Thread: Tlalocs Workbook

Lucid again this morning!!!! Yippay! Using same tech! Decided to give it a name - [planned] interrupted [sleep] audio method - or more simply - the Interruption Audio Method (I-AM).

Anyways this mornings lucid = #47
Initially had had a bad nights sleep, my daughter (=3) kept getting up in the night (around 2-3am) so eventually got some rest after that (plus had had 2 glasses NZ sav blanc). My vibe alarm went off at 5am and woke me up but I was tired and crashed back into sleep (got some good HA though as going under). Then I woke up at 6am and realised I'd forgotten to set things up. I then thought - shall I do the I-AM? as I figured I only had 1 hr left before my kids got up. Thought it would be unlikely to work - but tried it.

Set it up and went back to sleep after 25mins (had 1 A-RC (audio r/c) at 24mins and the audio really sunk into my brain...reality check, keep lookin for the vibe...). Anyways I must have drifted off and I am dreaming....
....I am dreaming I am standing in my daughters nursary school and there are 2 boys behind a desk in front of me dressed in little roman costumes, a friend we know who is a teacher aid comes and pours water over one of the boys head and completely drenchs him (like the bucket challenge raging at the moment) and I am watching and (just like in the travel lodge) my brain is completely logical and I simply and calmly think 'this is very realistic and kinda funny but that wouldn't happen in real life - this is a dream' and that makes total sense, its more logical its a dream than real life - I am calm and lucid and I start rubbing my hands vigorously together and get a good tactile sensation. The problem is I seem to have been disembodied in the dream and I so I kinda think maybe I dont' have a body in the dream, I can feel my hands but not see them, the scene goes black but I can still feel my hands and now I am imagining I am in my bed, I keep rubbing as I know this is my dream body (not my real body) and I start to rise up in the bed, I am alittle worried that I might be awake and about to wake up my wife next to me, so I go slowly (Iam 99.9% certain I am dreaming but the potential wrath of wifey makes that 0.01% doubt kinda troubling!). Anyway I slowly push myself up through the sheets but to do this I have to stop rubbing my hands and I lose myself into a grey void, this stays like this for maybe 1 -2mins, I am still in bed and know this is the void, I hope another dream scene will appear but its just grey and misty - not black, I try imagining I am clapping but slowly wake up. Its 7.05.

So 1. really happy the method worked I tried it 2x since my last update (with nights off). On the nights off = no lucid. Nights doing I-AM, lucid =1 and other night see below (almost got it).
2. reckon I've got the method for me sussed - very happy with it! It means I can avoid getting out of bed, I don't feel tired, I don't rely on the vibe being incorporated and I like the mental side of it - I am aware I am dreaming rather than being reminded I am dreaming.
3. I am making steady but slow progress on stabilization, last few dreams have been able to prolong lucidity through rubbing hands and no longer so excited when becoming lucid as the lucidity is not so much a shock more something I am expecting.

Anyways I've got a sec so I'll update on the other night I did I-AM - morn of 30/8 (sun). WT =5.30am. Set up 5 sec vibe, 24min repeat with audio
I am dreaming there is an earthquake and people are falling out of the ceiling. And then I wake up into a FA, thinking I am awake, but in a childhood bedroom, I decide to remind myself next time I am dreaming I will write RC in big letters in pen on a piece of paper I have with me in bed, and I do this...and then the vibe hits and I think 'thats good' but then I realise I am not in that bedroom but I awake in my real bedroom! I try not to move to do a DIELD but decide to do the audio RC instead after a second and am fully awake.
So on that night not really lucid as such, but very much focused on lucidity and the vibe did get incorporated into the dream before waking me up (if it hadn't woken me up perhaps I would have gone lucid after a RC?). So I have shortened the vibe to 2 secs to help this happen again.

anyways gotta go! But really stoked with another lucid!