Fennecgirl's Workbook

I tried DEILD again last night, as I woke up half-asleep in the middle of the night. I couldn't get it to work, though. After a few minutes, I just gave up and let myself fall asleep normally... and ended up falling asleep really quickly.

On a positive note, though, I've been getting up earlier and updating my dream journal BEFORE camp, rather than updating it when I get home or simply not getting around to it at all. My dream recall's already getting better again. Last night, I only remembered one dream, but it was REALLY vivid. It's been awhile since I've had one that vivid.

It's good that you're making yourself update your dream journal before you get the day started. I've tried to make myself to the same, as well, it really does seem to help my recall as opposed to putting it off for the afternoon.

I think it's safe to say my dream recall's back to normal. I remembered three dreams last night, and they were all fairly vivid.

Actually, in terms of vividness, I'd say that's a bit above average for me...

By the way, I might be a little late to the DVA class today.

Last night, I was at an overnight that was all astronomy-related stuff (various activities, seeing 3D pictures taken by Curiosity on Mars, time lapse videos of the Northern Lights from the International Space Station, and, of course, watching the meteor shower). I was hoping to dream about space or astronomy. I figured that all that stuff in the evening would help. I also tried using autosuggestion and visualization to incubate a dream on Mars. :3

...unfortunately, that didn't work. I did briefly meet a girl from Mars, though, but she was a human. :P

Oh well, there's always tonight. I want to go to Mars, explore, find Curiosity, then find Spirit and Opportunity and repair them (seriously, I actually do feel sorry for them... Spirit got stuck and died, and Opportunity's on its way out). If I have time before waking up, maybe I can go back to Earth to see NASA's reaction to finding life on Mars... especially a human! XD

Oh good, glad you got your recall back. So cool that you met a Martian/human girl :P

I've also been wanting to dream about being on another planet. I like flying in LDs, but it's more low to the ground, not much of a blast-through-the-atmosphere kind of flying. I thought about phasing through a mirror to find an alien world, you know, have my own little StarGate moment :P

Well, I finally had another LD last night... but I can't remember anything except doing an RC and becoming lucid! :morecrying:

I had another LD tonight. That's a new record for me - getting lucid two nights in a row! :D

I love how just a couple words can sometimes trigger dream recall.

I could remember two dreams when I woke up this morning, but I didn't bother updating my dream journal for a couple hours or so. When I finally got around to it, I wrote down the first one, and then realized I'd forgotten the second. I scrolled down a bit to see my tag cloud and, unsuprisingly, saw "legend of zelda" at the top in huge font. I asked myself, "Was I playing a Zelda game?" I only had to think about the answer to that for a few seconds or so to remember that, yes, I was. That one tag alone actually caused me to remember the whole dream with in detail!

Speaking of Zelda games, I was bad this morning. I'm on the second day of using a reward system in which my reward for lucid dreaming is video games. If I get lucid, I can play video games. If I don't, I can't play any video games all morning (afternoon is fine, unless I have no recall, in which case I have to go all day without video games). Two nights ago (i.e., the first night), when I went to bed, I told myself I had to get lucid so I could play Zelda games. That worked; I had an LD. I got up the next morning and played Wind Waker.

However... I spent ages playing Wind Waker again this morning, even though I didn't get lucid last night. I told myself that it was okay because just one day wouldn't hurt.

At least I finally beat the game. That counts for something, right?

Anyway, I promise, from this day forth, I shall be stricter with my reward system!

I was disappointed when I woke up this morning with no recall. However, then I went back to sleep and had an LD! After that one, I went back to sleep and had another!

The second one was my longest and most stable one yet, and I definitely felt like I could think more clearly than usual.

I've still been unsuccessful with dream control, though. I tried changing location by opening a door, and I tried summoning my iPod by saying it was in my pocket and reaching for it. I even asked a DC how to summon objects, and he said, "I'll tell you how: you can't."

Well, now I know who ISN'T my dream guide! XD

LOL! Bad DC is bad.

Congrats on your lucids! :party:

I know it must be frustrating not to be able to control the dream even when you try hard. You'll get there eventually! Just never have even the slightest doubt in your mind! Like, "there will absolutely be a phone in my pocket!" or "there IS a waterfall on the other side of this door!" be excited about it too, it really helps ;)


Good luck, and congrats again!

Thank you! I'll have to remember that!

I've decided to start practicing CALD again.

I mean, I never really decided to stop, but, being a huge daydreamer, I do have other worlds in my head (well, actually, I like to go inside video games in my daydreams). One night in another one of my worlds kinda turned into a couple weeks of exclusively daydreaming there, so... CALD sorta got put off for awhile...

When I finally did decide to return to doing CALD, Kayleigh (one of my CALD characters) was annoyed at me for having been gone so long.

tl;dr - I'mma try CALD again; don't mind the rest; I'm just rambling.

Hahaha the Kayleigh thing is interesting. What did you tell her? :D

And good luck with the CALD x)

Thank you!

I reminded her that I DO have other characters, too. She didn't seem to think that was a good excuse.

So I tried WILD this morning... in a dream.

According to dream logic, WILD is apparently done by attempting to fall asleep while walking around the house. I'm not entirely sure how that's actually supposed to work.

Oh I hate when that happens lol. I sometimes dream about attempting different induction techniques, and they're usually retarded.

OpheliaBlue, paigeyemps, I had a dream about you two last night. xD

You were both at my school for some reason. I think you were both teachers. I know at least Ophelia was. o.O

What! Nice ;)

What did we do?

It's in my latest DJ entry.

You weren't actually there, though. You were just mentioned.

Haha awesome. Is this your first DV member dream? I have irc dreams alot myself.

Yeah, that was my first.

I FINALLY had another lucid dream the other night! It was kind of weird. I was playing a video game, and it was pretty glitchy. I figured, hey, this is a dream, how about I see what sort of weird glitch effects I can pull off (like when I get carried away with AR codes on old Pokemon games IWL). After a couple minutes, it began to fade, so I opened my eyes. I guess it was technically just really vivid HI, since I was still sort of aware of my body the whole time, but it turned out that was inside of an actual dream, so I guess that's close enough to consider that dream-HI thing to be a moment of lucidity.

Also, I've been attempting a dream incubation method based off the experiment the MIT scientists did with controlling rats' dreams with audio cues (it was suggested in a thread here on DV). I've actually found it to be extremely reliable. Finally, I've found an incubation method that actually works for me!

Congrats on the lucid!

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Originally Posted by fennecgirl

After a couple minutes, it began to fade, so I opened my eyes.

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I'm just curious, when you say you opened your eyes, was it IWL, or you opened dream eyes into another dream? Just curious, because I've had some experiences like that.

I opened my eyes into the dream I was in before I closed them. Like I said, I was still sort of aware of my body after closing my eyes, so I never totally left that dream.

Oh that's really interesting.

I wonder what would happen, the next time you open your eyes into a dream like that, and are aware of your body like you said, if you just slowly got up out of bed anyway. I *may* have had a similar experience as you, and when I just made the decision to get out of bed, I was really lucid dreaming. I'm wondering this because there's a chance that when you felt your body still in bed, it could have been a false awakening. I can't be certain of course because I'm just going off of what you said, but it might be worth experimenting on if it happens again.