haithem's workbook

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Originally Posted by paigeyemps

WHAT THE HECK. I looked at your workbook just now and realized the long post I typed up the other day never went through. GAAAAA :(

Anyway, i was wondering, what is Alice Madness?

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Oh,I am sorry paigy,typing a long post then never posting it is sure frustrating :?,it happens to me all the time.

today I had an unintentional SP, it was great.I heared my name being called,a weird radio sound, i tried to imagine a dream scene,but the SP quickly faded away.

To your question.Alice in wonderland:madenss returns is a great video game,it's a psychological horror video game from a third-person perspective. The player controls Alice for the entirety of the game for running, jumping, dodging and attacking.

The plot is very nice,Within events of the first game, Alice Liddell becomes insane, believing herself responsible for a fire that consumed her home and her family, escaping into a twisted version of Wonderland. While held at Rutledge Asylum for treatment, Alice was able to conquer her doubts, and eventually was released from the ward. Alice: Madness Returns takes place in 1875, a year after Alice's release. Alice, now 19 years old, resides at an orphanage in Victorian London, under the care of Doctor Angus Bumby, a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to help his child patients forget their memories. Though she believes herself cured of her madness, hallucinations of Wonderland continue to appear.
The new wonderland seems very peaceful and quiet, but quickly becomes corrupted by the Infernal Train that rampages through it.

Eeek! That sounds creepy (but fun!)

here you can find some cool screen shot'shttp://www.ign.com/images/games/alic...x-360-14323746
The thing that peaked my interest was the environment.it's plain awesome!

Haven't been practicing these days.No particular reason.I just decided to stop practicing for some time.Well,I should mention that I've been horriblly ill the past six days or so.
I haven't had a lucid dream in a while, and I was thinking of starting to practice seriously, but the exams are coming up ahead.However, I might be able to do that when the exams are over.

Sorry to hear about the illness. I hope you are better.

Hey, sometimes a break is good. When you come back you may find that the lucids are stronger then they were before. There's no hurry though. You got to take take care of the waking life above all else.

I'm glad to hear that you're feeling better. Being sick's a bummer, especially since illnesses don't exactly wait to strike until it's convenient for you.

Good luck with your exams, and don't feel bad about taking the extra focus on waking life in the meantime. Let lucid dreaming be something that you look forward to rewarding yourself with once life becomes a bit less hectic. This is particularly true if you do as I did in college and let your sleeping habits fall to pieces when exam time comes. (Let me hypocritically advise you not to do this.) :D

Good luck. We'll be here when you get back. :)

Thanks for those replys CanisLucidus and Xanous.

It's monday, which means that I have to wait for 2 more days before resuming my practice.I can't wait!

I was thinking, when I had those two SP that I mentioned having earlier, I couldn't enter the dream, and now I'm wondering why. I just waited for the dream to start but that never happened. What could've happened and made my attempte a failure?

Its hard to say what went wrong without knowing all the details. All I can offer is what I do during SP. I never just wait. I transtion out of my body and it turns into what peoole belive to be OBEs. All I do is imagine the senation of my feet moving out of bed and touching the floor. When I can feel the floor I am then standing in the dream version of my room. Really i think its just a simple visualtlzation that helps the transition. Of course othe people do things differently so you may have to find your own way. Oh and always stay relaxed and calm! Good luck!

Thanks for the helpful reply Xanous.The exams has finished and now I can properly practice.my lucid dream goal list has grown very big and I can't wait to start acheiving them.I've bought a highlighter so I can highlight importent stuff in my DJ and keep a record of my progress.

