Thread: Wurlmans workbook!

Welcome to the class! It's great you're quitting smoking, definitely a dream killer. Diet and exercise should help a lot too!

Stay motivated, have patience and feel free to ask any questions you have. We'd love to hear about your experiences

I also offer congratulations on your decision to quit smoking, it will really help out with your efforts.

Speaking from experience, you should make an effort to record every dream in as much detail as you can. You need not post them here, but do make an effort to write down as much as possible. Paying attention to details and spending time with recalling your dreams when you wake can really take you a long way with achieving a lucid dream and maintaining control when they happen.

I will add an old saying: The more you put into this the more you get back.

It's true!

Welcome to the class!

Thanks guys yea before I started smoking again I was up to recording 62 dreams a month I was very proud of this I'm excited to start workin with you! I'll record the dream I had last night on my lunch break. It's pretty violent as are most of my dreams but hopefully with a greater number of lucids I can change that violence!

I'll keep adding to my DJ the first lucid I had had been recorded now I'll post more at lunch then I'll start on the second lesson! I do a lot of RC through out the day weather being hand check nose pinch or just asking questions about my surroundings. I'm not sure how often I should put these in my workbook? Mabey I can just put the better one when I remember to reality check when Im frustrated nervouse or scared hope that's ok!

Originally Posted by Wurlman

I'll keep adding to my DJ the first lucid I had had been recorded now I'll post more at lunch then I'll start on the second lesson! I do a lot of RC through out the day weather being hand check nose pinch or just asking questions about my surroundings. I'm not sure how often I should put these in my workbook? Mabey I can just put the better one when I remember to reality check when Im frustrated nervouse or scared hope that's ok!

Of course, just put whatever you feel you need to record! Remembering to reality check in intense situations is always a tough one, so recording those is a good idea to see what progress you make.

How is your general awareness? Reality checks are great, but I find it's not reality checks that make me have DILDs, it's awareness and then reality checks just back up the fact that I'm dreaming.

I've been practicing Ada but I found it gets easyer the more u practice but I have to honestly say its probably a total of only 15 min. A day. That's I huge goal of mine is to become a lot better at that I want to get a wrist band to remind me because it slips away so easily. Any tips or tricks to help with Ada?

Hey Wurlman, welcome to the class!

You could use SAT instead if you want. That's basically what you're using now anyway. If you would like to try to use ADA more, then just slowly increase your times of being aware. I often focus on physical sensations, and I find that helps me. I can focus on typing a response to you while feeling the keys beneath my fingers, and pay attention to my breathing and blinking. Then once in a while I'll pause and pay attention to everything else around me, background noise is also easy to pay attention to while focusing on something else. Or I'll remind myself of what I'm doing and why.

I found it easier to pick one or two things to passively pay attention to, and focus on them a frequently. Then expand into something else. You could alternatively become more aware of your own thoughts or emotions, and just acknowledge them as much as possible.

It sounds like you'd be interested in reading some of the lessons in the dream yoga class. I think they might be interesting reads for you too.

Personally I wouldn't say ADA is the best method, it can get to a point where you just blend everything in together. SAT (Sporadic Awareness Technique) has always worked better for me. Details of this here: Puffin's DILD Guide - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

As for remembering to do awareness checks, the wristband is definitely a good one. You could also use association. Whenever you feel yourself focusing on something too much, remember to do awareness to get all your surroundings into perspective. It'll take time to build the association up but after a while any time you start focusing on one thing it should be a mental trigger to just do an awareness check. If you have trouble building up the association, you could put sticknotes with "remember to be aware" in places where you're frequently focused, for example your computer or workplace.

Of course you could use the association method with all kinds of things, even something simple like walking through a door, but I find that gets a bit overwhelming.

I'll also post this here, it's a quote from Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by Stephen Leberge. I posted it in someone else's workbook, but I feel you'll get benefit from it too. Of course you don't have to do the entire thing each time you do an awareness check, just focus on as much as you can, but it gives some great tips:

Spoiler for EWOLD:

1. Look
Become aware of what you see: notice the richly varied and vivid impressions—shapes, colors, movement, di- mensionality, the entire visible world.

2. Listen
Become aware of what you hear: register the various sounds taken in by your ears—a diverse range of inten- sities, pitches, and tonal qualities, perhaps including the commonplace miracle of speech or the wonder of music.

3. Feel
Become aware of what you touch: texture (smooth, rough, dry, sticky, or wet), weight (heavy, light, solid, or empty), pleasure, pain, heat and cold, and the rest. Also note how your body feels right now and compare that to the many other ways it feels at other times, tired or energetic, stiff or limber, painful or pleasant, and so on.

4. Taste
Become aware of what it is like to taste: taste a number of different foods and substances, or remember and viv- idly imagine their tastes.

5. Smell
Become aware of what you smell: the odor of warm bodies, earth, incense, smoke, perfume, coffee, onions, alcohol, and the sea. Remember and imagine as many of them as you can.

6. Breathing
Attend to your breathing. A moment ago you probably were not consciously aware of your breathing even though you have inhaled and exhaled fifty times while doing this exercise. Hold your breath for a few seconds. Let it out. Now take a deep breath. Notice that being conscious of your breathing allows you to alter it delib-erately.

7. Emotions
Become aware of your feelings. Remember the difference between anger and joy, serenity and excitement, and as many other emotions as you care to feel. How real do emotions feel?

8. Thoughts
Become aware of your thoughts. What have you been thinking while doing this exercise? What are you think-ing right now? How real do thoughts seem?

9. “I”
Become aware of the fact that your world always in-cludes you. As William James noted, it is I see, I hear, I feel, I think that is the basic fact of experience. You are not what you see, hear, think, or feel; you have these experiences. Perhaps most essentially, you are who is aware. You are always at the center of your multidimen- sional universe of experience, but you are not always consciously aware of yourself. Briefly repeat the exercise with the following difference: At the same time you at-tend to each of the various aspects of your experience, be aware that it is you who is noticing these things (“I see the light...”).

10. Awareness of awareness
Finally, become aware of your awareness. Normally, awareness focuses on objects outside ourselves, but it can itself be an object of awareness. In the light of or-dinary experience, we seem to be distinct and limited centers of awareness, each alone in our inner worlds. In the light of eternity, mystics tell us, we are ultimately all one—the unlimited awareness that is the source of being. Here, experience cannot be adequately expressed by language.

Caenis and rare cola u guys r the best thank u so much for all the help! My surrounding friends just won't seem to get into dreaming as much as I want and I couldn't ask from u guys anything more so thank you I've started lesson two and I will keep in close contact!!!!!! by the way I've read dr Stephens book on lucid dreaming like a bible about three times now! I love that book!

I've chose both wbtb "because I have been using that mostly to induce a lucid and remember my dreams" also mild because when I had three lucid dreams in a row in three days I remember being very confident That i would become lucid after awaking from my alarm clock and laying my head back down.

Originally Posted by Wurlman

I've chose both wbtb "because I have been using that mostly to induce a lucid and remember my dreams" also mild because when I had three lucid dreams in a row in three days I remember being very confident That i would become lucid after awaking from my alarm clock and laying my head back down.

As you're doing MILD, have you ever tried dream incubation?

If I understand right that's thinking of a dream that I was just in or want to revisit well I fall asleep reminding myself that I will b dreaming then yes but not often. Is this correct and should I do that more often?

Originally Posted by Wurlman

If I understand right that's thinking of a dream that I was just in or want to revisit well I fall asleep reminding myself that I will b dreaming then yes but not often. Is this correct and should I do that more often?

Pretty much, you can think of a previous dream or just create a whole new dreamscape. I find dream incubation to be really useful for preparing the mind for MILDs, so you might want to give it a try.
Overall Dream Incubation Guide: http://www.dreamviews.com/f45/dream-...torial-130133/
You could also read my night-time routine guide which includes dream incubation: http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/night-...cidity-132655/

I'll get to reading now! I think this is just what I need to increase my lucids greatly.

