Thread: lumiina's Workbook

Yes, it's so easy for my mind to get consumed with thoughts and excited, unable to sleep. I think I have to keep my WBTB simple and short.

This is something I really had to practice dealing with as well. I still have to handle it right and not get too excited or fretful about something.

I like to clear my mind with some kind of ritual that gets it onto a slower pace. I like peaceful backward counting while draining my mind of all thought. Trying to just experience the moment and counting slowly backward from 100 while inserting "I'm dreaming" or something similar. When I lose count, no stress, just start over. Repeat until knocked out. This has pretty much always worked for me eventually.

At first, it wasn't too scary. I thought maybe I could slip into a dream by imagining Jan from The Office in the kitchen.

Ha! I've been binging on The Office on Netflix the past few weeks during my workouts and I've also had a number of dreams with the characters in them. I became lucid during a couple of them as well, including one where I was playing a video game where Michael Scott fights zombies.

Anyway, cool dream experience!

Got a good night's sleep last night. My husband just leased a car so I'm going to be able to sleep in now since I don't have to drive him to work. Wonder if this will lead to more dreaming and LD opportunities. Now I can record what times I naturally go to bed and wake up.

CanidLucidus -

Thanks for the advice!

Yes! I was sick last week and watched all my Office DVDs to distract myself from not feeling well. We have them all. So I think The Office has been entering a lot of my dreams lately. Even my husband had a dream he was driving with Michael and Dwight when suddenly the road got narrow on both sides and they got stuck.