RommiH's Workbook

RommiH’s Workbook :awesomed:
Hello! This is my workbook.

I am fairly new to lucid dream and even newer to Dream Views.

I really hope I am able to commit to this class. I have exams very soon and I’m spending most of my time studying. But I will do my best.
I have already had a few lucid dreams so I guess I have a little experience. One of them was a WILD and the rest DILDs.

I keep a dream journal that I update everyday. On average I recall around three or four dreams a night. My record was eight. My complete dream journal is not on Dream Views. Only a few interesting experiences are posted. I will post my dreams to the Dream Views dream journal on a daily basis if the class requires. I am considering transferring my dream journal to Dream Views anyways. If I do that then I’ll continue to record my dreams straight to Dream Views.
I’m not so sure what this workbook should contain so I’ll just follow the layout of other dream journals.
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Dream Signs:
• My school’s gym (Many dreams start or end here)
• Attacking friends, classmates, and just people I know (Very common…)
• Guns (They always malfunction -__-)
• Strange insects
• Playing the guitar (I get better every dream!)
• Being in the car with my dad (was very common)
• Super Markets (I live in one (in my dreams))
• In terms of people… Well everyone is in my dreams as they are in waking life…

Reality Checks:
• Palm poke
• Nose plug
• Reading text twice
• Thinking back to see how I got to where I am. I follow this by a careful inspection of my surroundings.

Short Term Goals:
•Extended conversation with DCs.
•Fly
•Summon a taco into existence.
•Summon a burrito into existence.
•Eat the taco.
•Eat the burrito.
•Fight a DC.
•Walk into a mirror.
•Spin

Long Term Goals:
•360 vision
•Explore the cosmos.
•Have at least 1 lucid dream a night.
•Have prolonged lucid dreams.
•Control time
•Meet my dream guide.

Techniques I have used:
• MILD to achieve DILD
• WILD
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Welcome to DVA Rommi! I definitely think you should transfer your journal to the DV blog. I read your WILD entry and the one with the sleep paralysis, would love to read more of your entries.

Alright that sounds like a good idea!

Dream sign update: My place at Ras Sudr (0n the Red Sea). I have found that many of my dreams will end here.

I have gotten into the habit of questioning my actions. I ask myself what am I doing? and why am I doing it? Then I might mentally retrace my steps and question how I got where I am.

My recall has been bad lately. My dreams seem to be getting very long and elaborate. I hope my recall gets better soon so I can appreciate those dreams more.

But you're taking finals now, right? So your recall should be better after finals. What's your recall like currently? One of the many guides for how to increase dream recall, take a look. It's impressive that you can remember your long dreams though. Unless you have long dreams, but can't remember much of them when you wake up. Then that sucks.

Those questions are very good for improving awareness! Keep at it, you'll see some increased awareness in your dreams soon. :)

Thats exactly what happens. I know it was a long epic dream, I just dont remember any details. I'll check out that guide right now :)

Last night I finally managed to wake up while keeping my eyes closed and not moving my body. I did not succeed in anything because I had a coughing fit. (Im really sick....) :P It really sucked.

Aww I'm sorry. I just got over nearly 3 weeks of coughing that kept messing up my dreams.

Get well soon Rommi! <3

Thanks! :dancingcow:

I have a question. If i wake up sometime during the night, manage to keep my body still and my eyes closed, does it need to happen after a dream has ended? hence the term D EXIT ILD. If there was no dream before then would it count as a WILD? I tried it last night and nothing happened for a long time..

DEILD can make it much easier for people to WILD. But I suppose if you had no dream beforehand, then you might have tried WILDing. Or perhaps you didn't remember your dream.

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I have a question. If i wake up sometime during the night, manage to keep my body still and my eyes closed, does it need to happen after a dream has ended? hence the term D EXIT ILD. If there was no dream before then would it count as a WILD? I tried it last night and nothing happened for a long time..

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Yeah I'm glad you asked this, because the difference between DEILD and WILD can sometimes be confusing. What makes it even MORE confusing is the fact that any of the dreams in a DEILD chain may be accompanied by vibrations and even SP, just like a WILD. Which makes it even more difficult to distinguish between the two. Basically, the initial dream in a DEILD chain can be either a DILD or a WILD, depending on its onset. However, the subsequent dreams would be considered a DEILD chain, as long as they occured after the initial dream ended, with brief periods of waking up, and reentering the dream without losing awareness.

Hope that clears things up somewhat. :)

It did very much! Thanks!

