Jzinser's workbook intro

Hello everyone!

Im a 26 year old mexican guy, I became interested in LD about 3 months ago after I began reading Robert Waggoner's "Lucid Dreaming: Gateway to the inner self". Before that I already had some notion about lucid dreaming, but I had no idea of its potential. In most cultures and religions we have this idea about dreams being unimportant and nothing more than recycled material, with no transcendence or impact in our waking lives. I used to share this belief and so I didn't pay much attention to my dreams, the only slight interest I had in LD was to have fun and fool around. However, about 10 months ago I had a spontaneous OBE and became interested in the topic. I've had my DJ for about 5 months now (as it is also recommended in OBE books, memory download from both phenomena seems to be very related) and my dream recall has increased drastically since. Now I am totally into LD... and here I am!

By the way, just on a side note... I had one WILD and one DEILD before knowing these techniques existed. For the WILD part I was attempting to OBE but I ended up in the coolest lucid dream. The DEILD was about 2 weeks ago, I noticed my dream becoming blurry and I knew it was gonna disappear so I focused on it and managed to return lucid!

I've had about 5 LD's and many more where I have been in a "semi-aware" state

Thanks to everyone who started this forum and to everyone who keeps it running!

Sleeping schedule:
- About 12:00 to 7:00 every day. Between 6-8 hours per night (8-10 during weekends).
Note: I actually found it very hard to sleep at night, it took me 1-2 hours of laying down before I could do it. After I started doing my OBE practice and changed my diet I now sleep much better and have a much more regular schedule.

Reality Checks:
I do them about every 20-30 minutes, the ones I am using right now are:
1- Look at my hands, count fingers, look away and back to see if anything changes
2- Try to push my index through the palm of my hand
3- Try to pull my finger and stretch it
4- Read something, look away and read again to see if it's still the same
5- Think about what Im doing / where I am and what I was doing / where I was before
6- Check if I know what time is it
7- Attempt to change an object or make something appear behind me
8- Look at myself in the mirror

I normally do 2-3 every time, depend on availability
I have been doing them consistently for about 9 days (4-Oct-2015)

Dream Signs:
- I am flying (or floating) a lot lately in my dreams, either by using a certain type of vehicle or by myself
- I dream about dead relatives often... sometimes this feels extremely real and profound
- My previous homes are also recurrent, especially my room

I'll read my DJ tonight to find some other recurring elements

Short-Term Goals:
- To develop a more stable LD practice
- To increase my LD occurrence
- To increase the duration of my LDs
- To plan my LDs and carry them out accordingly
- To increase awareness during day and night

Long-Term Goals:
- To develop a dream yoga practice
- To work out my fears and insecurities while LDing
- To enhance my communication and bond with my inner self
- To combine my LD practice with OBE practice
- To help / teach others about lucid dreaming and spirituality

Lucid/Dream Recall History:

About 3 years ago I started having these recurring dreams about checking my cellphone for whats app messages. After a few similar dreams I started being more critical, I would read the messages and think about the sender and if it didn't make sense I would know it is a dream and I woke myself up right after.

More recently I've had about 5-6 short LDs (one wasn't that short). One was WILD, one was DEILD and the rest DILD.
The last one was about 10 days ago and before that I had like a 2 month period with no LD.
I've been practicing dream control and was pretty successful at it. At the moment I want to familiarize more with the LD environment and dynamics before getting deeper into it, I want to develop a strong foundation before jumping to more advanced techniques.


Current Technique:
- DILD, Im relying on my RCs and dream signs at the moment. I also repeat my mantra every night
- I will try DEILD when opportunities come
- I will try to do at least one WILD session per week


Thanks for reading!