Bemistaken's Workbook

Aww thank you so much! I'm so glad to hear that you overcame your health issues and that you're back with us safe and sound!

The teleport to Egypt! I still remember that well! That was amazing! :D I should review that and try to take a trip back to Egypt of my own. I never did manage the Egypt portion of Task of the Year that year.

It sounds like you have exactly the right approach and mindset. You'll build it all back up again. I'm convinced that the best lucid dreamers are masters of the basic. I'm looking forward to following along with you as you continue your journey! :content:

Bemistaken! Welcome back! :)

So happy to see you again. We all missed you. :hug:

Thanks Canis! Hi NyxCC! If feels soooo good to be back! I was miserable without Dreamviews...Dorothy was right, there is no place like home (clicking my heels!).:content:

Hi Lucy,

Guess what? I have a little dream recall! It was fragmented as hell, but I count this as a success! It was very fragmented, but I know this will improve over tim.

DREAM RECALL:

I was in a school cafeteria and I was eating school lunch. I had the most buttery bake potato, and a big juicy steak with fruit (I think the fruit was something like a fruit cup). I don't know what school has lunches like this, but it wasn't the school I went to! :lol:

MEDITATION (Y/N)?

Yes, I was able to get in 25 minutes of silence and concentrated on my breathing or the ringing in my ears. Boy was I rusty with trying to keep noises out of my head and all those other issues that comes along with being still (cob webs, itching, accumulation of spit in my throat...gross). I feel like a newborn baby all over again trying to get back in the swing of things. I have not meditated in awhile, but let me tell you Lucy, when I was finished, my body felt as limp as a noodle. I Loved It!

That's all for now Lucy, until again my sweet :bedtime:

Oh Lucy! Why, Why, Why?! :bang:

I have been questioning my surroundings with reality checks, looking at my hands, and counting my fingers over the last six or seven days. Would someone please tell me why did I freak out in my dream when I saw my fingers :confused:???!!! In my dream, I just remember talking to someone and I looked down at my hands. You may ask, "What did she see?" CLAWS! Yes...claws folks. My fingers were red, fat, swollen, disfigured, pointy, creepy claws! In my dream I started freaking out so bad I started running to a fire station. Guess what Lucy? The creepy claws were not finished scaring the hell out of me yet. When I looked down at my hand again (yes, I looked at my hands twice and still didn't get lucid), my pinky finger had what looked like a big blister or boil 'hanging' from the tip of the claw (gross). A fireman laughed as he took my pinky in his hand (yes, this is another hand that I saw which now makes three), and 'popped' the boil/blister. It seems like every time I looked down at my hands, they grew even more creepier. I stood there so freaked out that I literally scared my ass awake :eek:...Sigh. I still love you Lucy.

You've got half of the task done, successfully incubated looking at your hands.

Now that you have spent additional time thinking about your hands and that you should become lucid,

the next time you see your hands you will realize this is a dream! :goodjob2:

Thanks NyxCC, I hope it sticks! :)

Hi Lucy,

It has been a busy week for me! Last week I was so busy with grading finals, inputing grades, graduation, etc. (I'm a teacher) that I could barely get any practice in. I still have good news because I have been keeping up with my dream journaling. Last night all I can remember was dreaming about sex. A type of sex dream so intense that I woke up 'throbbing, thumping and pumping.' I also woke up pissed because I was reaching for my husband and he was not there. Of all the Saturday mornings my husband had to work, this was the one!

By the way, this wasn't any old type of sex dream and I'm not talking about a scene of 'gentle' love-making...I'm talking about raw, primal, nasty, sloppy, acrobatic/contortionist, stop what you are doing and stare SEX! It was the type of sex that started on the bed...then falling on the floor...forced up against a wall (upside down by the way)...then finally ended in a closet buried in clothes. Do you have a visual now? Oh yeah :tongue:. Welp, I have to go now...I have to have sex :cheeky:!

