Thread: ♫ PostScript99's Workbook ♫

Originally Posted by OpheliaBlue

Ffuu I did that once, so incredibly annoying. I usually open my eyes very slowly and very carefully when I'm phasing through those WILD vibrations (just in case). Still I wonder, if being too cautious at that transition is becoming a transitional schema these days.

What do you do ordinarily during those transitions between awake and sleep when you WILD?

You're supposed to do something?? I just wait and let the dream form around me, then start doing stuff.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

You're supposed to do something?? I just wait and let the dream form around me, then start doing stuff.

I guess I was asking because, before I knew what those vibrations meant, I just went back to sleep and ended up in a nonlucid, and quite often a false awakening. You say that you are letting the dream form around you, which suggests that you are really aware at the transitional phase. If this is so, then how come you ended up having a false awakening this last time? (not a criticism by the way, just prodding for helpful facts).

Hey Ophelia, I was aware during HH and the vibrations. It was actually pretty intense, and now I'm hearing screams and chasing people and in a cartoon and hearing subconsciously composed marches....It's hectic.

I was really disoriented from all this HH, so when the dream started to form, it was exactly where I was lying and it looked as if I had accidentally opened my eyes a crack, so I opened them for real.

I forgot, I know, I should be following the lessons too....

I'm already doing ADA, but I seriously need help with meditation. I can't sit still for very long. Any pointers?

Originally Posted by PostScript99

I'm already doing ADA, but I seriously need help with meditation. I can't sit still for very long. Any pointers?

Now, I'm no tibetan meditation master, but I can tell you what helps me sometimes.. When I'm trying to meditate and I'm feeling antsy about sitting still, I've learned that If I visualize myself sprinting or swimming furiously it distracts me fairly well.

Do you get most/all your lucids from WILDing?

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

Now, I'm no tibetan meditation master, but I can tell you what helps me sometimes.. When I'm trying to meditate and I'm feeling antsy about sitting still, I've learned that If I visualize myself sprinting or swimming furiously it distracts me fairly well.

Do you get most/all your lucids from WILDing?

Actually, I just recently started WILD, and found it much more reliable than DILD and MILD, and also very easy. We should stop telling noobs how difficult and scary WILD is and turn them away to DILD. WILD is great because the worst thing that can happen is falling asleep without success, after which you'll DILD anyway, so it doesn't matter.

Speaking of which, that's exactly what happened this morning after a WILD attempt. I ended up with a DILD.

And I'll try your technique, thanks for the tip. Now I just gotta find time to meditate.

2 DILDs, 8 dreams remembered!!!!

8 dreams is thanks to a dream where I saw the titles of the previous six while visiting DV and checking my control panel. I should utilize this more often!

Another very long DILD, with good recall. I've been cruising along quite nicely without my DJ. It doesn't seem to have any negative effect without it. Then again, I did start without one so, I don't know.

Failed WILD because my hand twitched during HH and I woke up immediately..... I was so close, though.

I am trying again tonight. I'll get it this time!

No recall for 4 of 5 nights, set up for REM rebound, successful with 2 DILDS.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

No recall for 4 of 5 nights, set up for REM rebound, successful with 2 DILDS.

What did you do to set yourself up for rebound?

Originally Posted by PennyRoyal

What did you do to set yourself up for rebound?

Just major sleep deprivation. You really can do anything that can deprive you of REM sleep, though.

Okay, let's take stock on how far I've come.

When I started this workbook:
-Horrible recall
-1 dream a week (very bad for me)
-Dreams were short and choppy

Now:

- 3 a week is the new normal.
- Recall is up to 2-3 dreams per night, with good quality
- LDs are longer

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Okay, let's take stock on how far I've come.

When I started this workbook:
-Horrible recall
-1 dream a week (very bad for me)
-Dreams were short and choppy

Now:

- 3 a week is the new normal.
- Recall is up to 2-3 dreams per night, with good quality
- LDs are longer

That is great progress, especially for just a couple of months of work! Congratulations on the huge uptick in both lucid dreaming and your NLD recall. While I'm an LD guy all the way, I've really come to appreciate just how awesome NLDs can be too. It's cool that dream work builds up both of them very nicely.

What do you feel has made the biggest difference for you over the past couple of months? Congrats on the wings, BTW.

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

That is great progress, especially for just a couple of months of work! Congratulations on the huge uptick in both lucid dreaming and your NLD recall. While I'm an LD guy all the way, I've really come to appreciate just how awesome NLDs can be too. It's cool that dream work builds up both of them very nicely.

What do you feel has made the biggest difference for you over the past couple of months? Congrats on the wings, BTW.

