What I great idea! I forgot that my wife is in a lot of my dreams as well. I may try this one. I love all the things I learn form peoples workbooks. Even the new students have great ideas! So cool! |
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No lucid last night, but a great night of dreaming nonetheless. First, I got over 8 hours of sleep, which is a good thing all by itself. |
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What I great idea! I forgot that my wife is in a lot of my dreams as well. I may try this one. I love all the things I learn form peoples workbooks. Even the new students have great ideas! So cool! |
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"Oh, and everything is not what it seems
This life is but a dream"
Breakers Roar by Sturgill Simpson
"Oh, and everything is not what it seems
This life is but a dream"
Breakers Roar by Sturgill Simpson
I have to admit that I'd only vaguely heard of the CALD technique myself. I pretty much rolled this on my own when performing my nightly dream incubation. It was quite ad hoc but I can describe what I did. |
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I would say yes to this. My ways of inducing lucid dreams have changed SO much over the years. Right now when I WILD, the transition is very subtle (which make me subject for possible FAs, but I'm boss and I've figured out how to conquer those |
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Excellent, thank you for the description! I love the idea of these experiences becoming simpler the more seasoned your grow. Over time, it's like the bells and whistles that once seemed so exciting either disappear entirely or just turn into scenery on the way to the real destination: getting lucid! I will definitely keep playing with this if it happens again. I'm not in a rush to tackle WILD (although that day will come.) But if I find my way their on my own, damned if I'm going to miss my opportunity! |
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I'm with you there. I'll let you in on a little secret: When I first joined DV, I avoided WILD talk, or any other "induction method" talk like the plague! It just seemed too far fetched. I mean, I knew I DILDed, because it seemed like most folks just randomly happened upon lucid dreams, while the WILDs and DEILDs and MILDs etc, were for the elite lucid masters. Probably created a schema in my mind, but that's another story. At any rate, the point is, that was over 8 years ago, and since then I finally warmed up to WILD. But I owe this not only to time passing, but to reading others' experiences. Mainly Sageous's class, and of course RareCola's epic lucid journeys, not to mention teaching DVA. I hope you find that teaching and helping students embellishes your own lucid journey, as much as it has mine. |
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It's amazing how much perspective time and experience can bring. I remember from the podcasts that you've been lucid dreaming since you were small. When you've been successfully lucid dreaming for years, I think it'd be easy to wonder what you even need all this... stuff for. |
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I hit lucid dream #19 last night! I had been avoided using "the d-word" but I'd gone 10 nights without an LD. Felt good to have a nice one. I attempted the Task of the Month and got to enjoy the sensation of popping my own head off. Not half bad! I'm sure it's more fun in an LD than IWL. |
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Nice dream,you were so close, better luck next time |
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Previously known as areyoume
"A winner has to speak not of the world as it is, but of the world as it should be!"
Congrats Canis!! |
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Lucid dream #20 last night! I got stuffed early trying Task of the Month but I finally achieved high altitude, stable flight and made it all the way to space! I know that flight comes naturally to a lot of folks but for me it's been tough. That made this LD a big milestone. |
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Great dream, congrats on lucid #20 and the flight milestone! Several things you did in that dream are extra noteworthy in my opinion. Instead of just saying "Waaah, I want a mirrorrrr," you thought of the details you wanted and it appeared! Then when your reflection wasn't cooperating, you decided to do something else, which ended up being you accomplishing a personal goal. This is much like real life isn't it? Say fuck it to the thing that isn't working in the moment you want it, and put your efforts somewhere else, and you meet with success that way. |
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Thanks!! I appreciate it. I feel like keeping up with dream journals is helping me make so much more of my opportunities. There's always going to be tons of fun trial and error in lucid dreaming but others' experiences help so much in shaping strategy. I didn't have to experience your frustration with trying to clear the stormy skies out of your dream in order to understand the lesson there. |
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Last night gave me lucid dream #21! This one was extremely trippy and wasn't always the smoothest ride. This dream took me through identity confusion, a false awakening, and lots of weird imagery (including Thomas Jefferson in bright Technicolor.) |
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Heh, I really just ate it because I like it. I wanted to note it in case this ever happens again, though. We'll see whether Technicolor Thomas Jefferson visits me again the next time I dig into the PB jar. |
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I actually searched "Peanut butter lucid aid" and sure enough someone was claiming it was effective. But this person was WBTB eating a whole PB sandwich. I'm sure my waist line could not handle that. But I may try a tbs for fun. I can't say any lucid aid has ever worked for me though. Maybe I forget that its just an aid and I don't try as hard as I normally would. |
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Last edited by Xanous; 10-10-2012 at 02:56 AM.
"Oh, and everything is not what it seems
This life is but a dream"
Breakers Roar by Sturgill Simpson
Yeah man, go crazy! Looking forward to comparing notes. |
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Oh yeah probably not a factor by then. I was thinking more WBTB PB. Haha pee water. I do that too but set an alarm just in case. I used to wake up with aching kidney because I would not get up to pee. Of course now a days I have a small carbon based life form sleeping next to our bed. He usually makes a great WBTB alarm several times a night! :p |
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"Oh, and everything is not what it seems
This life is but a dream"
Breakers Roar by Sturgill Simpson
Peanut Butter has vitamin B if im not mistaken...Increases neural activity and that somehow turns into greater awareness while sleeping.... |
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And dont forget apple juice!! It has lots of B6 PLUS it's liquid so you will get the pee feels |
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I'm not a big advocate for lucid aids myself, but I'll totally join you two in the PB before bed challenge for the heck of it! |
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