Thread: Pennyroyal's workbook

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Oh sweet!! I somehow missed this DJ entry... I will be sure to check it out!



Ha ha, thanks man! I am excited about 100 and I am really, really going to try to hit it his month if I can. I had probably the best lucid dream of my life on Wednesday night and I'm still on a high from that thing... just so amazing. Can't remember the last time I felt so motivated.

Let's kill it in May!!

Whaat? Ill have to check it out, I was away from my computer for a few days. Going to have to see what I missed

Awesome recall for me last night, 4 dreams. More than I usually manage.

April 3rd. 4 Dreams, WBTB no Lucid - 5 Pts.

16 Pts

I had some really interesting imagery after I finished my SSILD cycles last night. Instead of random shapes or a flash of a vivid image like I've experienced before - this time, against the black of my eyelids there was like.. a 2D animation of a robed man like the hermit in my avatar walking for several seconds, then it would disappear and start again. There was no detail in him, the figure was just all black. I watched this with fascination before slipping into non lucid dreams.

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Awesome recall for me last night, 4 dreams. More than I usually manage.

April 3rd. 4 Dreams, WBTB no Lucid - 5 Pts.

16 Pts

I had some really interesting imagery after I finished my SSILD cycles last night. Instead of random shapes or a flash of a vivid image like I've experienced before - this time, against the black of my eyelids there was like.. a 2D animation of a robed man like the hermit in my avatar walking for several seconds, then it would disappear and start again. There was no detail in him, the figure was just all black. I watched this with fascination before slipping into non lucid dreams.

Ah, sweet! That kind of imagery is a very, very good sign, at least for my style of WILD. Once I start getting these, I try to passively observe them and let them solidify, maintaining my awareness and identity so I'll stay lucid. I kind of operate by feel on when to make my move, but once I imagine myself in the scene and start engaging other senses (particularly touch), that's how I make my way in.

Great stuff, man... very close there! Your instincts will get sharper and sharper the more of this you do.

Awesome Lucid last night.

You wanna attend a class at Hogwarts? I'm totally adding that to my lucid to-do list lol (if you don't mind xD). What I would give to play Quidditch, oh man.

Originally Posted by MusicDragon

You wanna attend a class at Hogwarts? I'm totally adding that to my lucid to-do list lol (if you don't mind xD). What I would give to play Quidditch, oh man.

By all means, feel free to use any of my ideas. No worries. But if you beat me to one of my goals, I want to hear about it

Quidditch is at top of my list too lol.

I have not made the best of this month so far. Irregular sleep and stress has really taken a toll on my lucid dreaming and recall, but that will happen I suppose. I just got back from being out of town and I'm fired up to make the most of the remaining May month.

Last night/This morning was the first opportunity to use any tech/set my intention before bed and was treated with a DILD and ALMOST a DEILD

I'm only on about 5 hours of sleep right now, I'm going to take care of some things I need to do and take a nap after my extended WBTB, hopefully I'll be able to snag another DILD.

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

I have not made the best of this month so far. Irregular sleep and stress has really taken a toll on my lucid dreaming and recall, but that will happen I suppose. I just got back from being out of time and I'm fired up to make the most of the remaining May month.

Last night/This morning was the first opportunity to use any tech/set my intention before bed and was treated with a DILD and ALMOST a DEILD

I'm only on about 5 hours of sleep right now, I'm going to take care of some things I need to do and take a nap after my extended WBTB, hopefully I'll be able to snag another DILD.

Don't worry, man, we've all been there! Poor sleep and stress are always a big, annoying obstacle for a lucid dreaming practice. But once you move past them, you can get it all back (as you so ably demonstrated this morning.)

Good luck with that nap! Finish off that DEILD!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Don't worry, man, we've all been there! Poor sleep and stress are always a big, annoying obstacle for a lucid dreaming practice. But once you move past them, you can get it all back (as you so ably demonstrated this morning.)

Good luck with that nap! Finish off that DEILD!

Feeling confident, oops just realized I said back from being out of "time", I meant town. lol

Also, you made kind of made an appearance in the lucid I had while I was out of town. I just updated if you want to check it out lol

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Feeling confident, oops just realized I said back from being out of "time", I meant town. lol

Also, you made kind of made an appearance in the lucid I had while I was out of town. I just updated if you want to check it out lol

That DJ entry was awesome! Man, I love dream cameos... so cool...

See? We DV folk are always there to help each other out during our lucids.

That 4 hours of sleep and a 2 hour 'WBTB' seemed to work this time around.

Had.. probably my favorite lucid yet. It wasn't as vivid as other's i've had, but the content was pretty 'adventure' like which seems to be a rarity for me.

Oh wow. Is that the first time you did a 2 hour WBTB? I find 30min really hard these days.

Originally Posted by Xanous

Oh wow. Is that the first time you did a 2 hour WBTB? I find 30min really hard these days.

I'd say maybe the 2nd or 3rd time, the first two times didn't yield any lucidity. I don't do the long WBTBs on purpose, yesterday I had trouble sleeping and had to run some errands early in the morning which is why I ended up doing that.

