Thread: Tlalocs Workbook

Of interest though was immediately after she woke me she left to go to the shower and I immediately dropped back into sleep and straight into REM dreaming and a sort of FA in that I was dreaming I was looking at the invisible clock to see when the vibe interval had hit - I then dragged myself awake again and realised I had just dreamt this as I was still in bed and the clock still against my ankle - so a pretty interesting snapshot of how quickly you can drop back into REM dreaming from waking (like a DIELD I guess without the lucidity).

You might also consider adding RCing upon wake to your routine. It's a great way to catch those FAs.

Vibe Nite #16 and Lucids 25 and 26

Had a brilliant night last night! Where I felt I'd been jamming open the door to lucidity repeatedly in the last couple of weeks, last night I felt like I really swung the door wide open and stepped on in into the room! It felt GREAT!!!!!

Lucid 25
I woke up 1 minute 30secs before my wbtb alarm of 5 hrs was due. Had gone to bed earlier as my wife is sick so this was around 3.30am. Set the clock for the usual intervals but waited until I felt sleepy after the 3min vMILD before starting it....

At around 4.20 I am in a dream, I am in a IKEA store and its like the staff have dressed up from the 'playing with my friends' video, in teddy bear costumes. Wife and I leave the store and head to the car park, she opens the boot of the car to put a push chair in and the push chair is left partly in the road, blocking a car from passing that patiently waits. Wife tells me off for not helping so real life! We head off towards a nz outdoor shop and I stop by a sort of utility room in the car park. I say 'I'll see you there I just need to check this is locked' and go into the utility room and out the other door to the outside again, as I am closing the door.....the vibe hits, 2 slow 5 sec vibes the first slightly broken in the middle, I know this is wrong because it should be only 1 5 sec continuous vibe so I suspect I am dreaming . Following my practice in real life I slowly and calmly do a RC by slowing looking at my watch (4pm) and again (10am)....I am lucid but I am calm and I immediately start walking away from the door to do my planned activity (jumping). I am looking around as I am doing this and the scene is hyperrealistic, I literally AM in this place, the door handle, the grass, the stubby tree all are as though they would be in real life, I emerge onto the edge of a large empty grass playing field, and start jumping just as though I were on a trampoline - and just like on a trampoline I bounce, up and down, up and down, speed and height roughly equivalent to a trampoline, except I am doing this just on the flat lawn! I look around as I am jumping, I see clear building fringing the edge of the field and a church spire in the right hand corner, the contrast is excellent and the sky a very vivid NZ type blue with a sun burning mid way up. I feel amazed....here I am literally under an alien sun.....an entire world complete with its own sun which exists no where else but within me! I feel supercharged but also awed and alittle apprehensive at being alone in this place. The dream starts to fade down and I am content to let it go as I don't want to risk forgetting it and I am so happy with what I have achieved - I have carried out my intentions from earlier in the week (stabilize (thanks NyxCC, Benni and 501 for advice!), bound up and down) and I have intentionally gotten lucid through using the vibration! Happy, happy happy!!!

I wake, check the clock, 4 mins since the vibe hit. I lie in bed and can feel more REM wanting to come. Pretty quickly I go into sleep paralysis and I hover around the point of WILDing but I just can't quite get the balance right. I imagine (following your advice NyxCC) rubbing the carpet and twice I can FEEL this happening as opposed to imagining it but as soon as I consciously realise this I slip back to waking, its like being on a see saw and either being too awake or becoming unconscious.

After I bit I decide if I pursue this I am not going to get back to sleep, so I do some SSILD cycles to relax myself and try to reset the Invis clock and return to sleep.

Lucid 26
around 5.20am I am dreaming I am at work. Unlike a lot of my dreams this is set in real life, my work place and it is so realistic it is as it is in reality - it literally IS my workplace. Its the prework morning meeting discussing patient lists etc. A colleague who I know is pregnant but whom is yet to tell me she is pregnant because we mostly work different shifts is sitting next to me and I know this is what she is going to tell me. However there is a roaring noise too loud for me to hear which is weird and suddenly I think 'hey is this the IC clock vibrating and I'm hearing the noise? - this is a dream!' as soon as I think this dream ends - almost with a pop! This doesn't put me off though - I am so pleased to have gotten lucid again - this feels like a 'buy one get one free bonus!' !!!!

I check the invisible clock and find that the timer can't have gone off as I'd accidently changed the setting when Id tried to reset it after the WILDing failure. This shows just how important expectation can be on awareness.

So happy with the nights results, I just keeping thinking of that alien sun burning in the so blue sky and what it means - I have finally arrived in a new world!

Happy dreaming!!!!