Thread: AquaBlitz11's Workbook

Welcome to intro class and to DV, AquaBlitz11!

About dream signs, have you considered looking at broader categories like people, places, certain items, situations emotions? If your dreams have "unknown people" in them then this might as well be called a dream sign. To be able to catch such a dream sign, for example, try asking yourself during the day - who is this person, who do I know them. If it's a dream, it may be the case that a DC just came out of nowhere and is now playing whatever role you have assigned them. So, always be on the lookout and questioning. What am I doing? Where am I? Who is this?

Thanks! I completely forgot about that either. Now it comes to conclusion that I actually have to RC on some people I talk to, thanks to my last night's dream. Game/Coding elements, or whatever I feel like it should be: dialog box for information and such, information on vision is also included. I guess strangers, minor pain and those elements are great dream sign to take care of. Sadly, last two are not easily found in real life.

Last night, near the end of the last dream, right when I warped back at my weirdly-organized dream house. I somehow managed to try doing a reality check, and really started questioning myself. However, whenever I try to think back where I was in x minutes ago, I usually close my eyes for a bit to relax myself, and that happened to wake me up. The moment I snapped to lucidity, a bit to feel, everything started collapsing. I tried to get myself back to dreaming calmly, couldn't help but feel that I'll wake up soon, so I just tried to gather all the scenes I can recall before waking up. (Imagine rapid scene transitions) Though, it's not really hard thing to fix, not a problem.

Whichever way, my RC has yet to be enough mindful, or if it is, then not enough often. I always get urge to do RC whenever I'm at relaxed state (as though last night when I was back home, in my dream). But not really when doing something exciting/interesting/etc, for example, gaming, typing this chunk, etc. Is there any way to aid me overcoming this?

Overall, for sake of progress tracking, this night is great comparing to all other nights. Vivid dream, dream signs confirmation, one more step to lucidity, decent recall which also links to my another old forgotten dream. Let's get better tonight.

Are there any chances I should actually make a workbook on DILD subforums, or just stay here? I'm pretty sure I'll dedicate myself to DILD since WILD is highly not suited for my both daytime and night-time routine.

For sake of progress tracking,

As of August 8th 2015, I find MILD relying on DILD is one of major requirements for me to actually recall dreams. Being able to recall dreams would mean general awareness, a bit of consciousness waking up in my dream life. Last night (and any other nights) I slept on with too much in head, I noticed I failed to concentrate on mantras and tried getting back. Whichever way, I still slept on without actually doing anything. I also find mantras about dreaming vividly work better than actually telling myself to lucid. So far, August 6th was best step. For now, I'm still feeling problems on reality checks. Amount is now quite at its minimum. Trying to improve this.

Tonight shall be better. Nighty night.

Originally Posted by AquaBlitz11

Thanks! I completely forgot about that either. Now it comes to conclusion that I actually have to RC on some people I talk to, thanks to my last night's dream. Game/Coding elements, or whatever I feel like it should be: dialog box for information and such, information on vision is also included. I guess strangers, minor pain and those elements are great dream sign to take care of. Sadly, last two are not easily found in real life.

That's good! For the dream signs that are not present in your life, you can just think about them or even better repeat a mantra. For example, I have a mantra "I see weird animals, I realize that I'm dreaming". The weird animals category encompasses all animals that I don't usually run into on a daily basis. You can also try visualizing your dream signs and imagine you become lucid upon encountering them.

Last night, near the end of the last dream, right when I warped back at my weirdly-organized dream house. I somehow managed to try doing a reality check, and really started questioning myself. However, whenever I try to think back where I was in x minutes ago, I usually close my eyes for a bit to relax myself, and that happened to wake me up. The moment I snapped to lucidity, a bit to feel, everything started collapsing. I tried to get myself back to dreaming calmly, couldn't help but feel that I'll wake up soon, so I just tried to gather all the scenes I can recall before waking up. (Imagine rapid scene transitions) Though, it's not really hard thing to fix, not a problem.

This is great progress! Your practices are becoming part of your dreams. Keep it up!

Whichever way, my RC has yet to be enough mindful, or if it is, then not enough often. I always get urge to do RC whenever I'm at relaxed state (as though last night when I was back home, in my dream). But not really when doing something exciting/interesting/etc, for example, gaming, typing this chunk, etc. Is there any way to aid me overcoming this?

Again, I like to use a mantra during such activities. My point is if, I were to dream I am playing a video game, I want to realize this is a dream. So I just repeat a mantra to realize, but you can actually repeat any mantra like "slow down, look around" or "notice things, etc." during the game and it has to make you more aware.

