Thread: Ultimate Summer Challenge!

@ stalthdan remember that if you are trying to go to sleep and insomnia hits, then it counts as the amount of time you are trying, not the amount slept. I would recommend putting some time into learning what causes insomnia and what you will do to fight it. I found out quite a few things about how I can, but it is probably different for every case. Something that will enhance your life without even counting the LDing part.

@Nyxcc
I hope so. I am going to keep up telling my dreams with my wife every morning and after my daughter gets old enough I will have her tell me her dreams and she will get her recall up good. hahaha. I have a whole plan for teaching her if she is into it.

@Everyone!
I have my computer back, so I should be able to update everything and all. Excited! Thanks goodness for my technology savvy in-laws. The hard drive was fried and one of his friends had a better hard drive and installed it for us. Pretty freaking awesome.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

@ stalthdan remember that if you are trying to go to sleep and insomnia hits, then it counts as the amount of time you are trying, not the amount slept.

It does? I was starting to think this was practically impossible!

I would recommend putting some time into learning what causes insomnia and what you will do to fight it. I found out quite a few things about how I can, but it is probably different for every case. Something that will enhance your life without even counting the LDing part.

Could there actually be a reason for my insomnia? Would you care to give me an example please?
Oh, and good luck with training your daughter. It would be a real bummer if she's not interested, though. :p

Originally Posted by Stalthdan

It does? I was starting to think this was practically impossible!

Could there actually be a reason for my insomnia? Would you care to give me an example please?
Oh, and good luck with training your daughter. It would be a real bummer if she's not interested, though. :p

Yep! I tried to make it attainable. I haven't gotten the allotted time in like 5 days (last night I got 7 though!), but I am trying! My wife needs a little help during the night for now. :/

Insomnia is normally triggered from your mind being too awake, too stressed out, or expectation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insomn...harmacological
This is a wikipedia article about a few ways to help out. Good luck!

@Granny and Windhover
No worries about being late. Just need to remember to set your goals with the less time in consideration.

Update for Gooseman:
Week 1 studying.

Spoiler for Gooseman!:

Back to sleep.

I am sitting and waiting for breakfast, do a RC while playing with the chair. Fall down as soon as I become lucid due to the shock; been a good while since last time I became lucid before breakfast, should I eat or not?

Figure I should eat breakfast before going to study, can’t study with an empty stomach after all. Serve myself rice with fried eggs and eat as quickly as I can, didn’t take longer than 5 minutes to finish, teleport over to the school as soon as I finish.

When I arrive, notice how everyone is gone again… maybe due to my weird magic? No problem, scan the country and teleport everyone back, they were hiding close by anyway. “So yeah, biology class is about to start soon” they look stressed and nervous, no matter. Point at one of the girls “Tell me, what would you call this?” as I point to a vine tree, she can’t answer… eh make it bigger and tell her it is a vine tree and then ask her if she knows what kind of flower it gives, she shakes her head and someone says it must be a white flower “Why?” “Because they are beautiful!” she says… oh god, I give a brief explanation on how flowers are modified leafs and that could give us a hint on the color, but more often than not the “flower leaf” is very different, make the tree bloom and then show them a giant, pink labial type of flower. Explain about it and then make it even bigger so everyone can see the pistil and anthers, then take out pollen from it and ask them to take it over to other flowers.

They refuse to touch it… “Or I might as well test how easy it is to dissolve a human using Sulphuric Acid?” they go do as I say right away. As we are studying and all, some weird people show up, they were the ones who designed the new buildings and were about to build them, they ask me to take off my plants and I refuse to, all of them start to float, weird?

I tell them to leave because I am studying and giving a biology class at the same time, they then create a total of 5 golden spheres of energy and throw them at me, I toss them aside and then the orbs fly to the plants and they are destroyed, obviously I get angry at these people for taking down my plants but just resurrect them “Take it off, we need the buildings” they say, I glare and expect that to work but no they throw the orbs at me once more.

