Aeoneth's Workbook

[Aeoneth]

Day 1 Dreams: 2 Wake up times: 6 (4 cycles) 930 (meant to be 1 cycle but got pushed) Both attempts at WILD Sidenote: after waking from 1st dteam i found it a little hard to return to my dreams. I am attributing it to being excited and not staying calm enough to drift to sleep again. 1st was like my usual day except everywhere i went i heard the same 2 lines of song Mama its your boy (not sure of the your boy part) Somebody save me *EDIT* after making it back home an rereading my hastily scribbled note it actually says something along the lines of: Mama's just insane, Somebody save me. 2nd was much harder to remember as i ended up sleeping through my alarm. And woke up 30 minutes before i had to be at work so i lost my "recall time". Still i can remember there was a dream but when i try to remember s specific part of it the memory gets blurry.

[Xanous]

I know recall can be tough sometimes but it sounds like you are doing the things you need to do to make progress. The excitement can be a lucid killer. With time it will fade. Though, once in a while I have issues with that. Finding ways to calm yourself might take some practice but its really not so difficult. Good luck. I hope to read about some lucids soon!

[Aeoneth]

Interesting night last night. Went to focus on one dream and ended up having two 1st was me getting ready for what i assume was a date or just lunch. I was all dressed up and had my haired styled. I remember thinking i wanted to impress whoever i was meeting with. But in the end the other person never showed up. Tgen randomly woke up at 4 ant tried to fall asleep again The 2nd dream is again harder to remember as tge phone rang at 6 and woke me up early. I remember the end. Though i was running through a city. But it didn't seem like i was running from anything. More just running to something. Though i never did reach the goal. The world ACTUALLY shattered when the phone rang

[Chimpertainment]

Welcome Aeoneth! Very good idea to focus on recall to start with. I would be very interested to see your progress with WILD. It can be difficult yet some find it quite easy.

[Aeoneth]

Getting better with recall Had 2 dreams last night. Dream 1: Wake time: 5:30 Was sitting in home and had gotten into an argument with my parents. They had just returned from a trip to India and brought a live Bengal Tiger. Apparently they're return flight had a stopover in Antarctica or something because they also bough many "Kobi Penguins" (I have no idea why i heard Kobi, but after some penguin based research maybe I was meant to hear King Penguins). They're plan was to feed the tiger these penguins as food but I refused to stand for it and thus the argument ensued. Dream 2: Wake time 8:30 This one I remember vividly, I was driving in the winter in a smaller car, like a white little jeep. When I got pulled over by the cops. A male cop walked up and gave me the usual spin (license and registration blah blah blah). I happily obliged (this has only happened to me once before in the waking world) and then he just randomly let me go. (I may have subconsciously exerted some dream control). I continued driving until I got o a road near my home at which point i started doing donuts in the street. Sure enough I see another car and suspect its a cop. I stopped my donuts and pulled over again. This time it was a female cops (she had a face similar to that of an old lady i see working at my local Walmart). She asks me what in gods name I was doing, to which i replied I was packing down the snow a bit so others didn't start sliding around alot. She asked me is I had a catcher (at the time i thought she was referring to a plow and not a cow catcher) I said no but my car wouldn't be strong enough to handle one anyway. She told me to stop as I was putting myself at risk but eased off once I told her the car had four wheel drive. She drove off and I continued the donuts. After I woke up and wrote it down I did some research on the car. Apparently its either a GM Tracker or Pontiac Sunrunner, they're both the same look colour and have four wheel drive.

