Thread: ccrinbama's Workbook

That's unfortunate, ccrinbama. White noise is usually pretty helpful, and it can act as an anchor for you too. It will be a little distracting initially, but it might keep you a little more aware while you fall asleep. What do you think you'll use? A fan, or will you play music?

Definitely not music, probably something less intrusive. When I used to WILD, my favorite part was the auditory hallucinations I'd have during transition phase. I'd hear crazy symphonies of music. Don't want to use anything that may hinder that.

Symphonies? That sounds like a great HH experience. That sounds better than some of the other HH people can have. The only thing that happened to me once was my heart racing, which was horribly distracting. I was a little concerned too, as I didn't realize that was HH. I hope you can find adequate white noise for your WILDs! Or you could invest in some nice ear plugs.

Let us begin again!

Lesson I

1. Start your own workbook thread in this subforum (here).
Done

2. Start a Dream Journal and record each dream.
Done

3. Record the times that you naturally go to bed and wake-up, and list it in your workbook.
Actually have not been doing, sadly enough. I'll start it up.

4. Do reality checks whenever you experience something weird throughout the day, and list it in your workbook.
My RCs have been lax lately, but I've been trying to pick it up.

5. Write a list for why you want to lucid dream (for motivation), and plan out what you want to do in your next lucid dream.
I want to see how higher level cognitive functions are effected by being in the dreamstate. I also want to just do cool stuff. In my next lucid dream, I want to try to complete the TOTM.

6. Establish a night-time routine (Include reading your dream journal, making sure to leave your DJ open to a blank page for quicker dictations).
Done.

Optional:

7. Start a DreamViews Dream Journal (here).
Done.

8. Start posting snippets from your dreams in the Dream Snippets Thread to get feedback on your dreams!
Haven't yet, will do.

9. Start practicing awareness from Lesson IV

10. If you notice any recurring elements in your dream journal (aka dream signs), list it in your workbook.
Actively happening.

A back to life post.
Back to life, I say!

Welcome back! How has the dreaming been?

Once I stopped actively working at it, my dream recall steadily tapered off. Then I moved from Montana BACK to Alabama, and the moving process essentially completely destroyed it. So not so well.
But that's ok! That's all gonna change once I return to active practice!

Ahh good to see you in such high spirits! It was awesome playing on #Fun btw

It's been a while, hasn't it?
That chain of rapid improvement? It was taking place in Montana.
Then I moved back to the southeast, and things completely dropped off.
Now I'm back in the midwest, and feeling it again.

No preparation tonight. No thinking of lucid dreaming over the day. No dream recording in months and months. No nothing. I haven't even browsed the forum, excluding my reading of past workbook entries. Going for a dry run.

Tonight shall be a control by which to gauge my future progress.

I worked today. Safeway.
I played videogames today, for more than an hour. Heroes of the Storm.
I read today, for about an hour. God Emperor of Dune.
I'll be sleeping in a bed with my girlfriend.

Nothing much to report here aside from snippets of dreams last night, which are duly recorded in the dream snippets thread.

Hopefully, tonight will be more interesting.

To describe my day:
It is 5:52AM. I have been up since about 9AM, of yesterday morning. Putting me close to the 24 hour mark for time gone without sleep. This is due to the fact that I'll be working inventory tonight, from 11PM to 7AM, and wanted to give my sleep cycle a fighting chance. I'm about to go to sleep, and will wake up in about three hours to attempt my first WBTB/WILD.

I worked today. Safeway.
I played videogames today, for more than an hour. Heroes of the Storm.
I read today, for more than an hour. God Emperor of Dune.
I will be sleeping alone.

And I apparently haven't updated at all since I went on break, how very responsible of me.
As an update, the aforementioned WBTB/WILD attempted didn't occur AT ALL. I don't even remember turning off my alarm. I need to start using sleep cycle again.
My recall has also been abyssal. Though, to be fair, I'm definitely not giving myself enough time to think about LDing during the day. No RCs at all while awake.
Let's hope things pick up.

I did not work today.
I played videogames today, for more than an hour. Heroes of the Storm.
I read today, for less than an hour. God Emperor of Dune.
I'll be sleeping in a bed with my girlfriend.