Thread: Squilli0's Workbook

Thanks! Unfortunately the chain was broken, but I'm still pretty proud of 3 nights in a row. Seeing the hand deformities is kinda weird at first but I've seen it in dreams a couple of times so I'm getting more used to it. I kind of want to look at myself in a mirror during my next LD and kind of don't at the same time, because on one hand it would be interesting, on the other I've heard of people scaring themselves awake because their deformities are freaky and at this early stage it seems a bit like a waste of a lucid.

I know exactly what you mean. In my first induced lucid dream, I unintentionally looked at myself in the mirror. My face kept getting deformed and morphed. It was scary, but omce I woke up it felt kind of cool. For the longest time, I would avoid mirrors just in case. But I dunno, one day I just decided to wanna see myself in mirrors. Sometimes when I'm lucid enough to remember, I do it. Sometimes it's scary, sometimes it's awesome. But either way it's an interesting experience!

WORKBOOK UPDATE 11/1/12: Yet another DEILD

So it was fairly late into my dream cycle so I was having some awesome dreams, and I was on my third when suddenly- I woke up. My eyes briefly flashed open for a second, but I closed them when I realized I had just been dreaming. I closed my eyes and imagined the scene again. Who was there, where I was, the noises, what I was holding. I managed to go back to sleep, but my victory was short lived. I heard a clapping sound and I woke up. This time I kept my eyes closed and tried again. Imagine, rinse, repeat. After about 10 seconds I opened my eyes again and I was back in the scene. Success! Well, you would think so anyway. I lost lucidity a few seconds later. I consider this a success, because it was an application of induction techniques that succeeded, but more analytic people could say that It failed because it has to be lucid to be a DEILD. Meh, take it how you see it

Well done! Most definitely a success, you still had lucidity, even if it was short lived

WORKBOOK UPDATE 11/5/12: Greatest success yet!

It's been a while before updates, but hell has it been worth it. This time I had a DEILD chain, and unlike prior successes, I kept lucidity for the whole ride. Anyway, I was coming home from school when suddenly I woke up. I was confused and disoriented, thinking "wasn't I just at school?" so I kept my eyes shut and imagined the scene. I'm getting quite a knack for this if I do say so myself, because within 5 seconds I was plonked down on my arse in the dreamworld.

At first I was at school, but I did a scene shift. I was suddenly in a large park with a tall marble gazebo in the centre. I immediately remembered my goal, which is a first for any of my dreams, and tried flying. So I jumped up high (About ten metres) and lay horizontal and imagined flying, having no doubts that it was possible. No results. Quickly tiring of this, I realized that DC's are malleable so I changed the park-goers around a bit. My dream suddenly began shaking and rippling like a pond with stones thrown into it! A digital clock appeared counting down the 30 seconds I had left! I was about to ground, when I thought: "Hey, may as well go with the flow and DEILD chain then ground next time." So I woke up and started constructing a new dream.

Within 7 seconds I was on a large hill where a convention of native american indians were camping and I saw the helpful digital clock again saying I only had one minute. Some hardcore grounding of rubbing hands together, touching the ground and stroking friends hair pushed it back to 10 minutes. I climbed the hill and snuck around a chainlink fence at the back to find a shear hill. "Perfect" I thought, and some 5 year olds started encouraging me to jump off it. I jumped and flattened my body. I didn't quite fly, but I shakily glided about 200m. I came back and got into a scrap with some DC's. Having won, I spent the rest of the time messing around.

When I woke up I was immedately excited and ran downstairs to tell my family. As I got down the scene started changing. "Bollocks! A false awakening" Dream me thought. So I lost lucidity at that point and the rest of the dreams are hazy.

All in all, this was the greatest lucid dreaming success I have had yet and I have past many milestones. 15 minute LD, 200 metres glided, Most effective DEILD chain yet. After the past few days of stress, these dreams were a perfect pick-me-up.

Incredible man! That is awesome

WORKBOOK UPDATE 11/6/2012: The D(E)ILD Conundrum

So I had an LD for the second night in a row, with luck I'll beat my previous chain record. I had many vivid dreams in a very short time between 5:40 and 7:12 AM. At one point I had a dream about waking up and DEILDing so I had a DILD about DEILD? Anyway, I achieeved some goals in a limited fashion as it was a level 3.5 LD. I flew, firebended and looked in a mirror.

Congrats!

Interesting, what you said about DILDing about DEILDing. Did you know it was a dream in the suppsosed DEILD? That sounds like a false awakening!

Goodluck

It was a false awakening, but I never opened my eyes (Habit from my latest DEILDING) and the FA led me to lucidity. I'm so confused as to what the f**k actually happened but the only thing I know is that I was never awake o_o

That's really cool. FAs help me become lucid alot, because they've happened to me so much over the years. It's a really great tool to have, being able to turn FAs around to your benefit!

WORKBOOK UPDATE: Awesome LD! 11/9/2012

As per usual I was going along my merry ways in a dream when I woke up. I love that realization when your awake and your eyes are closed and you attempt to drop back into the dream and it works. I was in the dream and I was really feeling like doing nothing productive but then after I grounded a couple of times I suddenly remembered my goal of doing the first basic TOTM. Me and a friend found a door, and we walked through in the hopes of my SubC making it a portal. No such luck. We were simply in a small DIY shed, so I stepped back out side. Sudden scene change, the shed is now in a forest (Que Isaiah Mustafa voice)! I was walking through the forest, and trying to conjure up a 17th century firearm, when suddenly, I hear someone scream "STOP!" I looked around for the source, and I see a dark skinned man in a snazzy business suit shouting: "Haven't you heard the Legend of Sleepy Hollow? Get out of the forest now!". Odd of my subconscious, seeings as I haven't read the Legend of Sleepy Hollow or seen the movie. It's just lucky that the Headless Horseman didn't appear.

