Thread: Brizzl's Workbook

No recall.

I think I had a FA in my dream, and my little brother came in and threw everything off of my book case. I need to start WILDing again, I keep waking up, turning off the alarm and just falling asleep xD. Maybe I should write myself a note or something.

One really good habit to develop is to RC every time you wake up. Like at the final wake to school, as well as those micro-wakes at night (restroom or wbtb). That way you can catch more of these FAs. Also in FAs a lot of things are kind of wrong in the house and DCs can be kind of irritating.

No recall. I have been kinda abandoning my dream related stuff as of late, really need to pick it back up ASAP. I feel guilty

Yesterday I dreamed some stuff about airsoft- the BBs were enormous and black, like a mix between paintball and airsoft.

No recall this morning.

I can actually go to bed normally tonight, so I hope I can work on some stuff. I feel like I just started over again, that's how much I dropped the ball. Gah. Wish me luck.

Awesome dream incoming

So I was in a house somewhere, and I there was this guy showing me his collection of exotic animals. I was in a large room, just kind of walking around. He was showing me all of his snakes and other stuff. There were some shelves and some tables. The snakes were on a table all together in 20 gallon tanks. He opened his snakes cages and let them slither out so we could watch them move. I swear, the details were better than waking life. 2 of them had the body build of a corn snake and both of them were about 2 feet long. One of them had the pattern of an Anery Sand Boa. The big one was like a Ball Python but huge. The patterns were so intricate and.. ahh. I can't even put words to describe it. His snakes were just kind of floating almost, with half of their body in the cage and the other half just popped out.
After that he showed me some scorpions. He wanted to move them, and said they were Heterometrus. Looking back I know they weren't, the ones I saw were too bulky and tan. He wanted me to pick them up by the tail, so I did. When I did the top of the scorp came off, and under I saw a white spiralic thing, spinning in place. Like I was seeing the essence of that scorpions life form. I involuntarily put the piece of the scorp in my mouth and started chewing. I started freaking out and I thought "This can't be real," but alas, no lucidity. I spit out the pieces of the scorp and then just started looking at the snakes again. The dream fades out.

So, animals seem to be a big dream sign for me. Also, glad I could just rebound so quickly. I think that was definitely my longest and most vivid dream yet.

Great! That does sound indeed like a wonderful dream.

Really cool dream, especially the part with scorpio's essence of life. Congrats on the awesome recall!

You say that now XD No recall. Well, a little recall but not even enough to call it a fragment.

How do you guys WBTB? I keep seeming to just turn off my alarm and fall back asleep. Should I move my alarm or something?

Well, the point of doing a WBTB is to freshen you up and help you activate some areas of the brain which usually function at lower levels when asleep. Hence, it is really better to extend wbtb by getting up and doing something for couple of minutes and then going back to bed. Ideally this should be something lucid related, write down your goals for ld, review dream signs, say a couple of mantras, etc. The wake turn off alarm and then immediately to sleep may work, but more by chance or if you try it at the last hour of sleep or so. If you go for the proper wbtb, then you should aim to be awake for 10-20 mins, some people even go longer. Every person has to find their own optimal duration range. I think it depends on how easy it is for you to fall asleep. At any rate if you feel groggy and go straight back to bed without waking up enough, the chances for ld are lower.

My problem really is that I keep waking up turning off my alarm and forgetting to do a proper WBTB. Like my groggy brain thinks to just turn it off and fall back asleep.

I think that's a lot of people's problem (me including ), the sleepy mind isn't very motivated to do anything else but Zzzz. Make a deal with it. These attempts don't have to be every single night, as long as you do it right every couple of days it's fine too. Don't forget to do some ADA and RCs though.

No recall.
My dad took away my iPod for skipping school yesterday so no WBTB or meditating for at least 4 days xD

I had a couple of fragments on Saturday, but that was it. My sleep schedule has been seriously messed up lately and I'm still trying to work it out.