Hey Lucy,
Last night was brutal! My insomnia kicked into high gear and like a Vampire :vampire: I stayed up all night and watched the sun come up. However, not all was lost because I spent most of my day focusing on ADA and RC's. I even got a chance to meditate! Let me tell you, I forgot how wonderful meditation can be...I was truely in my own element yesterday :content:.

I went to bed at 8:00am (insomnia is a B#tch) and slept for 4 1/2 to 5 hours. I did my WBTB for about 10 minutes because if I stay up any longer I will not go back to sleep. As I lay in bed focusing on my breathing, I felt myself slip in and out of consciousness. Then I had some weird 'limb jerking' movements. I felt the numbness, the tingling, and the feeling of floating. Two or three times I had a feeling of my breathe being taken away (cut short?). If I could have just laid there a little while longer, I have no doubt I would have had a WILD. It just reminds me of how all my other WILD's use to be. School is out and the neighbors kids woke me up playing outside. I know that if I would have not had my insomnia issue and went to bed at a decent time like regular human beings I would have been successful. My WBTB would have been at 4:00am instead of 1:00pm. I would not have been interrupted with kids playing outside at 4:00am in the morning :lol:.

I love getting back to the basics because my dream was so vivid before my WBTB. I have learned that I wake up after every dream cycle so my planning is crucial.

Dream: I was on the telephone talking with either a credit collector or someone from a bank. I was giving them advise on how to get their credit cleaned up and I was talking about Credit Karma. I even remember telling them that they can put in writing how they want the credit collector to communicate with them (via by phone, email, or snail mail). In other words, I started giving the credit collector credit advise on their credit and how they can get their cedit score up :chuckle:. I should have caught this as a dream sign, but in RL I talk so much that I just didn't see this as being unusual...this is truely something I would do in RL :cackle:.

That's all for now Lucy, I know I will see you soon! :kiss:

Date: 12/22/2014
Sleep time: 8:00am-1:00pm
Methods used: WBTB (10 min), MILD (Mantra: "I am recognizing I am dreaming")
Other techniques: ADA, RC's and RRC's, and practice a walk-through OBE

Lucy,
Why is it that I have spent the last two weeks questioning my reality (ADA, RC's, and RRC's) and all I'm dreaming about is stuff that I would do in RL? Example...

Last night's dream:
I was about to get into an argument with someone about them almost hitting my car in a parking lot. Then we both realized that we knew each other from childhood and began laughing and hugging. Later on she asked if I would help her hang wall paper at her home and I said, "Sure!"

And yes, I do hang wall paper in RL...Sigh. What the hell is going on ???!!! :uhm:

Date: 12/23/2014
Sleep time: 2:00am-10:00am
Methods used: WBTB (10 min), MILD (Mantra: "I am recognizing I am dreaming")
Other techniques: ADA, RC's and RRC's, and practice a walk-through OBE

Lucy, you gave me a Christmas miracle!

A MIRACLE ON MY STREET! (copied and pasted from my reply in the WILD forum to the all knowing :sageous:)

Sageous, I did it! I don't know what technique I used (beside DEILD), but maybe you can tell me what I started off using.

Here is what happened:

Stayed up until 5am wrapping presents and cooking Christmas dinner. My kids woke me up at 8:00am (so yes, just like you told me not to do, I slept for only 3 hours). Thank GOD my kids and husband were going to a family members house where others were gathering for Christmas breakfast. I was using my ,"I had to stay up all night cooking and wrap presents by myself" as an excuse for them to leave me alone. It worked, because they all left by 11:00am. I thought to myself, "Could a WBTB even be possible? I have been up for 1 ½ hours for a so called WBTB and felt a little more alert than my usual WBTB." Even though I was up watching them open presents, I still felt that I could go back to sleep, but it would take an effort. So, I gave it a shot. I laid back down in the bed and continued to repeat a shorter mantra, "I am Lucid" and "I am aware." Kids next door was making noise riding their new bicycles, but I was determined to see if this super long WBTB would work. So, I moved to the back of the house in another bedroom and kept back at it with the mantra. I remember you said that something HAS to happen if you just stay aware on the edge of sleep and keep your anchor (or did you say mantra?). So, I was not giving up on this experiment. I kept at the mantra. Then, the magic happened...:dreaming:

