Thread: Inheritedlaugh's Workbook

October 19, 2015: Had a horrendous time trying to sleep this morning. I went to bed at 12:45am and alarm was set for 5:30, but I awoke spontaneously at 4:40 and was unable to fall asleep again due to my mind racing about life nonsense. I never felt close to the brink of sleep, so I opted not to further frustrate myself by trying FILD. At around 8:30am, I gave up and tried searching Dream Views and Reddit for tips on how to quiet a chatty brain. Found a suggestion about focusing on one's breath while counting backwards from 50 (on the inhale). I also saw something about how being in a chair or recliner can help induce lucidity, so I thought to hell with it and propped myself up on a few pillows too.

Counting my inhales backward from 50 worked wonderfully. I started dozing off while still in the 40s, and probably fell asleep somewhere in the 20s. And I actually ended up having a dream that was about me becoming lucid, but I don't think that I genuinely was (it felt like a normal dream). This marks the first lucidity-themed dream I've had during this latest learning attempt, though. And in the dream I did try to engage my senses (by touching a wall and rubbing hands together). A good sign. There were a few other muddled dreams that followed this one, but they are still of very poor quality and my recall of them is shaky.

Today's task and tonight's goals: In addition to reality checks, I will be practicing sensory awareness. My dream goals tonight are to have memorable dreams and to try FILD.

Originally Posted by inheritedlaughs

October 19, 2015: Had a horrendous time trying to sleep this morning. I went to bed at 12:45am and alarm was set for 5:30, but I awoke spontaneously at 4:40 and was unable to fall asleep again due to my mind racing about life nonsense. I never felt close to the brink of sleep, so I opted not to further frustrate myself by trying FILD. At around 8:30am, I gave up and tried searching Dream Views and Reddit for tips on how to quiet a chatty brain. Found a suggestion about focusing on one's breath while counting backwards from 50 (on the inhale). I also saw something about how being in a chair or recliner can help induce lucidity, so I thought to hell with it and propped myself up on a few pillows too.

Counting my inhales backward from 50 worked wonderfully. I started dozing off while still in the 40s, and probably fell asleep somewhere in the 20s. And I actually ended up having a dream that was about me becoming lucid, but I don't think that I genuinely was (it felt like a normal dream). This marks the first lucidity-themed dream I've had during this latest learning attempt, though. And in the dream I did try to engage my senses (by touching a wall and rubbing hands together). A good sign. There were a few other muddled dreams that followed this one, but they are still of very poor quality and my recall of them is shaky.

Today's task and tonight's goals: In addition to reality checks, I will be practicing sensory awareness. My dream goals tonight are to have memorable dreams and to try FILD.

Wow! I just wrote about this dreaming about LD'ing phenomenon less than 5 minutes ago in my workbook. No joke, I wrote that post, and then came here directly after and saw this. Read about it here

It's post #6.

Ha! Nice timing! Maybe it's not so rare after all? I mean, I suppose it's possible that I was just slightly lucid, but I felt like an audience member rather than a participant. The dream was basically a replay of the last lucid dream that I had a year and a half ago, save a couple of differences. (I didn't make an attempt to stabilize during the real one, due to excitement, and I was clearly aware that I was in a dream then.) It's as if my brain registered my desire to have a lucid dream, plus my goal to stabilize, so it just regurgitated memories of the last one I had with a few alterations shoved in.