Makani's Intro to LD Workbook
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"I can't.
That is what people love to say.
I can't.
It's never true."
- Das Energi (Paul Williams)

Reality Checks:
- Wearing a Simple White Sundress
- Wearing Blue Mist
- Being barefoot
- Icy cold cheekbones (feeling the bones)
- Looking in a mirror
- Having different kind of Hair (color, style, length, texture, etc.)
- Being someone else
- Being non-human

These current reality checks are mostly for fun, it's more or less easy for me to realize when I am dreaming and to start '*recording*' it for recall sake - and sometimes to make conscious decisions within the dream/exploration. It's usually very obvious to me if I am in 'current reality' or elsewhere.

Dream Signs:
-Antique Clocks
-Having broken teeth (or teeth that fall out due to something)
-Schools/Academies/Symposiums
-Being able to see around walls, doors, hear other people's thoughts.
-Standing/Walking/Running on Railings/Thin Wires
-Flying between destinations
-Traveling through Portal Halls
-My Temple &such (:I astral, yo. I gots a home, mmk. Don't visit...)
-Old friends/family members
-My perception is Above Me, instead of In Me (that's kind of an RC too) like a camera.
-Being able to switch bodies/vessels/minds of people
-Vampires, derp. Nasty energetic parasites that try and bother/eat me from time to time.
-Changing clothing by mental will
-Transforming body - I do this fairly often, I'm not always in human - or recognizable - form.
-My back has wings - legs and/or I have multiple arms.
-Sometimes, I'm just a dang orb.
-Deities/Archetypes being about.
-Various 'Astral' Locations that I visit - which remain more or less the same, with inhabitants. I usually recognize these places, more or less.
-Being on a mountain. Tending to rocks and stone stuff.

Short-Term Goals:
-Quicken ability to write out longer dreams. (figure out a shorthand, maybe a cipher too)
-Explore pre-determined locations in LD (Maybe I'll visit the Academy Castle).
-Build vocabulary.
-Dream Journal as often as possible to track as many dreams as possible (...lol, maybe not the best idea? but maybe for the next week then.)

Long-Term Goals:
-Increase my knowledge of LD and the processes others have built around it.
-Build on my current understanding.
-Improve my control and abilities... I would like to build will, be able to command recall of more details and dream sequences, expand my Memory card to store more dreams, improve my web of connectivity between dreams to build significance around this part of my life.

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
-Most recent: Yesterday (Feb. 8th, 2014). Had a series of powerful LD through half-awake/half-asleep brain state, that I realized I was looking at something even though my eyes were closed in a dark room. The more I focused on the something, the more I was 'pulled in' to a woman's body and also staring at what originally started as a faint outline of a forest, ended up being an antique clock with a forest background. She was very drunk and I was very disoriented, but still conscious that my actual body was back home asleep. I/we stood up and stumbled out to the hallway, where I looked to see what I expected to be the room in my current house, but instead, I saw an empty room with a green carpet - something I've never seen before in my life. I continued to explore the house, dazed until I reached a mirror and we looked at our face. It was morphing and changing, our features were battling over one another and I found myself explaining to the woman's consciousness how it was a battle of egos - which face we would perceive. She was very different looking than I and older, and I could tell she was frightened, but did not know how to handle what was going on. After exploring a bit more (the house was very empty), I returned to my 'bedroom' simply to turn over and take a moment to realize that I was in LD. I found it easy to slip back into the next one (which I described in my Introduction) and the following LD sequences, ranging about 6, though I can recall around 4-5 and then fell into a much too deep sleep to recall the others.

-I have LDs naturally occurring fairly frequently, but I cannot entirely control induction(?) of them. They come and go as they please, and I simply cope with them the best I can. Sometimes, I'll try for an LD on my own - there have been successful times and there have been not so successful times.

-Most of my LDs are actually excruciatingly mundane from my viewpoint. Sometimes, they seem to last entire lifetimes. My Astral Travels/Dreams are much more exciting. My subconscious dreams are much less so. I've also had Past Recall/LD-types, they are usually very emotionally charged.

Current Technique:
-Hmm... I don't know yet? At least, not which one I want to consciously work on. I think I have undergone most techniques already without deciding to. So far, MILD hasn't worked very well as I either will or won't have a LD, it doesn't make a difference if I tell myself things while I'm falling asleep (so far). I think WILD would be interesting, but I still have more to read.