Thread: Harelori's Workbook

I heard this song the day before it happend, if it matters.
Something incredible happend too me in spanish class about two weeks ago, I'll write the story down from the beggining.
I was really tired that day, I haven't slept well that night and the nights before, I usually don't actually learn new things (our teacher's new, she can't control the class) so I decided to try and take a nap.
I coverd my head with my arms while I was sittin on the chair with the head against the table, I imagined stuff, I decided to try to imagine things from first person (usually when I use my imagination its 3rd person), I felt heavy, I felt my entire body as it was much heavier (in real life).
I didn't create my imagination, I didn't control it, it was like it was a dream only this time I felt my whole body and I was fully conscious, I was looking at my self (3rd person), I was in a place where all of the ground was flat and coverd with grass, a grass field, I saw the green color of the grass, I decided to look up to the sky, and then I thought in real life "how awesome would it be if I'd see a flying house up there in the sky" then while I tilted my head up to look for the sky I saw things from first person again, I saw the clouds and the sky, it was awesome.
in the middle of the air there was a pile of dirt, just floating in the air, staying still, it was so high.
I decided to try and look on the specific details as my LD buddy told me to try and do it in my next LD, it all happend again, only this time when I looked up, I saw that some dirt were falling slowly from that pile of dirt.

what was it?
It was like a Lucid Dream only I was fully conscious and it started from my imagination, that turned into a dream.
thanks in advance ^.^

Hey Harelori, good to see you posting again. What do you mean, you were conscious? Do you mean mentally, or physically? Could you feel your whole dreaming body or waking body? Based on what you said, it does sound like a dream, and you seemed at least somewhat aware that you were dreaming. Ophelia can confirm/deny, but it sounds like a LD to me! Congrats.

So how have your RCs been doing? Have you been practicing particular induction techniques?

Thanks, its great to see you to, and for your question, I was conscious physically, I felt my entire waking body, I eventually moved it and got kicked outta the imagination
Thanks, and yeah, I've been doing the old looking at the hand and counting fingers everyday and in the middle of the day I always ask myself how I got here
And well after this happend, I've been practicing by imagining stuff before I go to bed, one time the imagination turned into a dream (Again) and then my dad came and woke me up
I'm glad to see you again

Originally Posted by Harelori

Thanks, its great to see you to, and for your question, I was conscious physically, I felt my entire waking body, I eventually moved it and got kicked outta the imagination
Thanks, and yeah, I've been doing the old looking at the hand and counting fingers everyday and in the middle of the day I always ask myself how I got here
And well after this happend, I've been practicing by imagining stuff before I go to bed, one time the imagination turned into a dream (Again) and then my dad came and woke me up
I'm glad to see you again

Fascinating. I've never had a dream where I could still feel my physical body. I did have a dream where I transitioned from a daydream into a dream, but I felt quite unattached from my body. That's a shame that your father woke you up before you got anywhere with it the first time! Were you also taking a nap the first time? Perhaps you should experiment with taking more naps!

What do you typically imagine before bed? Do you try to incubate a dream, or do you just let your mind wander? Do you perform RCs in your daydreams? Good to see you too, man. Hope to see you in one of our chat sessions soon!

Actually, I never tried doing RCs in a daydream, that's a wonderful idea
Well I usually imagine doing the 4 elements like in the "Avatar: The Last Airbender" anime, just from 1st person:

I also imagine walking down the street then I see my friend and we talk (daydream).
By the way, I haven't slept so good the last couple of nights, but try imagining the videos I sent from first person, its amazing

Welcome back to the class Harelori! How come you haven't been sleeping well the last couple of nights?

Oh Ophelia its also great to see you
I moved, a house, lots of arrangments to do, I barely slept
But there's some great news!
I have some great news for you to hear! I had a DILD an LD, actually two LDs in a night after a few disappointing nights!
I slept around 9~10 hours, I'll shorten it up since I must go in a couple of minutes:
At the first LD, I saw a castle it was coverd with purple smoke, I thought to myself "that castle's ugly, I wish it was more beautiful" then it became an awesome castle, like this one:

Then I realized its a dream.
I did the hand counting reality check, seven fingers on the left hand and 12 fingers on the right one
I started walking to the castle, I found myself in the middle of a sand arena with 12 enemy warriors (they had armor and spears) approaching me, I used the passive way of getting things.
I thought to myself, "I should've been in italy" I blinked and the sand arena turned into a georges italian street, awesome house and a landscape, the warriors were still approaching me.
I thought to myself "hmm the warriors should be nice and kind" I blinked and they turned into cute cuddly brown bears holding something cute that I can't recall what it was
As for the second lucid, I tried something my friend recommended me to try in my next LD.
I was in a huge HD grass field, on my right there was a gym park and on my left there were some girls walking, I looked in the middle of the field grass and I tried to concentrate on both of them, I managed to see what the girls were wearing and I saw some people doing exercises at the gym park, concentration worked
Afterwards I thought "I never tried reading a book in a LD" then I thought "there should be a book right here on the left" I was at a huge grass field. there could be no books on the left yet I convinced myself there will be
I knew I was tryin the passive way so I believed in it.
so after I turned left one of my friends put his hand on my shoulder and said "Harel, the books are over here!" and pointed on a tent that was on the left, he smiled at me and I quickly thought "Wow! he might be my dream guide! I should look at his eyes and mouth/smile quickly because I heard they don't change" so I did.
I walked inside the tent, there were lots of bible books over there, I opend one of them and I could see the letters, but I didn't try to read them, I told my friend "they aren't sentences they are a bunch of words made up together!"
I'll expand more about these LDs, they were longer, I just don't have the time atm, when I'll be back I'll edit this post or post again.
Thank you for reading this, so what do you say?

Hey Harel, if you want, we're having a DVA chat session now. Click the chat button near the top of the screen, type in your username and pasword, then type /join #DVA if you want to join us! It's a good way to get to know each other and answer questions. No obligation to join, just an option!

^^ Thanks Caenis.

Cool LD Harelori. I love how you adjusted an entire castle to your liking! And the teddybear soldiers

But overall what I really like is the passive approach you mentioned. And I remember you mentioned it in chat as well. I remember reading something similar that someone else posted, but yes, I think it's nice to let the dream create the setting, and you make the necessary adjustments to your liking. Sometimes I feel I waste a while LD trying to sculpt every single aspect into what I want, instead of just letting the dream take me somewhere and THEN altering something here and there. I think it's far more satisfying, and you feel a greater sense of accomplishment. And when you feel accomplished and successful, it motivates you to keep on LDing.

Nice post Harelori, thank you!

Sorry Ophelia, I haven't been here for a while.
I had the most amazing LDs! again, two LDs in one night!
Anywho, I'll cut to the chase:
I saw a mini river, looked like a pool shaped nicely, I decided to do water bending, I made it, I made the water float in the air, It didn't last long tho.
afterwards I tried Earth bending. I kicked the ground and a pile of dirt came from it and I kicked the pile (Just like in avatar) I was amazed.
I tried air-bending to, didn't work tho.
This LD was medium when it comes to time, I was tired when I wrote it so I went to the pc to type it.
My native language isn't english, so I'll translate it by myself soon, for now, I'll use google translate to translate the whole LD and edit it a little so the english won't be retarted:


Mommy and Daddy are getting married, I and my brother at their wedding (it's really blurry) and I reached a stage that for no reason I just do a reality check (out of habit).
I have three fingers of my left hand and two fingers of my right hand (left hand little finger and middle finger is missing).
*I asked my brother if it's a dream and he tells me its not.
I argued with him, and told him he was lying, and he insists that this was not a dream, but I didn't believe him.
Me and My brother went into one room at the wedding, and there are some people with black suits who want to kill us.
We run until we get into this room and we do not have far to run, I tried to blink and teleport away.
First time I tried blinking nothing happens (short blinking, like in real life) and the second time I blinked I closed my eyes, trying to imagine where I'm going to teleport, I wasn't able to imagine any place that I wanted to teleport to, then I opend my eyes and they were still coming to me! I closed my eyes tight and I think "I'm going to teleport somewhere else now "
I teleport into a car, My brother (which is sixteen [16], in other words doesn't have a driving license) drives me to school , and accidently goes the wrong way, then he realizes he made a mistake the way but he wants to make a horseshoe, the road is two lanes one for each side ( Back and forth, back and forth) then there is nowhere to maneuver that we are on the bridge, then he goes straight until it's where to turn.
I go and turn around and then drove us to the Ori Golan 46. We were on the highway straight on then because it was a dream, I want to try to fly, I opend the door of the car and then I go out and I just fly, like Superman, hands up near the head,flying in front of the right front seat, it was really cool, it was fast too.
We arrive at the scene that has a white wall with small white squares filled it by the road, and there's like a puddle of water where there is relatively high pit, the water like a strange circle shaped
*
At first, I went to the wall with squares, I'm looking and there and a short beard and a hat of earth symbol Avatar probably and he tells me something about squares. I do not delve into his information too much.
I decide to try bending: earth, air, fire, water - like Avatar I look at this little pond and I put both my hands forward and I raise them to them, some of the water rising in a round, thin and long (dream gets a little blurry) then I take my water, I try again and this time I take out a circle of water, size 4 heads, like in Avatar.
I try to control it, I pick the water up and down him down (mid air), I put the water into the water.
I now decide to try as the element ​​of earth, I kick the floor and out of the eart popped a circle of earth and I kick it straight and I hear the thump kick and he flew forward at breakneck speed.
I do it again, this time I get half a fist-sized circle, really little, I kick come and he flies forward.
The third time I kick the ground and nothing happens, I realized it was because of the spoon as if I kicked with the foot forward, and it should be oriented with to the left leg.
I do it again, nothing happens, again, and then popps around a small circle of earth and I'm kicking him.After a couple of times I realize that I have to do the movements of hands, put your hands down kicking the ground and put them at waist level being kicked out of the land mass.
I try to also do air bending - but without luck, I make gestures with hands and move them forward and nothing happens.
I wake up in my bed at my old home (two houses ago, 3 years ago) False awakening, (I know I'm dreaming), there are three boxes, stacked, each other and the boxes have a towel between my bed and my brothers bed against the wall, there are boxes on the left one small box.
I got up and I see a blur, I feel my body in real life and I knew that the dream was going to end soon.
I think to myself "No, not yet!" Then I put the stability back on when I open my eyes tight. I leave the room and turned left into the living room (its just amazing how much the memory is good, it's been three years since I was there).
I decide to check the animal / creature that I change into, as in the most favorite creature I like to morph into,so I rememberd that I read in DreamViews that some people jump from high places and before they reach the bottom they change into a dragon, owl,etc.
So I decide to go to the balcony and jump and do what I have read, worst case scenario if I'm not going to morph I'll just fly. I'm going to the balcony , I see one mof my girl-class mates stuck on small wood,in its leaves (they're green), I ignore her. And then I see that someone's calling me on Skype, just appears as if the air screen and I see a full conversation with people, I do not see their pictures because they're not my friends on Skype, it's bad people who want to catch me (?perhaps from the last LD?). I feel my body in real life again, and I understand that the dream is gonna end any moment now, so I decide to remember many details as possible. There is a button "Join Call" and is green and I can send a message and the window of the call is connected to a contact list.
I join and then a man with a deep voice talking, it's evil. I wake up.


That's it, sorry for being lazy with the translation again, the translation is extra retarted because I've read that you should write down your dreams like in the present, not the past, so google translate kinda killed it.
So what do you say Ophelia?
I managed to score 3 goals! (Water bend, earth bend and flying)
I'm still planning to practice on them in my next Lucid Dreams but it was nice!
Can you give me any homework? I feel like I'm not participating enough in this class.

That's amazing, Harelori. Those dreams sound like a heck of a lot of fun! Congrats on completing some of your goals. Thanks for translating the dreams for us too. I can understand them just fine, you seemed to fix most of the errors that Google Translate might have made.

You're lucky to get a couple of LDs each night you have a lucid dream. You have a lot of control in them too! Do you need to stabilize your dreams, or have you not needed to? Congrats Harelori, you might be a natural at DILDs! Four LDs since June 12th, that's really impressive man.

I'm also a student of the DILD class, I just posted this comment over there, Gab told me to practice daytime awarness in order to increase lucidity, so I did
Here's what I wrote

Originally Posted by Harelori

I did as you told me Gab!
I practiced daytime awarness, I believe it helped me earn my two LDs today and two days ago.
I'm a Gymnastic, I do flips, I'm flexible, etc.
To be honest, my favorite flip is Front flip, I'm to much of a coward to try backflip, I used to do back handspring.
Well anywho, I always want to try more flips.
The first LD starts in my gymnastic place:


First LD:
I did a reality check, the hand counting fingers (since I started doing it on daily basis, it turned out to be a habit ) I had 3 fingers on my left hand (so far I'm the only person I heard of doing RC's and having less fingers instead of more) and 5 fingers on my right hand. I looked at my left hand (again) and it had 20 fingers, while I was counting them someone tried to interrupt me, I simply ignored him.
Since I realized its a dream, I decided to do some flips, I did a flip called Double Gainer 3 times
here's a demonstration video:

I landed on my ass, it didn't hurt, I did it 3 times (as I mentioned before) and it was amazing, I saw it from first person, freakin awesome!
In the rest of the LD I got out of the gymnastic hall, I was looking for a girl, I decided to fly and look for her, I jumped (I've been playing Crysis 2 lately, in this game you have a thing called 'mega jump' that you jump like 5 meters high) and instead of flying as I truely wanted, I 'mega jumped' I just jumped 5 meters high, landed on my feets, no pain


Second LD:
I was doing a campfire with a couple of my friends, then this guy I talk with at skype (which is from a different country) came to me and my friends and talked with us, at the middle of our conversation (we talked english) I said "Hmm, since it is a dream I guess I can speak my native language with him" then we both spoke the same language, untill then I didn't know it was a dream, must've been 'cause of your help!
After a while we went in a cave, where they were shooting the latest "Avatar: The Last Airbender" episode.
I saw one of the characters (Toph) doing strange movements with her arms, as she was earth bending, but nothing happend, then I realized the bending wasn't real, then one of the characters of this anime, came and water bend (Katara).
I went on in the cave. It was snowing. I was standing at a "balcony" that was made outta earth and was coverd with snow.
My friend from Skype taught me how to combine two elements into one attack. I held a water bubble in one arm and he told me to shoot lightning at it.
I did so and I got a lightning water bubble! I threw it at him, he got pissed at me (because I tried to attack him) and then I quickly jumped into the wide ocean from atleast 50m height!
I dived in and then I had trouble breathing, then I thought "I'm a water bender, I can breath under water" then I water bend my way outta the water, as I reached the top of the ocean, I stood on the water, I knew he was inside the ocean, he came after me.
I put my hand on the water and I wanted to freeze the ocean with him in it. I barely freezed anything. then I told myself "I can do it!" then half of the ocean froze, it was amazing.
The frozen ocean was a huge cube of ice, it tilted right and then he jumped at me, he got out from one of the cracks.
I took him and threw him at the pointy edge of the ocean-ice cube and he got ripped into two.
I did manage to bend Lightining and Water in this LD, few of my goals

So Ophelia, I'd like to hear your opinion!
If you have any suggestions to increase lucidity, please teach me them.
I believe one day, in the future, I will be able to LD every night.
And I did some flips in my LD, I wanted to do so, forgot to mention it in my goals

Originally Posted by Harelori

I'm a Gymnastic, I do flips, I'm flexible, etc.
To be honest, my favorite flip is Front flip, I'm to much of a coward to try backflip, I used to do back handspring.

Awwww i'm so jelly! :3 Being a gymnast was one of my childhood fantasies; unfortunately I am not very gifted in that area lol. That is why I compensate for it by doing gymnastics in my dreams (lucid and non-lucid). In my dreams, I often do flips and flips and just more flips and tumbling, etc. It's actually also one of my dream signs x)

I saw one of the characters (Toph) doing strange movements with her arms, as she was earth bending, but nothing happend, then I realized the bending wasn't real, then one of the characters of this anime, came and water bend (Katara).

Ooooh are you an Avatar fan then? I'm a waterbender in my dreams and whenever I'm lucid, I always try to make time for waterbending. But I have to say, avatar bending duels are the best! (I'm guessing you had a blast in your lucid fight scene)


since i'm here already, i might as well share how i increase my lucidity:

I usually touch/hold objects, and basically just do anything that really incorporates the senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, and esp. touch) ; and yes i have licked the ground one time, it actually made the dream more vivid and increased my lucidity lol

Congrats on all the awesome lucids you've had!

Kick butt lucids!! It's always easyer when ur younger u have a lot better Amagination sounds like ur a natural!! Just something to keep in mind u can always rub ur hands or use ur voice to increase clArity! I want to hear more stories

Good job Harelori!

Paige has it right:

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

since i'm here already, i might as well share how i increase my lucidity:

I usually touch/hold objects, and basically just do anything that really incorporates the senses (sight, smell, taste, hearing, and esp. touch) ; and yes i have licked the ground one time, it actually made the dream more vivid and increased my lucidity lol

Lmao @ licking the ground. I've crawled on the ground before. But I agree 100%, using all your senses. Get out of your head a little bit. Also, when I touch or hold an object, I look at my hands at the same time. Help make my lucid body more corporeal, and locks in the lucidity better.

