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      For all those struggling to have a lucid dream...

      I propose to you the One Week Challenge!

      Basically this is just something for the beginners who are just starting out and people like myself who are struggling to lucid.
      The idea is that you have 1 week to have a Lucid Dream. One week to try as hard as you possibly can to get lucid. Use whatever method you feel comfortable with and whatever aids you think will help you. Remember to post in this thread first to say you're in and up for the challenge!

      Again for those who are new here's a tutorial on the easiest technique for beginners:

      DILD - http://www.dreamviews.com/f49/naiyas...secrets-61802/
      It is very in depth and should help you alot in your knowledge

      The person who is first to complete this challenge wins themselves 200 Community Hall Points. For those who are new to the community and don't know what these points are well here's a brief explanation: You collect points and can then spend them on changing your name colour, add a glow to it, make it bold, the list goes on.

      For you to complete the challenge though, you must document the entire lucid dream either within your dream journal on here, or in a post in this thread. It doesn't matter about the length of the lucid, especially if it's your first one (my first one was a second long at the most)

      So I wish you all the best of luck, if you have any questions don't hesitate to post them below. I will try and update this thread every day with my progress and hopefully you'll do the same. If you need any help with different techniques or anything of that sort than again ask below or talk to anybody on Dreamviews, chances are they'll be able to help you.

      Hopefully by Tuesday night next week we'll all have had at least one lucid!

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      I'll do it, I feel like I'm getting better at lucid dreaming so it shouldn't be too hard.
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      "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy"

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      Yay! I hope you don't find the challenge too easy. Looking at the fact that you've had 7 and it's not even the end of November tells me your fairly confident at Lucid Dreaming already. But nevertheless welcome, happy to have you here and I wish you the best of luck!



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      I'll do it! Well, I'll try. :')
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      Not only will you try but you will also succeed! Good luck fellow dreamer and welcome to the challenge!



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      Ummm... we'll stick with trying for now... Succeeding is a little too optimistic as of yet. :')

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      who awards those points?
      "Lucid dreaming is nothing more than a state of mind."
      -Sageous

      Want to be happy on demand?(Legally, that is...)
      http://www.dreamviews.com/f96/try-ac...-brain-127512/
      Check it out!

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      Optimism is the way forward for motivation

      ThAtaInTmE: I award the points, I'm willing to give up 200 of my own points to help you to Lucid Dream
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      That's where I've been going wrong then! :')

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      Ummm... we'll stick with trying for now... Succeeding is a little too optimistic as of yet.
      In world of lucid dreaming, trying doesn't really work. Only thing that works is your confidence in yourself and your intent to succeed.

      Intent is not a wish. Intent is a belief, knowing without any shadow of doubt, that it will happen.

      If you say tonight I try, your mind will think "ok, I'll try, but don't really care, when will it happen, tonight or year from now".

      If you say tonight I'm having a lucid dream, as if it was a done deal, your mind will understand that you want it to happen now and it will do everything it can to help you achieve it.

      But before your mind knows, YOU have to know. You have to have confidence and state of mind as if you were accomplished lucid dreamer. I know you can, but you have to know it too. Good luck to you all and Happy dreams

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      Couldn't have said it better myself gab
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      Well. Not only has that excelled my possible dreaming capabilities but I think my life motivation is now cracked too! :') Thank yooou!
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      Op, this is a great idea. Setting a concrete goal for others to see really helps a lot in motivation. In case anyone wants a good WILD guide, I suggest y'all take a look at the guide in my sig. Happy lucids!

      Sorry for double post, edit doesn't seem to work anymore.

      +1 to what gab said. I was going to quote Yoda, "Do or do not. There is no try". Your goals in life only get accomplished once you have already accepted that you will achieve them, and not a moment before.

      *posts merged*
      Last edited by gab; 11-28-2012 at 01:43 AM.
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      Double what Gab said! After about 4 days without an LD I know that I am going to have an LD because the longest of has been in a whileis four days apart. After iI have 1 LD in a night I know that I can have more and usually have 2 or 3 DILDs. I also know that I have a higher chance if I LDed the day before. Leaving me to have tons of LDs in a couple days and then waiting four days and repeating.

      Confidence is key. I need to work on it.

      Interesting tournament Djpatch. I like your ideas. I will watch. You should make sure everyone posts their LDs for my viewing pleasure.

      I would put my money on ixsetf!

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      Totally doing this. Within the last year I've been struggling to get lucid at all. Going to give it my best shot! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaarggghhh!
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      Glad to see you're all interested and most of you are willing to take part!

      cmind: Thanks! Wasn't sure about WILD because I was always told beginners would struggle with it. I must have not been feeling well last night; who am I to limit those taking part? Thankyou for posting the tutorial, you're right the edit button doesn't work. I just tried to add it to the first post Oh well.

      BrandonBoss: Now now don't be saying someone's going to win, you never know, the tables could turn at the last minute

      Taffy: Glad to see you here, welcome and good luck!

      My Progress From Last Night:

      Used MILD and Binaural Beats (Alpha frequency) for 15 minutes before trying to sleep. Before I went to bed I ate some cheese (it's dream food xD). I woke up at 5am to do a small Wake Back To Bed and then finally at 7am with no dreams remembered let alone a lucid.

      No matter though, I've got to have one by the end of 7 days no matter what!



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      Quote Originally Posted by Wishfulthinker View Post
      Ummm... we'll stick with trying for now... Succeeding is a little too optimistic as of yet. :')
      That is why you fail. - Yoda

      Although believing that you will succeed in a method just because other have done it is like believing you can learn to perform a backflip flat just by reading the instructions because others have done it. Well I can do a backflip but it's not because of the insruction, although it sure was motivating and good to read, but I learned it because of practise not because I read how to do it.

      Use the method, do not let the method use you. And good luck... but you don't need luck you need experience, go and get it!
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      This is a great thread, DJ! Good luck to everyone participatin. You WILL be lucid. You WILL.
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      Maybe it's a dream and if I scream, it will burst at the seams.

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      I just Lucided

      It wasn't very vivid at all and had like 0 coherence, but it happened

      Super Random WILD lucid - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
      "Dreams are often most profound when they seem the most crazy"

      -Sigmund Freud

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      I chose right!

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      ixsetf: Congratulations, you've just earned yourself 200 points! Give yourself a pat on the back and the points will be transferred to you within the next few hours.

      For everybody still taking part (me included), keep trying! With 6 nights left to go the next person to gain a lucid dream will earn themselves 100 points! (ixsetf, you are illegible for these points since you've already had your lucid )


      BrandonBoss: Yeah you were right but I didn't want fellow competitors getting disheartened

      Keep it up guys, we can all have a lucid within 7 days!



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      Oo, a challenge! I like challenges! I shall do it!
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      OK. I am just great at guessing though.

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      I'm in. Though I'm not a big fan of online dream journals. So, for me this is more about motivation than it is about the points. In any case, great thread.
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      nicromno: That's absolutely fine, but if you do end up winning the points then you'd need to journal the lucid to receive them. It also makes for interesting reading

      To everyone recently joined, welcome and thanks for taking part!



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