Thread: DV Members Dream Challenge!

4 hours the night before and 6 hours last night. :/ I will be taking a nap today. i just had a couple non epic lucids. I was tired in dream as well! :/

Sometimes it's just as important to get our sleep. I took the night off (or rather sleepiness took over everything else ). Lots of dreams, but as much as I right now remember no mention of DV members or lucidity. Will get there!

Okay, I managed one! Here's a NLD from last night that featured ~Dreamer~. First NLD for me!

I’ve created a dream playback device that can wirelessly connect to someone’s brain and play back their recalled dreams in high-def. Dreamer is paired with the machine and seated to my right, the machine to my left. We’re facing a large glass window through which the dream is recreated.

Dreamer verbally describes the scene, in some kind of city plaza close to a pond or lake. It’s near sunset. The dream playback device has a bunch of round knobs like a stereo which I tune as she describes the scene. Inside the device are exposed electronics that look like PC graphics cards (GPUs), maybe 8 or so. As she describes more of the scene, these sputter to life and start vibrating like an old engine.

Dreamer starts describing a series of fountains and now almost all of the GPUs are running. I begin to fret that the dream will exceed the machine’s capacity. I tell her that we may run out of “dream streams”, referring to the GPUs. She says not to worry about it. Now more fountains are arcing over the lake and all the GPUs are on. I realize that she’s just getting started describing the dream and I’m going to have to build a bigger machine.

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 3 (+2 NLD)

CanisLucidus: 2 (+1 NLD)

Wowww, that is such a cool dream!!!
Can you make me one please? Kthanks.

Have you played The Dream Machine yet?

Oh, and you forgot the new scoring format.

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 12

CanisLucidus: 7

Aww, CL! That's an awesome dream! When are you going to start shipping these devices?

I had a bunch of dreams in my nap this afternoon. Too many things that were worrisome (couple of crazy annoying kids about to get run over, my daughter having an infection, and something else...) stopped me from getting lucid. :/ Dreams tonight will be good, going to bed at a reasonable hour.

Originally Posted by splodeymissile

I'm an arrogant narcissist with god-like power in my dreams, so, sometimes. I think my dream guide is scared of me.



I wasn't able to check, unfortunately (fortunately?). Unless you resemble a slightly older version of Asuka from Tekken, I'm afraid I failed last night.

I had a haircut like that 3 years ago. So..

Night 3:

Argh! Two nlds with Sensei as a DV presence:

NLD1: Sensei posts about his most recent lds.

NLD2 (few hours later): Sensei posts again and tells me he just had one ld with me.

I also had an HI dream conversation with Sensei (on the verge of falling asleep) about him writing a short tutorial. (guess that doesn't count though).

So, if I had gotten it right that's 2 points (not counting night 1) so far?

I managed to summon Dreamer again in an LD last night! Another "handshake" summon, some very brief, awkward co-flying, and Dreamer doing "jazz hands".

Full dream: Jazz Hands - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 12 (3 LD, 2 NLD, first!)

CanisLucidus: 10 (3 LD, 1 NLD)

Man! We totally need a "jazz hands" smiley! Nice dream canis.

Nyxcc, what was the tutorial about?

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

I managed to summon Dreamer again in an LD last night! Another "handshake" summon, some very brief, awkward co-flying, and Dreamer doing "jazz hands".

Full dream: Jazz Hands - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 12 (3 LD, 2 NLD, first!)

CanisLucidus: 10 (3 LD, 1 NLD)

Man you guys are outrageous! Great dreaming. You even did it in non-lucids, which is even more impressive! What kind of incubation are you doing do get those? Cmon now let's share those secrets!

First fully lucid last night since my comeback. Didn't find Mismagius but I completed the basic TotM. Gonna go for the advanced tonight and summoning Mismagius. =D

@ CL & Dreamer - wow you guys really are on fire!

@ Sensei - it was a super easy wild guide. This was as I was falling asleep trying to ld - you telling me about it and I saw the tutorial for a second, then snapped out of it.

Got any of these easy wild tips to share?

Originally Posted by NyxCC

Got any of these easy wild tips to share?

