lumiina's Workbook

Yet another lucid dream tonight! I was also brief. Did some flips in the air. Again I felt like I had to get up, so I lost lucidity. (Which was true, I had to get up.) I don't remember if I woke up at that point or fell into a non-lucid dream, since I don't remember the order of my dreams.

Also, lots of dreams about sharks lately.

Two in a row, that's great! :D

You know sometimes it feels like you're out of time and need to get up, but because you are in a dream you are able to do things much faster than real life. This creates the impression of time dilation. I've had this rush myself, just before having to wake and the alarm was set, I would worry that there isn't enough time but then say nevermind, let me do my tasks. I complete the tasks and the ld ends, I wake like 3 mins before the alarm.

OB talks about something similar in podcast 3:

http://www.dreamviews.com/dreamviews...-mistakes.html

I'll keep that in mind! Listened to some of the podcast.

Wow, another lucid dream!

This time, I really struggled to get out of bed to do anything in the dream. Eventually I just woke up. I don't think I was trying to wake up, but I may have been a little just as a reaction. I was trying to figure out what was real and what was the dream. I remember even putting my hands in front of my face and moving them, then seeing a little bit of my hands in the corner of my eye and telling myself, that's my real self and trying to wake up. But of course my waking body wasn't actually moving. I just always think I'm half awake in false awakening sleep paralysis dreams.

This was another DILD. I think I have to focus on MILD and remind myself of my goals every night and throughout the day even. That way, when I become lucid, I can go off of the excitement to complete a task. This time, my goal is to go through a door into my mother-in-law's house in Japan and have lunch with her. Even if I just end up in Japan, that would be satisfying.

In the past seven days I've had four DILDs. Before I fall back to sleep in the morning I should focus on what I want to do in my dream to take advantage of my recent, lucid dream streak!

WILD

Had a WILD during a nap this morning! Was very exciting. The first time a WILD hasn't been scary for me! It's the first time I felt like my body was lifting up and it felt nice. I had scary auditory hallucinations, but I was just so excited to be lucid dreaming, it didn't bother me, even though I couldn't change them to something pleasant. I woke up, I think, out of excitement and never got the chance to explore my dream.

Now I can finally see WILD as my secondary technique, or even becoming my primary technique one day. The reason why I think it was more relaxing is because I told myself before I fell asleep that the dream will be pleasant, that it's just a dream and even if there's something scary, I will probably be too excited to be scared by it anyway (from past experience with lucid dreams).

Progress So Far

I've completed a lot of the tasks for this workbook so far, and want to have everything checked off, even the optional tasks, before moving on. Here's a compiled list of what's left for my own reference:

-Listing reoccurring elements in my dream journal
-[DREAM PLAN] Visit my mother-in-law's house in Japan
-[DREAM PLAN] Ask a DC to write in Japanese
-When inside of a lucid dream, practice the dream control techniques. Post your results in your workbook.
-Visit somewhere you know from waking life, take note of all its surroundings, are there any subtle differences?
-Swim underwater and attempt to breathe, were you able to?

I also want to accomplish the advanced task of the month and take an elevator!

I think I can accomplish a lot of these in one dream. I can visit my mother-in-law's house in Japan and take notes of the surroundings. Ask my mother-in-law to write something in Japanese for me. Then find an elevator to go through.

After I accomplish these things, I will try swimming underwater and attempting to breath and practicing dream control techniques. Then finally, I am hoping to list down my dream signs in my journal. I am thinking about getting a new journal for that and organizing my journals better.

After I complete all these tasks, I may join another class.

Had two FA MILDs this morning.

Unfortunately, both my attempts through a portal didn't lead to Japan! My first attempt through a window "woke me up" into another FA. My second one just led to my hallway and then I woke up.

I think I'm too excited and rushed and instead need to stabilize the dream first.

Oh, and I realized I used a dream control technique this time by using expectation to try to trigger Japan through the portal. I forgot this was a dream control technique but looking back at the lessons I realize it is and think I used this for my first MILD as well with triggering that field. So I can check that off now. I was just thinking about the basic math technique and didn't realize expectation was a dream control technique as well.

I think I'll just list off my dream signs in my DJ now as well since that's an easy task to complete as well.

Tasks Left

-[DREAM PLAN] Visit my mother-in-law's house in Japan
-[DREAM PLAN] Ask a DC to write in Japanese
-Visit somewhere you know from waking life, take note of all its surroundings, are there any subtle differences?
-Swim underwater and attempt to breathe, were you able to?

After accomplishing the above, I'll retire my workbook. I've technically completed all the non-optional tasks from this class and am feeling good about that! All that's left are the optional tasks above.

Thanks NyxCC for guiding me throughout these past four and a half months! I've really grown as a lucid dreamer since then! Right now, I'm going through my first lucid dream streak, having lucid dreams every week. I've accomplished various tasks, even a task of the month, and skills like telekinesis and flying. I'm a lot less scared to dream (though, sometimes I'm still occasionally scared) and much more rational in my dreams and enjoy dreaming more than I ever have before.

Fantastic! Congrats on your latest lds.

I'm very happy to read about your progress Lumiina. :) You have come a long way in the past couple of months. I hope you stick around DV and be an inspiration for others.

Best of luck with your future goals and looking forward to reading about your successes in the totm threads. :goodjob:

Thank you! I am definitely sticking around DreamViews! I love this community!

sivason suggested that when I enter the door, even if the room isn't my mother-in-law's house, to call out her name and pretend it's the right room. So I'm going to try that.

This morning I accomplished my dream plan of visiting my mother-in-law's house in Japan! I was lucid once arriving to Japan in a DILD. Unfortunately, by the time I got to my mother-in-law's I lost lucidity and didn't actually see my mother-in-law, but I technically accomplished the dream plan <(^_^)

I will still keep trying to summon my mother-in-law though!

I think I am ready to move onto my next class and continue perusing my own personal dream tasks. Thank you NyxCC for guiding me and happy dreaming!

Yay! That's awesome lumiina! Congrats :) I was really excited about this task and can already imagine more trips to Japan to follow. :)

Happy dreams to you too.

Ahh! No way? You were excited? Stay tuned! I will keep dreaming and recording them here!

My dreams in Japan are soo strange. Stranger than my dreams about America. There's the airport/arrival type area, which has tons of attractions for foreigners, this train/old car type transportation between the regions, inns, shops and finally my mother-in-law's house, which is the only normal place similar to what I actually experienced in Japan. Japan feels so big in my dreams. It kind of feels like a filing drawer of all my combined experiences and expectations, perhaps. Where the files are all disorganized. It's weird that my brain has created a Japan of its own.

Also, I never seem to take the plane to Japan in my dreams. When my dreams are in between America and Japan, I take a train.

Ah cool! The great thing is, once you reach Japan, your mind will start producing all sorts of related items which is absolutely awesome. You will be able to stroll the streets, visit shops full of Japanese items and go to all the great places you like. :)

Now I hope I get schema infected and dream about this too. On one occasion I was trying to summon a waterfall for toty but got this absolutely fantastic river scene with cherry blossoms near the river bank instead.:smitten: