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Books:
1) Dreams of Awakening by Charlie Morley (I like his spiritual approach to practice)
2) Toltec Secret by Sergio Magana for a totally different apporach via Mexican spiritual methods.
And.... Lucid Dream last night!! :rolllaugh: My first proper LD since starting practicing again. Lasted much longer than my previous LD as I remained very calm and not concerned about waking myself.
- reasonably good control
- did what I had planned to do to some extent
- forgot to try to stabilise and increase lucidity so environment remained quite 'low definition' and dream like
- I got caught up in what I was doing and lost concentration and focus and it reverted to a normal dream eventually and I lost lucidity
Plan for next time: I really must try to increase lucidity, look around the environment, shout 'increase lucidity' and use tactile sense.
very happy though that I have had a proper LD again at last so I will continue the day work remaining mindful and aware, and reality checking as often as possible.
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Congrats on your LD and your persistence which is paying off :)
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Books sound interesting. Do share if you come across something worth trying out.
Congrats on the ld! :goodjob:
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Last night I wanted to try Jeff777's free falling WILD technique. My wife started snoring just as I got to some random thoughts, then my daughter had a nightmare, so no luck there! I woke at 4am but couldn't get comfortable and failed totally again.
I had a nap this afternoon and tried again. I noticed one random thought but I fell asleep immediately after without getting any control. I then woke several times and was in a very deeply relaxed state (not FA, I failed an RC) and drifted off again several times like this, and drifted in and out of a few dreams. It was a good experience as I was floating between sleep and wake, never staying lucid within a dream, but each dream made me realise I needed to get control and I woke immediately each time I realised I was dreaming - so some progress!
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Back to work full time now. 14 hour days so always exhausted.
Some interesting dreams. No luck with any more lucids abut an interesting hypnopompic state that I totally failed to turn into anything meaningful.
Having difficulty doing reality checks at work I'm just so busy!
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Noo! Is it 14 every day or do you have days off or with less working hours.
For RCing, there's always the toilet ;) and upon entering rooms?
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It's not that bad, I enjoy work and my patients! Day off on Wednesday, weekends work about 1 in 4.
Several more hynopompic states but I'm not quite realising it at the time. Need to work on gaining some concious control of them.
This really is a long term project!