Nice, keep us updated! Oh and what are some of your goals? :)

Here are some of my goals, some of them may be incomprehensible. That is because some of my goals are related to the anime bleach and naruto, and naturaly will hold concepts from those animes. I will try to explain them though.
1-Advanced flying.
2-Master shunpo (or you can say "flash step". As the name suggests it's a movement technique that allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow,so they actually seem that they teleported from point A to B)
3-Stop time and observe things around me.
4-Create my very own sepcial Zanpakutō ("soul cutter sword"A Zanpakutō's shape and abilities are based on their Shinigami's soul (me :P). Once a Shinigami learns his sword's name, they are able to communicate with one another and grow stronger together(dream guide maybe?! :roll:) this a long term goal, and it will take more then just a couple of Lucids to acheive it.
5-visit amazing land scapes, travel to outer space and meet other intelligent life forms.(maybe I will go to soul society and konoha village to meet my favorite anime characters, I wonder how they look like in real life)
6-bend gravity, and enjoy how DC will reacte to the non-gravity situation.
7-bend wind, create hurricanes and wind elemenatals to asist me.
8-bend fire.
9-bend water,and glide on a water fall.
10-bend darkness and shadows, manipulating my and other DC's shadows....
11-Talk to my subconsious.

There still more, but that's enaugh for now.

I had a brief lucid moment yesterday. That's strange considering that I only started practicing today. It looks like that only thinking about lucid dreaming has brought me one, which is an example of how important the mind set is when it comes to lucid dreaming. It seems that I'll be acheiving my goals pretty soon, and I may actually try December TOTM.

Great job haithem! :banana:

I totally agree, just thinking about lucid dreaming can actually help you get lucids! :3

Nothing speciale last night. I only remembered a fragment but that's understandable sinse I just started building my DR back up... My main goal right now is Advanced flying.My ADA practice is going pretty well till now, and I'm going to WBTB tonight as it never failed me. I also have organaized my DJ and now it actually looks like something you can read :P

My dream recall is slowly getting back. I remembered 2 dreams and 1 fragment yesterday, and I missed a chance of being lucid when I saw a strange and funny lokking sea monster that got out of the lake and walked on the ground. I said: "how can a sea monster walk on land, he must be a very special sea monster" The huge sea monster turned to me and said that it was a "she" not a "he". All of this failed to triger lucidity. But I most say that it was quite a nice dream.

I remembered 3 dreams and a fragment today. My recall is definitely improving, but I missed my biggest dream sign (school). I preformed a WBTB last night and the night before it but I couldn't sleep afterward. The first night I woke up as I usually wake up for a WBTB (after 7 hours) and I did the things that I usually do. I preformed a SILD and tried to get back to sleep as soon as possible but couldn't. The second night I tried to lessen the time (this time after 5.5 hours) and I did the things that I usually do and then preformed a MILD but couldn't sleep this time also and I stayed up from 4 in the morning till 7am :P
What should I do?

Good job with the recall! That is really coming along.

I'm with you on the importance of getting back to sleep as fast as possible! I had to really work on this, so let me share what works for me.

First, when performing SSILD, my personal preference is to perform 2 very rapid cycles (perhaps 3-5 seconds per sense), followed by 3 normal cycles (maybe 15 seconds per sense.) That's 5 cycles in total, but keeps things a little shorter. Personalize it for yourself, of course, but I found this worked better for me. I also stay in WBTB for 25 minutes, assuming SSILD will take 5 minutes, for 30 minutes total. I have not generally gone higher, although I will at some point.

When falling asleep, find the sleeping positions that zonk you out the quickest. For me, that is either on my stomach or on my right side, right hand tucked under my pillow. Then get in that position and try to stay there. Try not to toss and turn!

Next, I let the last few conscious thoughts leave my mind and then tell myself, "I'm shutting off my consciousness now. Time to sleep." Then I just try to... stop thinking. :)

I immediately move to counting backwards from 100 while breathing. Each breath in is about 4-6 seconds, each breath out about 4-6 seconds. Breathe in: "...100..." Breathe out: "...I'm dreaming..." Breathe in: "...99..." Breathe out: "...I'm dreaming..." While doing this, I think of nothing but the counting and breathing. I don't worry about how long it's going to take, whether it's working, or anything at all. Just turn it into a meditation. This took some practice but it worked for me. Always keep your mind quiet.

Anyway, this is how I approached it! It took me some time to tweak, but it's what works for me. Good luck!

