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      Work ruins everything!
      Thanks CL I love it!
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      Goals for the rest of March
      *15 LDs - actual 21 *new record
      *5 of 15 high quality - exceeded
      *Create fire from hands - done
      *Create the Sliders Wormhole - done
      *Find the TARDIS and enter it - not yet
      DJ EVERY DAY - mostly stayed on top of it.

      April Goals
      Hold at 20 ish LDs
      TOTM
      TOTY
      TARDIS

      Im still rotating around SSILD, MILD, WILD. It seems I have a lot of success when I start a new tech but find that if I dont change it up every so often I fail to boredom. I really dont plan to change much this month.... Maybe just need to focus on my daytime practices a little more. I seem to be in a little dry spell. I haven't have a lucid since Sunday morning. Im going to get serious tonight!
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      Great goals, man, and congratulations on such a successful March!

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      I seem to be in a little dry spell. I haven't have a lucid since Sunday morning. Im going to get serious tonight!
      And we all know what happened to this "dry spell". Too bad you didn't put down as a goal "Jump into a giant bag of Frito's".
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      April went pretty well. I'm still holding about 20 LD/month. I'd love to have a lucid every night but I'm pretty happy holding it right here.

      April Goals
      Hold at 20 ish LDs
      TOTM
      TOTY

      TARDIS

      I still haven't found the TARDIS but I got close to finding the doctor.

      Things I need to focus on in May

      Teleporting - It seems my wormhole is failing me now but spinning has become an effective way to transition during OBEs. Perhaps I can use that to my advantage.

      Darkness - My lucids (mostly OBEs) seem to have a lot of lighting issue.

      Using the Void - If/when the darkness wins I can use this empty space to create a new scene.

      Memory - My recall has been pretty piss poor in spite of having so many LD's. This morning was a huge struggle to recall the lucid I just woke up from but once I got it started it came easily. I do remember 1-3 dreams per night but I think I could do better. I should probably DJ more but it's hard to make time.

      I plan to continue with MILD and WILD techniques. Those two seem to be the most reliable and stable.
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      Awesome job in April, man. Twenty LDs! Seriously, that is amazing. Gives me a great target to shoot for. It really does seem like holding it there is right for you, given that you've got a family and full-time job, and most importantly that you're having fun at this current quantity.

      I'm going to have to review your famous, epic September Task of the Month from 2012. For some reason, I keep thinking that you used the TARDIS there to get to the Cretaceous oceans. But in hindsight, that was just a standard time machine, huh? (Ha, "standard" time machine! )

      I don't need to tell you that I fully support your "embrace the darkness" goals. Do we fear the void? Hell no, we do not.

      Have an awesome May! I'll be keeping an eye on your experiments with spinning. That's yet another technique that seems really viable once you shed your fear of the void.
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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.
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      17, that's a fine score! I'll be watching to see what you come up with to remedy the darkness, as I tend to have the same problem. Right now it's not really an issue, but it wouldn't hurt to be prepared for winter.

      I'm also interested in your OBE/AP experiment, as well as the shared dreaming. It will be interesting to see what you come up with.
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      Some excellent stuff Xanous! Talk about some motivating experiences, nice!
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      Awesome month, Xanous! I'm excited to see where your explorations take you in June. Just please don't OBE in on me when I'm on the can or whatever.
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      Quote Originally Posted by CanisLucidus View Post
      Awesome month, Xanous! I'm excited to see where your explorations take you in June. Just please don't OBE in on me when I'm on the can or whatever.
      Oh this will be top priority now.
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      Just a quick thought...

      I think Monroe's Technique is a good one but it seems to really be messing me up lately. I've been hitting WILD with no vibrations and I end up waisting the dream by waiting for the vibrations to happen. For me there are two types of WILD. One where the dream just forms around me and one where I go through more SP like sensations and have an "OBE". Monroe really seemed to put a lot of importance to the vibrations to the point that it makes one think the vibrations are absolutely necessary. That's really the wrong way to go about it all. It's just noise Robert! However, I like the way his technique forces focus and intention but the vibrations are not that important. I may tweak this a little or just go back to Laberges twin bodies method. Really, it's good for me to have more than one method to rotate around or I become bored with it and it loses it effectiveness.

