Benni's Workbook

[benni]

Hey, I have finally decided to start a workbook because I hope that I can gain some more insight and refine my techniques in order to have more frequent LDs, explore the world of my dreams more and of course to have more fun overall Reality Checks: - Nose plug (usually the most reliable RC for me) - looking at my hands - thinking about what happened in the last few minutes/ questioning my surroundings - trying to change objects or trying to make something appear - Sageous' Reverse RC (if you want to count that as a RC) Note: It has only happened once that a RC made me lucid so sometimes I don't even bother to RC after having noticed that I'm dreaming because it is so obvious to me after having noticed something out of place. (I just do it to increase vividness within my LDs. However I'm performing my RCs quite frequently in waking life probably at least once an hour and everytime something strange or odd occurs to me.) Dream Signs: - school - friends - friends from New Zealand (I have been there on an Exchange Year in 2011/12) - being in New Zealand again - my parents - travelling to places all over the world Short-Term Goals: - staying motivated - improving my prospective memory - including my LDing routines into my daily life more well Long-Term Goals: - more consistent LDs (~2-3 / week) - increasing my overall daytime awareness - having more success with MILD - my first successful WILD and DEILD (but that can wait for now) Lucid/Dream Recall History: I got to know about LDing in late 2011 when I was on an Exchange in New Zealand however I didn't find much time to practice and I didn't really think about it. After I had come back to Germany in July 2012 I read an article about LDing on the internet in autumn 2012 and I was quite stoked and ordered Stephen LaBerge's book and started writing a DJ. However I still didn't get very far... Untill I (quite randomly) discovered DreamViews last summer (~June 2013). I read heaps of articles on here and finally decided to sign up I started having frequent LDs and all the guides and discussions on here helped me so much! After the summer holidays I slacked off a little because school and LDing practices didn't seem to blend very well, but I have to admit that my LDing schedule was much too packed and there was almost no way of fulfulling my goals that I have set. So by now I am trying to keep up my current schedule which is not so packed in order to keep going with my LDing practices while my final exams in March and April are approaching. My dream recall is fairly good and I am consistently recalling 4-6 dreaming per night (sometimes it can be 8-11 dreams of which about 70% are fully recalled and the rest are fragments). There are some nights in which I recall only 2 dreams, but that's an exception. I have accomplished a few tasks within my LDs so far including: flying, levitating, meeting some celebrities and old friends, crossing an ocean, etc but there is much more to come like flying to space for instance (I'm a huge astronomy fan) and tasting food, talking to a clone of myself, etc.... So those tasks and many more (I have a list of things to accomplish within LDs) keep me really excited and motivated but also the ability to discover more about yourself that LDing brings with it keeps me stoked. Current Technique: - a mixture of ADA (combined with some RRCs for self-awareness), SAT, Autosuggestion and exercises for the prospective memory to improve my awareness - MILD at bedtime - WBTB combined with MILD when I can sleep longer than usual - the usual RCs I will try to update daily, but if I am too busy I will at least try to update my workbook every third day (depending on what I have to do for school). I hope to have some nice conversations on here and get some advice helping me to improve. I'm sure this will be lots of fun andvery helpful. Thanks a lot for offering this service to help fellow LDers to strive for their goals!