Thread: plmnko098's Workbook

My recall tends to suck too if I go to bed later than midnight, even if I get 8 or more hours of sleep. I find that the prime time for me is 11pm and then a long WBTB. Better luck tonight!

Only after having read your post did i realise that i lost track of time for the past couple of hours. I thought it was only about 9pm. But nope, it's nearly 11pm. For some reason i have a good feeling about to night concerning lucid dreaming. I may try for a WILD to night. It will all depend of whether i can drag myself awake later.

Anyway i'm off to bed, hopefully i have some luck tonight.

So, yeah. It didn't really go to plan last night. I planned on going to bed right after i posted that last night at about 11pm. But i somehow ended up getting distracted and didn't go to bed until about 12:30am. I also forgot to set and alarm to do a WBTB that i planned to do. Luckily i ended waking up at about half five naturally so i did the WBTB then. I tried a WILD for the first time in a while. It was going well, but i need to practice and keeping my mind focused and not letting it wondering about thinking of what ever. that was what got me last night and i drifted off to sleep normally. Hopefully i have better luck next time.

So how has your bedtime and WBTB alarm gone since your last attempt?

I'm having the opposite problem lately: I've been sick so I hit the sack waaay to early, like 9:30pm. Then I have a hard time getting a good solid chuck of sleep when I'm coughing my lungs out The good news is there's usually a nice rebound once I'm recovered.

I'm betting as soon as you get a sleep schedule going, it will boost your lucidity as well.

Well Friday night i went to bed about the same time again because i just wasn't tried at all until then.

Saturday night was worse because i didn't get to bed until about 4am. I'm not even sure how or why i did. I just remember not feeling tired again until stupid o'clock in the morning and i got about 5 hours sleep. Surprisely during this 5 hour sleep i remembered quite a detailed dream.

Last night i got 4 hours sleep because i'm an idiot and i left all my homework i meant to have done over my week off until yesterday. That took me way too long and i didn't finish until about 2am. I had to be up at 6:30am so again i didn't get much sleep. I really noticed today what that sleep i lost has done. I was drawing a graph today and i kept messing up when counting along the scale.

But hopefully now that i have to get up at 6:30 and not when ever i felt like it i can motivate myself to go to bed earlier. I have noticed since i have started writing my dreams down again that if i go to bed at a reasonable time and i get enough sleep i will remember at least 1 dream.

Hope you feel beter soon.

Thanks It's no fun being sick on my 2 days off, but it would be worse if I was sick when I had to work. I have a couple days to recover.

Anyway, yes, keep journaling! I find that even when I struggle getting enough hours sleep, as long as I'm writing down any and everything, my recall doesn't suffer as much. Hopefully now that you have to get up earlier, you'll pass out sometime before 2am

Good luck and keep us posted!

So long story short. I only got about 6 hours sleep again last night. I really need to get more sleep. I plan on going to bed at about 10pm tonight and actually get some sleep. Hopefully i will actually stick to this tonight.

WOOO 4th Lucid!

I also got to sleep before midnight

I ended up going to bed at about 11:15pm. Slightly later then I would prefer but at least it was before midnight. The dream in which I got lucid in was when I was in a car that had taken control over itself and was now spinning around on the spot quite quickly. I noticed that the gap I was just in wasn't big enough for the car to do this so I figured that this was a dream. I did the nose plug RC and confirmed that it was. I tried to stop the car but I woke up soon after I tried to do this.

Unfortunately I woke up in to a FA and I didn't notice. I have just got in to the routine of doing a RC whenever I wake up. But when I woke up in the FA, the alarm clock said I had woken up late so I was rushing. I woke up not long after that. I remembered just waking up and didn't another RC. I confirmed I was not in a dream and that was a FA. I believe that was the first FA I have ever had that I have remembered.

2nd night in a row in which i went to sleep at a normal time. I ended up going to bed around 11:00pm and i did remember a dream when i woke up. Unfortunately i woke up about 45 minutes late so i didn't get chance to write down my dream. I forgot my dream before i managed to get a chance to write it down. . I do remember it being quite a weird and freaky dream though.

