Thread: Flightless204's Workbook

Hello! My username is flightless204 (duh!) and I've been practicing lucid dreaming for a few weeks now. I wanted to start a workbook to keep track of my progress and hopefully get some feedback and constructive criticism. I'm so excited for my first lucid!

Sleep Schedule:
On a regular school day I usually go to bed at 10 and wake up at quarter after 6. So on average I get 8 hours of sleep at night.

Reality Checks:
-Push two fingers through my palm
-Plug my nose and try to breath
-Mental/Reverse Reality Check (Where was I 5 minutes ago? Where am I now? What am I doing? Where will I be 5 minutes from now?)

Dream Signs:
I don't know many of my dream signs; my dreams seem kind of random, but here are a few I did notice...

-Impaired physical ability: In dreams whenever I attempt some kind of physical activity, my body doesn't work like it does in waking life. For example, when I was little I had a recurring nightmare where I was running. But it felt like I was running through honey! I knew I could run faster, but whenever I tried, I would just fall over. In another more recent dream, I was trying to tumble. I am a cheerleader with level 5 tumbling skills, but in the dream I couldn't even do a round-off, a level 1 skill! (A round-off is a cartwheel where you 'snap' both your feet down at the same time) My arms kept sliding out in random directions and I had the same feeling of moving through a thick liquid.

Short-Term Goals:
-Remember to practice awareness and reality checks more often throughout the day
-Have my first lucid dream
-Remember to stabilize when I become lucid

Long-Term Goals:
-Meditate each night before bed
-Be able to consistently have 4-5 lucid dreams per week
-Have 20 LDs by January 1, 2016(Is this too small of a goal? Should I make the number larger or smaller?)
-Create a persistent realm like Hyu describes
-Complete a task of the year(maybe not this year, but it is something I would like to achieve eventually)

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
-Currently, I am usually able to recall 1-2 full dreams per night, plus fragments of 2-3 other dreams.
-When I was younger, I used to have frequent nightmares, like every week or so. I used to, more often then not actually, realize that it was just that- a nightmare, and use this knowledge to wake myself up. Eventually the nightmares got more and more spaced out, until I stopped having them altogether. I haven't become lucid in a dream since then.

Current Technique:
-During the day I practice Puffin's SAT technique coupled with reality checks
-At night I practice MILD while falling asleep

Motivation to Lucid Dream:
-Honestly, I really just want the thrill of being able to do things that are not possible in the waking world. Being able to try things I see in movies that aren't possible in real life! I don't know if this is a good reason, but it's my reason, and I'm sticking with it! Plus, I'm not going to completely ignore the other side of lucid dreaming either. Talking to my subconscious is also something that I'm very interested to try. I recently bought 'A Guide to the Inner Self' by Robert Waggoner, and would like to try some of the techniques in that book as well.

What I Want to do In My First Lucid Dream:
-I think it would be really cool to find a beach, by teleportation or other means and get a DC to teach me how to waterbend, like in Avatar: The Last Airbender!


Anyway, this first post is quite long, so I guess I'll be done now! I'll post any results tomorrow. I can't wait to finally have a lucid dream!