Thread: Sharpshoey's Workbook

Good to see you back, Sharpshoey!

Just a Quick update that I had my 20th LD on June 18, 2015.
My 21st LD on June 25, 2015.
And my 22nd LD on June 28, 2015.

I'm so excited to be having these lucids semi-close together as I've just recently got back into a consistent practice. Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come

Originally Posted by Sharpshoey

Just a Quick update that I had my 20th LD on June 18, 2015.
My 21st LD on June 25, 2015.
And my 22nd LD on June 28, 2015.

I'm so excited to be having these lucids semi-close together as I've just recently got back into a consistent practice. Hopefully this is a sign of good things to come

Great stuff, Sharpshoey! You're exactly right... this kind of consistency is an excellent sign! Once you've got this kind of momentum rolling, just let success build upon success.

With your consistency, you're convincing yourself that this is what you do, placing yourself into a frame of mind where you anticipate having frequent lucid dreams. Keep up the good work!

Haven't had a LD in 5 days
Hoping to get another very soon. On a side note though, I do have some good news! I've been experimenting with MILD more this time around, I've always done MILD but my first time around I never really changed up the technique to see what worked best. This time I've tried it incorporating the Gravity RC, without mantras, with different mantras, and a few other ways. I have finally narrowed it down to something I think should work. It also helps me fall asleep quickly and I don't know if this is related to the technique or not, but when I used the technique the number of dreams I recalled went down, but the length and quality of the dreams went up. So I' thinking that I just remembered the connection between the dreams. And my dreams felt very vivid and I was present in them...it was very fun actually!

My technique is:
When I go to bed and at any mini-WBTB throughout the night I start off by imagining any dreams I can remember from the night and then noticing anything weird in them and becoming lucid. I do that part fairly quickly, just imagining myself becoming lucid, stabilizing, and remembering my goals and that's it. Then I move on to just visualize me anywhere (made up or a past dream) and doing anything fun I would potentially like to do in an LD. Not necessarily one of my goals, but just something fun. Then I do 2-3 cycles of SSILD, without the warm up part of it described in the newer tutorial, and I repeat "I'm dreaming" very rapidly. Once I complete SSILD I repeat my mantra a few more times until I fall asleep. If I can't get to sleep with the mantra I'll just let my mind go blank so I won't have any more thoughts and I'll drift off to sleep.

I didn't originally have visualization but recently added it because it's fun and imagining becoming lucid will just set more intent for me to become lucid. Also imagining doing anything fun in an LD will just increase my motivation to LD when I fall asleep and I'll be excited for it. I just today decided to add SSILD to my technique. I had done it on it's own and gotten a lucid from it a week or two ago but then dropped it because I wanted to do MILD. Well today I decided that I wanted to see if it worked for me so I wanted to combine it with MILD. I am doing less cycles than is recommended with SSILD though so then I'm not up for too long. I'm going to experiment with how many cycles I should do and also if I should include the mini cycles to warm up for SSILD as I'm using this technique.

Still my only day work is Gravity RC...and I think I'm about 20 days in on that. I've only done it once in a recent dream but I didn't get lucid from it. So I just need to build up more awareness of gravity. Also, I still haven't been able to fly so I'm thinking of putting that dream goal on hold, and going to practice other things. Like practicing summoning, teleporting, using superpower things, and stuff like hat. Hopefully if I show myself I can do things like that that are impossible IWL, when I go back to flying it'll be easier since I've already done some impossible things. I just think that my motivation for LD's has lowered because all I've tried to do is fly and I keep failing, so the key for me here I think is to put that on hold and move on to goals I can succeed with and gain more motivation.

Finally, I've been trying to use a mantra to get myself to notice my awakenings in the night but it hasn't really been working. So I think my plan now is to just drink lots of water before bed and to set multiple alarms throughout the night. Then hopefully after a week or two of that I will be used to waking up throughout the night so I'll be able to notice myself waking up a lot better.

I haven't felt this excited about LDing since I first learned about it!

Hey Sharpshoey, your current tech looks really solid! Keep it up, I'm sure the lds will follow soon!

I agree about putting the flying part on hold for the time being. Find something else to do that resonates with you at the moment. Don't worry about flying, who knows you may actually find yourself doing it by accident while in the process of completing other goals. At any rate, the dream world is amazing so you can discover cool things to do wherever you look. Just grab an object and explore it in detail - you will often be surprised at the richness of the experience.