I use a gravity barrier and make them stick behind me, they throw in some new attacks so I allow the new gravity of the orbs to absorb their energy attacks, the people are somewhat angry now and prepare to attack “I told you to go away, did I not?” ask them expecting them to leave this time… it fails…

They try to hit me so put the barrier around the world and let them alone, change the mass of the orbs to rival that of a small star and watch how they are dragged over to the orbs and then die a quick death, one of them survives because he was grabbing a flower and had to protect him “Will you leave now?” he asks me what I did, these orbs were not so powerful at the start, good more studying!

I ask the guy if he knows what gravity is “What does that have to do with anything!” “Eh, I just increased the mass of these two objects to rival that of our sun, so your friends were pulled” he says its non-sense, I turn around and ignore him then ask the others why it is that only the people that made me angry got absorbed and not the rest, that is not logical at all; they say because it attacked the target and I ask them if the planet is putting any more gravity on the *bad people* than the *good people* they think about it and then say no “This is a dream kids, and I used a barrier big enough to protect everything but these idiots” then proceed to explain that gravity, as a force, does not in any way discriminate between objects based on morality and try to ask what would happen if I were to take away the barrier, they say death but that was too obvious an answer, we talk about how this would wreck our current solar system because there are 5 system that rival our sun, these 5 would most likely fuse and change the direction of things, absorb a good amount of this solar system and maybe collapse… no wait, would they really collapse? Try to think about it and wake up in the process, dang it.

It seems that an odd amount of people around me are suffering from insomnia. With one person I recommended that they do some meditation, they said that helped a lot, and even if it doesn't help you still get a plus because you got in some meditation. What I'd recommend is some typical breathing meditation, just focus on your breathing, then from breathing meditation go into some visualization meditation. Try it and tell me if it helps.

I'm back, and checking in with 4 lucids.

I'm in.

Challenges:
Have 20 lucid dreams (I'm new alright?)
Fall in love in a dream
Kill myself in a dream
Run around naked in a dream
Revisit the same dream 5 times

Punishments:
Cold showers for 2 weeks (seems a bit popular ehy?)
No computer for 2 weeks
Wake myself up from any lucid dreams for 2 weeks (this should be enough to keep me motivated)

Sign me up.

I'm checking in again quickly.

I've had three lucids since I last posted ( Shit, I know!) but that puts me up to 4/80
Now that I'm getting back in the rhythm again hopefully things will pick up.

Btw I love how much attention this thread gets, good to see a challenge thread finally pick off.

This sounds very promising! Am I late to join?

My challenges will not include the numbers of LD frequency, rather LD tasks.
Some LD tasks will include my own archetypes, which some of you won't understand lol

Windhover's Lucid Dream Tasks

1. Go to Gambler Casino. Arrest Evangelista and Gambler, and then find their identities and secrets of Gambler. Find information about Ellen. [ ]
2. Go on a double date with San, Gahng, and Miho at Jeju Island.
3. Do a dubstep performance at vOx tour in front of 30,000 crowds.
4. Go to 1880's Western world in Nevada. Morph into badass cowboy Len. Stop a train and save roped Floret by gangs. Seize golds.
5. Go to Florence, Italy. Go to Leonardo Da Vinci museum and see some things.
6. Morph into Leila and perform a full Evanescence albums in front of 10,000 crowds at indoor concert.
7. Go to Cardia. Morph into Miho and do a quest, earn a skill point, use a skill.
8. Go to Theeden Central Government in a vampire city, Theeden, morphing into Leila the Ripper. Kill White Slayers, Panic, and Fear. Then save Amy in a trapped ritual room.
9. Go to Bora Bora Island and surf waves.
10. Go to manga BLAME! world and kill Sanakan rampaging murdering Fishers outside Toha Heavy Industry with Cibo.

Task at all times: write a DJ whenever I achieve one task above.


Punishments
1. Cold shower for 1 week (popular one!)
2. Strict diet meals for 2 weeks
3. Slap myself. 3 times. Really hard.
4. Work out for 2 hours.


Starts today!

Day 1 and I half-did my first task.
"1. Go to Gambler Casino. Arrest Evangelista and Gambler, and then find their identities and secrets of Gambler. Find information about Ellen."

My DJ:

Dream 4 - I was in my hometown apartment, feeling that I got into real dream stage. I tried to focus on the dream feeling to stay inside. I stared at the background as much as I could. There was my grandmother in the living room and she seemed to find me...I just ignored and jumped off the veranda flying away. I could still see her in the town so I flew up high landing on a high solid structure so she couldn't see me.