Originally Posted by Wurlman

I'll get to reading now! I think this is just what I need to increase my lucids greatly.

It's great you're so enthusiastic! Please hold on to this throughout the process and you'll be getting frequent lucids in no time. Knowledge and practice are great but you won't get anywhere without sustained motivation, enthusiasm and patience. Sadly, these are precisely the things that most people are missing, but you don't seem to have this problem!

The one thing that was holding me back was the drugs and lack of knowledge I just caint understand why anyone would quit after the first lucid it's a whole new world to explore without pain or laws of physics! The help from everyone so far is unbelievable I couldn't ask for more! I'm off work now I have to go through my routine eat excercize and I'll b back on for more homework lol thanks again rarecola!!!!!!!!!

I've read all the material that u gave me rarecola and it has defiantly helped me. Something huge I learned was confidence I started to tell my g/f that Im Pretty sure I was going to have a lucid then changed it to what will b my mantra and it's "I WILL have a lucid tonight" "I WILL have a lucid tonight""I WILL have a lucid tonight""I WILL have a lucid tonight""I WILL have a lucid tonight" I like the confidence it brings! Looks like I will have to go to bed 30 min earlier tonight time to clean up these thoughts!

I've added another storie to the DJ tomarrow I'll add a lucid from to tonight and in older lucid! Sweet dreams everyone

Originally Posted by Wurlman

I've read all the material that u gave me rarecola and it has defiantly helped me. Something huge I learned was confidence I started to tell my g/f that Im Pretty sure I was going to have a lucid then changed it to what will b my mantra and it's "I WILL have a lucid tonight" "I WILL have a lucid tonight""I WILL have a lucid tonight""I WILL have a lucid tonight""I WILL have a lucid tonight" I like the confidence it brings! Looks like I will have to go to bed 30 min earlier tonight time to clean up these thoughts!

Confidence is great, but try not to get TOO caught up on it with your mantra. Your mantra should be something that sits in your mind, casually drifting about but never leaving your mind as you fall asleep. If it's too forceful it doesn't work as well. You could try repeating the "I WILL have a lucid tonight" during the day or just before you get into bed, while you're brushing the teeth, using the bathroom, whatever. Then your actual mantra as you're falling asleep could be something more relaxed like "The next time I'm dreaming, I will realise I'm dreaming." -- See the difference?

Ah I do understand now it would b a lot more relaxing as well instead of sounding forcefull.and telling myself I will have a lucid won't help me realize that I need to realize its a dream is this close to what I need to understand? I did realize I was dreaming but before I could calm myself because it was a zombie dream I pulled myself out it. Scared lol long day ahead of me hope to hear from ya! Zombie dream is in the DJ section!!

My average is two dreams a night even on the week days I work 10 hours a day so for lesson 2 it's going to b very hard to record 3 a night?!?!

The past two days have been exceptional for RC's a ruff estimate about 1 ever 30 mins or more I would consider it SAT. I'm so proud because I'm able to keep this same frequency at work. I love when I'm off work though when I go for a run I love examining the trees and feeling the wind it keeps my mind off the pain of running. I try to keep my mind soly on dreaming and whether I am or not. My subconscious is going to give in soon and except my new ways of thinking dry spell will b over soon! I WILL have a lucid dream tonight!

This wrist band really helps to remind me! My RC are great and now it's almost time for bedie bye. I'm happy to say I ran 2 miles today that's the furthest so far my next big goal will b 3 that might not sound like much to some but I haven't excercize in about a year not counting invective labor at work but after my run today I had such I heightened state of mind I had to do a RC! I love this life style now time for lucid dream........ What shale I do after stable? Taste something, finally try flight or mabey just ask a few questions and get acquainted with my inner self. Sweet dreams!

It definitely seems like you're making progress! Congratulations on your 2 mile run too, the awareness while running sounds really exhilarating

How is your dream recall now? Remembering 3 dreams per night yet?