I have been doing a very bad job at keeping my dream journal both on DV and offline. Once my exams are over I will fix that. I do record my dreams in simple, to the point sentences though. Once I get the chance I will write them in my DJ in full detail.
My recall seems to be improving again so there's something to be happy about.
Is it possible to dream that you are lucid but not actually be aware that you are dreaming? Last night I had a dream where I supposedly became lucid. In the dream I somehow knew I was dreaming all of a sudden. I said it out loud and yelled it at some guy. After that I also yelled to him "EY NIGGA!! Catch this!" I tossed him this container of some vaseline type substance. This is just a very brief summary of the dream. More happened but this is the most important part. I do not think I was lucid though... I wake up and it felt like a normal non-lucid dream. It wasn't my decision to yell "EY NIGGA!" I wasn't in control. In the dream I was in control, but I wasn't actually in control... make sense??

Oh and here is another interesting dream experience (I'll link the DJ entry once i get around to updating my DJ). The same night I had my non-lucid lucid, I had a dream where I told my friends about a dream I actually had earlier that night. So cool!

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Is it possible to dream that you are lucid but not actually be aware that you are dreaming? Last night I had a dream where I supposedly became lucid. In the dream I somehow knew I was dreaming all of a sudden. I said it out loud and yelled it at some guy. After that I also yelled to him "EY NIGGA!! Catch this!" I tossed him this container of some vaseline type substance. This is just a very brief summary of the dream. More happened but this is the most important part. I do not think I was lucid though... I wake up and it felt like a normal non-lucid dream. It wasn't my decision to yell "EY NIGGA!" I wasn't in control. In the dream I was in control, but I wasn't actually in control... make sense??

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That's certainly possible. It sounds like you did become aware you were dreaming though. I do some stupid stuff in my LDs, it only feels like I'm half in control of myself. In one of my LDs, I decided to grab my friend's head. Why? No real reason, I just did it, somehow it made sense. You can realize you're dreaming without having much control of your environment or your own actions.

I'm eager to read your new DJ entry! I'd like to read this dream in its entirety.

I also had a dream where I discussed a dream I had with DCs. That shows that you're making progress, RommiH, keep doing whatever it is that you're doing. :)

I have gotten pretty good at waking up without opening my eyes or moving. These last two days I have had some cool experiences. I managed two consecutive lucid dreams in one morning. The next day I had a similar experience but failed to recognize I was in a dream during a FA. I'll add details later. I've been really busy lately. My last exam is tomorrow!

:O Congrats! The morning that you had two consecutive LDs, did you chain them? That's really exciting news, and it's impressive you've been able to focus on LDing during your exams. Good luck on your last one. :) Let us know what the LDs were like when you have the time too!

Haha thanks! I honestly cant remember if they were chained.... I think they were. The dream content was very similar. Pools. Girls. Chimpanzees. I finally finished my exams and I'm ready for some serious dreaming. But I'm sorta jet-lagged. I traveled to california and every morning I wake up super early and I have trouble falling back asleep which is usually when I have a lucid dream.

I just woke up from the best LD I have ever had.

and I completed Task of the Month!!

But despite its amazing clarity and vividness. I only have a moderate recall of it.

Their death is up to them + TOTM - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Hooray and Congrats on the TOTM RommiH!!! :mrgreen:

New dream sign: Being chased

In many of my recent dream I am being hunted down which should suck, but it doesn't at all. I've notice that ever since I've gotten into lucid dreaming my dreams are more in my favor. Like in the past things would almost never go how I wanted them to. They weren't bad dreams and most of my dreams were pleasant in the first place. But anytime I tried to do something of importance something would alwau=ys keep me from succeeding. That could be a malfunction in the gun i was trying to shoot or me just not being able to move properly. Now however I am able to win and be a hero in my dreams. I often kill whoever was hunting me down. This applies to other situations too, not just the ones where its a matter of life and death. I just able to do things as I would want to do them. Things just don't go wrong for no reason like they used to.

Ahhh that's very good to hear, RommiH! :D And hopefully when you get lucid, you can do even better things you like! :)

Keep it up :3

My 6 year old cousin is making it very hard for me to have any sort of progress in dreaming. He keeps waking me up to ask me if I'm still tired... Today i got close to a WILD via the WBTB method. BUt my cousin came in to wake me up for whatever reason. Though technically I was awake.

Awwwwww kids.. I understand. My son likes to wake up early and play xbox. It used to be too loud but I got a box fan for my room. White noise heaven. Of course a fan wouldn't do me much good if Chris was physically trying to wake me up. Buy your cousin an xbox :P

Also, congrats on having more control in your dreams. Or rather, less device malfunction in them.

haha he as a wii and its the greatest thing thats ever happened to him he claims.

Yup my dreams are a lot more pleasant now. Last night I looked for a gun in the last place I would find one and found a pistol, and it worked just fine.