It was fairly difficult falling asleep when I got home, but it worked out.

I've been really awful this month with my record keeping. I'm just going to let it slide for the rest of May, but make a point to not to be lazy on it from now on.

My recall has been better than average this week, I'm hoping thats a trend that will continue.

I've been super lax in my awareness exercises throughout the day, to the point where they are almost non existent. Going to have to make an effort to correct that as well.

Very interesting night last night, I havn't been using SSILD this week because I've just felt really exhausted on my awakenings and pass out right after my WBTB. I used SSILD cycles last night after my WBTB and actually experience a handful of super vivid false awakenings.

I've definitely heard a lot of people say they get a lot of FAs using the technique but I only ever got 1 or two in the month or so I've been using it. Definitely motivated me to make myself do the cycles again and try to catch those FAs -- I could have had like 5 Lucids last night ><.. But no room to complain I guess, got a DEILD and a DILD out of it.

Congrats on the lucids! As for the FA's, must be pretty diverse with every person. Not to worry though, you can think of it as: less FA's, less chances to get fooled! Haha :3

Yeah, SSILD always gave me a ton of false awakenings. I'm not sure what it is about that tech... it seems to just really boost up awareness, and perhaps that makes you really focus on the scene you're in when falling asleep (as in, your bedroom.) They can be freaky realistic, though! If you can get used to reality checking when you wake up, it's a nice boost for SSILD.

Congratulations on the lucids! I don't know how I missed this dj entry yesterday.... I'll go check it out now!

The past week has just been absolutely awful for me lol.

Saturday starts the new month, I need to get focused and hammer down some goals. I'm not really sure what I did in May, but i'll get back into the swing of things in June. At the very least I did accomplish some flying in May, so I can scratch that off of my list.

I really want to try the spinning technique and have not remembered to try it in my lucids. I'll make that my main goal so I can beat it into my memory.

June Goals:

Dreams/Fragments recalled: 30
Lucid Dreams: 5
*Remember more than one dream every night
*When lucid spin and attempt to change the dream scene.

Simplified point system for tracking 'personal bests' month to month:

Fragment Recalled: .5
Dream Recalled: 1
Lucid: 2
Complete a goal: 3


Revising Goals for June:

Reverse Reality check 5 times a day
Remember 40 Dreams in June
Have 4 Lucid Dreams
Use relaxation exercises before MILD

Week 1:
Remember 10 Dreams/Fragments
Have 1 Lucid Dream
Use spinning technique (stabilize/change scene)

I've decided to take on WILD during my WBTBs instead of continuing on with SSILD. I feel as though I've got a decent amount of LDs under my belt and a handful of DEILDs to give me a nudge in the right direction.

Managed to catch a short DILD last night which is nice, but even nicer that I got it out of a recurring dream scene - so that's promising.

I made myself use relaxation exercises pre-bed before falling asleep with mantra. I got out of the habit of doing this, it seemed to pay off last night.

Tried my first WILD on a Wbtb after 5 1/2 hours of sleep. I experienced some slight Imagery and at one point scared my self WIDE awake because I swore there was something crawling on my stomach lol. I had trouble falling asleep after this for maybe 15-20 minutes.

I woke up about an hour and a half later and was going to try again, but my girlfriend was restless and kept moving around a lot. I ended up just rolling over and using MILD to drift into unconscious sleep.

Not a bad start to the month, if it's anything like the last 2 months the following 2 weeks should be pretty good. I need to keep my motivation at full so it doesn't taper off at the end of the month.

Originally Posted by paigeyemps

Congrats on the lucids! As for the FA's, must be pretty diverse with every person. Not to worry though, you can think of it as: less FA's, less chances to get fooled! Haha :3

Haha, I missed your comment somehow Paigey

I guess it wouldn't be an awful thing to get lots of FAs, plenty of chances to turn them into some lucids. I had an FA loop a few weeks ago, I dreamt I got up like 3-4 times before I ACTUALLY woke up. Didn't manage to catch any of them lol.

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Managed to catch a short DILD last night which is nice, but even nicer that I got it out of a recurring dream scene - so that's promising.

Tried my first WILD on a Wbtb after 5 1/2 hours of sleep. I experienced some slight Imagery and at one point scared my self WIDE awake because I swore there was something crawling on my stomach lol. I had trouble falling asleep after this for maybe 15-20 minutes.

I woke up about an hour and a half later and was going to try again, but my girlfriend was restless and kept moving around a lot. I ended up just rolling over and using MILD to drift into unconscious sleep.

Not a bad start to the month, if it's anything like the last 2 months the following 2 weeks should be pretty good. I need to keep my motivation at full so it doesn't taper off at the end of the month.

Congrats on turning the nightmare into an LD. Teeth dreams suck!

Originally Posted by LadyLoki

Congrats on turning the nightmare into an LD. Teeth dreams suck!

Thank you!

Ugh, I know they are awful. I have them pretty often, and it's always so vivid. More than once I've woken up thinking I have no teeth anymore.