Thread: sallybrarian's workbook

Reality Checks:
-Pinching my nose and seeing if I can breathe
-Noticing when I feel anxious or "have" to do something
-Asking myself if I am dreaming and then observe things around me in detail
(looking at my hands does not work for me which is why it is not included)

Dream Signs:
-Feeling anxious or like I need to get something done in a hurry
-Noticing interesting architecture
-Being at work
-Driving a car (since I don't own one)

Short-Term Goals:
-Remembering more than 1 dream per night
-Doing a minimum of 10 RCs a day
-Meditating for any amount of time each day

Long-Term Goals:
-Have at least 1 LD per week
-Staying motivated to continue my dream practice
-Studying my DJ to better understand my dreams

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
-Remembered both of my lucid dreams (almost didn't realize I had the second LD!)
-Dream Recall: I usually remember 1 per night, but it's always close to waking (so between hours 6-8 of sleep). Sometimes I don't remember dreams when I wake up and lie in bed. It might take walking around and doing stuff for 5-30 min and then something in reality will tip me off to my dream at which point I will write it.

Current Technique:
-Affirmation before bed "I will have a lucid dream and it will always be sooner rather than later"
-When I am not too tired I try to do calm breathing focusing on each of my chakra points for 3 breaths
-When I wake up between hours 4-6 I try to do SSILD, but that usually wakes my brain up so much I have a hard time getting back to sleep and then I just have regular dreams instead of LD (probably because of being awake makes me tired)
-When I remember I try to remind myself to do RCs when in a dream (have only remembered this once and it was the hand RC which failed me, but I didn't trust it anyway so I realized it was a LD).

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