      Also, I've been thinking about the reality of OBE's. I think there is the possibility of gathering waking life information from within the dream state but OBE's really just seem to be dreams to me. Even the few accounts I read of Robert Monroe's seemed to fit perfectly with what I know about dreams and contradict the reality of OBEs. I guess the illusion is just so strong for some people that they actually believe they are leaving the body. I suppose technically any non physical experience would be "out of body". but I just can't see any of this as literal. Still, I'm going to continue the card experiment for a while. I think with time I will get better at predicting the correct card. Should be lot's of fun!
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      Thanks, lots of good thoughts there on Monroe! His material still sounds really interesting, even if it might challenge my preferred (dream)world-view. So is his technique all about waiting for the experience of vibrations? I wonder why an experience like this lends itself to OBEs whereas the more traditional WILD causes the formulation of a new dream scene.

      I've never experienced vibrations of any kind (at least that I noticed) and I've never WILD'ed into the same location OBE-style. (Well, once when I WILD'ed from an NLD, but that's so weird I can't count it. )

      I really like your card experiment and I'm glad you're going to still do it every so often. Even if you reject the literal notion of an "OBE", you can still have lots of fun playing with experiments like this.
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      Quote Originally Posted by CanisLucidus View Post
      So is his technique all about waiting for the experience of vibrations?
      Yes, It seems so. I don't know if he changes his ideas in his other book but it seems like it's all about inducing the vibrations first. He has a lot of good ideas but that part really throws me off. Lately, I've just been finding myself thrown straight into the dream vibrations or not. I think it's ideas like Monroe's that caused Sageous to really emphasizes the noise being unimportant. It's very misleading but all this was very new to the western world back then.

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      I've never experienced vibrations of any kind (at least that I noticed) and I've never WILD'ed into the same location OBE-style. (Well, once when I WILD'ed from an NLD, but that's so weird I can't count it. )
      I just can't imagine this never happening. It's such a unique experience. I really hope it does happen to you at least once in your LDing career!

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      I really like your card experiment and I'm glad you're going to still do it every so often. Even if you reject the literal notion of an "OBE", you can still have lots of fun playing with experiments like this.
      Yeah the card experiment can also be used to prove weather or not information can be be gathered. I think it can as I have done it DC versions of DV people I have never seen IWL, but in my mind that's totally separate from OBE's. And of course, I do go back and forth with my belief of OBE's. I really want OBE's to be real, I just haven't seen anything to really wow me yet. Although, If I had experiences like Monroe did I wouldn't be so skeptical, but based on the number of OBE's and kinds of experiences I have had, I tend to think he fabricated a lot it to sell a book. Who can say for sure? It wouldn't be the first or the last time someone has done that. Yet somehow, I get the notion that lucid dreaming is connected to spirituality or at least activates that part of the brain and it will never cease to amaze me.
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      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous View Post
      I just can't imagine this never happening. It's such a unique experience. I really hope it does happen to you at least once in your LDing career!
      Thanks. Yeah, I'd love to have the experience. At the same time, not having vibrations proved to me beyond any doubt that they simply aren't necessary for a WILD. Some people tend to have them, others don't, and there's just a lot of variety between dreamers.

      Quote Originally Posted by Xanous View Post
      Yeah the card experiment can also be used to prove weather or not information can be be gathered. I think it can as I have done it DC versions of DV people I have never seen IWL, but in my mind that's totally separate from OBE's. And of course, I do go back and forth with my belief of OBE's. I really want OBE's to be real, I just haven't seen anything to really wow me yet. Although, If I had experiences like Monroe did I wouldn't be so skeptical, but based on the number of OBE's and kinds of experiences I have had, I tend to think he fabricated a lot it to sell a book. Who can say for sure? It wouldn't be the first or the last time someone has done that. Yet somehow, I get the notion that lucid dreaming is connected to spirituality or at least activates that part of the brain and it will never cease to amaze me.
      It's sort of fun not having all the answers. (Which is good, because we never will with a subject like dreaming.) Although like you I believe that OBEs are really a specialized type of lucid dream rather than a true journey out of the mortal shell, I believe that the experience of an OBE is absolutely real and no doubt every bit as mind-blowing as its proponents describe. That makes it special IMO, no matter what it "really is".
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      Monthly Update

