Thread: Ultimate Summer Challenge!

@nyxcc
With WBTB it takes time to find the perfect out of bed amount. It is good that you are doing so many in a row.

I sprained my ankle last night and got to sleep in today because of it. 10 hours. 5 LDs. I watched an episode of the twilight zone about some guy's dream. It was really good! Creepy for LDing, but good.

Seems like I'm making progress, 8 dreams this night, that's not bad for starters.

[23/404] Dreams
[2/30] shorter sleep phases during the day

No LDs last night, 8 hours of sleep. Two hour nap with three awesome LDs this afternoon. No tasks finished though. Computer is supposed to be fixed at the end of this weekend.

@ BB Yes, finding the right timing can be quite tricky. Congrats on the 5 + 3 LDs! Wow, there is lots of stuff going on there - ankle, PC, wife. Good thing you manage to get some sleep.

I have spent 8 hrs and 15 mins in bed, but only slept 6.30 because of my aggressive induction today. Personally, I wouldn't count it towards the allowance as I wasn't outside partying or traveling somewhere. Got a lucid post the WBTB, so efforts are paying off.

WBTB (5/42)

Originally Posted by NyxCC

@ BB Yes, finding the right timing can be quite tricky. Congrats on the 5 + 3 LDs! Wow, there is lots of stuff going on there - ankle, PC, wife. Good thing you manage to get some sleep.

I have spent 8 hrs and 15 mins in bed, but only slept 6.30 because of my aggressive induction today. Personally, I wouldn't count it towards the allowance as I wasn't outside partying or traveling somewhere. Got a lucid post the WBTB, so efforts are paying off.

WBTB (5/42)

Yeah! That is why I said "try to sleep that long" insomnia can strike in lots of ways! Keep up the good work.

Had a few dreams last night, and faded in/out of lucidity throughout. Only one was really lucid, though, so I'll count that one into my total. Made it to the ocean this time, but couldn't find/summon any whales (or anything really). I think tonight might be the night... Oh yeah, and I got 9 hours of sleep. Not bad!

Lucid Count: 5/55

And from yesterday night: no lucids, and only a few fragments. Got around 8 hours of sleep.

5 more dreams during the past 2 days, so I'm at 28 now.

I allowed myself a bit of a lazy sleepy break the last two days. Slept 9 hrs both days, no WBTB or challenges completed. Had an interesting ld yesterday and a mini-ld today, just before final wake.

Starting back with WBTBs tomorrow! And I have got to remember to either RC after wake or notice sleeping position.

Hello everyone! I used a fail night last night, but still had an awesome dream about killing witches and zombies. Then a dream about being on a boat (I'm on a boat) slept 3 1/2 hours this afternoon and had 3 LDs. Intentionally visited the same place 3 times because my DCs lied to me. Not going to count it for the 20 because I am not going back (DCs troll me all the freaking time. Gave me some advice that I can keep though. Thank you DC of friend I need to see again). Getting better at remembering goals, also teleporting. I have been practicing back flips in dreams because it is a fear I have had. I am changing 360 vision to do 20 back flip type things in LDs because I don'treally feel like 360 vision anymore. I have 2/20 and will update everything for everyone when I get my comp. :/I'll also pm everyone for progress reports for each person. Sorry i haven't been involved as much as I should be. These 3 LDs today reminded me of why I want to LD. I will post both LDs pertaining to back flips that I have already had for the competition. Good luck getting lucid y'all! Have some fun summer time LDs, play golf on the moon and tennis on the sun.

[34/404] Dreams
[2/10] WBTBs
[3/30] shorter sleep phases during the day

Going on.

hmmm i still havent been able to lucid dream, but im going to keep trying a wild until i get it, and have had some pretty awesome dreams though, i think i need to get more sleep im barely getting 7 hours each night, maybe ill invest in some naps...

Originally Posted by azoller1

hmmm i still havent been able to lucid dream, but im going to keep trying a wild until i get it, and have had some pretty awesome dreams though, i think i need to get more sleep im barely getting 7 hours each night, maybe ill invest in some naps...

I'd recommend just getting straight 8 hours of sleep every night for a while. It really makes a difference.

Had another LD last night. Used another one of my free days. :/ only got 5 hours of sleep.

yeah i remember my first LD, i got about 8 hours of sleep so that would help a lot

I haven't updated in a while. These last few days were a mess, there were five days in which I haven't slept well since the A/C was broken (6.6, 6.9, 6.9, 4.1 and 6.7 hours). This of course had a big impact on my dream recall.

Yesterday: time spent in bed 8hrs 15 mins, time slept 6 1/2 hrs, 1 WBTB, resulting in 1 challenging WILD, RCed upon wake

Today: time slept 7 hrs, 1 WBTB, DEILD chain, noticed sleeping position (back), RCed after wake

I do some occasional visualization but it is not as serious as I would like to. Maybe I will do some dream incubation tonight?

lds so far: 10 and 1 micro ld

Challenges summary:

allowance used 1/15

- 42 WBTB (7/42)
- Notice sleeping position 20 times (4/20)
- Recognize sex as DS and become lucid (0)
- 30 visualization exercises (0/30)
- 2 WILDs (1/2)
- 20 Morning wake RCs* (3/20)
- Notice and report 10 HI/Dreamlets* (1/10)

*added
punishments for the two
- going to bed early for a week
- no chocolate cookies for a week

I find WBTB to play an important role for lucids.

