Thread: Kraom's Workbook

Originally Posted by SpaceCowboyDave

Wow its cool to watch your LDing skills mature throughout this thread. Out of curiosity, why do you want to actively take in the sights so badly? I can understand wanting to do as much as possible while lucid, that's what I would do.

WELL you see.. I want to take in my dream sights just to see how long I can make one lucid last.. Will I ever do it? Probably not, I always think that there's so much better stuff that I could do. And even now you know I said that next LD I want to not do anything but I was thinking about stuff that I want to do in an LD because I was feeling like I was doing unimaginative things.. AND those sound SOOO much better than doing nothing.. So yea.. idk.. My next LD will hopefully be Wednesday though..

I think it's about time for a...

Lucid Dream Goals Update -Not necessarily in order.
( ) Take my time see how long I can make a dream last.
( ) Work on my spawning, anything.
( ) Perfect levitation.
( ) Reform my telekinesis.
( ) Reform my flying.
( ) Work on this idea I had after I'm good at spawning. (Basically the idea is to be able to spawn various elements of a house and spawn it in a recognizable place so that I can go to it whenever I'm in a lucid dream. Don't really know how well this will go but I thought it was an interesting idea.) - And it'll probably be more of a castle.
( ) Teleportation.. to get back to my dream house..
( ) I still need to ride a unicorn..
( ) Spawn a recurring dream friend.. or meet my DG.

OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH tomorrow's Wednesday! Which means it's time to get some of these tasks crossed off this list. Or maybe not.. guess we'll see what happens..
Oh and as for today, couldn't even remember any dreams at all. So that sucked.

SO this morning did have like two lucid dreams one of which I hardly remembered and the other ended before I had time to do much.. I think what happened was I was trying to rush these because I didn't have much time left to get in a good lucid before school. I also had like a dream where I was in dream but when I tried moving in the dream I could feel myself move in real life and the dream was patchy like I could see it hazy and I could also see parts of my bed.. so that was weird. So yea overall need to take more time in and having my lucids. BECAUSE now I don't get to cross a task off my list!

Hey, congratulations on the two lucids, rushed or not!

In order to hurry like you did, it sounds like you retained a sense of urgency and awareness of time that carried over from the waking world. That definitely shows a high level of awareness although, as you said, it probably didn't help keep you as relaxed as you might like.

The good news is even with all of that pressure, you're still getting lucid. Once you find the perfect time to relax and give yourself the time you need, you're really going to be firing on all cylinders. As we all know, not every night/morning of sleep is teed up for perfect lucid dreaming (to say the least), but we do the best we can! Good work.

Well I had some interesting dreams last night/this morning. One was like a pretty scary horror dream.. And the other I robbed some bank in a prison after which I became lucid because yea I don't think banks lead to disneyland after you rob them, but what do I know.. And so there I was just going with the dream seeing how long it could last once lucid then.. BEEP BEEP BEEP, my alarm goes off..

Something that always helps me is having an accepting and positive attitude before sleeping. When you are accepting of anything that comes out of the mind, it tends to go much smoother. Anytime that I have gone to sleep with this mindset, Ive had better recall, more positive dreams, and even more lucid dreams. No need to convince yourself that everything is good, only that everything can be accepted as reality...

So loving this time change (til I get used to it) but as of now it's helping.. I had two lucid dreams this morning one of which I did keep going for quite a long time while I wandered around. Dream setting was in Las Vegas, you know just sort of wandered aimlessly pretty good stuff. And my other just a brief one of me at the baseball field near my house, became lucid walk around a bit. A girl appeared that I knew from real life and asked me to pull her face first down from a wall and I was going to because I figured it was just a dream but then I totally lost control of myself and whatever was controlling me did a handstand and the dream went black. So overall goodish morning I could say that I pretty much accomplished keeping a dream going for a while.

Pull her face first down from a wall? Haha, gotta love them random DC requests

I think daylight savings is helping me now as well. It seems to be delaying the time I fall back to sleep after a WBTB, but as a result my LD frequency went up. Hopefully we won't get TOO used to it.

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Hopefully we won't get TOO used to it.

Yea I hope so too..

SO, as for this morning kind of forgot to write here earlier while I was at school but oh well. I had I think two lucid dreams this morning but I just remember little bits of the first one. I'm positive that I had at least one. So in my one lucid I was just at the school I go to, worked on a little telekinesis and then when that didn't work just did whatever til the dream ended. So yea I don't know, I need to remember my task list.. And remember that the school is a recurring dream element, pretty frequently actually. But it's not exactly right it's always different in some ways, but I don't really notice them until I'm lucid.

blehhh one boring lucid this morning.

Originally Posted by Kraom

blehhh one boring lucid this morning.

Better than none. Good job.

Perhaps more focus on creating a stable environment would help? Typically that increases the link between waking and dreaming life. I should say, the more vivid the dream, usually the more easily it is remembered. So perhaps increasing the vividness of the dream would help?