It seems like I may have been napping, maybe 45min to 1 hour. I keep bobbing in and out of consciousness. But I held onto the mantra! I would say a mere 15-20 minutes in I 'free fell' into some strong vibrations! I knew this was IT because vibrations are my signature sign. I lay still until I felt myself float out . "Finally!" I thought. I came out into darkness, but I didn't even care...I was blind, happy, and out! Then of course you know what happened next...my excitement sucked me right back into my body. I DEILD my way back out by being still and this time when I came out I asked for sight. I got a little clarity and I remembered my rehearsed plan. I came out into my bedroom and I saw a pillow and focused on that and things got a little better with my sight. I hadn't been lucid in so long I was moving like a floppy rag doll. Got frustrated and lost focused and went back into my body (Damn it!). Third time has always been the charm for me to I lay still again and the vibrations came back, but they were weak. I thought to myself, calm down, be still, focus on your third eye. Vibes grew stronger and I was able to get out again! I focused on my exact rehearsed plan by the letter. Somehow, I ended up in my bedroom closet (probably because I just got out the hidden Christmas present that night and took them out in the wee hours of this morning). I was thinking to myself, "Keep cool and follow your rehearsed plan...and hurry up!" When all else seems to fail me, my back-up plan is to always just practice moving or flying around and/or touching things in close proximity. I stuck out my arm and started flying around like a drunk superman :superman:. I went through my bedroom wall and flew into what looked like my yard (not sure). I don't know how, but I ended up back in my bedroom...I tried to focus on my bed but my lucid eyes slowly became my physical eyes and I was back in my body. Not willing to push my luck, I got up and grabbed my journal on my bedside table and thanked GOD and THE WIZARD...:sageous:!

A few questions Sageous:

1. What technique did I start off with (I know I was using MILD, but when I first became Lucid, was it a DEILD or WILD), I know I continued to link the lucids with DEILDS.
2. What information can you give me regarding the extended WBTB? Was this just luck? Did I take advantage of sleeping a little longer and gain the benefit of the Lucid?
3. What could I have done better? It seems that I am always coming out blind or in darkness...what should I have done different?

Sorry this was so long, but I know someone out there is frustrated just like I was and I don't want them to give up! Keep practicing, keep asking questions to the facilitators, moderators, guides, and members, and most important KEEP BELIEVING...no matter how long it takes, it will happen!

Again, thank you for your knowledge and thorough advise :kiss:.

One Love.
Bemis taken

Awww, that's fantastic Bemistaken! :bliss: Congrats on the lds!

And wishing you a Merry Christmas! :santa:

He's My Husband.

Dream:
I was in a beauty pageant and police officers were the judges. The judges were doing the contestants interview sessions and while he was interviewing me he was eating dinner. He offered me dinner and I thought that if I did not take his offer, he would disqualify me. So I ate dinner with him while trying to answer his interview questions. When he finished eating I made sure to finish eating everything on my plate also (we were eating cheeseburgers by the way...which I have not had a cheeseburger in years...one of many missed dream sign). When the interview was over he was getting ready to leave and another contestant came in dressed in a bikini and gave the officer a long wet kissed and looked directly at me. I said, "What the hell?!" and she said, "It's ok, he is my husband." Then I woke up.

Great job, bemistaken! Excellent execution on that WILD. When I was reading your story about the nap opportunity, I was getting this little smile knowing (or at least hoping!) that you were going to get one of those long OpheliaBlue-style WBTBs. Those have proven really effective for her, so I'm glad to hear that it worked so well for you here. I thought that it would! :D

Sounds like you had a great Christmas! :santa: I'm just back catching up on all things DV after my holiday craziness! So glad to see this piece of good news! Keep it up!

Thanks :canislucidus:!

Now, I am working on having places appear right in front of me...this is so difficult! This reminds me of teleportation, however; I don't know if this is the same thing. My focus is extremely limited, but my goal is to have this ability in the year 2015. I didn't know OpheliaBlue did long WBTBs?! I have never done a long WBTB before because I always thought that I would not be able to get back to sleep. I will be experiementing with this also in 2015.

