Thread: haithem's workbook

Thanks paigy...
Well, I did a recall enhancement method. Before I went to my bed to sleep I sat on a chair and closed my eyes, and I tried to remember my daily life activities with the biggest possible number of details relating to all five senses. I then went to bed with the intention to remember my dreams and I chanted "I remember my dreams" coupled with some visualization.

The result was me waking up every few hours. I remembered 4 dreams and 3 fragments and even a dream from a previous night! a part of the second dream was lucid! in which I completed the basic task of the month

What brought my lucid dream was a WBTB coupled with MILD. I naturally woke up at 2 am. I needed something to get me motivated. The task in which listening to music succeeded to do. I then watched some of my favorite lucid dreaming related stuff. being aware of my surroundings and questioning my reality all the time. I then slept doing a MILD.

I accomplished the snow TOTM, as I failed to remember the northern lights task for no apparent reason.

Here's the dream linked from my DJ
Jakarta the charming indonesian city, Accomplishing the basic TOTM! - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

I know I could have stayed longer in that lucid if I stabilized and set a new goal when I finished the basic task, oh well.....
Thanks paigy, Xanous, Canis Lucidus. I couldn't of done it without you guys

YAYYYY!!! Congratulations haithem!

So was it completely different this time around? I remember when you first had a lucid and mentioned it was quite demotivating and unrealistic. I hope this one was the opposite! Great job on the TOTM too!

Thanks paigy. This one was completely the opposite. I enjoyed my lucid and non-lucid dreams a lot last night.

That's awesome. I'm really happy for you brace yourself for more lucids!!

That's really cool man. I love the shockwave effect. I wished that had happened for me in mine.

Thanks for the reply Xanous. I'm sure you'll figure out something way cooler than a shock wave to make it snow

Nothing special last night. As I decided not to do a WBTB. Remembered 2 dreams. Tonight though I'm going to try to achieve the Northern lights task, and maybe start my long term goal

Nothing special this night also. I've been slacking lately on my ADA and WBTB. but tomorrow I'll get back to getting serious about all this.

Congratulations, haithem!! Awesome dream! I still can't comment on most (??) Dream Journal entries, so I'll just write here.

Jakarta is a great setting for a dream, particularly for making it snow. It was cool that you took the time to look around and explore the environment without getting in too much of a hurry. I mean, with any dream, you always run that risk of time running out when you explore, but you can't go through lucid dreaming so goal-oriented that you miss out on awesome scenes like this one.

Hey, nice recall method too. I have never thought of recalling my day with all of my senses. When I do my daytime recall work, the vast majority of what I recall is visual, with fast auditory snippets thrown in. I totally ignore feel and smell for the most part. Sounds like a really cool technique. Almost like applying a juiced up version of SSILD to the problem of recall. I like it!

Anyhow, great job on the TotM!

I took a break this past few days. Dangit! I seem to take a lot of breaks lately. I must resume my practice! I'll try to get back to it tomorrow

So I decided to try DEILD. I've heard it's a great method. So I'm going to adjust my lucid dreaming practice a bit. I'll greatly appreciate any information or hints about it

Since it took me nearly two months of trying to have my latest DEILD this weekend, my "hint" will be to... ask Xanous how to do it. LOL.

Seriously, though, I can offer a couple of hints from my many failures. First, would be to simply not overthink it. My few DEILDs just feel like WILD on "easy mode". I just held still, relaxed, and stayed aware without trying too hard. One problem I had initially was that I sometimes tried with too much intensity, got excited, and didn't fall back asleep fast enough. Once I relaxed and stop being such a freak about it, it worked a lot better.

My second piece of advice is to remember that DEILD works extremely well in conjunction with some other technique like MILD or WILD (whatever you like.) So you have the opportunity to take advantage of both techs and get the best of both worlds. So you could primarily MILD, for example, while constantly staying on the lookout for micro-awakenings when you can DEILD. One of the coolest things about DEILD, I'd say.

A great DJ entry to read for getting psyched up about DEILDs is Xanous' old September Task of the Month. Epic dream, and contains something like half a dozen DEILDs all chained up. It's a good thing to read to remind yourself of what's possible, I think. *LUCID* The Deep Blue Sea TOTM - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

That's all I've got! One of the stronger DEILDer's like Paige or Xanous might have more for you.

Thanks CL for the complement!

This is what I do when I realize I am waking or have woken up. Better take notes it's a doozy. OK.... ready?






Hold still, be calm, clear your mind, wait.

That's it! Simple

Hey haithem, good to see you're trying out DEILD!

http://www.dreamviews.com/f49/dutchr...ld-god-134760/

Well, everyone else has pretty much summed it up. One piece if advice i could give though, is that when you find yourself uncontrollably moving, or shifting position or opening your eyes during a DEILD attempt, don't panic! DEILD doesn't necessarily require you to NOT move. Rather, it encourages you to not move, though you can still do so. The important thing is that you focus on the dream and not pay attention to the physical aspect. If you do move accidentally, just relax and go on like nothing happened.