Yes WBTB is a very important key to LD, im using it pretty much every night

Originally Posted by NyxCC

I find WBTB to play an important role for lucids.

Originally Posted by azoller1

Yes WBTB is a very important key to LD, im using it pretty much every night

Noted. I'll try to do that more often.
Today I slept nine hours. I thought that after I messed up the past week it would take me a while to remember my dreams, but I remembered a full dream today.

Every time I wbtb, I always forget to wild I just go right back to sleep

I'm making some progress! Unfortunately I neither had a challenge for weird sexual dreams, nor for dozens of fighting dreams.

[45/404] Dreams
[2/10] WBTBs
[4/30] shorter sleep phases during the day
[1/5] Lucids

Right, so I'mma enter this. Though I'm very busy this summer... so this should be extra challenging for me

Challenges:
-Use lucid dreams for tulpaforcing sessions.
-Try to get a good grip on the WILD technique (I take a lot of naps, so this shouldn't be too hard.)
-Fight my alter-ego.
-Use lucid dreams to help mend some broken parts of my concious.
-Master telekinesis in dreams.
-Build confidence in dreams.
-Build a house with my tulpa in a seperate dream plane (seperate from usual dream planes), and make that my wonderland (the place my tulpa hangs out in during my awake time)

Punishments
-No video games for two days (applies to all. So the more I do not do = another two days added.)

I hope it's not too late to join in on the fun! Well first, I've got to say this. I saw this thread from the start but I was always scared to join, not because of you guys, but personally, I was scared of disappointing myself, and punishment, though I get to pick the punishment. Well what pushed me to join is my dream last night, I was having this problem with my sight, then a man (who I assume is either a manifestation of my subconscious, or my dream guide, maybe both) walks up nonchalantly and says "I can't believe you haven't associated the problem in this dream with your fear of goal-making" and he goes and picks up this object and then everything is fixed, but I don't see him anymore. I also used some self-hypnosis yesterday night and told myself/my subconscious to tell me when I'm dreaming, so I guess it worked, I just wasn't aware I was dreaming after he told me. So I'm joining, if it's not too late.

Challenges (Goals)

1. SSILD Correctly 20 times
2. Stabilize in each dream after my fifth lucid dream this summer
3. Extend my dreams so they feel like they last for at least 30 minutes
4. Have a lucid attempt to enter someone elses dream.
5. Meet my dream guide
6. Get a pet, an awesome pet.
7. Master Dream Control
8. Talk to my subconscious
9. Have 30 lucid dreams over the course of the summer

Less general challenges

1. Have at least one LD a week
2. Experience a zombie apocalypse
3. Re-enact some anime scenes
4. Ride through the clouds (on a dragon or some other mystical animal)

Punishment: I'm not sure I need a punishment, I'm well motivated. And I can't really punish myself for most of these things.

Not really too late. It is moving a bit slow right now since I can't update and remind people to update very much. Should have my computer back soon. It is nice to see you in the competition!

Haven't got much sleep the last few nights, but I have tried. I have a cute 7 lbs, 7.8 ounces girl keeping me up all night since Friday night. sleeping on and off like this is weird since I have had such a good sleep schedule for a whole year almost. I feel more like I am jumping from waking to dream to waking during the night so often while being really tired. Vivid dreams, but not extremely aware. It feels like a movie that bounces around a ton. Haha. Hopefully lucid tonight. Good luck yall!

*sigh*
I'm thinking I should stop counting the nights I don't get enough sleep in. I'll still try of course, but I mean, it doesn't really make sense to count those nights since I'm not really choosing not to sleep; I just can't.
You know what really bugs me? About two weeks before the competition began, I had two lucid dreams in the span of three days-- one of which I completed a ToTM for the first time. No LDs now though. :I

BB, congrats on the little girl! Surely she will get to become an ld queen and joins us here once she is old enough.

13-18 June update

used one day allowance, reporting two dreamlets: 1. zooming on the floor, 2. a discussion of the advantages of living in China vs France, cities represented by blackberries, 3xWBTB on 13th, 15th, 17th, RCed after wake on 15, 16, 18th, one visualization exercise

result from these DEILD chain on 13th, micro-WILD on 15th, I am not counting the wild for challenges as it was too short. Also became lucid after having sexual thoughts on 18th, but still continued with the stuff. I guess I should have worded the task differently "recognize and leave the room", lol.

Challenges summary:

allowance used 2/15

- 42 WBTB (10/42)
- Notice sleeping position 20 times (4/20)
- Recognize sex as DS and become lucid (1/1)
- 30 visualization exercises (1/30)
- 2 WILDs (1/2)
- 20 Morning wake RCs* (6/20)
- Notice and report 10 HI/Dreamlets* (3/10)