Heh, I keep practicing daytime awarness, I had 3 LDs since I posted here, woah its been a while!
I was at Summer camp with the scouts, it was an 8 days trip.
I had one LD over there, and I had one LD today!
Anywho, I managed to metal bend the floor today,
Today's LD started as I woke up in a bed, in a huge room (more like the size of a house) and it was made of metal, the wall, the floor.
I forgot to RC but I knew I was dreaming, I did metal bending on the floor, a little hand gestures and off I bend the floor beneath me, I made it few feet high, then moved it around as I stood on it :]
There's a mini store in the middle of that room, It had huge metal things on every corner (the store was a metal square on the outside), I was high enough to stand beside it so I kicked it and watched how it flies (the metal thing, it was in the size of 4 people), I kicked it using metal bending.
I'd detail more soon enough about this LD and the others,
In one of the other LDs I managed to water bend in one other LD I had, with my enemy facing me, we both stood on the ocean, I didn't manage to bend the water over there so I decided to puke water (in order to have something to bend) I was a little nervous because I hoped that I wouldn't puke in real life to
As I puked water (felt totally natural) I stood on my knees with my hands on the water, for support.
After I finished puking water, I looked back on my enemy and he froze.
I'll share more stuff with you soon enough, its 2 am over here, after I wake up I'll comment another post!

Cool! Congrats on the metal bending LD. Sorry you puked. Also, welcome back

Wow, nice! YES MORE BENDING!

That's really really cool. Keep it up Harelori

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Cool! Congrats on the metal bending LD. Sorry you puked. Also, welcome back

Thanks, no need to be sorry, I puked on purpose ^_^
Since I didn't have any water around, I decided to puke a mini waterfall of water, in order to have something I can bend, it felt like the water were flowing through my throat, it was definitely amazing!
So far the technique I used the most was DILD, I also had one WILD, but these two seems 'best' techniques for me.
(when I say best, I mean the techniques I liked the most, I'd hate to use WBTB for example, I like my sleeping without waking up)

I mean, RC's are great, one day when I'll master DILD, It'll be amazing to realize I'm dreaming by:
looking at a tree and understanding something is wrong with him/it, or look at the person I'm talking with in the dream, and to realize I never met him before

- DILD seems efficient, and lovely, doesn't require waking up, no loss of sleep, and since I'm in school (Summer Break at the moment), I can't afford to lose my sleep,
and as I mentioned before I don't really like waking up in the middle of the night.

I realize DILD requires patience, but luckily, I got plenty of it
WILD seems great to, saves time, but these two techniques seems the nicest techniques for me.
I keep preparing myself each and every night mentally, I tell myself, "Today I will have a Lucid Dream", I try to imagine stuff from 1st person,
so it'll be easier for me to do it in an LD, I want it with all my heart, that's why I know it'll happen!

Today, since I was tired, I took a nap in 6 pm, I woke up at 11 pm, seems like I needed that after noon nap, right now its 1 am, I'll get back to sleep soon so I'll finish writing this comment ;]
I had an interesting dream today, in that nap, me and my brother watched a video in the computer,
the guy in the video did some amazing flips, while we were watching that video,
instead of full screen, I saw it like I'm in the air above the guy who did the flips, after he finished doing these flips, he got a bouquet of flowers out of his pocket,
as he got it out of his pocket, the bouquet became full of more beautiful flowers.
Before that, me, my brother and one of our friends, played Tower Defense ( Waves of enemies comes at you and you gotta defend the base ) just in real life (since it was a dream, after all ).

Oh, and I got one more thing to ask you for the day, Ophelia, I've read and done everything up to Lesson III including Lesson III, you think I'm ready for the final lesson yet?

Originally Posted by Harelori

Oh, and I got one more thing to ask you for the day, Ophelia, I've read and done everything up to Lesson III including Lesson III, you think I'm ready for the final lesson yet?

Of course! You can move on to the next lessons whenever you feel you're ready, and not stuck on anything.

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.

Sorry for the inactivity!
First of all, I'd like to congratulate Caenis, RareCola, realdealmagic for being chosen!
Secondly, I'm truly sorry for being inactive, but I didn't stop writing my dreams in my DJ.
I had around 4 lucids since the last time I visited, the amount of awarness I used to give to LDs in the real life has decreased, I'll do my best to increase my awarness once again.
How've you been ophelia? you probably didn't even see that I was gone.
I'll keep posting over here, to keep you intact!
I hope I'll complete many more dream goals in the following month.
cheers, harelori

Hey Harelori, welcome back! Glad to see you've kept up your journal and lucid skills.

I've been good, and naturally I notice when a student hasn't been around in a while. I just don't dock points for it

I had 4 dreams today!
their time length was medium, not to long but anywho, my old record was 3 dreams and a fragment