and snippets of them came back to me, it's amazing! Ah I love when that happens. I find sometimes I'll recall one dream and as I'm writing that down more and more suddenly come to me. I end up having to make notes for all the other dreams as I'm writing or I'll forget them!

[Pastelpeach]

I'm very sure I had 3 dreams last night but I can only recall two of them in the morning after almost giving up. I was so sleepy that I just rolled to my side and went back to sleep the two times I woke up. I'm not really sure if I really had 2 dreams, or just 1... cause they are related. Now the one dream that I can't remember will bother me the rest of the day :/