Thread: Ultimate Summer Challenge!

Good job Lmrhone! Keep up the good work.

I had a picture drawn that I was gonna post on here, but then I found out that the layers on my drawing program go to one layer when saved because I don't have the full version, so it looked like crap after I saved it. :/

June total for me:

[/U][/B]Challenges:
104 LDs (24/104)
Visit the same place in a LD 20 times (0/20)
Visit DWA
Find my sword and stab myself with it

Punishments:
I will take cold showers for a week
I will sign up for a marathon
I will get off DV for a week
I will go off meat for a month

I am already behind on the LDs, but I am getting the baby situation under control and have been having LDs (1 yesterday, 1 today). I will be back in the full swing in no time! I took out 360 vision since I don't really care about it. I am currently thinking of a goal that I care about, but I really want to visit the same place 20 times. I have seen the portal to get there once (a nerve gear) and can access it at any time. I just keep forgetting.

Brandon I need to be at your level (or somewhere near it) by the end of the summer. That is a goal of mine, more so a subconscious one, so I won't forget it. For a goal, have you ever flown on a dragon through the clouds, if so, have you raced other people (DC's or other beings) while doing it. If that isn't something you want to do, maybe you could grow wings and have a race with some dc's (that also have wings) or maybe some super heroes (Superman, Green Lantern, ...ect)? Just some things from the top of my head.

Originally Posted by Lmrhone

Brandon I need to be at your level (or somewhere near it) by the end of the summer. That is a goal of mine, more so a subconscious one, so I won't forget it. For a goal, have you ever flown on a dragon through the clouds, if so, have you raced other people (DC's or other beings) while doing it. If that isn't something you want to do, maybe you could grow wings and have a race with some dc's (that also have wings) or maybe some super heroes (Superman, Green Lantern, ...ect)? Just some things from the top of my head.

Nah, haven't seen enough dragons whilst lucid. I am trying to get one, I have a goal for fighting one that I saw in the clouds in a non lucid dream, but I haven't seen any dragons while lucid yet. Forgetting goals is a huge problem of mine. I do like racing through clouds though! I had trouble flying for a while so I would drive a car into the clouds and jump out, to prove my belief in my ability to fly (since I feel pain 100% in dreams, this is a leap of faith) It took me three times, but I got it into my head that I could fly if I wanted to. haha. Haven't flown in a few LDs though. I keep getting distracted, getting goals confused with old goals, or getting goals confused with other people's goals.

Find what technique works for you and do it every night! If you do something that has gotten you lucid in the past every night, you should be able to LD once a week (One week fully rested) at least. It takes a lot to get the sleep schedule. Gotta give it your all and be consistent! LDing is easy, but finding what makes you LD is hard. Look back at all 20 LDs and see if you can find something that links all of them. If you think that they were all random, you are probably wrong. Something raised your awareness or recall. Might have been a specific schedule or abstract thought, but there should be a link.

Good luck getting more lucid. Talking to once-a-nighters helps a lot if you find out how they did it. No ones path is the same, but they all have things in common.

Welcome back Brandon

Challenges
1) Must have over 80 lucids, every DEILD in a chain counts as one. (7/80)
2) Float around and have fun with dream characters (DONE)
3) Develop a new simple character for myself set in a post-apocalyptic world, with a deep and intriguing twist that I will let unfold over time.
4) Start a new experiment, to do with shared dreaming with my friends. (STARTED)

Finally my lucids are starting up. I noticed a change in my dreams recently, that I'm starting to become more aware again. I can't wait to blast this challenge out the water

Originally Posted by BrandonBoss

Nah, haven't seen enough dragons whilst lucid. I am trying to get one, I have a goal for fighting one that I saw in the clouds in a non lucid dream, but I haven't seen any dragons while lucid yet. Forgetting goals is a huge problem of mine. I do like racing through clouds though! I had trouble flying for a while so I would drive a car into the clouds and jump out, to prove my belief in my ability to fly (since I feel pain 100% in dreams, this is a leap of faith) It took me three times, but I got it into my head that I could fly if I wanted to. haha. Haven't flown in a few LDs though. I keep getting distracted, getting goals confused with old goals, or getting goals confused with other people's goals.

