Thread: RebarGold's Workbook

RebarGold's Workbook
(because it needed a flashier title)

Hey, everyone! Or no one...Wow, that's a depressing thought.
Moving on from that, my workbook will my pet project for a while. I'll, hopefully, start an online dream journal as well and connect this to it for the most part. There will be probably be a lot of completely filler information just to make everything look pretty and make sure I can easily replicate a situation if it succeeds.

Reality Checks:
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Biting the tips of both thumbs. This one was an accident.
Reciting the periodic table backwards while standing on one foot.
Re-reading a sentence after a moment of pause.
Practicing currently.


Dream Signs:
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Markings on the back of my left hand.
Being awesome. My bad, that's my natural state.
Unrealistic environments or events.

Short-Term Goals:
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Lucid dream 3 times for every 10 attempts.
Lucid dreams routinely lasting longer than a dream hour.
Stabilize and increase clarity.
One successful WILD and DEILD.


Long-Term Goals:
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Lucid dream 8 times for every 10 attempts.
Lucid dreams routinely last multiple dream hours.
Find the easiest way to lucid dream for me.
Master DILD.


Lucid/Dream Recall History:
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Oh, man, a lot. I have a few amazing lucid dreams that have stayed with me since my single-digit ages, and my mind is riddled with dreams that surface randomly when I'm writing or just walking around. I used to have dreams every night and achieve lucid status in most of them and have immaculate recollection, but that tapered off.
Examples:
|> My dark room with the chair and red-eyed shadow spirit. Not going to go into depth.
|> A beast tale about a person(me?) overthrowing a small kingdom and using magical armor to awaken a dragon encased in stone. This dream felt like it took weeks, even with the intermittent memory pacing.
|> A quidditch match in(not at, IN) Hogwarts. Where's the instant replay on lucid dreams? Seriously, come on guys!
And a lot more...


Current Technique:
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DILD and a random technique whose name I know not: Basically, I go to sleep with an image or a movie-like thing going on in my head and my dreams will naturally pick it up and while I generally don't know I'm dreaming unless I ask myself the precise question, I can still exert control and full lucidity. Does that even make sense?
I fall asleep around 2400 and wake up around 6000 or 1300. (That broad enough?)
My routine consists of chilling in bed watching a funny British stand-up show and reading/writing a book for an hour before going to sleep. Maybe even some quiet time to just absorb all the dreams if I'm feeling good that day.


Random stuff no one should read:
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My dreams aren't ordinary, so my DILD kicks in almost immediately. I'm never going through the motions of every-day life and the closest I ever got to mundane was hunting giant packs of werebears like it was deer season. I also rarely interfere or directly control my dreams as my subconscious does quite a nice job of creating interesting stories and plot-lines, though I normally control my singular being.
My subconscious is very dark and brooding. Ye hath been warned.

Why I want to lucid dream:
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Briefly: It's awesome. I've always been into video games and books because I can experience things that, frankly, I will never be able to in my real life. Lucid dreaming sounds far more engaging than the best of games and I can control it quite easily even when my subconscious wants to throw its plot-twists in.