      Well, it seems my count was cut in half (10) in June. I'm not sure what the cause was probably tiredness and stress. Think there for a while I just got really exhausted doing WBTB every night and not getting quality sleep. I took a little break to rested up and went back to the basics, re-reading some of ETWOLD and refining my techniques. Things seem to be picking back up now.

      OBE's

      I had a few OBE's and I did a little experimentation with the card trick. I think I mentioned this before but keep a playing card blindly placed in the house and if I get the chance to sneak a peak in the dream, I'll then go and check to see if I was right after I wake up. I've been way off but the last time I was really close. I think I saw 9 of diamonds when I was really 7 of diamonds. Maybe it was just luck I don't know.

      It seems to me that my OBEs are just a form of lucid dreaming and nothing more. I do think that it's possible to pull information in the dream state but its really hard to control. I have had a few encounters with other DV members in while lucid and non lucid and have found a lot of similarities in appearance and voice with out prior knowledge. It wasn't until later that I found out and was really shocked how close I was. I'll keep an eye for these thing but I am mostly discouraged from hoping that any kind of OBE or shared dreaming is actually happening though I do believe an exchange of information is possible.

      RLS

      For some reason this time of the year I deal with restless leg syndrome. I've tried over the counter drugs and supplements and some seem to work for awhile but my symptoms quickly return. I don't need to explain how annoying this is for lucid dreaming. One thing I have done last week was drastically cut my caffeine intake back and keep it to early morning hours only. For now it has made all the difference in the whole and I hope it continues. (Knock on wood)

      LDS Dream Enhancers

      I've been experimenting with various lucid aids some of them are really effective and some only work for awhile. Caffeine and mugwort used to be super effective but only seem to be dream enhancers now. Which is the way to look at it after all. I not longer expect the LDS to give me the lucid dream but only act as a dream enhancer and significantly increase my odds. I mean I've always told myself this was the way to be but the whole point of taking them is the get lucid. But now, If the most that happens are some vivid dreams with better recall then it's a win.

      The best I have found are Galantamine and Huperzine-A. Though they are super effective, they do seem to desensitize me and I appear to build tolerance even with limiting use to once 1-2 weeks. I've actually been using Galantamine since January and Huperzine since March so it stands to reason that long term use would eventually catch up to me. These supplements have been great but I think it attributed to my dry spell. I began to rely too heavily on them and my techniques got sloppy and lazy. So now that I am rebounding, I think I will cut all cholinergic aids until I have 5 LDs unaided or a month has passed which ever is first. Even then I'll probably cut back on them anyway. I love the effect these bring me but I need to know that I am not dependent on them. I may add a little B6 or menthol here and there but nothing significant. I'm not knocking LDS in anyway. If a person can take them every night and still have lucids then more power to you. This is just my personal preference for now.

      MILD

      I am solely focusing on MILD in July and really going to work on visualization, teleportation and dream building. I like LaBerges style of MILD. I plan to build my prospective memory during the day with RC and RRCs. WBTB will be kept to a minimum only doing it every other night versus every night. On the weekend I'll have longer 30-60min WBTB and use that time to meditate or focus on dream goals.

      Darkness Issues

      I was having darkness issues but thanks to the latest podcast I really have been able to change my thinking on this. Not only is it super effective to "ignore your problems" but I have also learned a lot from observing my NLDs. These dark periods do mean you are waking up or the dream is fading. It's only a transitional phase or a slight blip in the dream. If I can build my visualization skills like I want to I'll be able to use these dark periods to transport myself to whatever location I choose. Or I can even induce the void using something similar Rare Cola's phase teleport idea. I've already made excellent progress in my latest LD. Very exciting stuff!
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      It seems u know yourself and the way u work very well! That is a very good report and I'm happy ur no not taking any supplements for awile and taking the natural route... Glad to hear ur RLS is easing that would b tough to WILD with keep up the good work bro!!
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      Great update, Xanous! I think you are heading in exactly the right direction. MILD is such a foundational technique that you really can't go wrong maximizing and honing what you can get out of it.