On Saturday I attempted a SSILD while taking a nap. I've decided to go with this method for now because as of late I've been doing a lot less visualisation and a lot more ADA/meditation kind of stuff. Again, I was so close, but my heart started pounding loudly like before and I couldn't stop it. What happened was that as I started seeing the dream unfold I stopped doing the cycles and just started looking out for the dream; doing that made me realize how close I was to achieving the dream and thus I failed. I was too tired to continue at that point so I just went to sleep. I ended up sleeping for 4 hours and would've slept more if my parents hadn't woken me up. Of course, I stayed up 'til 4 o'clock AM that night

Slept for about 7 hours last night. Tonight I should be able to go back up to 8-9. I recalled my dream but my dad burst into my room and wouldn't let me finish recalling. So that dream is lost.

It's great that you are getting so close. SSILD's a really nice tech, very promising when one uses it on a frequent basis. The good thing is even if it doesn't get you into a WILD, it may give you FAs or DILDs.

I actually remembered what my dream was about at one point. Some video game. Oddly enough, the words didn't seem distorted, so maybe it was just a memory that I dreamt about and then it became a normal dream? Hmm.

Enough of this no recall. I've put too much work into this to forget all of my dreams. I'm pretty sure I had another lucid a couple of nights ago but my dad rushed me out of bed and I didn't get to recall. Man.

Dream last night:
I was downstairs in my basement, caring for my carnivorous plants. Everything looked great, even better than what is actually down there. The whole grow shelf its self was just teeming with life and so natural. So, of course, my pesky little brother comes down the stairs. He says to me "Oh, cool! Are those new ones!" I give him the evil eye and exclaim "Well, they never died!" (I think this is about me selling away my collection out of lack of interest.) I go back to my plants, and I feel them giving me energy. I look over them all happily, almost like they are kin. The dream fades out.

So, I guess with me its quality over quantity. Maybe I just need to wake up early so I don't get shaken awake too

I'm pretty sure I had another lucid a couple of nights ago but my dad rushed me out of bed and I didn't get to recall. Man.

That's quite possible. Even recall for lds can be quite evasive at times, especially if you fall asleep after having one or are distracted where you can't concentrate on bringing the memory back.

Yeah, I think waking up at bit earlier will help, you will have more time to journal or if you don't you can spend a minute or so in bed, telling the dream to yourself (in your mind) a few times. This helps solidify the memory, so you can write it down whenever you have the time.

I know it's been a while, but I've been super busy lately. Anyway, here's a couple of dreams:

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We were in an enormous field with giant oak trees on either side. In front of me was an outdoor bowling arcade. My brother and his friend were there, even though I couldn't see them. They threw a basketball at me while I was just looking around, taking it all in. This dream was cool because it had a lot of DCs and a lot of them had very human-like qualities. Another weird thing, I heard every conversation they had all at once, and I could single out some stuff but at the same time I was taking all of the information in like I was just listening to one person. I heard one of my friends call me over. Someone I hadn't seen in years. I look over and as soon as I see him I am fulfilled. My image of him was so pure; it was exactly as I remember. I should really get back in touch with him.

I had another dream but it was pretty personal so I'm not going to write it here :3

I've been experimenting with I-Dosing some, so far it works really well. They have a Lucid Dream dose; I started using it last night, and I'll see if there are any good effects.

Welcome back! Nice dream.

I've been experimenting with I-Dosing some, so far it works really well. They have a Lucid Dream dose; I started

Cool! Good luck with that and let us know how it goes.

So much for welcome back- I've had some awesome dreams lately, even another lucid. But my family has had some real problems lately while my mom and dad get a divorce. And family comes first.

This post is just to remind me to type my dreams down here.

Sorry to hear that about your parents, Brizzl. Such events are hard for everyone involved. I wish things would unwind in the smoothest possible way circumstances permitting.

Congrats on the third ld too. Take care!

Well, here I am. Unfortunately, things did not go very smoothly. Alas, I think that the storm is nearly over. So I am back, hopefully for real this time XD I will start logging my dreams again and eventually I will write down that lucid in my dream journal. But for now I need sleep. Good night!