Thread: Kraom's Workbook

Originally Posted by Caenis

Can you explain what that feeling is like? What is it exactly that you recognize? The only things that I can think of are different are: touch and pain are dull; I don't think much in dreams, and I'm never too worried about anything. I'm really curious about what it is that you sense that is different.

Hmm alright it's kind of an obscure sense. Let me see how I would describe it. Alright so, the sense I get is really nothing tangible such as touch or pain, it's more like when I'm walking through a dream and I just feel something like in the atmosphere of the dream itself that lets me know that it's a dream. Hmm, so for me dreams often feel different then real life there's a sort of difference that I can sense, also in a dream I feel physically different. What I mean by that is in a dream I feel not weightless my body still has weight to it, but I feel like a sort of nothingness around me and not in a negative way. So for instance in real life I may feel a slump in my shoulders or my posture might not feel straight while I'm walking and also most of the time in real life I feel a slight pressure in my skull, but in my dream I don't feel anything. Like there's no aliments on my body. I'm also usually always in a cheerful disposition in my dreams like there isn't a care in the world, and there isn't I'm in a dream! So all of this sort of combines into just a sort of sense that I must be in a dream. Sorry if I didn't explain it well it's a little hard to describe a feeling I get in dreams lol.

I get it now, it makes perfect sense. Now that you explained it, I can see similar trends in my dreams. You're right, posture, my facial expressions or where my limbs are, I can see them all, but I never physically feel them in my dreams. Thanks man, I appreciate you elaborating. I'll try to keep those things in mind from now on!

Well nothing to report today. I won't be in any of the #dva chats for the next two weeks left on vacation today. I'll still update my workbook every morning though.

Originally Posted by Kraom

Alright so I had two lucid dreams this morning (not quasi-lucid!) well one lucid dream and one lucid false awakening, which was cool since that was the first time I ever actually noticed a FA without waking up. So, yea this is what happened I woke up later again at 6 AM and again said well I'll still do my SSILD reps so I did, and then go back to sleep and realize I'm dreaming. And I became lucid by just pure feeling like I just realized I wasn't awake. And although I forgot about my challenge with dave (which I could have easily done!) I did stop time in my dream, although I didn't dilate time, but then again I didn't try to. So then after my lucid I woke up into a FA, except I didn't actually wake up, my eyes were still closed. So when I was trying to open them I noticed that something was off and I actually felt lighter then I normally do while sleeping. So when I opened them I was in my room like a false awakening and I was sitting on the edge of my bed. So I was pretty much already lucid. Anyways, I walked around my room and kept the dream stable pretty much I felt confined since the door to my room was shut, like I wouldn't be able to pass through. I'll post in more detail on each of these in my dream journal. Also, I remembered that I could have had another dream like that false awakening because I felt the same way again and was working on opening my eyes when I thought about my real body which now ruins things if I think about it..

Also a message to Caenis: Haha, did your homework! I don't fail . Although I did it out of order, longer one first shorter one after..

That's the way to go my friend! You are becoming more sensative to the subtle feelings and your awareness has increased through the practice. The state of your mind and body changes a lot throughout the sleep. The better you can perceive these subtle changes the more effective you will become. SSILD will amplify these changes and increase your awareness somewhat, but in the end it's YOU who will need to catch them Congratulations again.

Well nothing about lucid dreaming to report. Although I did have a dream about being back in time in the 1920's so that was interesting..

Originally Posted by Kraom

Well nothing about lucid dreaming to report. Although I did have a dream about being back in time in the 1920's so that was interesting..

Were you a flapper?

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Were you a flapper?

Ahhh I wish.. haha. All I did was walk in some mall type thing where there were a whole bunch of guys coming out of a spa in white robes. Then I went to a theme park out back of this mall thing.. so boring when I think I could have been a flapper

Woo, lucid dream this morning even while away from home. Did SSILD went back to sleep and had a long lucid, was very nice. Also managed telekinesis!

Oh cool, well dome Kraom! Are you going to post it in your DJ? Or a part of it? I'd love to read it!

Congrats!

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Oh cool, well dome Kraom! Are you going to post it in your DJ? Or a part of it? I'd love to read it!

