Quote Originally Posted by dreambh View Post
Ok, so second LD since I joined the DVA and first TotM (a very basic one) accomplished last night.

BTW, changed my LD count to "15 + x", 15=number of LDs before the DVA, x=number of LDs after enrolling at the DVA.
Here's the dream: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/drea...k-month-49434/
All right!! Congratulations on the lucid, dreambh! AND the basic wings!

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Last night I went to bed at 10.00pm and some dogs were barking at the neighborhood, so they (or my wife complaining about them) kept waking me up until around 11.30pm when I got up to check on my parakeets (the dogs were near their cage sometimes.) Anyways, every time I woke up and tried to go back to sleep I performed a full MILD (mantras+visualizations) Then I woke up from this LD at 4:30am. Can we call that a WBTB?? Wether WBTB or not it worked!!! A BBTB, Barking Back To Bed!
That's right, WBTBs can come all kinds of ways! After two months of trying, I finally got my second lucid because I had an accidental wake back to bed. That was when I finally admitted to myself that I needed to get serious about WBTB if I was going to maximize my chances of having a lucid. I really, really resisted it, too.

So yeah, accidental WBTBs can do the trick too. It's a good way to make the most of a frustrating situation!

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On the other hand, I also remembered this fragment: http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/drea...ragment-49446/
It's not what you said, CL, but it's interesting because I was writing and I don't remember writing in my dreams, and then I was writing a dream. It felt crazy when I woke up so I cannot imagine how it would feel DJing your LD in a FA (this acronym thing is going insane )
Cool! Very similar experience. You keep at this for long enough and you are bound to have a false awakening where you try to journal your previous dream. It's happened to me a number of times, including quite recently! You get into the habit of DJing when you wake up and it becomes a natural part of your FAs.

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From the very beginning of the dream I knew it to be a repeating story, that is, I remembered I had already gone through what was about to happen, and I felt that I had to do all the same steps so that the story ended properly, just as I remembered. But I also knew I could be getting a different result if by mistake or by choice I did differently to what I remembered.
This has happened to me several times through my life, and when I wake up I always realize that the original story I was repeating in the dream and I could remember to perfection, was spontaneously created by my mind at the very beginning of the dream.
By the way, I usually feel like I'm in a movie or something like that when having this particular kind of dream.
I wonder if that is something that other people get or if it's a particularity of my dreaming mind... I may start a thread to know other people's thought on that.
That's a cool dream structure. Very Groundhog Day. I haven't had that experience myself that I can remember but it sounds cool.