[Aeoneth]

Two new dreams from the night before last, but didn't have any last night. (Though I kind of threw my usual sleep schedule wayy out of whack) Dream 1 - Trolling with Customers - Wake time: 3:15 I was working as a CSA for Planetside 2 and as I was handling 1 call I noticed the guy was referencing a link on the customer support ebsite that spit out a random Terminator 2 quote as well as random lines regarding PS2 in Arnold's voice. As I was helping him other CSAs started listening into the call until eventually we decided to have some fun with the guy and just juggled him back and forth amongst each other and responding to him with said random quotes. Dream 2 - wake time 4:30 I was being informed of a parade that was happening in LA ( I was several hundred kilometers away) by one of my friends. I told them I was gonna run to them (don't know what my dream self was thinking) So I started running and spent probably a good 2 hours running and just seeing random sites as I ran (none of which, I'm pretty sure are in the LA area) Eventually reaching the site of the parade. Once I arrived there I started getting into a conversation with an older gentleman about random things like the parade and weather. We also discussed other subjects but they eluded me when I wrote them into my DJ.

[Aeoneth]

Two new dreams. Again missed a day due to out of whack sleep but I digress. Dream 1 - Wake time: 5:30 Was just trying to go about a regular day, but there were random monsters attacking me wherever I went. Kinda looked like humans but with certain parts of their bodies horribly oversized and their faces kind of melting or something. Oddly enough I was more annoyed than afraid of these things. and proceeded to fight them with whatever I had at hand. The actual fights ended up playing out much like a Devil May Cry / other stylistic Hack n' Slash Game. Aka I looked like a bad ass dispatching these things. Though no one ever seemed impressed > Dream 2 - Wake time: 7:00 This one was more rooted in reality. I was hired by Bell Canada for an intern position (a position I actually got interviewed for but unfortunately had to decline because I later found out it was an unpaid internship which I could not afford to take). Anyway apparently in my dream internship equated to spring break in a tropical location which was randomly in the middle of Toronto (in winter no less) (Seriously need to work on awareness, this would have been a perfect trigger). There were some faces of people from my high school days and my university days there for various jobs (some of which I now think aren't even real positions [Vice president of coffee breaks? WTF brain]). Anywho I was touring the "campus" [aka resort] and lost my shirt somewhere (i remember taking it off) and had to go hunt for it. Shortly after I found my shirt i awoke to the sound of my brothers alarm, really hate the days we wake at the same time.

[Chimpertainment]

Thats some nice recall you got goin! Hows the WILD adventures workin out?

[Aeoneth]