Find what technique works for you and do it every night! If you do something that has gotten you lucid in the past every night, you should be able to LD once a week (One week fully rested) at least. It takes a lot to get the sleep schedule. Gotta give it your all and be consistent! LDing is easy, but finding what makes you LD is hard. Look back at all 20 LDs and see if you can find something that links all of them. If you think that they were all random, you are probably wrong. Something raised your awareness or recall. Might have been a specific schedule or abstract thought, but there should be a link.

Good luck getting more lucid. Talking to once-a-nighters helps a lot if you find out how they did it. No ones path is the same, but they all have things in common.

Once I had this awesome rainbow dragon grow out of my fingernail and detach itself from my finger, it almost traumatized me about my fingers but it was a really good experience, although I did feel that dragon was a friend of some sort, I don't really want a rainbow dragon. I'll see what he's grown into before totally disowning him though, he probably has some awesome powers.

I found out a technique that works! MILD! It's simple and gave me my first lucid dream now that I think about it. Glad you wrote this, made me think about something great! I'm actually making great progress right now and I feel like I'm going to have a lucid dream tonight. Hopefully I'll remember one of my goals! I'll just have to write them down in my physical dream journal! But make sure you get to that dragon! Repeat it to your self throughout the day, visualize it, and pretend that right now you're in a dream and visualize (with open eyes) that your dragon is sitting beside you, and if you think it can talk, talk to it, learn about it's personality, then intend on meeting him again tonight. That's pretty much what I do, and although I barely become lucid, when I do, I remember my tasks, at least the most important one (because I usually have more than one).

@dutchraptor Challenge #3 & 4 are awesome and I want to know how they work out. Especially shared dreaming.

I've been away to long, quick update haven't done much I better start getting some lucids or I'm going to have so much fun doing all of my punishments, having family really does distract from lucid dreaming, will get back to attempting wilds, haven't attempted in over 10 days! And also that most recent attack on Titan episode was awesome!

Been getting into a very sleepy mode, so did not count some WBTBs. Did 2 proper WBTBs, noticed sleep position twice, 2 morning RCs, 1 dreamlet – granny and another woman. (Also had one more WILD but I'm not gonna keep more record since I met my 2/2 goal). Remaining challenges update:

Allowance 2/15 used

- 42 WBTB (13/42)
- Notice sleeping position 20 times (5/20)
- 30 visualization exercises (1/30)
- 20 Morning wake RCs (7/20)
- Notice and report 10 HI/Dreamlets (5/10)

I'm at like um.... 9 or 10 lucids I think at this point. I need to step it up, but I already am.

Originally Posted by PostScript99

I'm at like um.... 9 or 10 lucids I think at this point. I need to step it up, but I already am.

You need to step it up? I need to step it up! I've only has one lucid so far, albeit a very long one, it still only counts as one and it wasn't 30 minutes long, so it wasn't up to par with my goals. Getting better with my prospective memory so MILDs will be flowing in soon enough.

Originally Posted by Lmrhone

You need to step it up? I need to step it up! I've only has one lucid so far, albeit a very long one, it still only counts as one and it wasn't 30 minutes long, so it wasn't up to par with my goals. Getting better with my prospective memory so MILDs will be flowing in soon enough.

You need to step it up? Hah! Nice one, Lmrhone. I've had exactly zero lucids so far. Beat that!

Finally got lucid!
Lucid dreams so far: [1/15]

Didn't write it in my DJ entry apparently, but I managed to control the emotion of my latest LD and steer it away from a nightmare, so Control inherent emotion is done!

So far I'm at 85 dreams, looks pretty bad I have to say. Not sure about the other challenges, still have to count the number of shorter phases I had.

Alright, I'm back from vacation. Had a great time napping on a small lake in the Upper Peninsula with some of my more well-off friends!

Anyway, I didn't perform too well (by my standards) in such conditions. Reporting back with a total of 9 lucids to show for the last 17 days. Scratch what I had said about raising my goal, earlier... Or not, we'll see how the next few days go.