Congrats on the lucid!

And dont worry about the missed dream journalling, we all have our days. It's the intent that counts, and the commitment to actually try to remember them that makes us remember them more. Cheers

Thanks

I've had a really busy last couple of days, including today. I'm juts leaving a quick update here. I haven't had as much sleep as i would like over the weekend and as a result i had little to no dream recall. Luckily, this morning i recall a dream. When ever i get around to doing it i need to post my dreams on the DJ here.

Originally Posted by plmnko098

When ever i get around to doing it i need to post my dreams on the DJ here.

Looking forward to it! The more you journal, the more it helps you recall dreams. And the more you recall, the more we can help you achieve your lucid goals

For the past couple of weeks I have slowly slipped out of all of my routines related to lucid dreaming. It mostly started when I got bugger all sleep for quite a few nights in a row and the after that my dream recall never really came back until a few nights ago. By that time I kinda gave up my routine in the morning of writing my dreams down, as I never recalled any.

However, today when I woke up I recalled a really strange dream that has stuck with me all day and has now prompted me to get back into lucid dreaming. I have finally got around to writing that dream down at 11:30pm . Surprisingly I still remember it.

Unfortunately, I seemed to have misplaced the dreams I did recall at the start of this month. Hopefully I can still find them. At any rate, I’m going to update my dream journal on here when I get up tomorrow as it's getting late where I am.

Good to have you back i hope you find your DJ of your previous dreams

Originally Posted by plmnko098

However, today when I woke up I recalled a really strange dream that has stuck with me all day and has now prompted me to get back into lucid dreaming. I have finally got around to writing that dream down at 11:30pm . Surprisingly I still remember it.

Unfortunately, I seemed to have misplaced the dreams I did recall at the start of this month. Hopefully I can still find them. At any rate, I’m going to update my dream journal on here when I get up tomorrow as it's getting late where I am.

That's great, man. It's sometimes a bit of a grind getting dream recall booted back up, but sometimes a bolt of lightning can come out of nowhere and get you going again. Just ride that momentum in.

How do you typically record your dreams? If you tend to write them down very soon after waking up (and I recommend that you do), it's best to have one consistent place to put them, at least temporarily. It's easy to misplace them when they're on loose sheets of paper. I was going through some old papers and found one of mine from the summer of last year (before I even joined DreamViews!) Needless to say, this was before I started writing everything down in a single notebook.

I normally record my dreams in a single notepad. I have it on my bedside table and I write any dream I recall in it as soon as I can after waking up. Unfortunately at the start of this month I ran out of room in the notepad so I had to make do with loose pieces of paper. Whenever I went out I always forgot to buy another notepad so for a while I only used loose pages.

I had them all in a pile in which I fold in half so they would stay together. I put them on the drawers in my room which also had a lot of my school work on as well. I pretty much forgot about them until the other day when I started looking for them. When I did find a pile of paper that looked like it, it just turned out to be a pile of old school work instead.

I have now found a couple of pages but the majority are still missing. I have looked in the rest of the piles of school work in case I accidently mixed it in with them. Still nothing so I’m not holding out much hope that I will find them. It's a shame because I remember a couple of them being quite interesting.

I'm about to write what dreams I do have written down onto the dream journal here.

I've had no luck finding the rest of the dreams i have lost. I have now finally got round to finish copying the ones i do have on to the dream journal here.

I have been think today about what method i'm going to focus on to get lucid. So far i have mostly only focused on WILD but that didn't really work for me it seems. I'm think of focusing on DILD as thats how i got my four lucid dreams so far. DO any of you have any good tips or can point me towards a good guide on DILD? Cheers.

I personally like this guide: Puffin's DILD Guide - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Good luck, and im sorry about not finding your old dreams. Don't worry, you can make new ones. Good luck!

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

I personally like this guide: Puffin's DILD Guide - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Good luck, and im sorry about not finding your old dreams. Don't worry, you can make new ones. Good luck!

Thanks. I've checked it out and hopefully it will help me get lucid.

Originally Posted by plmnko098

I've had no luck finding the rest of the dreams i have lost. I have now finally got round to finish copying the ones i do have on to the dream journal here.

