Thread: Tlalocs Workbook

Hey 501! good to hear from you! Think you are dead right about the awareness and timing issues - man I'm sorry you have to get up at 5.00 bro! Sounds rough! I get up at 6.20ish but you are absolutely right, if I get the chance to sleep into 7.00ish the chance of going lucid shoots up.

today was a prime example - lucid 34 it happened at 7.20am, only possible because my kids were staying over at my parents at law. I was really, really stoked with this, even though it was absolutely tiny! Partly because it felt like I was breaking a dry spell of sorts, and partly because it took 2 hours of surfing some pretty cool HH to get there, and because it was a WILD - so pretty different from my usual DILD's.

Anyways I'm going to describe the night so I can refer back to it if I need to. No alcohol for once, went to bed at 10.30 so earlier than normal, 6hr wbtb - woke after 5 - amazing how I've become trained to 5 over the last 6 wks that I wake up then even if the silent alarm doesn't go off. Anyways went back to sleep and woke up at 6hrs, so 4.30 and did a vMILD, set the clock for 20mins but as you'll see in a sec it never had the chance to get incorporated into the dream.

I decided I wanted to boost my awareness as per the prev entries so I stayed awake longer, and also as I normally sleep with a sheet over my head I pulled this down, and this had the desired effect in that I became so aware I couldn't get back to sleep easily. I knew by 5.00am that it wasn't too much of a prob as I had probably 2 hrs up my sleeve, but I didn't want to WILD, rather I preferred to try and return to sleep to allow the vibe to get incorporated. It continued to go off every 20mins but I just couldn't quite get there, but the result was some really cool HH and dreamlets and sleep paralysis which came in waves, and like a surfer I'd try and pick up the swell and get lucid and each time the wave would roll past underneath me and I'd have to wait again!

The HH were very cool though, one of the first was almost more of a semilucid - I decided to try something I'd read a day or two ago on DV's and tried imagining myself clapping rhythmically, I did this for only a min or two and then suddenly I was in a car with a female DC who turned to me and said 'Why are you clapping?' and I reply (feeling stupid and trying to make up something to explain) - 'because my hands feel cold!' - and then the dream collapses! How dumb! I should say after this I also ask 'whats your middle name?' to the black but I think the dream has gone into the void by then. The name 'Jamima' comes into my head immediately (the name of a doll on a NZ kids show from the early 80's) but I think my sub-con is saying it rather than the DC (as shes gone into the void), so I don't think I can count it as getting the mthly task done It just shows how quickly our brains are scrambling to come up with explanations in dreams to make sense of the often insensible! But this exchange with the DC really cracked me up! I try the same rhythmic thing with rowing and a dream starts to form but I again wake up as I'm trying to hard to stay alert

The next one was some sleep paralysis pretty intense but cool, followed by a dream in which I started to cross a road but could hardly move my clawed hands due to the SP, as I managed to do this I woke up again....

then more waves of HH....some similar in content - I am trying to operate the electric jug - it doesn't work triggering me to think I'm dreaming and I remember I'm asleep and immediately wake up, a bit later similar thing with a toaster - it won't work, I wake up - I think these are more HH dreamlets than actual dreams - they are so short but intense, almost like visual phrases, probably related to the fact I should be up and having breakfast normally by now.

anyways its now been almost 2 hrs and I feel the REM wanting to come, so I pull the sheet over my head and the HH takes me to seeing roman pottery in a garden plot, I see some shards of different functions/types - a spotted motarium and I instantly dismiss this as a dream, as I know I haven't seen this in real life, I expect the dreamlet to collapse but it doesn't this time - this time (lucid 34) it stays. I see the pottery and am in the garden and I know its a dream, I look at my hand to see the detail, but the dream starts to collapse with a roaring in my ears, it goes black and I try to rub my hands but I can hardly move them, I'm in the void for maybe 30secs trying to unlock my arms and hands but I feel paralysed and slowly I wake up in my bed, my arms are locked around me in a mummy type position so perhaps this also entered my dream as it faded?

So the LD was pretty short but after having lots of HH wash under me I felt I finally caught my wave right at the end of the night and managed to get up and ride it even if only for a short while the ride was pretty cool and it left me buzzing all day!

I was never really asleep until that last WILD to get the vibe in so I don't think I'd call this a vibe nite, although its possible the regular going off of the alarm helped keep me alert.

final thoughts 1. pulling the sheet off my head increased awareness
2. I shifted the IC to the ball of my foot and this felt like it would be novel enough to increase the likely hood of incorporation
3. not drinking the night before helped
4. having a guaranteed sleep in allowed me to keep going at the HH, I have had nights like this before, but they work best when you can keep going to you hit the sweet spot, if this had been a work day I might have been more tired, and there wouldn't have been a lucid at the end as I'd had to have gotten up 1 hr earlier.
5. the rhythmic imagining thing worked pretty well

Final thoughts, the HH were really, really fun! It feel great to escape into another world again - there really is nothing else like it - the randomness of what your going to find is definitely a part of the attraction!