      Taking a break LDS should be a great confidence boost. Like you said, this is the difference between paying lip service to the fact that the LDS merely act as helpers and showing that you truly believe this. If and when you do reintroduce these cholinergic aids, you should be in an ideal neurochemical state and frame of mind to make the most of them!

      In the final analysis, 10 lucids is still a great month! Here's to an even better July!
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      I guess it's ok to go ahead and resurrect this old workbook of mine. Though I've been a DV member for so long, I seem to cycle in and out of focusing on lucid dreaming. I suppose this is normal and OK, but I'm really wanting to get my motivation and inspiration back up. I guess at my age it becomes more difficult to cultivate such a hobby and most don't seem to understand the importance of dreamwork. I consider myself to be a psychonaught and lean towards Buddhist influence in my spirituality (thought I am lacking in this area as well) and I think knowing yourself and cultivation the amount of awareness it takes to become "woke" in the dream state is one of the building blocks to living life to it's fullest potential. It seems I've let a number of distractions lull me away from things that are important and it's time to step back and take a look at it. I'm really not sure where I am going with this workbook or how much I'll post here, Perhaps it's just a reason to log into DV and interact will all of you wonderful lucid dreamers again. Anyway, It's back to the basics for me!

      This week I will focus on recalling dreams, making myself start up my DJ again, and logging on DV at least once a day even for just a few minutes. I always fool myself in to believing that I'll remember the dream later or that recalling in my mind and holding the memory for a few waking hours is enough. I rarely do and it's really not.

      Here we go!
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      Dude, I'm so happy to see you here and see this workbook resurrected!

      I was recently thinking about the times when we were all active and the many awesome dreams we had. Also, how much I've learned from you and that it really made a difference having you around when I joined DV.

      Similarly to you, I've been distracted from lding due increased workloads and I've come to the point where I feel I really miss and need all those experiences. Maybe we can make a strong support group once again and continue the exploration journey.
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      Yay NyxCC! Missed talking to you. Yes. I need that support group. It makes all the difference in the world.

      I understand those workloads. My job schedule plus multiple things going on in my life right now has really been a drain. I think together we can push through all that. We just have to get all gung-ho again.

      BTW I recalled two dreams this morning which is slightly better than usual. Perhaps tonight will increase vividness and clarity.
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      So this week I'm reminded of how proper sleep patterns are really a foundation to dream work. I realized that I really need to focus on getting enough sleep during the week and not just try to catch up on the weekend. My recall has been good but not great. I think I can improve there. The good news is that this morning I slept really late and was able to have a mid level LD!

      Things that hurt my sleep patterns and recall:

      Going to bed late. I have been working an hour overtime everyday. It's not really a big deal, but I have fallen into the habit of going in early vs. staying late. I don't always get to bed when I need to because my wife has school all day and works evenings and so getting a 4 year old to bed has been a total challenge especially since we've been living with my wife's mom since the end of June (we sold our house and are in the process of buying a new one).

      Restless legs This is a huge one. My legs have been calm lately, but I am starting to notice certain triggers that makes it way worse. I recently had a hell week with it due to the fact that I was using a seasoning on my chicken that contained MSG. I got to thinking about it and found from others online that this is a huge trigger. It makes me wonder what else I should eliminate from my diet. I have been really trying to eat clean lately so hopefully I'll be able to keep it a bay.


      Stress For all the reasons above! I'm trying to meditate more and stay in tune with my spirituality. It's the only thing that really helps.
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      I love that quote in your sig
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      I love that quote in your sig
      Don't know if you are talking about me but this is for you (even if you are not)!
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      Man... I guess I really dropped the ball here. I haven't given up on my practices. I still strive for them. It's just there are so many life distractions right now. The good news is that I was blessed with a nice LD this morning, so perhaps I'm doing something right. This should fuel my motivation for the coming week.
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