Lucid count: 28/55

This week has been awesome. I've had 4 lucids last week and this morning I had two Dilds and a Deild . 14/80

A very busy month, so progress has been slower than expected. Reporting 4 WBTBs, noticed position once, 1 morning RC, 1 proper visualization, used one allowance day too.

Allowance 3/15 used

- 42 WBTB (17/42)
- Notice sleeping position 20 times (6/20)
- 30 visualization exercises (2/30)
- 20 Morning wake RCs (8/20)
- Notice and report 10 HI/Dreamlets (5/10)

At (15/60) lucids.

I just realized, I'm going to die if I don't get all five TOTMs in an LD. I better get these goals done!

So um, you might remember I had insomnia earlier. Yeah, I got rid of it, but there's a new problem now: Ramadan. I'll spare y'all the details, but what I do these days is wake up at 3:00 am, get something to eat, and go back to sleep at ~4:15. Couple that with having to wake up for my 8:00 lectures, I usually only get around 4-5 hours of sleep a day.
I'll try to get more sleep on holidays to make up for it.

I had 5 lucids and two weird semi-lucid thingies, can't really explain them other than that I knew I was dreaming but the dream was so weird that I kept getting distracted. 21/80
I need to up the game just a little bit more to reach my goal since I had a slightly slower than expected start and I still haven't started my new character.

Here's a full update on how it's going for me:

1.] [ ] Remember at least [104/404] dreams including tags
10.] [ ] Have at least [6/10] WBTBs
11.] [ ] Have at least [11/30] shorter sleep phases during the day

So um, you might remember I had insomnia earlier. Yeah, I got rid of it, but there's a new problem now: Ramadan. I'll spare y'all the details, but what I do these days is wake up at 3:00 am, get something to eat, and go back to sleep at ~4:15. Couple that with having to wake up for my 8:00 lectures, I usually only get around 4-5 hours of sleep a day.
I'll try to get more sleep on holidays to make up for it.

That may not be as bad as it seems. You can use it as a long WBTB and it can increase your chances to have an ld. I get a lot of my lds after a long WBTB (usually due to different circumstances). As a suggestion, if possible fall asleep at 11.30-12.00, then have this midnight food WBTB where you think about lucidity and then when you go back to bed do some SSILD (easy to fall asleep) or just imagine for 5 mins that you will be lucid.

Update:
- Reporting 4 dreamlets/HI:
1. some reflecting surface
2. Upon falling asleep, I hear this from the dream - a friend tells me that I'm ugly
3. a very strange shape, a mixture of thighs and butt that is connected to a chin (wtf?)
4. after waking up (shortly after falling asleep), I see the a black spiral imposed on the room for a few seconds

- 3 WBTBs

Allowance 3/15 used

- 42 WBTB (20/42)
- Notice sleeping position 20 times (6/20)
- 30 visualization exercises (2/30)
- 20 Morning wake RCs (8/20)
- Notice and report 10 HI/Dreamlets (9/10)

4 more lucids since monday. I had two this morning which were crazy fun, I tried re-enacting some scenes from a sci fi book I have, nuclear explosions never fail to amuse me 25/80

@NyxCC I always hear about this SSILD technique, but I've never found out what it is. Would you care to give a brief description please?

Well, SSILD is senses initiated lucid dreaming technique. You usually do it during WBTB or can use it whenever you wake up and think it might be a good time to ld. You do a few cycles of the following - notice what you see, notice what you hear, notice what you feel. Take some 10-30 seconds without counting just to notice what you see with eyes closed in bed, like darkness behind your lids, maybe some light patterns, etc. Then you listen for a while, notice what you hear (do not think about it, just notice, this is a relaxation type of exercise, yet at the same time it somehow activates your brain). Then notice any bodily sensations you may have, etc. You do a few cycles of like this then fall asleep normally. You may also fall asleep during the practice, this is fine. You usually have higher chances for an ld afterwards (or some FAs so don't forget your RCs), also this tech gets better with practice.

By the way, I always mix different techs, so I may add a mantra before or after this cycling depending on my mood or wakefulness levels.

Here is the official link which I recommend reading as it has detailed explanations plus experiences of those who have been practicing it.

SSILD

Another useful link where people try it for 30 days.

SSILD test 30 days