Thread: Pastelpeach's Workbook

I didn't do MILD last night, I went straight to sleep. I woke up 5 hrs later and I was gonna get out of bed but didn't want to miss my REM sleep. I didn't use any induction technique. I was in a dream and got lucid, I don't remember the dream, I just remember doing RCs. I couldn't push my finger through my palm so I pinched my nose, I had to take a really deep breath to confirm that I'm lucid. I kinda had a plan of what I want to do when I'm lucid but I didn't think of it at all in the dream. I thought I could try the TOTM but I couldn't remember what it was. I did RCs again with the same results. I didn't do anything cause I don't know what to do. I did RCs again but they didn't work this time. I don't know if I woke up or continued dreaming.

Originally Posted by Pastelpeach

I didn't do MILD last night, I went straight to sleep. I woke up 5 hrs later and I was gonna get out of bed but didn't want to miss my REM sleep. I didn't use any induction technique. I was in a dream and got lucid, I don't remember the dream, I just remember doing RCs. I couldn't push my finger through my palm so I pinched my nose, I had to take a really deep breath to confirm that I'm lucid.

Awesome Peach!!! Sometimes you gotta break through that initial moment in a lucid dream with a little extra effort, but you totally succeeded by taking that extra deep breath. And that's after the the finger through the palm failed, so you really succeeded at a couple things: 1. moving to the next RC when the first one failed (which takes enormous rational skills once you are already in the dream, meaning to remember something specific from waking life once already lucid), and 2. once you moved to the second lucid test (nose plug), you gave it extra effort before giving up on it. This suggests an excellent level of rational thought within the lucid dream, which is an excellent tool to moving on to achieving greater levels of lucidity in later dreams, as well as extending them. So brava!

I kinda had a plan of what I want to do when I'm lucid but I didn't think of it at all in the dream. I thought I could try the TOTM but I couldn't remember what it was. I did RCs again with the same results. I didn't do anything cause I don't know what to do. I did RCs again but they didn't work this time. I don't know if I woke up or continued dreaming.

This is why I try to preach the before bed list: Before you go to sleep (and you should think of it through out the day as well), have a plan for when you become lucid, plus a couple back up plans. The first can be your reality checks, the ones that you already know are successful. Like the nose pinch. Then try to remember the TOTM you wish to do. Then any other task that means something to you. I'd keep it at about 3 things on the list. You can even hand write them down, anything to hammer the thoughts into your subconscious. Mine for example, usually include: the TOTM, then going through a mirror (a past TOTM actually). The point is, once you repeat to yourself what it is you want to do in a lucid dream, you are more likely to remember it once you're there. Which shouldn't be a problem for you since you already remember things quite well once in the lucid dream. It's all about planning in your waking life at this point.

Thanks! I was surprised that I was actually lucid cause it didn't feel like it at all with the nose plug! I'm having trouble with remembering to do RCs during the day, it's just nothing unusual happens haha I will do what you suggest before bedtime, thanks!