Here I immediately remembered my first LD task - go to Gambler Casino and kill those 2 criminals. I tried to morph into Jebie the agent Dave. "I am agent Dave!" I said to myself, and I thought I was, but I actually wasn't. Because I didn't get taller. (Jebie is 6 feet) Anyway I flew up a little and summoned a portal to go to Gambler. I turned back and the portal was there, but the inside was just blank white. I went into it anyway, stumbling on the ground. When the dream got stable I was in front of small back entrace/ exit door of both club and casino. Hmm, wasn't Gambler building really enormous in the DJ? when I woke up later I was a little disappointed..

So I pulled a glass door and there were 4-5 young people trying to get into the casino from a male receptionist sitting in a desk. He had bald head with freshly trimmed dark beard.
"Can I get in?" I asked.
"No you can't. The building doesn't open till 5 during weekdays." He said with confused face.
I was a little puzzled. Why the heck does the time matters in dream anyway? Also I noticed that I was still me, not Jebie. I studied that receptionist typical healthy male body and voice, and then I suddenly morphed into Jebie, getting taller to 6 feet with deep voice. I had his white hair!!

Then I took out my agent license from a pocket and showed to him.
"Lemme in."
"OH I'm sorry. You can go ahead." He said with nods, got puzzled right away when he saw my license.
I walked down the stairs behind the reception desk. Strangely the other young people who were with me could get into the casino as well following me down.

When I opened a door, I saw a huge room filled with suits. I realized that this must be a room where you have to change your clothes into nice suits to get in the casino.

But I woke up because of noise outside.

It's all because of stupid noise!!! ugh!! I'll do better tonight.

Well, it certainly has been a while since I've last updated. I've gotten significantly better at DEILD chains, giving me 14(!) lucids in 13 days! Maybe I should start thinking about raising my goal, at this rate

Didn't complete any more challenges though. I guess they're called "challenges" for a reason.

LD Count: 19/55

Hello folks, I hereby quit this summer challenge

Brandon just sent me a pm and asked me how I was doing. Thanks man I appreciate it, for me it confirmed the warm atmosphere on this forum
I think I got a little carried away with my challenges and punishments, probably because I just had a little wet spell Right now I am just going to focus on getting enough sleep and keeping my awareness up, doing rcs and fantasizing a little. And a couple of wbtbs a night, they work like a charm. And keep checking this forum ofcourse

The best of luck to all of you

Well guys I've had nothing, I got this one zombie dream a few nights ago, but it wasn't lucid, and it wasn't like crazy fun, or really fun at all. I've had little success but that's only with semi-lucidity and almost WILDs. Even with that I am not disappointed, I see it as a chance to succeed in the future, and I may be giving up with using techniques for a while, you may be thinking "HOW WILL YOU GET LUCID WITHOUT TECHNIQUES!?!?" and my answer is "I just will." That may sound a little stupid but do you really NEED techniques to be aware. I mean it's just awareness, I don't think I need a technique to know that I'm alive, maybe some meditation to add to that awareness in-dream but still, I don't think meditation is a technique and I won't be using it to the point where it could be considered a technique. Tonight will be my first night, though I'm still contemplating using a mantra, I'll do some meditation about it.

@BrandonBoss How old are you? I know that might seem a bit straightforward but my mind keeps bouncing from the thought that you're 17 to the thought that you're 34 and it requires some confirmation. Also that dream deserves a thumbs up, I would give you some extra points if you stabilized but it seems that you didn't so all you get is a thumbs up and a pat on the back. Lol, it did sound like that dream was really entertaining though.

@Windy That's an awesome dream, I was kinda like "huh?!" When it ended so abruptly, I kinda forgot that's kinda what dreams do. End. Abruptly. VERY Abruptly. Remember to stabilize next time though. But make sure you believe that it works, that's half of the success.

@Ginsan I didn't know you for long but still could've been a friendship! Well byeeee.

