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      Wurlman! How the heck are you?

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      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous View Post
      Wurlman! How the heck are you?
      Hey bro! Glad to see how far u have came well no point in telling lies so here goes lol I got off working nights and went to days but they still had me working about 60 to 70 hr a week then I fell off the waggon and started to smoke pot again so two months later here I am 4 days without but still working crazy hours ugh but yea it was a nice "weed" break but it's time to hop back on the road to lucidity! I've got a lot of ur DJ to read! Have a good day bro
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      Quote Originally Posted by Wurlman View Post
      Hey bro! Glad to see how far u have came well no point in telling lies so here goes lol I got off working nights and went to days but they still had me working about 60 to 70 hr a week then I fell off the waggon and started to smoke pot again so two months later here I am 4 days without but still working crazy hours ugh but yea it was a nice "weed" break but it's time to hop back on the road to lucidity! I've got a lot of ur DJ to read! Have a good day bro
      Awe bummer at least you're not working nights any more. I'm glad to see that you're back. If only there was some way around the side effects of weed...

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      I know it's a little out there but I searched for something close to the demon I have encountered 3 times. It likes to pose as my wife then scream at me when I have OBE style lucids. It looks a lot like this but full of more darkness and more triangle shapes. I am curious to find out what it is about. Maybe next time, if I can handle it, I will speak to it.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous View Post
      It likes to pose as my wife then scream at me when I have OBE style lucids. It looks a lot like this but full of more darkness and more triangle shapes. I am curious to find out what it is about. Maybe next time, if I can handle it, I will speak to it.
      So is this she-demon at the start of your lucids, like, in your bed or in your bedroom at the start? And your OBE styles, do those start out in your normal bedroom too?

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      Quote Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue View Post
      So is this she-demon at the start of your lucids, like, in your bed or in your bedroom at the start? And your OBE styles, do those start out in your normal bedroom too?
      Yes, it is always in my bed with me. Almost all of my WILDs turn in to OBE like experiences. There was only a handful of times where I entered the dream from HH/HI and entered in a random place other than my bedroom. I am trying to teach myself to combine the two and pick where I want to "wake up" to.

      Also, since my teenage years I have frequently and randomly found myself in a SP like state. This happens more frequently when I am practicing lucid dreaming. Only in the last year or two I learned to use this to get lucid. So, the ones that happen randomly, I don't even know that I can call those WILDs but it happens a lot.

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      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous View Post
      Yes, it is always in my bed with me. Almost all of my WILDs turn in to OBE like experiences. There was only a handful of times where I entered the dream from HH/HI and entered in a random place other than my bedroom. I am trying to teach myself to combine the two and pick where I want to "wake up" to.
      ++ double like

      I'm EXACTLY the same way. I've only had a handful of successful WILDs, but in each and every one of them, I go from the vibrations, to a lucid dream that begins right where I left off when I was last drifting off, only seconds before: in my bed in the exact same position. I'm guessing that if I want to change this, I really need to focus on incubating the place I want to go, during those few seconds of transitional vibrations. Don't know if that would work for you during your SP phase, but it's all I got for now until I experiment more myself.

      Speaking of experiments, good luck on your Yohimbine once it shows up!

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      Quote Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue View Post
      ++ double like

      I'm EXACTLY the same way. I've only had a handful of successful WILDs, but in each and every one of them, I go from the vibrations, to a lucid dream that begins right where I left off when I was last drifting off, only seconds before: in my bed in the exact same position. I'm guessing that if I want to change this, I really need to focus on incubating the place I want to go, during those few seconds of transitional vibrations. Don't know if that would work for you during your SP phase, but it's all I got for now until I experiment more myself.
      I find out dream similarities fascinating. I thought it was really cool at first because it feel like an OBE/ I had fun toying with the question is it real or just a dream. But now I don't care. Its just getting annoying. I have been working on incubating or teleporting to someplace else. My progress has been slow but I think I am about to nail it. The last one I was really close. I opened my dream eyes right after the vibrations and I briefly saw a tree and bright sunlight. Then it faded and I was suddenly in my bedroom.

      Quote Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue View Post
      Speaking of experiments, good luck on your Yohimbine once it shows up!
      Oops. I didn't order Yohimbine. I was just comparing it to caffeine.Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I actually have some Alpha-GPC and Galantamine coming.

      Speaking of that. I went to bed super early last night. I was a sleep about 8:30PM. I did take a large dose of melatonin (10MG) but I just wanted to sleep. I was exhausted and felt like the caffeine had screwed my sleep patterns up a bit. I didn't care about recall or WBTB or getting lucid. I ended up waking at 2:30am for the usual restroom break. I figured since I am up and I just had a very vivid dream, I can use this as a mini WBTB. I guess it was more of a MILD technique that I used this time. I just used the mantra, "I am dreaming" and set my intentions to become lucid. I had a lucid about 4:30AM and I could not go back to sleep.

      Edit: Thanks CL. I didn't see your post. The email didn't notify me of yours so I missed it. I'm glad you agree. I was unsure if my comparison was accurate or not.

      OH and one more thing. For whats its worth. I still attempt WILD at beginning of sleep for the heck of it. I don't expect much but I try just in case. I went back to my tweaked version of SSILD where I focus on all 3 vs a cycle. I almost had it. I was into some intense HH when suddenly, I let out an involuntary zombie like moan. It ruined the whole thing and scared me a little.
      Last edited by Xanous; 01-15-2013 at 12:53 PM.

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      Well I felt like I had slowed way down on my LD's this month but I got a total of 17. There have been longer periods in-between LDs but I made up for it a few times by hitting 2, 3, or even 4 in one night. I'm pretty OK with that.

      I finally found the TARDIS in one LD but it wasn't what I was expecting. Allons-y? - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

      Teleporting is still an issue for me. I've been using crude but effective methods like jumping in car and driving until the dream location morphs into something desirable. That fine and it works but I would like something that doesn't require a device or vehicle. I want to train myself to change the scenery at will.

      The darkness and the void is starting to become less and less of a problem. I have been combating that in a couple of ways. The first, is when the dream gets dark I just peer into like I would if it got dark in waking life. I expect to see the last thing I was looking at and usually the lights come back on. However, I can't keep it away for good. It always comes back and I spend a lot of dream time just fighting the darkness. The Second thing I have been doing is day time prep work. I have been rebuilding my awareness practices and focusing on mostly visual sensory awareness. At night when I turn off the lights in the house I imagine everything lit and bright. Basically it's expectation. I know it's dark and I am dreaming so the dream naturally wants to be dark. These methods seem to give me less dreams with darkness but I have had an unexpected byproduct of this.

      My OBE's and WILD/DEILDs have slowed way down. I think that by projecting my awareness out to the visual environment around me, I trained my subC to forget the second body. I wanted to test the theory so yesterday I went back to my old way of awareness and focused mostly on self awareness. Usually that means focusing on my physical body in an abstract way and I think this translates well for my WILDing style. Don't get me wrong DILD's are fine but I have been reading Robert Monroe's book and I really want to investigate this whole OBE phenomena.

      So I think for the month of June I may be focusing less on TOTM and TOTY and more on OBE's and Astral Projection. I would like to prove this to myself one way or the other. If I can consistently get physical information during one of my OBE episodes from the waking world, I'll be a believer. Another thing I have been doing and will continue doing is mutual dreaming. There are a few of us that are playing with this idea and I really think OBE's and mutual dreaming could be close cousins of each other.

      So this morning I went for WILD intending to OBE. I was so close. I ended up spending a very long time in the void but I realized that I was waiting for the vibrations. By the time I realized my error I think it was getting too late. Things didn't feel right for transitioning so I started rolling. I did that for about 30 seconds and everything felt good. Then moment I tried to exit I moved my physical body and the whole thing ended. I must always remember that the vibrations are just noise and not necessary. I forget this because the vibrations happen to me about 90% of the time. It's the 10% that always gets me. Really at this point I should have just went all visual and waited a little longer. I'm so thick sometimes.
      "Oh, and everything is not what it seems
      This life is but a dream"
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      Work ruins everything!
      Thanks CL I love it!
      Last edited by Xanous; 03-12-2013 at 09:05 AM.

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