I would post it to my dream journal, I do have it written out in my physical journal, but since I'm away from home it'd be a little much to type via phone. Considering It's a good 5-6 pages in my physical journal. But maybe I'll post it later if I get bored

Well nothing to report today, which I figure will be the case for the next two nights since I'm currently camping

That's a bummer kraom. Hopefully your recall comes back tonight. Sometimes the first night or two in a new place hurts recall, so if you're lucky, you'll be able to recall a few dreams tomorrow and the next night! Okay man, your (unofficial) homework is to have a lucid dream while camping. You have two more nights right? I'm sure you'll manage! And have fun.

Originally Posted by Caenis

That's a bummer kraom. Hopefully your recall comes back tonight. Sometimes the first night or two in a new place hurts recall, so if you're lucky, you'll be able to recall a few dreams tomorrow and the next night! Okay man, your (unofficial) homework is to have a lucid dream while camping. You have two more nights right? I'm sure you'll manage! And have fun.

Alright so I had some better recall and drum roll...... A lucid! It was an interesting one because although I was lucid I was already sort of entwined in the dream. Anyways I had an awesome hand to hand fight with some Jamaican guy and ended up saving some DCs from a bomb he had.
( Hopefully now my DCs won't hate me.) Another cool part was I managed to bring the dream back after it had faded.

That's great! Your DCs won't hate you, you saved a few from dreamy death! I hope you acquired a few fangirling DCs. =p You need a dream harem to fangirl over your amazing LD skills. Will you type up this LD in full once you're home?


Take more delicious cookies.

Dammit man quit hoggin' all the lucidity!

Originally Posted by Caenis

That's great! Your DCs won't hate you, you saved a few from dreamy death! I hope you acquired a few fangirling DCs. =p You need a dream harem to fangirl over your amazing LD skills. Will you type up this LD in full once you're home?

Oh I do need a dream harem you're right.. and yep I have two dreams to type up when I get back.

So this morning I had two quasi-lucids. The first one was sort of like a MILD except I didn't try to form the dream, it was forming and I was just aware the whole time. But when I became lucid the dream just collapsed, but after it collapsed I was in like this deep blackness, I couldn't see but my body was physically there. I think that if I had tried I could have built another dreamscape. My second quasi-lucid was like the first except when I realized I was dreaming I woke up to the back of my eyelids.

Are you still doing SSILD with your last few entries?

Originally Posted by Banned

Are you still doing SSILD with your last few entries?

With the two lucids yes, and those quasi-lucids yes, but I didn't fall back asleep for an hour which usually inhibits my dreaming. And when I had nothing to report I didn't do SSILD because I was tired and went back to sleep.

Alright so this morning I had a lucid. Except it was sort of odd, I don't remember becoming lucid but I remember knowing that I was dreaming and using telekinesis to defend myself. Anyways so this man with a knife attacked me while I was at a playground in Compton. He had a knife and apparently so did I. We had a sort of standoff and I warned him that I'd start slashing. Now I dont know how it ended up like this but he was on the jungle-gym and I knew I was dreaming and I pulled him in the air with telekinesis with the intention to throw him and I accidently pulled his head off. I even recall thinking first I accidently stop time now I accidently pull someone's head off.. wow.. haha.

I've had DILDs like that before, where I had been in the throws of a lucid dream for a while, but don't really remember the actual point of lucid onset.

You should have sewed his head back on, it may have qualified for the basic TOTM

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

You should have sewed his head back on, it may have qualified for the basic TOTM

I'm sure if I would have thrown on some gloves and a mask it would of counted too bad I didn't know at the time

Past three mornings I've had sub-par recall and no lucidity. I'm looking forward to getting home and normalizing my sleep schedule.

Alright so had an Ld this morning, not using SSILD. It was sort of like a MILD but not exactly. I was imagining a dream environment a beach scene. And in the dream I realized that it was the environment I was imagining before. So anyways, in the dream I was stealing a red Volkswagen golf in a beach parking lot with the intention to fill it with water and drive it while it was filled with water. So I did steal it and fill it with water. I wasn't driving it though someone else was. So St the point I realized I was dreaming I was looking out the window. So once lucid I remembered I wanted to try and have auto-stabilization so I conjured up a potion and drank it. It was like a bubbly white liquid and it tasted awful. Last thing I remember was the guy driving drifting over some water.