I hope you have a wonderful New Year!:happyface:

Lucy,
I have grown so much since finding you through Dreamviews...I know that I can only improve even more in 2015. I remember a time when I did not believe in the ability to control your dreams and now I am (ever so slightly) doing it! Thank you for my failures and my accomplishments with lucid dreaming in 2014 and may we all have MANY, MANY, more in 2015.

I will lucid dream tonight! :)

HAPPY NEW YEARS DREAMVIEWS! :breakitdown:

Welp Lucy, you've done the impossible...you allowed me to DILD today! I haven't DILD in months so I will take any type of lucid that I can get. I was napping and I remember in my NL dream I was singing...and I mean I was singing like I was Beyonce! In RL I can't hold a note. I instantly thought in the dream, "Hey, I can't sing so how come I can sing now? I must be dreaming!" And poof :poof:, like magic I am lucid. Only for a few seconds because I ended up in the void. I tried to visualize, but I only kinda 'swirled around' in the grey. Then I tried to remember the TOTM and I mistakenly opened my eyes but my physical eyes opened instead. Oh well...still ever so humble and ever so grateful!

Yay, congratulations, bemistaken! I love that you not only had a lucid dream but also got to unleash your dream singing voice! :happy: Isn't it amazing how well you can sing in a dream??

I love to use singing during lucid dreams to help me narrate, stay focused on my intentions, maintain lucidity, and keep my mind on goals. If this comes to mind for you, I'd definitely recommend giving it a try! It's so much fun hearing how we sing with our true voices, the ones that aren't constrained by this thing we call reality. :)

Great job with the DILD! Keep up the good work! :goodjob2:

Thanks CL,
I was thinking in my dream, "Wow, this is how it would be IF I could really sing in real life." I think I'm just going start singing when I feel like my lucidity is becoming unstable! :)

COPIED FROM TOTM JAN. 2015

Ok guys I need your help...I don't know what I did or what this counts as...

Went to bed earlier than usual (before 12:00am) and I had intentions all day to make sure to keep the TOTM on my mind. After about 5 good hours of sleep, I did a WBTB. I keep up with my mantra (I lucid dream) then every now and then I would add (I walk and fly backwards). Somewhere within the nodding in and out of NL's, I recall being lucid and I told myself don't forget to walk backwards. I did walk backwards and then for a second I stopped and told myself, "Not like that!" BTW, I have no idea why I said that. Then I kinda 'skated' backwards (like on an escalator going backwards) when I was telling myself to fly. Then all of a sudden I lost Lucy and found some guy telling me he was going to marry me and I involuntarily went with the non-lucid :wtf:

So...I have no idea what this counts for (if it counts at all :hrm: ).

Just trying to be honest because being an honest person has always had a lot to do with me being lucid or not.

Even if this doesn't count, I am still willing to keep trying because my stability sucks lately. One Love :).

Nice job, bemistaken, certainly sounds like it counts to me! I mean, counts as TotM... because if you're asking whether it counts as a lucid, there's no doubt about it.

Great job remembering the goal and getting right to it You've been doing really well lately. Hopefully the dream-hubby was dreamy! :smitten:

Keep up the great work, I love seeing your success! :)

Lucy, Look...:flyaway: I got wings! Singing, "I BELIEVE I CAN FLYYYYYYYYY!" :bliss:

Woke up with the sh!t scared out of me because I was almost late for work (thanks snooze button!) and totally forgot the dream I had. Have you ever had that feeling that the dream you forgot was really, really, good? :uhm:Hmmm...

Bemistaken!! Congratulations on the wings! :woohoo: Great job... you are totally back! :happy:

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Have you ever had that feeling that the dream you forgot was really, really, good? Hmmm...

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Ha ha, yes... the good news is that there's no scarcity, and there will be many many many more dreams to come. And so very many of them will be amazing. :content:

Thanks CL! I hope so and I wish many, many lucid for you too in 2015!