I have been think today about what method i'm going to focus on to get lucid. So far i have mostly only focused on WILD but that didn't really work for me it seems. I'm think of focusing on DILD as thats how i got my four lucid dreams so far. DO any of you have any good tips or can point me towards a good guide on DILD? Cheers.

It's a bummer about the old dreams, but lesson learned! You'll have many, many more.

As for techniques, I have a few favorites. MILD is, in my opinion, a really solid, basic induction technique. It reaches its greatest potential when paired with a WBTB, so my personal choice is to plan at least some WBTBs to help really boost your practice. I like Naiya's guide to MILD and its focus on imagination and visualization: http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...technique.html

A great way to get trained for a full WILD is to spend some time mastering DEILD in order to learn the feel of it. A DEILD is really just a WILD under extraordinarily ideal circumstances, so the skills should transfer. There are a couple of great guides for this on the site:
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...me-ld-god.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...cid-dream.html

If you're looking for something more exotic, SSILD was a very fruitful tech for me. I do MILD now, but SSILD gave me a whole lot of LDs. My warning is that it's very exotic and nobody is completely sure of the reasons why it works. Still, it is surprisingly effective for many people. Here's the post about it: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...eam-ssild.html

Good luck with whatever you decide!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

It's a bummer about the old dreams, but lesson learned! You'll have many, many more.

As for techniques, I have a few favorites. MILD is, in my opinion, a really solid, basic induction technique. It reaches its greatest potential when paired with a WBTB, so my personal choice is to plan at least some WBTBs to help really boost your practice. I like Naiya's guide to MILD and its focus on imagination and visualization: http://www.dreamviews.com/attaining-...technique.html

A great way to get trained for a full WILD is to spend some time mastering DEILD in order to learn the feel of it. A DEILD is really just a WILD under extraordinarily ideal circumstances, so the skills should transfer. There are a couple of great guides for this on the site:
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...me-ld-god.html
http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...cid-dream.html

If you're looking for something more exotic, SSILD was a very fruitful tech for me. I do MILD now, but SSILD gave me a whole lot of LDs. My warning is that it's very exotic and nobody is completely sure of the reasons why it works. Still, it is surprisingly effective for many people. Here's the post about it: http://www.dreamviews.com/induction-...eam-ssild.html

Good luck with whatever you decide!

I've just finished checking out those guides you recommended. The technique i think best suits me at the moment is DEILD. I guess i'm just going to follow the guide and try it out for a while, see how it goes. Hopefully i have better luck with this.

So i was going to attempt a DEILD last night but i had a pretty crappy nights sleep. Fro about the first 4 hours i kept waking up every half an hour or so. This got annoying quickly.

After reading Dutchraptor's DEILD guide i decided i would learn to recognize when a dream ends. So just before i went to bed last night i repeated the mantra "I will wake up after my dream". It must have sunk in because when i woke up naturally at 9:40am i remembered to stay still and keep my eyes closed, not knowing that it was now quite a bit into morning.

I had a better nights sleep last night. I woke up a couple of times last night but i remembered to keep my eyes close. However, i need to work on staying still as well. I have high hopes though.

Originally Posted by plmnko098

I had a better nights sleep last night. I woke up a couple of times last night but i remembered to keep my eyes close. However, i need to work on staying still as well. I have high hopes though.

Great, I'm glad that this is getting easier for you. This step's a toughie, but it helps tremendously with not coming too far out of sleep. When you make the journey back into dreamland, it's very helpful to have kept still to make the transition easier.

One thing that has worked really well for me lately with DEILD is when I imagine myself back in the dream scene (or new dream scene, if this is is your preference), I imagine myself performing some sort of repetitive motion. This is an idea that I got from Xanous, who pretends he's riding a bike or running. I happened to be going for the Colosseum Task of the Year so I imagined myself swinging an ancient Roman sword. It brings in that much extra focus on your dream body, and I found it very effective.

Good luck with the DEILDing! DEILD took me a while to get, but it is so valuable to me now. Very important tool in my toolbelt, and a great way to understand WILD. The effort was well worth it!