Thread: Pennyroyal's workbook

Creative Sleep Program Day 7:

Day time:
- Tell yourself you will consciously examine negative[dream] images next time you dream.

Night time:
- Choose an appropriate symbol to place in your room and write your intention in your dream journal. (I'll leave a yellow hand picture on my desktop)
- In your dreams, ask unpleasant images and entities what they mean to you. (Yellow hand from childhood nightmare, Necromancer lady from several weeks ago)
- Focus on your goal as you go to sleep.

Yellow Hand
Necromancer Lady Like that but without the face thing.

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

"Gradual Awareness Technique" - I may not have been the first to invent this, but I have not heard of it before.

The basic idea - You choose one thing that causes you to do critical state testing (Am I dreaming?). Once you have become proficient at questioning your awareness on that one task almost every time, you choose a new one. The concept is to slowly build an arsenal of things that cause you to always question what state of reality you are in. Constant vigilance in being aware always seemed like such a daunting task to me - build it one block at a time!

Cool technique, and seems perfectly suited for self-pacing. LaBerge had an interesting section on rotating different dream signs for training prospective memory, but it had a totally different purpose and approach. With your tech, the idea is to add stuff permanently until one day the world looks very different to you -- now everywhere you look, something is reminding you that you might be dreaming.

This is a really cool idea. I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes for you, especially in terms of how quickly you add new elements as well as what the best approach turns out to be for "preserving" old triggers. Gently coaxing progress out of the body and mind usually seems to be the most effective approach from my experience.

Plus, it's pretty sweet that your acronym works out to be "gat".

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Cool technique, and seems perfectly suited for self-pacing. LaBerge had an interesting section on rotating different dream signs for training prospective memory, but it had a totally different purpose and approach. With your tech, the idea is to add stuff permanently until one day the world looks very different to you -- now everywhere you look, something is reminding you that you might be dreaming.

Yes, I believe I saw it in Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming by LaBerge. I've been meaning to do this for a week as advised, but havn't got around to it. Maybe I'll make it my first week goal for April.

[/quote]This is a really cool idea. I'm looking forward to hearing how it goes for you, especially in terms of how quickly you add new elements as well as what the best approach turns out to be for "preserving" old triggers. Gently coaxing progress out of the body and mind usually seems to be the most effective approach from my experience.

Plus, it's pretty sweet that your acronym works out to be "gat".[/QUOTE]

Haha, I hadn't considered the acronym

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Creative Sleep Program Day 7:

Day time:
- Tell yourself you will consciously examine negative[dream] images next time you dream.

Night time:
- Choose an appropriate symbol to place in your room and write your intention in your dream journal. (I'll leave a yellow hand picture on my desktop)
- In your dreams, ask unpleasant images and entities what they mean to you. (Yellow hand from childhood nightmare, Necromancer lady from several weeks ago)
- Focus on your goal as you go to sleep..

Results:
I didn't have a dream about any of the negative or nightmarish dreamsigns mentions above, but I did experience another negative dreamsign that I havn't had in a while (Teeth/Tooth falling out)

Day 8 Reality check:

This was nothing out of the ordinary, I try to practice awareness/RC as often as I think about it.
While drifting off to sleep vow to recognize a dream while you in in the midst of one.

Terrible Recall. I remember delivering something. I remember having a false awakening that it was raining.

Day 9:

Same as Day 8, including -
If I wake from a NLD in the early morning hours, review the details and vow to recognize a dream when you are in it.

Only a few more days to try for the march Totm. I feel like I'm REALLY close to a Lucid this week.

-Tonight I will recognize a dream sign in a dream.
-I will break something when I become Lucid.

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Only a few more days to try for the march Totm. I feel like I'm REALLY close to a Lucid this week.

-Tonight I will recognize a dream sign in a dream.
-I will break something when I become Lucid.

When you feel this close, you really are. I went through this sort of feeling last week and it was followed by a great LD. I know you've got the same thing on the way for you!

Take this intent with you to bed and during any WBTB. Intent matters so much. Drill this in as you get close to sleep to remind yourself of what's coming. Because seriously... it is coming. All you're doing is reminding yourself to make it happen.

Looking forward to reading it!