Thread: Rallan's Workbook

Thank you! I find your advice very encouraging and helpful!

Last night

Did WBTB. Very vague recall. Only thing I wrote was 'Yoda + mashed potato'. Did SSILD back to sleep. Took maybe 20 minutes to fall asleep. Then had a lucid dream! Was quite a successful one. I managed to follow my dream plan to what seems like was a positive conclusion. In case you're interested, the dream is here.

Still feel a bit shaky with stabalization. This time, following the advice of someone here, the first thing I did once lucid was to try and look at the details of my hand, but I found myself blacking out anyway. I stayed in it somehow though, can't remember exactly how. After that I just tried to really pay attention to the details of the dream, which seemed to work. I did forget to shout for lucidity, announce out loud what I'm doing, interact more physically with the environment and rub my hands. Must set my intention to do some of these next time.

I don't seem to have any problem remaining aware I am dreaming so far with my lucid dreams, but I just find I lose vividness and start blacking out every so often, which then does seem to reduce my mental clarity and awareness. From what I've gathered, this is because I'm not engaging in the dream enough? That said, on reflection I do also sometimes seem to get 'caught up in the dream', which seems to lead to blacking out. I sense it may be sometimes because I suddenly realise I'm getting a bit caught up in the dream and then overcompensate by thinking too much about what to do about it!

After waking and making notes on that dream I tried SSILD again. This time I had little focus, and felt myself being quickly pulled to sleep. At least this is what I realised in the morning. I believed for ages it seems that I wasn't sleeping and kept waking up and doing SSILD. But on waking I now believe that was all a dream! Must remember next time, If my SSILD feels a bit fuzzy I should do a nose pinch test every so often. In the last few nights, my lucid dreams do seem to follow those longer periods of falling asleep, where I spent more time cultivating awareness.