Originally Posted by Lmrhone

Well guys I've had nothing, I got this one zombie dream a few nights ago, but it wasn't lucid, and it wasn't like crazy fun, or really fun at all. I've had little success but that's only with semi-lucidity and almost WILDs. Even with that I am not disappointed, I see it as a chance to succeed in the future, and I may be giving up with using techniques for a while, you may be thinking "HOW WILL YOU GET LUCID WITHOUT TECHNIQUES!?!?" and my answer is "I just will." That may sound a little stupid but do you really NEED techniques to be aware. I mean it's just awareness, I don't think I need a technique to know that I'm alive, maybe some meditation to add to that awareness in-dream but still, I don't think meditation is a technique and I won't be using it to the point where it could be considered a technique. Tonight will be my first night, though I'm still contemplating using a mantra, I'll do some meditation about it.

@BrandonBoss How old are you? I know that might seem a bit straightforward but my mind keeps bouncing from the thought that you're 17 to the thought that you're 34 and it requires some confirmation. Also that dream deserves a thumbs up, I would give you some extra points if you stabilized but it seems that you didn't so all you get is a thumbs up and a pat on the back. Lol, it did sound like that dream was really entertaining though.

@Windy That's an awesome dream, I was kinda like "huh?!" When it ended so abruptly, I kinda forgot that's kinda what dreams do. End. Abruptly. VERY Abruptly. Remember to stabilize next time though. But make sure you believe that it works, that's half of the success.

I am 22! it says on my profile if you check.

The dream for Goose man is not mine, it is Gooseman's. Unless you are talking about my previous dream. I do not stabilize dreams unless they need to be stabilized. If I feel it slipping. I just check and see if it is stable when I realize I am dreaming.

[55/404] Dreams
[3/10] WBTBs
[5/30] shorter sleep phases during the day
[1/5] Lucids

My recall is still going up and down, today was one of the better days. I really need to rise up a little though to get to the 404 in time otherwise it'll be all "404 dreams? Success not found! Sleep on the floor for a week to see if it'll become better then."

Back to updating: not much progress with challenges yesterday and the day before, but had a decent wild today after a super long insomniac WBTB. Also reporting one HI/dreamlet - some palm tree that looks as if it is being painted. There were more dreamlets but I forgot them...

allowance used 2/15

- 42 WBTB (11/42)
- Notice sleeping position 20 times (4/20)
- Recognize sex as DS and become lucid (1/1)
- 30 visualization exercises (1/30)
- 2 WILDs (2/2)
- 20 Morning wake RCs* (6/20)
- Notice and report 10 HI/Dreamlets* (4/10)

Next time, I will just type the challenges remaining so that I can concentrate on those because I keep forgetting to do my visualizations, check sleep position, and RC after wake.

Well so far I haven't done that well no lucids yet but have remembered by dreams pretty well, so for the rest of this challenge I need to step my game up!

Originally Posted by azoller1

Well so far I haven't done that well no lucids yet but have remembered by dreams pretty well, so for the rest of this challenge I need to step my game up!

Oh, praise the lord! Looks like I'm not the only one who hasn't gotten any lucids yet.

@BrandonBoss Thanks for the link! I now know what I was doing wrong: trying too hard to fall asleep, using my bed for almost everything I do, and not maintaining a regular sleep schedule-- pretty much everything that could be done wrong.

With 11 dreams today I'm a significant step further!

The challenges:
1.] [ ] Remember at least [66/404] dreams including tags
2.] [✓] Have a day with 10 or more dreams
3.] [ ] Have my first WILD
4.] [ ] Have at least [2/5] lucid dreams
5.] [ ] Revisit at least one place in a dream where I have been before (Preferably Coon City, or a certain Postapocalyptic building, or maybe ISIM)
6.] [ ] Have at least 5 dreams about Ryuko (IOSDP Shared Dreaming RPG)
7.] [ ] Learn how to visualize good enough to hallucinate things into my vision on purpose
8.] [ ] Cause the biggest detonation I've seen in my dreams yet
9.] [ ] Have another music focused dream
10.] [ ] Have at least [4/10] WBTBs
11.] [ ] Have at least [6/30] shorter sleep phases during the day