Good luck!

Thanks guys! Those are all valuable information. I'll keep them in mind when I try to DEILD

I had a lucid dream yesterday in which I did this
(start watching from 00:46 till 02:00)

Unfortunately I can't practice this week because I'm going to my grandparents's house. Kinda sad because that last lucid made me very motivated.

That's pretty awesome. I've never thought about using anime for lucid ideas. Hmmmm.... I may have to start watching.

I'm back!
My dream recall had been very good the past few days, even though I wasn't writing in my dream journal. I've been inside a laboratory being experimented on by invading alien robots. Zombie Apocalypse....
The thing I managed to notice is that my dreams haven't been very illogical or weird lately. They are very vivid and logical and dream figures are able to form comprehensible sentences.
Good to be back

God I'm the biggest slacker that ever lived. I don't know why but I just can't get myself to start practicing seriously even though I have plenty of awesome lucid goals and I loved the task of the year 2013. I'll try to get back to it. I just hope I don't get lazy again

Hey haithem! I know how you feel, I feel lazy many times too! But you might want to try incentives! Like...for me, I tell myself that if I practice awareness seriously for a week, i'll treat myself with some ice cream or something. Maybe you can do the same to help keep you motivated?

I have to make up my mind here. It's either I go back to lucid dreaming or forget about the lucid dreaming topic once and for all. I've been giving myself false promises for many days and weeks now, without doing anything. I'm pretty sure the few people that have read my workbook are like "what the heck is with this guy, he's like I'll start tomorrow but then he doesn't do anything!". That might sound weird but believe me. I've had enough! I knew about lucid dreaming two years ago, but I didn't progress much. That's why I made this decision. I'm currently rereading tutorials and building up my motivation in the best way I can. I'm going to think seriously if lucid dreaming is really something that suits me. I know the nature of my behaviors, and I'm going to take actions according to that. I'll start practicing whenever I want to but it has to be within the next two weeks. If not, you know what is sadly going to happen.
If it goes badly. I really enjoyed my stay here in DV. It's a great community. I had a lot of fun discussing lucid dreaming related stuff and such with you guys (CanisLucidus, Xanous, paigeyemps, Opheliablue....) and many others. It's a special place. I feel that we are a family rather than a community here.
I hope you have a nice day. bye!

Hey Haithem! Even if you decide that now is now the right time for you, there's no need to close the door. It's never too late to start things up again, straight from the ground floor if necessary.

It's true that consistent work yields the best results, but don't ever take this stuff too seriously or let it stress you out. We are all here to play and enjoy life!

Relax -- you're doing just fine. Just do the best you can and enjoy yourself. And when you need time away, we'll be here to welcome you back no matter how many restarts it takes you.

Thanks CanisLucidus, I appreciate that
I've reread many tutorials and watched many videos. That proved to be great! I found out about some little and big mistakes I've done, and I'm currently working to solve them.
The videos that were the most helpful were Tim Post's advanced lucid dreaming series, particularly the ones about meditation. They've been helpful because while Tim was talking about meditation, he didn't explained it in a "technical manner" so to speak but rather, he explained mediation from his point of view, and while doing that, explained his approach of lucid dreaming.
While I did watch the video when I was still a beginner. It didn't seem to have the same information I previously had taken, and it opened my eyes on something that I was rambling about all the time, but I wasn't doing it myself!
That thing is confidence in yourself rather than the technique and more importantly but very attached to the first concept:Try to take lucid dreaming on a more natural way. I noticed that while I knew that I have to put faith in myself, I unintentionally put it in the technique by thinking too hard about it and being serious more than I needed, and that backfired at me.
Another thing that I've noticed is that each time I get back to lucid dreaming, my lucid dreams number drops slightly. I found out -with the help of Tim's videos- that I was putting way too much effort and seriousness in my attempts, rather than taking lucid dreaming more "naturally".
Tim's explains this by mentioning that he had his first lucid dreamer even without knowing about techniques, dream recall. He had it by just being enthusiastic and confident.
I'm planning to get back to lucid dreaming "whenever I feel like it" because I'm sure that forcing myself to practice isn't going to help at all.
Here are the videos and Tim's web site, If you're interested

Spoiler for The videos:

Who's Tim?
he's a great lucid dreamer and the founder of the project "lucidipedia" more about him and his experience can be found in his web site.
Lucid dreaming academy | Lucidipedia.com
the first part

you can find the other one which is part 7 in youtube (I couldn't post more than 1 video)

Omg haithem! I used to watch all of Tim's vids! In fact, the first few entries in my DJ (when I first started LDing) revolved around his videos and he showed up a lot in them. Haha