So anyway, I continued out of the forest, and I was on a city street. I woke up, went back to sleep, and continued. I grounded then remembered my goal of inspecting my reflection, so I went up to a car mirror which was for some unfathomable reason on the back of the car >_> and looked at my reflection. My eyes were on different parts of my head, my face was white and my lips were black and I had no nose. The sudden realization that my SubC thinks of me as some freakish Voldemort esque creature made me wake up with a jolt. Luckily, I got back to the dream, and just walked down the street. I was at that point tired of goals so I just enjoyed the ride and then woke up at exactly 5:00 AM. The excitement of such an easy and awesome dream made me decide not to go back to bed

So anyway, that was a successful dream in my eyes, I grounded a couple of times, did some cool things, but I guess it'll have to wait until next time for mah first wings

Congrats on the lucid!

Great job on stabilizing too. Those wings are soon to coooome!

SMALL WORKBOOK UPDATE 11/10/2012: a failed TOTM attempt and many awesome dreams.

Having woken and fallen asleep many times through many awesome NLDs, I finally got to one where I was in the bathroom of a modern style cinema. I was thinking about how odd the last few hours, and looked into the mirror above the basin to see a very blurred reflection. I looked down at my hand, and of course my fingers were one segment short and a few digits were fused together. It then dawned on me that I was dreaming, and I woke up. I immediately initiated DEILD, and within moments I was in the forest I had considered the night before to attempt the basic Task of The Month. Alas, being caught up in the excitement of having another shot at the TOTM (And so soon after the last failed attempt, too) I completely forgot to ground. As I was forming the forest and coniferous trees were popping up around me, I began to become aware of the felling of my bed-sheets and I woke up soon after.

I guess this is proof you should always ground.

Dreams I can recall: 4
False awakenings I can recall: 1 (Possibly 2)
Lucid Dreams I can recall: 2

Go Captain DEILD!! I love how easily you slipped back into lucid after lucid like that, especially in the entry from yesterday. Question though: when you say you "ground" I'm assuming you mean stabilize. So what is it you do to stabilize?

I do mean stabilizing, it's just me being silly and mixing up my terminology. I tend to first rub my hands together, then feel the ground, then run my fingers through a DC's hair (A trait I picked up after reading RareCola's dream journal xD). Unfortunately, I tend to forget to ground sometimes, leading to ultimately short and unsatisfactory dreams. Although, sometimes after attaining lucidity I purposefully wait to wake up so I can DEILD and then stabilize, so I can have a) A fresh pallet of a dream to work with and b) To extend the dream a little bit.

Originally Posted by Squilli0

Although, sometimes after attaining lucidity I purposefully wait to wake up so I can DEILD and then stabilize, so I can have a) A fresh pallet of a dream to work with and b) To extend the dream a little bit.

This is interesting to me. Do you mean that you actually hope (or try?) to wake up ASAP when you first become lucid? What are you looking for in a fresh dream? To give yourself time to calm down?

Essentially, all of the above. I don't try to wake up ASAP, but I don't ground and I use the minute or so I have before waking (And DEILD) to calm down and collect my thoughts and remember my goals. Basically when I have a fresh dream I mean my memory isn't a clusterf**k of the last few dreams so I can work a bit more clearly on my dream goals . I haven't heard of this being utilized before, but from my experience it is effective. I've gotten used to the odd feeling of changing from fake sensory illusions caused by the dream to feeling the bedsheets around me, and as soon as I realize that I'm awake (My eyes shouldn't have opened) I begin constructing the next LD.

Very interesting! Sounds like it's working pretty well, especially if DEILD is coming so naturally to you.

The only thing I might discourage is building up any notion in your mind that your original dream scene can't work for you. I'd hate to see that idea limit you because existing dream scenes are often filled with opportunity (although I'll admit that some do suck, heh heh...) As long as you don't fall victim to any self-limiting beliefs, it sounds like you're nicely honing your DEILD skills!

That is an interesting technique there SquilliO. I admire your patience. Most of us want to grab on and run. I personally wouldn't want to do that every time but I can see how that helps. There have been times when the dream doesn't form for me very well and I feel it going. That's usually when I just relax and wait to DEILD back in. Great job!

I do this as a guideline, If I see potential in the current scene I tend to keep it/ alter it slightly

last night I had a WILD where there were objects flying through the dark like the space screen saver on windows. I tried to focus on one, I think it was a grandfather clock, but I was unable to go into a dream.
Perhaps it was an awareness problem in general, but my thought is that if I might have waited to concentrate on a specific object, a scene would probably have developed...just food for thought...

The unconscious always out does the conscious mind.

Well, my dryspell is (with any luck) over. During its progression from inconvenience to absolute f**king nuisance it seemed like a negative, but now having an LD feels so much more rewarding. I suppose having completed the basic TOTM on my previous attempt I feel rewarded enough, but a bit extra never hurts

Originally Posted by Squilli0

Although, sometimes after attaining lucidity I purposefully wait to wake up so I can DEILD and then stabilize, so I can have a) A fresh pallet of a dream to work with and b) To extend the dream a little bit.

The +like system is temporarily disabled, so for now "+like" on that thing you do ^^. Makes me curious to try it myself. And congrats on the totm!

Thanks! It took a few attempts, but the main thing is that I got there . For better or worse, I'm of a fairly persistent disposition.