Thread: Pennyroyal's workbook

The best advice that I can give for motivation is to refocus on a couple of really amazing experiences that you want to have in a dream and just get really excited about those. Sometimes Task of the Month can fit the bill but in other cases, some specific personal goal does the trick best.

With LD, we've got a ticket to do literally anything we can imagine. That's such an overwhelming concept that I find it helpful to just get really focused and excited about a couple of things that you can think about throughout the day, imagining how awesome they're going to be.

Congratulations on reaching your goals! This reminds me that I need to sum up June, which was an odd little month for me!

Thanks CL, the competition started and I think having that in mind has helped a bit with intention. My recall has improved, but I'm still in a bit of a dry spell in the lucid department. I have to wake up at like 3am for work, which is really hurting my wbtb motivation

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Recall has been improving, but I'd really like to grab a few nice lucids in the next few weeks to score some pts for the competition. Even though I really don't want to I'm going to try to make an effort to do a brief wbtb, enough to get my wits about me at least a few hours into the night.

I'm going to force myself to do the reverse reality check throughout the day. I've reallly been slacking with my daytime awareness stuff.

Hopefully I'll be reporting some success soon!

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Recall has been improving, but I'd really like to grab a few nice lucids in the next few weeks to score some pts for the competition. Even though I really don't want to I'm going to try to make an effort to do a brief wbtb, enough to get my wits about me at least a few hours into the night.

Speaking of the intersection of motivation and WBTB, I always like to have something fun-ish planned out for WBTB time. Nothing that'll have me bouncing off the walls, but I want it to be something that I can look forward to. A good choice is reading a book on lucid dreaming, maybe reviewing a favorite DJ entry, that kind of thing. I've been toying with the idea of playing low-key, reflex-free video games that engage critical thinking, such as adventure games.

I just find it a lot easier to wake naturally for WBTB if it's something at least pleasant to anticipate.

Good luck with the competition!!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Speaking of the intersection of motivation and WBTB, I always like to have something fun-ish planned out for WBTB time. Nothing that'll have me bouncing off the walls, but I want it to be something that I can look forward to. A good choice is reading a book on lucid dreaming, maybe reviewing a favorite DJ entry, that kind of thing. I've been toying with the idea of playing low-key, reflex-free video games that engage critical thinking, such as adventure games.

I just find it a lot easier to wake naturally for WBTB if it's something at least pleasant to anticipate.

Good luck with the competition!!

Hmm, that's good Canis. Give yourself something to look forward to on the wbtb, I'll definitely have to do this. I havn't yet finished all of ETWOLD I'll have to do that.

Thanks again, I'm going to put this into practice.

Ahh it's been a crazy month! There's no way I'm going to make my goals this month, but things should be calming down just in time for me to have an awesome August. I got my old job back which has relieved a lot of stress and I'm looking forward to making it happen next month.

I've been really terrible about journaling and everything else the past few weeks, but I'm going to turn that around.

July- 30/50 Dreams, 1/5 Lucids. I didn't have a lucid and go to the Island, but I did incubate a John Locke Non lucid.

August -

-Update DJ every day.
-Relaxation Technique/MILD before bed.
-10min. minimum wbtb on natural awakening after 4-6 hours of sleep/SSILD.
-Aug ToTm

- Recall a minimum of 31 Dreams/Fragments (1 Dream/Frag per night)
- Have 4 Lucid Dreams (1 each week)

Congratulations on getting your old job back, PennyRoyal! No worries -- life gets crazy sometimes! It's just the way of things.

It's good to see you back. Here's to a great August!

Ok! This time I'm back for real!

September goals:

Sitting at 9 dreams for the month.. Ill shoot for 15 more just to get back into the swing of things.

I havn't had a lucid in a few weeks so I'll try to get lucid at least once before October shoots around, I'm feeling confident I can do more but we'll see.

Back to wbtb after 4 hours of sleep.

When I get that lucid I'm going to shoot for walking on the walls or the bonus Quidditch task because it sounds fun

Sounds cool, good luck Penny!

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

When I get that lucid I'm going to shoot for walking on the walls or the bonus Quidditch task because it sounds fun

Ha ha, at first I read that as a combined Quidditch/walking on walls task! I definitely think a few off the wall jumps onto your broom will spice things up if you decide to go that way.

Anyway, man, I'm with you on stumbling back into the swing of things! I was out of town on a long vacation followed by back to school and working late nights, weekends, etc. for a while. Time for me to make sure that I give my LD skills the TLC that they need.

Great to see you back!

Ok, im really making a serious effort to get back into the game. I spent the last week trying to rebuild my recall, and I'm happy with where Im at for now. I decided to take a crack at the 30 day SSILD test again to see if I can improve from the last go around. It's looking promising so far, I havn't had a lucid since Labor Day Weekend in September. Last night was the first night I went back to using SSILD cycles and had not one - but TWO lucids.

Not a bad start! Got me nice and excited to get back into the swing of things.

Agh! Every time I try getting back into dreaming, something comes up.

I think about Lucid dreaming, still, almost daily.. But for some reason just have not mustered up the motivation to continue. My dreamjournal accidently got destroyed, it was pretty disheartening to lose all of that time and research/dreamsigns. but It's about time I get over it.

Going to start recording my dreams again tonight, and start slipping in a short WBTB on natural awakenings.

This week's goals:
-Remember at least one dream each night.
-WBTB, SSILD cycle once if I wake naturally 5-6 hours after bed.
-I will report back to my workbook/DV dream journal each morning before work.

Ah Hah! 1st night down.

-Wbtb ~5-10 minutes 6 hours after sleep.
-I kept falling asleep during SSILD cycles, should probably extend my wbtb a little.
-Managed to only remember a small fragment last night

Stickin' with it.

2nd night:
-2 Fragments, each included in my Dreamjournal.
-Didn't wbtb, woke up naturally only an hour before i had to get up for work. Still did some brief SSILD cycles.
-Coming up on a 4 day weekend, plenty of time to sleep in. Going to try and get my first lucid in a while. *crosses fingers*

2 Fragments
2 Dreams
15 Minutes wbtb + SSILD cycle.

2 Dreams
10 minute wbtb + SSILD after 5 hours of sleep.

Not bad so far, started off with 2 fragments the first night now I'm starting to get bigger pieces of my dreams each night.