I´m interested too

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Man you guys are outrageous! Great dreaming. You even did it in non-lucids, which is even more impressive! What kind of incubation are you doing do get those? Cmon now let's share those secrets!

Thanks, FryingMan! I'm not sure what all of Dreamer's techniques for dream incubation are, but I think a lot of it is down to associating your partner with dreaming in some kind of way, particularly talking with them about dreaming, getting excited about going lucid, smack-talking about the challenge, etc.

I also think that the NLD I had was an offshoot of intent to have a lucid dream with the summon as my specific, primary goal. I worry enough about prospective memory that I try to run over my goals a good bit before bed and at WBTB and I think that makes a difference.

That is awesome HI! It is like mine... but you know, it isn't as epic when it is me talking to me as opposed to talking to you.

I assume you know all about rotating sleep schedule, so I won't give you a guide on that.

WILD is the practice of the balance between awake and asleep, because of the nature of it, you want to lean towards asleep so that you don't get insomnia. If you lean towards sleep and miss a WILD, you will have a chance to DILD.
Step 1
Forget your body
Step 2
Have your mantra playing in the background, preferably something with "dream" in it (in case you lose some consciousness)
Step 3
Don't focus on anything except for the balance of sleep and awake. Let your mantra be in the background, let your thoughts run crazy like they do when you are about to sleep
Step 4
If you have any senses being messed with, like a floating limb or anything, then you should will your body to move and stabilize
Step 5
If you feel yourself having trouble getting close to sleep, then forget it and just go to sleep
Step 6
If nothing happens in 5 minutes go to sleep
Step 7
Repeat as many times through the night as you wish. I do like 5 micro-WBTBs a night (not right now, but getting back to it)

tips
Willing your body to do something is different than moving it. Look at your arm. WILL it to move! Nothing happens unless you actually move it. In a dream, it will. It is what I call the difference between normal speed and imagination speed normally, but it can be done at normal speed if you want.

Don't will it to move until you have a solid sensation. The biggest thing for this is the "floating arm" or something similar, because normally you are really close to a dream.

Originally Posted by Sensei

First fully lucid last night since my comeback. Didn't find Mismagius but I completed the basic TotM. Gonna go for the advanced tonight and summoning Mismagius. =D

Wut? :p

I can so totally sleep in tomorrow, so I'm gonna look for that splodey dude

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Wut? :p

Freaking phone messed my original post up and it copied a random post. Will fix.

^^ Your message's still in the edit history.

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Wut? :p

Freaking phone messed my original post up and it copied a random post. Will fix.

This is a cool idea!

How about tag teams? You and I, Dreamer vs two other

You can't catch me that easily, Canis!

DJ: The Perfect Cookie for Canis

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 15 (4 LD, 2 NLD, first!)

CanisLucidus: 10 (3 LD, 1 NLD)

Sensei also made an appearance in a non-lucid. Wrong guy, dammit!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Man you guys are outrageous! Great dreaming. You even did it in non-lucids, which is even more impressive! What kind of incubation are you doing do get those? Cmon now let's share those secrets!

Originally Posted by CanisLucidus

Thanks, FryingMan! I'm not sure what all of Dreamer's techniques for dream incubation are, but I think a lot of it is down to associating your partner with dreaming in some kind of way, particularly talking with them about dreaming, getting excited about going lucid, smack-talking about the challenge, etc.

I also think that the NLD I had was an offshoot of intent to have a lucid dream with the summon as my specific, primary goal. I worry enough about prospective memory that I try to run over my goals a good bit before bed and at WBTB and I think that makes a difference.

Yeah, I chat with CL a lot every day, about dreams and waking life, so that adds to my day residue by itself.
My incubation is positivity-driven (the tech described in that MILD tute I sent you FryingMan), so getting excited with CL and egging each other on is very helpful. And a little smack-talking certainly doesn't hurt, since I'm pretty competitive.

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

This is a cool idea!

How about tag teams? You and I, Dreamer vs two other

Perhaps in a separate challenge, I think the scores would get messy if we tried to do that in here! (Read: Let me kick CanisLucidus' butt first!)
I'm looking forward to dreaming with you again though, Percy!
I was talking to Atras recently about teaming up with the two of you, since we all have similar goals.