Are there any chances I should actually make a workbook on DILD subforums, or just stay here? I'm pretty sure I'll dedicate myself to DILD since WILD is highly not suited for my both daytime and night-time routine.

The intro class encompasses most techniques, so you can stay here if you like. If you need extra help, then you can enroll at other classes too.

Not much to note for August 8th 2015 night, except failed false awakening lucid attempts. (Read Fabricated World) Dreams' vividness is gradually increasing every nights. More dream recalls.

Yet also for August 9th 2015, I had been working for 13 hours non-stop. Slept at 1 AM, awake at 6:30 AM. Stressed too much, didn't get great sleep. Couldn't recall any dreams for this night, not even a tad bit.

I'm quite afraid I won't get enough sleep tonight also. Assignments, lovely.

I read you journal entry. This is really good stuff, Aquablitz! You were litterally one hair away from lucidity. I can absolutely relate to the going to sleep trying to ld FA. In fact, on several occasions I've been having really funny and weird in-dream wilds. Like I would try to ld in the dream, transition to another scene and then since I expect this to be the dream already, my awareness rises up and I have a normal lucid dream. Weird thing the mind!

August 10th 2015 night, another night for me to get tired. I slept at 2 AM of August 11st due to works and such. Couldn't remember anything except fragment that I was in my Math class as I sensed transition to another place. False awakening again as my body reacted to mom's call in waking life. I found myself in my bedroom, but it looked dark, as if I naturally woke up on 2 AM. I quickly checked clock on my bed and it said somewhere around that. Looked few more times and found it skipping every hour. Knew that I should be dreaming, but I woke up in waking life soon after that. 6:30 AM, right time to get prepared for another day of boring school. Of course, I'm more than just exhausted to get out of bed.

Most false awakenings happen when someone tries to wake me up, but fails to let me recognize it fully. Anyways, before I can take advantage of it, I can already feel my physical body and headache. At least, I'm going to get full rest tonight.

August 11th 2015 night, recalled absolutely nothing. As I have whole day today, I'll trying out awareness practice. Essentially, all-day if possible. Things will go well tonight!

Hopefully you will be able to catch up on sleep. This is very important for both recall and lucidity. About the false awakenings, I agree that they present an opportunity, especially if you have them relatively often. Be sure to incorporate the habit of RCing every time you wake up irl, and if possible do multiple RCs. If you catch an ld, don't worry about waking up - in 1 or 5 mins of ld time you can actually accompish a lot. I know that because I sometimes get quite a few tasks done in between snoozes.

August 12th 2015 night:
Not too often for me. They are only cases when I'm exceptionally tired and have to wake up due to external stimuli. Still looking forward to it with my usual morning RC! As for last night's progress, I can finally recall some dreams again after 2-3 days of low/no recalls. Also, I'm finally able to recall a dream before my natural awakening at 3 AM. Length is not too satisfying yet, but I believe this is great sign. Anything could be looked upon, here. (Sadly, I haven't made any uses of my physical dream journal since a dream before Fabricated World.) Gonna recall more tonight!

August 13th 2015 night:
Still improving my recalls as they're getting better and better! Though I don't feel too well on how I don't really RC in situations, I'm just forgetting them. Haven't actually set specific stimuli that should appear in dream to remind me of reality checking, so there I am. According to most dreams and this to confirm my dream signs. I'm just hoping my mindfulness on RC actually improve, now. Let's go for it tonight, shall we?

That's good to hear! If you feel like you are forgetting to RC, try setting specific times for RCs - whether on a certain occasion like entering new room or when meeting a person. And of course, you can also set a real alarm to remind you or if you have one of these sport activity tracker armbands with a vibe - that can do it too.

August 14th 2015 night:
That would be an ideal, thanks. For last night's progress, *cough* *copied*

Originally Posted by AquaBlitz11

As for current progress, didn't recall a decent one for last night. Slept at 11 PM. Woke up once at 3:54 AM, noticing some fragments in my head for two different dreams. Though, I completely forgot them when I checked the time. Couldn't help but continued sleeping. Woke up at 6:48 AM, only remembered a fragment where I was right at exam. Asked a friend some questions, stepped in the room and sit on 8th leftmost seat counting from the board. A column consisted 12 seats, unknown amount for columns. Somehow heard my mom calling me and I woke up from that, though my mom didn't even try to wake me up. Maybe I should just stop checking time and such while attempting to recall. Glad I can start feeling multiple dreams though.