Really, it's just getting feedback from other people and feeling extremely motivated to do RCs, etc. But really RCs for me are just to keep my mind on LDing. I have only gotten lucid from an RC 3 times. After a stressful weekend with dull dreams, I'm ready to kick my mind back into gear and get back into it! The only thing relevant was really a small fragment that was kind of maybe sort of a prerecognitive because it said I had 10 notifications and I really had 7. Whatever, close enough.

Thanks on the wings, but I'm really aiming to get all five in one shot this time.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Thanks on the wings, but I'm really aiming to get all five in one shot this time.

Nice!! Aim high, I say. Man, I'd forgotten that with the addition of the bonus task, it's now five in one you had to do in order to nail them all. That's actually getting to be a lot of stuff to remember.

I'll be very impressed when you pull it off!

Quality of NLDs as well as recall getting better, but little awareness and no lucids so far. Probably because of my messed up sleep schedule.

Got a very short LD last night, my subC had to trip me to remind me to spin, but I got an FA and thought it was real because my RC failed. Oh well.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Got a very short LD last night, my subC had to trip me to remind me to spin, but I got an FA and thought it was real because my RC failed. Oh well.

All right, congratulations on the lucid! Nice job remembering to spin... so did the spin plop you right back into your bed and you figured you'd just woken up? It's a tough break, but you'll be ready for it next time. On the plus side, it means your dream was nice and stable right through the spinning and didn't collapse.

When you began to spin, did you have a new scene in mind? Maybe next time it's worth trying to imagine the new location you wish to travel to. When you're not imagining any new location in particular, your mind may just fill in whatever is most readily at hand. In this case, perhaps it was your bedroom!

Anyway, just a thought. I'm glad to hear that recall is steady and that you're getting lucid!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

All right, congratulations on the lucid! Nice job remembering to spin... so did the spin plop you right back into your bed and you figured you'd just woken up? It's a tough break, but you'll be ready for it next time. On the plus side, it means your dream was nice and stable right through the spinning and didn't collapse.

When you began to spin, did you have a new scene in mind? Maybe next time it's worth trying to imagine the new location you wish to travel to. When you're not imagining any new location in particular, your mind may just fill in whatever is most readily at hand. In this case, perhaps it was your bedroom!

Anyway, just a thought. I'm glad to hear that recall is steady and that you're getting lucid!

Lol, actually...I'm on a horrible dry spell right now, with no recall at all for the last five days. I know it's because I haven't gotten as much sleep as I should have, so it'll be no problem, I'll be back in the thick of it by tonight.

What happened was I ended up in my bed very suspicious of my surroundings, did an RC by tracing the outline of my life line, which is usually curved in dreams, but jagged in real life. Feeling it now, it seems exactly the same as in that dream, so I went back to sleep and woke up for real. So is that how you teleport, by spinning and envisioning a new scene? I will have to try this, since teleportation is one of my goals.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

Lol, actually...I'm on a horrible dry spell right now, with no recall at all for the last five days. I know it's because I haven't gotten as much sleep as I should have, so it'll be no problem, I'll be back in the thick of it by tonight.

Absolutely. Lack of sleep is often a serious recall killer (at least for me), so chances are that'll all right itself once you're getting enough sleep.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

So is that how you teleport, by spinning and envisioning a new scene? I will have to try this, since teleportation is one of my goals.

I have unintentionally done this once but never attempted it on purpose. It seems like a very good approach for a variety of reasons. By jumbling up both your visual sensations and the map of the world your hippocampus carries around, it should in theory make things much easier to rearrange.

My teleportation is a work in progress, but I've had the most success teleporting out of the void (those moments in a dream where everything has gone black.) From there I like to focus very close up on some detail of the new scene, such as how the floor will look and feel. Then I imagine myself rubbing that floor until it comes into visual focus. Then I imagine the new scene without looking up. Once I've spent a good bit of time imagining what the new environment will look like, then I raise my eyes and look around. This got me to the Colosseum.

I'm sure there are more efficient ways, but this is something that worked for me. I plan on experimenting with a lot of other approaches in the coming LDs. Let me know how the spinning goes if you get a chance to try it!

Don't say if. When I get a chance to try it.

Right now, my most pressing problem is getting enough sleep. The nights are really hot, since my room has no insulation protecting, and the temperature difference can be felt when you walk into the room. I looked up a guide on eHow on how to sleep on hot nights, but all it basically had was wet clothing (my parents would kill me), massive ice cubes (), and fans. My ceiling fan is already turned on and it isn't helping much since my room has a 15 ft. ceiling. Any tips?

Broke the dry spell with a long lucid about flying. My stint of little sleep has ruined my vividity utterly. I'll have to build it up with my DJ again.

"has ruined my vivid utterly"..im pretty sure you meant one more word in between vivid and utterly (?)

Lol. Anyway, congrats on the lucid!

As for the hot room, open your windows and door, and try to move your bed away from corners. It might not seem like much but it has a great effect on the flow of air inside your room. I know, my room is like this x)