Thread: Chimpertainment's WorkBook

Been thinking about goals lately...I figure it would be a good idea to establish some long term goals then some short term goals that will help me accomplish the long term ones.

Long Term Goals

- Master Lucid Dream Control
- Retain Lucidity While in Total Darkness
- Execute WILD Every Night

Short Term Goals

- Find a Mirror and Test Realism
- Use Mirror as Portal
- Use Skill of Expectation to perfect Skills of Summoning/Telekinesis/Flying
- Morph into Animal like Crow/Whale/Cheetah/Squirrel

During the months that I have been truly dedicated to lucid dreaming, I have found that my goals are not exactly what I want, instead they end up being what I think they should be. Lately, Ive been realizing that it is ok to want something for myself, and that is what I am going to go for. So I will pursue these goals until they are accomplished.

so, I have like...twenty dreams on my recorder that I am going to transcribe to my journal. All I need to do is reinstall my microsoft word program.

Within those dreams are four lucids Ive had within the past couple weeks.

One of them actually includes a couple mirror tests. I am still going to find some more mirrors in my lucids but it was definitely a good start. I was also able to practice some dream control as well. It was mostly trying to use expectation to make things appear and practicing my flying techniques. Good times though, when I get them all recorded, I will copy some snippets here for your reading playshzure.

Hooray for more playshzure!

I don't know why, but I've mised you around chat. Hopefully I see you soon!

and here come the snippets...





Since my last post long, long ago, in a place far, far away, I have been faithfully focusing on the WILD technique. I've been reading up on all the WILD literature in the forum as well and finally have had some results.
For the past six months, I've worked on all the techniques, however at this point, my focus is specifically on WILD, and that enabled me to really buckle down on the details.
Here is my basic routine as it applies to lucid dreaming.

[Sleep Schedule]

To bed: 11pm weekdays, avg 1am friday, saturday nights
Awake: 7am on weekdays, avg 11am on weekends

[WBTB]

Every weekday night I set an alarm for 4:55am for my wbtb. My deep sleep cycle typically ends after 4 hours of sleep but I set the wbtb time an hour after the end of the delta cycle to increase the probability of utilizing REM sleep.
Now, as far as the wbtb, awake time goes. That keeps fluctuating because of my varying levels of fatigue when I wake up. My present practice has been to wake up and read for 15 minutes then mantra back to bed. A not so different idea I have devised, is to write as well as read for that 15-20 minutes. That should be tested tonight if my determination will hold strong.

[Daytime Exercises]

During the day, perhaps the main trigger for my WILDs is done. Every hour, an alarm on my phone goes off, and that reminds me to perform a couple awareness exercises. Firstly, I remember the past few minutes and perhaps further into the past. Then I become aware of my environment, and of myself. There is a list of reality checks that I have been using as well to add to that exercise.

[Mantra]

Another life saver has been the mantra. When I first go to sleep, I will mantra something about remembering dreams and awareness. When I wbtb however, I have a single mantra that I have been repeating 100 times. Today during a WILD however, I used upward counting with a limit of 200 repetitions in case I actually get there, I would focus on some relaxation exercises, then repeat the mantra. The practice of the mantra is effective in a strange way. During the WILD, the mantra activates this short term memory of some kind. When you go into the body-less darkness, the mantra that you were just repeating comes back around in the short term memory and brings some awareness along. Anyway, aside from the mechanics, using a mantra has helped as well.

[Pre-Sleep]

For pre-sleep, there are a few things that I have been adding onto my routine. Memory exercises are key, while mantras not so much. Also relaxation exercises are essential for my exercise. The memory exercises are for recall and the relaxation for restful sleep. The relaxation helps with recall as well because you can remember your dream much better if you remain still when you wake up. And if your body is tense like mine is much of the time, that relaxation will help. It can also aid with DEILD.
My memory exercises can vary because of use 1 or 2, of three exercises.
1. Reading my DJ
2. Recalling previous dreams from memory
3. Recalling the days events from memory



For whatever reason, this all only kicked in recently. Its been about 2 weeks since I began all these practices. For about six months now I've been practicing the different techniques, so when I decided to focus on WILD, all my knowledge of the other techniques went into developing the single technique of WILD.

In the past week, I have had 2 WILDs and a DEILD chained from the second WILD.

These are the DJ Entries

WILD Marry Go Round



and...


The DILD and the WILD





and as if that wasn't enough, I have some new goals which have been coming along great.

They are listed in the title of my DJ here