Alright so haven't posted in a little while.. Had two lucid dreams in the time that I haven't posted.. or three I think actually.. Anyways one was like the longest of my life.. pretty awesome.. I'll be changing my sleep schedule over this thanksgiving break, and this will hopefully help me have more lucid dreams, but I guess we'll see how that goes..

All right, congratulations on those latest lucid dreams!

I don't know if you've written them down somewhere, but if you haven't, I'd strongly encourage you to do it just as soon as you possibly can. I've found that the longer I wait to write down a dream, the more it slips through my fingers. Even parts that were quite memorable at first can fade after a few hours. Writing them down seems to really help cement them in your mind as longer-term memories and gives you great material to review down the road. (I love to read other people's lucids as well as my own old lucids for inspiration.)

Good luck with the new sleep schedule (which hopefully involves loads of holiday sleep, not to mention good eating!)

Well I decided not to change my sleep schedule.. But anyways I still have had a few lucid dreams over this break I don't know like three I think, I really do need to start writing them down I think that will help a lot. I just have to make some time for it.

Sounds good! I agree and can't encourage you strongly enough -- do try to write them down! You will be so glad later that you did. When you take the time to write your LD down, you will remember it so much better. Months later, the words you wrote will server as reminders and the act of writing itself will enhance your memory.

Enough with my infernal nagging! Congratulations on those 3 lucids!!

Soo let me start by saying that I had a lucid this morning. But it was kind of a letdown because I didn't do anything.. I realized I was dreaming when I knew I was on thanksgiving break and there was no way I could be at school. But then later I pretty much convinced myself that it was real life. Because first I used a reality check technique I developed that usually works where I feel for like feeling pretty much like my posture or facial expression or any pain.. and if I don't feel any of that I assume I'm dreaming.. But that failed. And then I tried to fly and that also failed so I was like.. what if this is real life and I look very stupid right now.. I guess I forgot there was no way I could be at school.. So I did write this down in my physical dream journal in a lot more detail than this..

So, now I got to writing in my dream journal and I decided to start writing about how I could improve my techniques I use and how to make sure it doesn't happen to where I think a dream is real life.. And so I came up with some new techniques that I could use that make sense for how my lucid dreaming works.. And then I had this mind blowing idea for something to do inside a lucid dream.. Yea I literally blew my own mind with this idea.. But it's so long that I almost don't want to post it in this thread.. So I don't know if no one cares I guess I'll post it.. in the meantime I'll type it up on my computer just so that I can post it sometime.. I went on for like five pages in my physical journal about it.. But I guess I could probably condense it, a little bit. So yea thought writing in my journal again.. extremely good idea. Thanks to CanisLucidus for telling me I should write my dreams down again..

Wow, that sounds amazing! I love the feeling of getting carried away with the excitement of a new idea or discovery. So glad that you captured that thought and got it down on paper!

If the idea got you that excited (and it's something you feel comfortable sharing) I'd love to see it. I get so much of my inspiration from reading other people's dream journals and workbooks. People (especially dreamers) are unbelievably creative and I learn so much just from paying attention.

Congratulations on the lucid, even if it was short! The fact that you've resolved not to get fooled again and you're going through the mental process of figuring out how to prevent this from happening again tells me that you'll be ready.

Well, if you'd like to read my idea. It's located here http://www.dreamviews.com/f12/dream-...ea-yea-138315/, although I tried to edit in the spacing since it didn't keep my formatting when I pasted it and that didn't work.. Soo it's kind of textwallish. Although I will say I think it's pretty interesting.. but I guess I'm sort of biased to it.. since it's my idea..

This morning I did have a lucid dream that amounted to about all of ten seconds.. But it did serve a purpose! Because in the dream I didn't even think of my dream system idea.. it didn't come to mind. So after this I realized I needed to take some steps so that the next I was lucid I would remember to try and implement my dream system idea. So to do this I practiced some ADA and coupled in with that I would associate thoughts of my dream system. So I'm hoping I'll remember in my next lucid. I just hope in general the idea works lol

Well, naturally I had a lucid dream this morning. BUT, my dream system idea did not work. I think I know why I have a few different ideas on why it didn't work, but the ideas get pretty involved so I don't really feel like sharing them. It'd be a lot of text. But anyways in my lucid dream this morning I did teleport for the first time which was pretty cool. And, also I came to the realization that I can't close my left eye in a dream.. because if I do, for whatever reason.. I won't be able to open it. I don't know why.

Gnomes...

Originally Posted by Chimpertainment

Gnomes...

YES..

On an unrelated note, or maybe it is related.. I've had a few lucid dreams this weekend I think four.. at least three. Haven't written them down yet so I dunno.. Anyways, my dream system idea still have not got it working, probably because of these gnomes... So I'm hoping in the meantime just to increase the quantity of lucid dreams I have using some techniques I developed. Soo yea good luck me..

good luck you!!