Thread: Paidos's workbook

Hi, my name is Paidos and I'm 18 years old. I have been practicing lucid dreaming for about a week now and today I decided to start this workbook to keep track of my progress and hopefully get some advice to improve my chances

What i did so far:

- I chose DILD and MILD as my first techniques to practice

- I already had one LD some days ago! (Will get into more detail down below)

- I started a dream journal. However, i decided to keep most of it private for now. I will, of course update you when I manage to discover a dream sign or something special happens. Later on, I may decide to start a DJ on this site but for now, I dont feel that comfortable writing all these weird things happening in my dreams down for anyone but myself

Dream signs:

- Getting into conflicts with other people

- I am standing on really tall things or towers, which fall over with me standing on them

Reality checks:

- Looking at hands and counting fingers

- Pinching nose and trying to breathe

Daily Routine:

Like i said, im currently trying to practice DILD and MILD. I'm doing RCs troughout the day whenever I remember to do them, while repeating my mantra ("I will realize I'm dreaming"). Im practicing ADA, but I'm not very good at it yet. When I go to bed, I try to relax and stop myself from thinking about anything that hasn't to do with LDing. Instead i repeat my mantra (sometimes accompanied by "I will remember my dreams") while falling asleep.

Dream Recall:

So far, I have had difficulties remembering full dreams. Most of the time I only recall fragments. My dreams also tend to be pretty long, which often makes me forget the beginning by the time I wake up. In the last two nights i managed to wake up after almost every dream for some reason, which made recalling them a bit easier but I still couldn't remember everything.

Would this be a good Oppurtunity to try and practice DEILD or should i hold on to that until I improve in other areas?

Short term goals:

General:

- Improve Dream Recall (at least one full dream per night) and discover dream signs

- Improve in different awareness techniques

- Try to improve my sleep schedule, especially in the holidays where i have more room to experiment

For LDs:

- Practice dream Control in general

- Fly

- Being able to completly change the scenery

Long term goals:

- Try out some ways to incorporate WBTB in my sleep schedule without having to set an alarm

- At least one LD per week

- Staying motivated

Other things to note:

- My sleep schedule may be a bit messed up and varies a lot between holidays and school time.

During school time, I normally go to sleep at around midnight, +- 1 hour, and I get around 6 hours of sleep. This is by far not enough for me, but it would be pretty hard to change it (I'm sharing a room with someone who goes to sleep at around the same time and it's hard for me to sleep while he is still awake and doing stuff. He is also the reason why I can't really practice WBTB)

During the holidays I go to bed about 3 hours later, but i sleep in waaay longer, which means I get most of my sleep while the sun is already out.

Could this interfere with LDing in some way?

- Like I mentioned before, I already had one LD some days ago. It started with a false awakening. Before i got out of bed i remembered to do an RC (looking at hands) which worked. Instead of getting lucid right away, I thought I had to fall asleep first for some reason but when that didn't work I realized: "Maybe I am already in a dream?" and then i got lucid
I got up and decided to try out some basic things. I "summoned" two of my friends without problems and then we decided to leave the house. I looked out the window (There was snow outside) and expected it to be summer. At first I thought it didn't work, but when we got outside, it was actually warm The snow was still there, though, so it was only a partial success. Then my sister turned up for some reason and I woke up shortly after.


That should be all for now. I will be back tommorow with my Long- and short term goals (added now!) and hopefully a success to report