Thread: Inheritedlaugh's Workbook

I've tried to learn how to lucid dream at least half a dozen times, with only a handful of low-lucidity dreams to my credit. Frustration with slow progress or real-life distractions have always stopped me from going further. I'm hoping that this workbook will help me stay more dedicated and accountable.



Sleeping Schedule:
- Normally aim for a bedtime between midnight and 1am. Natural waking time: 9am-11am.
Any noise in the house will keep me from falling asleep, so I've purchased ear plugs and an eye mask to help combat that.

Reality Checks:
- Pinch nose
- Count fingers
- Push finger through palm
- Read something/check time

Dream Signs:
- Meeting new relatives (nieces/nephews) after estrangement from family
- Can't walk/run, keep falling down
- Feeling rejected by peers; Dream-Me is excessively sensitive to this, apparently
- I'm hungry and all the available food has meat in it (am a vegetarian)
- Natural disasters, must evacuate town
- Being able to float or glide across the ground; I tend to show it off to DCs who can't do it
- Being in a classroom/school
- Should do RC whenever I find myself away from the computer/out of the house, my dreams rarely ever take place in my home or involve me looking at a computer screen.

Short-Term Goals:
- Excellent dream recall
- Have dreams that I feel emotionally present in, I'm not just an impartial witness to them
- Do an RC in a dream
- Fully explore senses once lucid, before doing anything else

Long-Term Goals:
- Talk to DCs, learn their histories, get to know as many different "people" as my subconscious can come up with
- Ask DCs to tell me stories
- Get a dream guide/mentor
- Have a dreamworld/DC "best friend"
- Learn how to control the dream environment
- Travel the universe

Lucid/Dream Recall History:
- My dream recall history is spotty, and my last lucid dream was in spring 2014. I've been keeping a consistent dream journal since October 9, 2015. I also briefly journaled in August 2015, and a few other periods over the past several years (usually only lasting a week or two). From October 9 to October 16, I went from zero recall to remembering 3-4 dreams per night with enough detail to fill up several pages. On the 17th, my ear plugs and eye mask arrived, and this disrupted my sleeping pattern a bit. (They're taking some getting used to, but I'm already sleeping better.) No dreams remembered on the 17th and just fragments on the 18th.

Current Technique:
- WBTB after 4-4.5 hours of sleep. Want to try FILD. Have been doing 5-10 RCs a day, and still need to work on awareness. I've been more focused on improving dream recall than on becoming lucid immediately, at least for now. Dream journal gets a read-through before going to sleep, and in the new entry I write down my bedtime, when my alarm's set for, and what my dream goals are for that night.