Thanks CanisLucidus, I'll try out your method and see how it goes. naturally I will tweak it a bit but I feel this can work...
Thanks again :)

Well, I just woke up. My recall is very decent. I tried to WBTB yesterday but I have an issue. I had wandering thoughts when I woke up to preforme my WBTB, and when I tried to discard them I simply couldn't. I tried to think of Lucid dreaming and related stuff but the wandering thoughts kept poping again and again, so I wasn't able to focus properly on my WBTB nor my SILD. What should I do to clear my mind of this wandering thoughts?

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Originally Posted by areyoume

Well, I just woke up. My recall is very decent. I tried to WBTB yesterday but I have an issue. I had wandering thoughts when I woke up to preforme my WBTB, and when I tried to discard them I simply couldn't. I tried to think of Lucid dreaming and related stuff but the wandering thoughts kept poping again and again, so I wasn't able to focus properly on my WBTB nor my SILD. What should I do to clear my mind of this wandering thoughts?

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Ah yes, the wandering thoughts problem. I've had trouble dealing with stray thoughts in the past.

When a thought like this occurs to you, I recommend acknowledging it, gently setting it aside, and then consciously focusing that mental energy onto a new task. If you are up during your WBTB, go back to reading your dream journal or fleshing out an existing entry. Add detail to one that was there before. Draw a dream map or picture of a vivid scene. Think carefully about how you know you are not dreaming right now.

Likewise, if wandering thoughts occur to you while trying to fall asleep, don't worry about it. Just acknowledge the thought, gently set it aside, and refocus that now-freed mental energy back onto your falling asleep ritual. Focus on letting your consciousness go and simply counting and breathing (or whatever your falling asleep ritual is.)

The secret IMO is not to struggle against these thoughts. That's like me telling you to "not think about a pink elephant." (Oops, too late.) The way you stop thinking about the pink elephant is to focus all of your mind onto something else until you just naturally move to that new subject. If you fight and struggle with the pink elephant itself, it's soon all you can think of.

I hope that helps! Good luck to you.

Thanks canis. You're always here to help, and I appreciate that. I'll try out your method tonight and hopefully I'll be able to preforme a decent WBTB.

I've remembered 3 dreams yesterday. The one that I found to be most interesting was the one when I and my freinds were in my old house throwing a party. I got out of the house because I was feeling unconfontable, and I saw the northern lights! They were very beautiful and I just kept staring at them, they colored in red, then green, then blue, then white then they disappeared and some fascinating fireworks started. Although this dream was great there is something puzzling me. The intention to see the northren lights passed to my subconscious but the intention to be lucid in my dream didn't, nor did the the northren lights made me to realize that I am dreaming. When I used to get back to lucid dreaming in the past I always started to have lucid dreams in my very first days even though I wasn't very dedicated. Strangely, this time I didn't have any lucid dream even though I'm very dedicated :?

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Originally Posted by areyoume

I've remembered 3 dreams yesterday. The one that I found to be most interesting was the one when I and my freinds were in my old house throwing a party. I got out of the house because I was feeling unconfontable, and I saw the northern lights! They were very beautiful and I just kept staring at them, they colored in red, then green, then blue, then white then they disappeared and some fascinating fireworks started.

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Ha, that's awesome. Your subconscious was trying to complete the Task of the Month all by itself. :)

And don't worry that it's taking a couple of days to hit your LD. That brain of yours has done it before and it'll do it again. Give it one of those epic 1-hour WBTBs some time and I'm sure you'll nail it. :D

Ah man that's alright. You incubated a dream! Maybe next time you incubate you will remember to watch for it. I've always thought that if I could learn incubate regularly it would be a great tool for lucidity. I suck at it thought. MILD too. HA!

Thanks a lot Xanous and CL. I stopped practicing ADA yesterday because I was feeling mentally tired a bit. My recall is still pretty decent and I've noticed that lately I dream about the anime Bleach a lot. Being a dream sign I decided to question my reality whenever I stumble upon something related to it. I'm also very motivated to LD and I am going to do one of those 1 hour long WBTB tonight, coupled with MILD. I've also found that whenever I hear music that I like I become very motivated. So I'm going to add listening to music to my regular WBTB routine.
fingers crossed for lucid dream tonight !