Week 07 Day 1 Lesson IV:
Well, finally after six weeks I had an experience I can call a lucid dream.
I want to use this post to summarize some of my findings, things that have worked for me for future reference.

During these weeks I have tried almost every technique, DILD, MILD, DEILD, WILD.
- DILD; This one has been kind of working for me. By practicing ADA and using personal RCs, I have created several opportunities to become lucid.
It has worked for me to achieve it for a few seconds, but during the transition from dreaming to becomming aware the dream tends to stir things up which then breaks my train of thought, leaving me back in the dream unaware.

- MILD; You could say that most beginners at lucid dreaming are practicing MILD, not a day goes by without thinking about it, remembering past dreams during the day. But the mantra's and thinking involved right before going to bed doesn't work with me it feels a bit forced. But that's probably because I'm doing something wrong.

- DEILD; This one got me as close as I came to lucid dreaming before I attained my first LD. But this could also have something to do with what happend during the initial waking up. I hurt my hand and this pain came with me in the dream like an anchor to the real world or something. For what it's worth it was the most powerfull RC I have ever had.

- WILD; Combined with WBTB for about 5 to 10 minutes has brought me my first lucid dream and so I will stick with this technique.
That moment of realizing you're in a dream, amazing.

So, after trying several techniques for a few weeks and attaining my first LD (woohoo! still so happy I made it!) I will now focus on keeping this up and move on to Lesson IV!

Dream stabilization

I think this will be my biggest obstacle in sustaining a lucid dream.
Like with my first lucid and also with non lucids my dreams tend to build up as they go in everything.
What I mean is that my dreams begin very boring and mundane no emotion, than real life situations happen with normal emotions, then strange things happen and emotions get stronger (point where lucidity can be attained).
After that third build up I reach a fourth stage where everything stops making sense, bright colours, most amazing sounds from big orchestra's to eerie crashing trains and emotions so strong they stay with you even after waking up.

My goal will have to be to try and keep it at the 3rd stage.
I'll name these 4 stages the stages of dream intensity.
- Stage 1, little colour, no sound or emotions
- Stage 2, real life environment with realistic emotions.
- Stage 3, things stop to make sense, randomness laws of the real world do not apply, the average dreamworld
- Stage 4, Oh my God this is the most amazing thing ever I can't believe this happening what the fuck! Chaos everywhere and emotions are kept after waking up.

Dream Control :

I don't expect this to be a big problem for me. In non-lucids I show having a good deal of controle and I also took controle in my first lucid when the giant rock nearly made me collapse.
Well maybe when I reach stage 4 of dream intensity and chaos takes over, yeah that might get difficult.

As I'm writing this I remember a dream I had a few weeks ago, I believe I also wrote it in a DJ-entry.

I was being chased and I remembered a technique I read about in a LaBerge book. It was the one that says to close your eyes and spin around.

This technique works very well for me, have to remember that one and focus on it when I start to lose controle or when things start to happen that I don't want to.
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Well I hope to get a lot of lucids from here on out. The holidays are coming which makes it easy for me to go back to me most profitable sleeping schedule.

I will now update my goals and what not in my first post and also make a new entry about my first lucid. My description of it in my earlier post isn't that accurate and was written on a whim.