Densetsu's Workbook

Ten days and five essays later, things are almost back on track. My Circadian rhythm is still a little off because I've been napping a lot lately and my dream recall is still a bit shot because I've been really~ preoccupied with school for the past month or so, but things are changing; I can feel it.

I wake up feeling (slightly) refreshed instead of feeling exhausted. I go to sleep earlier than I used to (today being an exception) and it feels like my dreams aren't quite so frayed.

Semi-final update on February's Goals:
*Have 5 lucid dreams during the month - I fell short by four. The one lucid dream that I did have was spectacularly educational, though.
*Attempt Basic and Advanced Tasks of the Month - Failed~
*Solidify dream state - One rock and a small ripple
*Inspire a pair of sigils - Complete! I inspired three, which I really need to scan.
*Tame my sleeping schedule once and for all - Semi-complete. The beast is weakened and nearly tame.
*Document as many of my lost dreams from memory as possible - Semi-complete. Long-term recall is tougher than it sounds.
*Initiate Project Pax - Complete!

Good luck getting your sleep back on track! But keep a look out-- when you're sleep schedule has been out of whack, straightening it back out can result in REM Rebounds, so its a prime time to have some powerful dreams!

Oh, and recalling "lost" dreams is great idea, it'll really work your memory. Its also a good idea to go through old dream journals and try to remember those dreams as vividly as possible. I'm not sure, but dreams seem to be stored in a very different way, so remembering and reimaging old dreams seems to exercise that part of our memories.

Keep it up =]

REM rebound is right; I ended up having a short but significant lucid dream earlier today! I'm getting back in the habit of questioning the physics of dreaming while I'm in them and subtly paying attention to the visual aspect of said dreams.

Tonight's exercise:
*20 sit-ups
*20 push-ups
*20 squats
*160 deep breaths (5 seconds per breath)

Wooot! Congrats on the lucid :3

How does almost three weeks fly by so quickly?

Things are doing a lot better, and I've gotten messy notes on about eight of my older dreams written down. However, there were some...domestic issues that set me back a bit, but I'm willing to play catch-up again. I'm getting better at imposing static objects over my field of vision (as part of my advanced vision exercises) and the vividness of my dreams is increasing, but my dream recall still has a way to go before I'm back where I was a few months after I first joined DV.

Luckily, I have had a couple of fairly vivid dreams that I can recall easily. For now I've chosen to keep them private because I'm using them for a multimedia project that I'm chiseling at in my free time.

Glad to hear you're getting back on track Denny. :P

Not sure if you intended it or not, but using your dreams for any type of project or creative pursuits in waking life is a good way to further cement lucidity into your subconscious. The more dreams you remember, the more creative fuel you'll have for projects, and the more dreaming will become a natural part of your life...and that means more dreams you'll remember....and so on. Its a nifty cycle.

Good luck!

Thanks, Luci. :P

Today I was cleaning my room and I found my old phone tucked away in a drawer. I popped it onto the charger, turned it on, and looked through it to see if it had any half-asleep dream logs on it. There weren't any logs, but there were two contacts which caught my eye.

Name [24/32]: Nice Guy ###55555555GGGG
Mobile: ###-555-5555

Name [32/32]: Purple Purple Purple Purple Pur
Mobile: 997-147-2500256


What dreams they represent I honestly have no clue.

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Originally Posted by Densetsu

Thanks, Luci. :P

Today I was cleaning my room and I found my old phone tucked away in a drawer. I popped it onto the charger, turned it on, and looked through it to see if it had any half-asleep dream logs on it. There weren't any logs, but there were two contacts which caught my eye.

Name [24/32]: Nice Guy ###55555555GGGG
Mobile: ###-555-5555

Name [32/32]: Purple Purple Purple Purple Pur
Mobile: 997-147-2500256


What dreams they represent I honestly have no clue.

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What. Looool i've experienced this too. One time i found like 3 people added to my contacts around the time i should have been asleep. I wonder what went on o.o

When I try placing things on a timeline, I often find that there are many small events that I cannot quite fit into a particular day. Perhaps I made a trip somewhere, something just mundane enough to ignore happened at school, or I had a conversation with somebody that they don't remember. Oftentimes these small memories are actually dreams that were so normal that I just assumed they actually happened. In some cases, these dreams actually are just memories of things that I've done years before. Backtracking through what you've done for a week and coming up with eight or nine days worth of material can be quite vexing, to say the least.

However, it does provide a new perspective on my dream state. Could these overly normal dreams mean anything? If they do, why aren't they more significant? ...Or maybe their plain nature is their significance? These are the things that keep me up at night. ◔ ⌣ ◔"

To be honest, i think they're just residual memories that the brain randomly recreates with no apparent reason really. I think that plainly normal things seem to pop up a lot since we usually consciously think of the memorable ones, and therefore they leave the mundane and trivial things to the subconscious. And when we try to backtrack on the things we did, a lot of the irrelevant subconscious info gets thrown in our mind as well, since we are desperately trying to remember something and if our brain can't get info, it'll start taking from the other resources (like the subconscious). [I think this may also be how instincts work — when we are out of ideas we get instincts which is actually just our subconscious resurfacing, you know?]
>i hope that made sense lol

Anyway, it's also quite nice to recreate your entire day before bed. I've heard many people saying it increases awareness once you start dreaming, though i havent actually tried it much myself. I always fall asleep right away haha

I think it's working~

My recall is slowly getting better, but only if I consciously stop and think about what I just finished dreaming about when I wake up. Even things like my alarm are a bit of a distraction right now and I hope that changes soon, though I'm not going to rush things.