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Good deal, Squilli0! And look, no worries on things getting busy and having to take some time to get real life organized before falling back into your rhythm on dream work. Once you get your practices going again, you'll have it all back in no time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Squilli0
I'm looking forward to hearing more! :goodjob2:
I've decided what I will focus on for the next two months!
I'm afraid I never gave WILD and WBTB techniques enough consideration. I can't decide which technique I'm best at until I've tried them all, so for now I may as well try to be as well rounded as possible. If I need more time after two months I will allow myself another month, and if by then I have not had reasonable success I will confirm that I'm utterly useless at WILD and move onto the next technique (Probably MILD).
WORBOOK UPDATE 4/7/13: DILD within a WILD, and dreams everywhere!
I started with the usual procedure; you know, sleeping. I woke up at 4:00AM, because I have recognised 5:00AM as my most vivid REM cycle. I timed it perfectly, and I exited towards the end of a few dreams I can remeber. I went to the toilet, had a drink and read a few pages of the nearest book. When I felt sleepy but aware, I stopped reading, blindfolded my eyes, and started LDHSW. I did this a lot better than before, and I was getting a lot of twitch signals and itches from my brain, but I ignored the majority of them, and after 10 minutes nothing had happened. I figured I was fidgeting too much, so I decided to pass the time by focusing on the swirling colours and shapes on the back of my eyelids in the darkness. A few minutes of this and I lost my memory, but not my consciousness. I can remember just after the LDHSW phase, and I remember feeling my body lock up into SP, but then I went into a sort of "grey area". I was still conscious, but I wasn't forming any memories. Having no dream to go into as I was not expecting to get that far, I quickly lost lucidity and started having normal dreams.
However, I did have one thing working in my favour. My WBTB had made my brain more prone to conscious thinking during REM, so while I was dreaming I felt suspicious enough to do an RC in my dream. I started with the ol' reliable method of counting fingers. It was a pretty convincing array of appendages, I had all 5 and none were deformed. I was about to move onto nose plugging before the pinky and ring finger on my left hand shortened at the first joint.
I'll explain the dream first, as I quite like it.
We started off in a random country in Europe, and my sister was driving me and her friends to Italy (I lived there for a year, might be significant) to meet up with our parents in Rome. We drove through several countries, and it was very scenic. We eventually got to Rome and we met our parents in a reaaaaally swanky hotel. It was like a mansion and we were in the penthouse apartment. I was walking around, and then I did a reality check.
I hadn't set my intention, so I ended up just pissing around, teleporting, flying, etc. I still think that this was successful, I set the foundations of future WILD's and had my first LD since returning to DV.