August 15th 2015 night:
Not much. Felt a bit disappointed on how I never realized cues, even from whole chance out there. Dream consisted everything I needed, especially letters and clocks. I started feeling that my dream sign might have changed, who knows? My old dream sign starts disappearing, and school one starts coming in. There comes my another dream journal.

I remember when I was trying to RC for classmates - one of my dream signs, I would have weeks of no such dream signs. Then as I started ignoring looking for DS they started showing up again. I don't tink there's really a pattern to the appearance of most dream signs, especially the ones you don't think about or encounter irl. But for the ones that you think before bed or during the day - the chances of them showing up should be higher. Don't forget to think this could be a dream when encountering these, so it hopefully incubates in the dream as well.

Ah, right. For last night, I didn't have chance to get enough sleep. Took a nap for 2 hours from 6 PM to 8 PM once. Actually slept at 3:30 AM, woke up at 6:30 AM. Absolutely no recalls. Recovering it tonight as I should have more time to spare on sleeping.

August 17th 2015 night: Recalled nothing. Slept at 11 PM. Woke up at 2 AM, 4 AM, 7 AM.
August 18th 2015 night: Two dreams recognized. Woke up once at 5:30 AM. Remembered things. Was about to write down to journal then forgot about them, failed to recall them back again. Went back to bed, took me 10-20 minutes to fall asleep (for some reason). Another fragment showed my suspect for reality due to super weird situation that myself in dream wouldn't even accept. Woke up abruptly from my mom at 6:45 AM though.

I can see you are noticing your natural wakes. That is good! On those occasions where you can't recall anything, keep still and clear your mind - see if any impressions come to you - any feelings, fleeting images, etc. Once you get hold of something, focus on it and it will help bring back the rest of the dream. You can also try asking yourself questions like "did I dream about _____", say, an animal, an interesting person, place. Run through some of your common dream signs and see if anything feels more recent.

August 19th-20th 2015 night - Recalled no dreams for those nights. Recalled a dream from long time ago, which I forgot I used to recall.
August 21st 2015 night - Nothing to say much. It's now paying off. Although, there's a thing I'm not really sure about. There are always cases where I can't tell if it was just visualization I made up, or it was a lucid dream. Things mostly happen when I wake up in real life and decided to do something similarly to DEILD. I can still feel myself lying in bed with external senses co-operating, things are dark. Senses in my dream are weak, but still exist. If last night was just wild imagination, it would feel quite wasted. Anyways, since this one felt pretty different from other possible nights, unmistakable feeling, I should be able to call this a lucid dream.

Let tonight be another night!

That was definitely a lucid dream, congrats Aquablitz! Apart from that, I can relate somewhat to the dream feeling like a visualization. A while ago, I was practicing visualization exercises on a daily basis and at that point was getting really good at it and it was also starting to impact my dreams in terms increased dream control and also other effects. During that same period, I had a couple of lucids that just felt like a visualization, like I was holding the dream in my mind's eye but at the same time I was fully in. It was a very peculiar dream feeling.

August 22nd 2015 night - Slept at 11 pm. Woke up on 4:40 am with no dream recalls. Actually, I somehow forgot them right at moment I tried to recall after realizing I woke up (woke up few seconds before even realizing). 7.20 am with a dream recalled, playing game is now back on my dreams.
August 23rd 2015 night - Slept at 10:30 pm. Woke up on 4:30 am with no dream recalls, except some weird sound fragment and light feeling of flying. Took me half an hour to continue sleeping, woke up on 6:20 am with decent dream recalls. Back to our classroom thingy, I got an interesting question for theories and such. Couldn't remember it to real life or else it would have been great thing for me. Geez, if I could remember it.

Don't have time to write dream journals here right now. Will find time to, soon.

August 24th 2015 night - Recalled two dreams, thanks to natural awakenings.

I just feel that sleeping later than usual for a night would destroy my dream recalls. Had to sleep at 2:30 AM on August 25th and got only 4 hours of sleep, no recalls that night. Slept at 10:45 PM last night, woke consciously up once at 3:30 AM, and at 6:30 AM. Still no recalls though.

Yes, it is possible that a fluctuating sleep schedule might have a negative effect on recall. Going to bed too late and at inconsitent times usually has the worst such impact. Hope it's a one off thing for you and they are not giving you excessive amount of homework. I can relate to staying up all night to study.

I just hope I don't get to sleep late any time soon, at least in this week. I've recently done my Month #1 summary to summarize the progress. I'll be filling out dream journals I haven't written here soon. As for last night's progress, I slept at 10:30 PM and woke up at 6:10 AM. Recalled a fragment right before waking up. That's all... seriously. Going for recovering dream recall rate tonight.