I've strictly been focussing on recall as I figured my focus would help develop it faster. Been paying me in spades I think because today's story is the testament to my progress... Dream 1 Sleep time: 12:20, Wake time: 6:20 It starts with me running down a hallway. I can hear voices at the end, though i can't make out what they are saying. I hear gunshots and grunts. It sounds like three distinct voices in all, 1 male and two female. They're coming from the other side of a door. I burst through and I see what the commotion is about. The three are fighting off zombies just outside the door. One lunges for me and I notice a crowbar in my hands. I quickly make it collide with the zombies face. One of the women shoots another and I see my friend (the male) and his girlfriend kill two more. But there are still more in the distance. We're in some sort of parking garage I guess, my friend yells to me about "taking my sweet ass time" and at this point I notice a bag slung over my shoulder. the four of us run to the end of the garage and enter a car. I'm constantly apologizing for taking so long, but can't remember the reason I did. Once we're in the car he guns it out and we crash through a small group of zombies and just run over them. The car continues past them and down the road. I notice very few vehicles on the road but it seemed reasonable to me. I don't remember much of the next part of the dream though I may have time skipped. The next thing I know we're parking the car and a few zombies are shambling towards us. My friend opens a door and hurries us through it, he slams and barricades the door. And we start heading up a stairwell. The building we are in is kind of like a small office building, but one that would have multiple different businesses in it. We head through the halls and up to the fourth or fifth floor. It's at this point I notice the business rooms are actually like small homes. The entire building is like a refugee camp, but instead of weak and starving people we are well equipped survivors. We bring our loot to one specific room and divide it amongst ourselves and a few other inhabitants. I see more of my friends here, and we talk about out loot runs. A time skip occurs (about 1 week if my dream memory is right) and now I'm at the edge of a city (the city?) on a small outcrop on a nearby mountain. I have a rifle and I see a bunch of zombies waddling up a hill which would lead to the city. They are a bit of a ways off so I climb down and make it to the other side near the city. There are a couple other survivors with rifles (none of which I recognize) and I tell them about the zombies. One of them (the leader i guess) tells me to go back to my post and to start shooting at them. I try to argue but he continues to order me to shoot them. I agree and head back to my outcrop and start shooting. Once the zombies get close enough to me and are scratching the rocks underneath me the other side starts firing at them, and I think at me as well. The zombies are keenly intent on me but luckily they can't climb (hooray zombie rules apply in my dreams). They start getting thinned out but eventually catch on to the other side and start climbing up their side (the others had a hill that lead right to them the zombies didn't actually climb the "wall"). I try to get the hordes attention again by firing and killing a bunch more but the others are too tasty of a meal. They get run off or die and I run out of ammo. unfortunately I still have a bunch of zombies under me. I think I subconsciously applied some dream control here as I was sitting there praying/wishing to be safe and then jump down and another time skip occurs (this time a month passes if dream-memory is to be trusted). I'm walking through the halls of the office building again, but this time I see holes in the walls and what looks like makeshift bridges crossing to other buildings. Apparently we were surviving on the upper floors of several buildings and destroying the stairs save for a few which we made sure were guarded. We had built a smaller city (population like 50-60) on the rooftops of these buildings. I crossed over one such bridge remarking to myself and someone else how "I always hate crossing these damn things. I always expect it to give out on me." Me and the other person cross the bridge into anothe rbigger office building where apparently we were having a "town meeting". The entirety of the discussion was short, Basically with all the bodies that had been piling up we were running out of room in the lower levels and we were afraid the diseases rampant among them woul make their way into the air ducts and start making the rest of us sick. There was also a mention of supplies running low and that the city was begging to look dried up. I don't remember what the rest of the meeting was like as another time skip occured (a couple of months this time). Still in the offices I felt woozy and was walking through the halls to one of the sky bridges. People in the windowless rooms were usually bedridden or coughing and hacking and as we got lower it sounded like some of the entrances had been compromised. A couple of the stairwells were blocked off and moans could be heard from the other side. There were human dead in the buildings sitting in some of the supply closets and other spare rooms. They made a couple of the hallways reek. Eventually I made it to another skybridge and watched as a couple of people passed out and fell over the edge. I made it back to my room which was thankfully windowed, (though we had smashed them to let as much air in as possible) and began discussing things with my friends. I remember it being chilly and grabbing a blanket as a friend of mine lit an oil drum fire. I fell asleep and when I woke up everyone was packing. Apparently I had been asleep for two days and in that time we had made a vote to move out of the offices.Our group was one of the last. It was me and 4 of my buddies (my friend in the beginning and his girlfriend being two of them) that were left and everyone else as part of the last evacuation had rendezvoused at a nearby church or hotel or something. We stayed behind to gather whatever supplies we could as my friends were planning to split form the group. (Apparently things got hostile in the meeting and my friends didn't agree with the plan set forth.) So I told them that I'd be willing to help them out and they agreed. I gathered whatever I could find (my rifle some water, a dufflebag of clothes and canned food) and we left for the church to meet with another small group of 5. When we got to the church we saw about 30 people a bunch of which I recognize as my university friends. I went and talked with them and apparently they knew about our plan. They wished us luck and just as we were about to leave someone started yelling something and a bunch of other people started screaming. I remember a bunch of zombies pushing breaking through a window and begin to flock into the building. Some people started shooting them I grabbed my rifle and prepared ot shoot, but before I could look down the scope I was grabbed from behind and a woman yelled my name. I was turned around and then... I woke up. Seriously it was the worst possible time to do so but I just suddenly woke up. I wanted to get back into it but I only had like 5 minutes before my alarm went off and so I just decided to write it down in my journal. This one filled about 2 pages (its a small journal), compared to my other entries it's like a damn novel. Anywho, I'm glad my recall is getting strong. I think starting next week I'll start attempting WILD and DILD (if I fail the WILD) again.