The Punishments:
1.] Sleep on the floor for a week
2.] Go sparring with my girlfriend 5 times (she is strong to the point of being dangerous, so...)
3.] Create and upload an anime styled picture within just 2 weeks (I'm not confident and I'm lacking proper practice, so that's definitely going to be punishment)
4.]
5.] Make a piece of art about one of my recent dreams and submit it to DeviantArt and DreamViews, deadline is 3 weeks after starting with the picture
6.] Create lyrics for a track about the IOSDP shared dreaming project, sing it in front of my girlfriend and post the lyrics on DV, deadline would be a month after starting on the lyrics
7.] Meditate bound or in an otherwise uncomfortable position for 2 hours
8.] Run back home from work once (My working place is a lot further from home)
9.] Rev up my keyboard and make some kind of track, upload it somewhere on the Internet, deadline is 6 weeks after starting
10.] Stay (sharp) afloat in water for at least 90 consecutive minutes
11.] Go to school a week without using the tram (The first day of the week walking home is fine as measurement)

5 LDs yesterday. None last night. Used an allowance last night.

Had some fun times at the DWA! If anyone ever sees me there, than pm me. But I am not going to share those dreams unless needed. A little personal. Haha.

I did get to use my stabilization watch. It worked like crazy awesome. I recommend it for anyone.

edit:
Aha! I had two dreams at the DWA, so I will share one of them (the non personal one).

I am back. At the academy. How did I come here? I have work, wife, and this is my second time I am never just able to ditch my responsibilities. Oh yeah. Haha it is a dream. game time! I notice three other people here. They are a year older than last time I saw them. The fact that I thought that it had been a year automatically aged them. Crap! Getting blurry. Wanna spend more time here. I reach over to my wrist and hit the button on my watch. Everything gets vivid and stable. There are clues about LDing all around the academy. I need to find some. I go with my group and search around. The academy is a little smaller than I thought it would be, but then I realized I was just in the sleeping area. It was lunch time. We all went and ate and then decided to check out a class. Awake.

Goals:
-Have sex with neighbor's mom(she's so hot).
-Succeed a WILD.
-Succeed a DEILD.
-Have 15 Lucids. [0/15]
-Destroy a house.

Punishments
-No masturbation for 2 weeks
-300 push-ups a day for a month

Originally Posted by EmptyBucket

Goals:
-Have sex with neighbor's mom(she's so hot).
-Succeed a WILD.
-Succeed a DEILD.
-Have 15 Lucids. [0/15]
-Destroy a house.

Punishments
-No masturbation for 2 weeks
-300 push-ups a day for a month

Dude! If you do this on a month with 31 days, the result would be over 9000 push ups in a month!

I can't believe I've been so inactive in this thread. But anyway, I'm gonna change that, here's my update: NOTHING. But that doesn't anger me or frustrate me or anything, for this I have all summer. I also started another challenge, it's a 30 day challenge to re-learn everything about lucidity the right way. Because most of the things I know now have been learned from DV and don't really help with consistent lucidity. Brandon tell me about your stability watch!! I know it's just an in-dream thing but I want to know.

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Dude! If you do this on a month with 31 days, the result would be over 9000 push ups in a month!

Dedication

@Lmrhone
I will draw a picture of it and post it sometime! All my powers of spinning, touching things, yelling "stabilize", and focusing are all put into my watch! It shows the time (RC if needed. ) and if you push down on it it perfectly stabilizes me in the dream as much as a normal non lucid dream, so I don't need to worry about closing my eyes, falling back, or being too excited to wake me up. That dream lasted like... 30 minutes at least. I took out a lot of detail that linked the first dream. Glad you're gonna participate more! Feel free to post anything dream related since the summer started to keep conversation flowing. Haha.

For example!
I thought about a manga that I read quite a bit when I was younger. That night my dream picked up where I left off in kimi no iru machi (a town where you live)!

In the dream, my mind was exactly the same as the main character and I could feel his feelings towards other manga characters! It was amazing! Something I can now do to understand people now. I plan to try it with people I know and all. Also! A huge crazy thing is that I didn't agree with some decisions that ha had made, but when I shared his feelings, I realized that he had no other choice if he felt like that. Don't know if this makes sense, haha. I started reading it again, and there is a manga starting next month.

Well I just had this nap that was constantly on the line of trying to become lucid and waking up. It was the strangest yet, most productive nap so far, I got really uncomfortable and that's what made me get up. Next time I'll nap in the bed and not in the couch.