I also noticed increased awareness in many of my dreams. I don't become lucid but I'll say, think, or do things that suggest that deep down I know I'm dreaming. It happens a lot too.Something happened last night... I could remember it when I woke up. But I forgot it. I need to start recording my dreams the INSTANT i wake up. I've lost like 4 dreams these last two days due to my incompetence.

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I also noticed increased awareness in many of my dreams. I don't become lucid but I'll say, think, or do things that suggest that deep down I know I'm dreaming. It happens a lot too.Something happened last night... I could remember it when I woke up. But I forgot it. I need to start recording my dreams the INSTANT i wake up. I've lost like 4 dreams these last two days due to my incompetence.

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Very nice, very nice indeed. That's one step closer to becoming lucid! When you get used to doing that, that would be very ideal for spontaneous lucidity. :D

Also, yea you kinda have to have more gusto in writing the dreams down. Even when you think "I will remember this later", YOU most probably WILL NOT! So write them down, and resist all urges! (like going back to sleep) Hahahaha. Or if that's quite hard, you may use the trick Ophelia said: Attach visual clues relating to your dream. Then merge all those in a single image. For example you had a dream about reading a book, a dream about snakes, and a dream about the ocean. You can just remember an image where you're at the beach holding a book with snakes on the cover. That way, it's easier to remember all of them when you wake up.

YES!
Failed Advanced Task of the Month :( (But otherwise great LD) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Haha awesome! Congrats on the lucid. I have "failed" at the task before, but I'm always pleased when I can achieve lucidity. I think we had to summon a duck and chase it. I managed to summon clay and almost had enough time to sculpt it into a duck before waking up. This was years ago, I'm much better at it now. But something I do remember from that same lucid, was how realistic the carpet felt (I was in the living room at the time of the attempted task). I remember sitting on the floor, rubbing my hands all over the carpet. I had some visual snow which made it look all weird, but the feeling was spot on.

Anyway, I read the dream. Lol at the possible trashcan-lightpole spaceship :chuckle: Sorry you didn't manage to get into space. I think when I finally get around to attempting this task, I may just use my mirror as a portal. I'm working on designating certain series numbers of knocks on the mirror as a way to pick the destination. 3 knocks = Alien World. I'll let you know if it works! :)

So I haven't really been active here.. I dont really have anything to report /share/ say. My recall is 0 most nights. :shakehead2: It really sucks. Ever since the last LD I haven't had any success/progress. :microwave: These last two nights were some what better. I recalled a dream about some girl in purple hugging me for a loooooong time this morning. The day before that I did the body asleep / mind awake thing. It was cool. I just sorta woke up sometime during the night and felt SP coming. I knew that if I just relaxed again I would enter it. Sure enough, I did. (Once I relaxed it happened right away. It wasn't like WBTB a more lengthy process of relaxing and falling asleep consciously.The moment I make the intention it happens.) It's weird though how every time I enter SP I know that its coming before it happens. Like I know if I roll over it will happen. I just know waaay before the signs appear. This knowing only happens when I wake up randomly throughout the night still somewhat asleep when my mind is barely awake enough for conscious and aware thinking. So I relaxed and I fell through the bed. I kept falling and falling. I felt the usual vibrations. This time i decided to wait all of that out and see what would happen. I usually do something while this is happening. It took some time but finally all the ruckus stopped. I moved my fingers. I opened my eyes into a FA that I failed to recognize as a dream. :bang:

You get SP on a regular basis? That's pretty good RommiH, at least that should give you plenty of opportunities to try again! :) Are you in the habit of RCing/being aware of your surroundings when you wake up? Yeah, it sucks that you didn't catch the FA, but think of the positives! That's definitely progress you noted. I guess you could try to visualize a dream scene while you observe the vibrations, just take it slow. I'm sure that if you experiment with it more, you'll find out what works best for you.

Why has your dream recall dropped? Any idea?

Yeah pretty often I'll find myself falling into it or about to fall into it. RCing when I wake up is a habit now. Its the first thing I do when I wake up.
It has been almost a month since I last logged onto DreamViews. Well since I was last on here I have had many many LDs. I'm very good at WILDs. When I wake up I just get comfy and go back to sleep aware. It takes me like 5-10 minutes. I also attain spontaneous lucidity in dreams without any reason to such as a dream sign or something odd. So now I want to work on making my LDs last longer not having them in the first place. My dreams dont end when I gain lucidity but I want them to last long so I get the chance to spend a lot of time learning to fly. For some reason I am not able to fly in my dreams. I have tried so many times but fail. I do have issues with my DJ though. I dont record my dreams anymore.... I'm a slow typer so I'm always too lazy to record these long elaborate dreams that I have. Strangely, my recall has not gone down. In fact it has improved since I have last been here. But I still need to start recording my dreams again.