[Aeoneth]

Welp haven't posted in a bit as my sleep schedule went insane over the last few weeks. Getting it back to normal now, however I did have two dreams of note during those weeks. 1) The Hygeine Games Date: Feb 11, Bed: 1:00, Wake:6:00 I was apparently in some sore of hunger games/ battle royale like competition, which was being run by my father. I don't remember why I was in the competition, but apparently I had proceeded to either the semi or quarter finals. This round had me pitted against no one, as it was merely preparation for the next round. The objective was simple, the next rounds were going to take place in a coliseum like structure built in a nearby town. All I had to do was make sure I was groomed and fed and had clean clothes by the time I got there in 3 hours. The catch here is that NOTHING in the house was working. Power had been cut, water pumps had been turned off, machines were unplugged, etc etc. All of them could be turned on again, but everything was also rigged to blow. Doorways had tripwires, closets and drawers had tripwires, Even the power switches themselves were rigged to blow. As such I had to find each tripwire and disarm the trap before I could even enter the house. So I started on the outside and opened a window to my basement, luckily I still had a pair of wire cutters from the last competition (I think thats what the dream reasoned them for, I kind of just randomly noticed them in my hand). I disarmed a window then smashed it open (no way to actually open it from outside), the window lead to an office my father was building, which also happened to be where the power breaker was, I examined the wall and found that every breaker switch was flipped off, and each had small fishing wire like strands leading to some explosives. I snipped them all and then turned the power on. 1 problem down. I built a makeshift staircase out of boxes and climbed back out the window and went to the back door. I disarmed the door and went into the kitchen since there were no other doors, I turned the stove on and disarmed the fridge, luckily the power had been turned off fairly recently before I arrived, as the produce was still fresh (and slightly cold). I grabbed a few eggs and some bacon, and threw them in a frying pan (after disarming the drawer they were in of course). Next I made my way down stairs to the laundry room and grabbed a bunch of clothes and threw them in the washing machine(after disarming). But no water was entering the machine, then I remembered that the water pump was off, so I ran downstairs flung the basement door open, but forgot to disarm it, remembering right as i cracked the door open I pushed myself away, just barely dodging an explosion. My body was sore, but a quick check and I found that luckily that's all that aled me. I went downstairs and then turned away from the office to enter the sub basement, remembering to disarm the door this time, and walked over to the water pump. Right as I was disarming it I began to hear my radio and the dream ended. 2) Feb 18th Bed 2:00am Wake 12:00 am A short but sweet dream this time, notable though for 1 reason. I was sitting in a coffee shop in my town, I was there to meet with a woman. When she arrived I found out that it was a friend (a friend that I was smitten with, but was unfortunately for me, turned down by). I got up to meet her and we ended up locking lips. She held onto my hand and we walked into the town holding hand and talking with each other about a variety of subjects. When we arrived into town the dream ended with us looking into each others eyes. Find it weird that the subject of dream 2 was a friend that turned me down. I had thought I'd put her out of my mind, but apperantly not. Either way now that I am getting back to a semi regular sleep pattern I think I'll continue with DILD attempts for now.

[OpheliaBlue]

Welcome back Aeoneth, glad your sleep schedule is getting less crazy. Any questions or issues about WILD or DILD that you'd like to discuss while you get back on track?

[Aeoneth]

Well I'm flipping through the DILD tutorials right now but If you have any mental processes you go through to help frame your mind for a lucid dream I'd appreciate anything like that.

[Chimpertainment]

The first that comes to mind is all day awareness... http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...kingyoshi.html

[paigeyemps]

Thought this might help as well: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...d-secrets.html See ya around, and welcome to the intro class!