I have been trying to wake up naturally in the night so I don't have to use an alarm and every so often I can...usually though I don't notice my wakings. So I am now definitely going to just set one alarm a night until I can wake up at that time naturally, because if I wake up once in the night I notice more wakings after that usually.

Anyways, I now want to start practicing WILD again. If I am doing MILD as well, how would I go about doing this? I was thinking about doing my normal MILD and then just trying to hold awareness as I fall asleep so even if I fail with the WILD I have my MILD to fall back on. Is there any downsides to combining my technique like this, or is combining techniques the best way to go about things?

Also yesterday I was practicing a WILD in the afternoon. I was sort of stuck in the "daydream mode" where you are awake and daydreaming but its really vivid daydreaming, so it like one tiny step below dreaming. When I was doing that all of a sudden my awareness snapped back because of something that fell over in my daydream I think. As soon as that happened I felt a wave of some sort come over my body and things started to get tingly. I tried o stay calm but I thought that this meant that I was close to dreaming and my heart rate started speeding and my eyes were moving around like crazy. I couldn't calm down no matter what I did. Finally I settled down and I tried to stay still and imagine a dream scene to pop into it but my mind was too awake so I just opened them. Do you know any tips on what I can do in the future if it happens again so that I can enter the dream?

Finally flew in an LD!!!!

I just jumped off of my back porch and spread out so I was parallel to the ground. Instead of hitting the ground like usual though, I kept on moving forward and I screamed in the dream I was so excited. Then the dream took me up way high and as I was looking around I flipped over and had an FA.

The sensation of flying felt very cool...and finally after 26 LD's I've completed my first in dream goal!

I'll get the dream typed up sometime soon, I've been excited since I woke up. It feels so good to have finally completed that. I did learn something too. When I realized I wouldn't hit the ground because I kept rising up, I was very surprised that I was able to fly. So even though I may have been thinking I was confident I could fly, somewhere in the back of my mind I was thinking "I can't do this". Even as I was flying I was hoping and hoping that I wouldn't drop and hit the ground.

Hopefully this experience has taken away any doubts I have about flying...maybe this will even help with other dream control as well since I have done something impossible IWL in a dream proving that I can do impossible things in a dream without a problem.

Congrats on the ld, Sharpshoey! Really happy that you have completed your dream goal! Indeed, nothing is impossible in dreams!

Anyways, I now want to start practicing WILD again. If I am doing MILD as well, how would I go about doing this? I was thinking about doing my normal MILD and then just trying to hold awareness as I fall asleep so even if I fail with the WILD I have my MILD to fall back on. Is there any downsides to combining my technique like this, or is combining techniques the best way to go about things?

Yes, you could absolutely do that. If your body has enough awareness, it is possible to wild while trying to mild. This has happened to me a few times. So, don't hesitate to mix and match techs - to find out which yield what results and if these work for you.

Congratulations, Sharpshoey!! What a great accomplishment, not only for the experience, but also for showing yourself what you're capable of!

Originally Posted by Sharpshoey

Hopefully this experience has taken away any doubts I have about flying...maybe this will even help with other dream control as well since I have done something impossible IWL in a dream proving that I can do impossible things in a dream without a problem.

Absolutely right. This flight is a map toward your future dream control successes. You've seen what you're capable of and you'll never look at dreams the same way again. Not know that you know what you can do!

I'm really happy for you on this one! I'm so glad you stuck with this goal, and now you've made it happen! I look forward to your continued success.

Man I haven't been here in a long time! I've been really busy but I'm ready to start LDing again with all the free time I have now. I want to jump back into doing the Gravity RC again, but in the past that has seemed to be really mentally demanding and provides no results for quite a while, so I think that'll completely kill my motivation right from the beginning. The only way this'll work is if I slowly and steadily incorporate lucid dreaming into my life and see my progress steadily rising, then once I'm getting a fair amount of LD's and I've made some progress I might consider jumping back to Gravity RC again.

So I'm just going to look around the site for now and refresh my memory a bit, then I will come up with some goals and a routine to do and I'll post that here later.

Good to see you back!

One thing I need to work on is trying to wake up after each dream. This will benefit me by allowing me to remember more dreams, and it will help me to increase my awareness going into the next dream. I usually just sleep through the night and don't really notice my awakenings until like 4 or 5 in the morning. So Tonight I'm going to try going to bed while repeating a mantra to intend to be aware of my wakings throughout the night.

Sounds like a good idea - mantras can be quite useful for such things.