DV Members Dream Challenge!

Congratulations Sensei! :)

Okay, I've finally written this entry!
My dream control absolutely bombed, but at least I still found CL!
OpheliaBlue also made an appearance in the non-LD!

DJ: Hiding Behind the Green Door with Walt and James [Lucid]

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 18 (5 LD, 2 NLD, first!)

CanisLucidus: 11 (3 LD, 2 NLD)

Thanks NyxCC and lucidmats! No gender yet, Should know Wednesday, but might not until three weeks. :P

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Originally Posted by FryingMan

Well it's some progress, I thought of Sensei last night in a non-lucid, probably the first DV member dream "appearance:" I thought he should have been standing behind me to see if I was really flying through this auditorium or if I was just hallucinating.

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haha, I am behind you!

Okay, I've spoken to CL about this one, and he thinks it counts as both lucid and non-lucid. So 4 points for this dream! :D
DJ: Seeing Double

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 22 (6 LD, 3 NLD, first!)

CanisLucidus: 11 (3 LD, 2 NLD)

You'd better have an awesome night of DEILDs to catch up, Canis!
Sorry last night's attempt didn't work out, but don't be discouraged! You'll make up for it next time. :)

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Originally Posted by ~ Dreamer ~

You'd better have an awesome night of DEILDs to catch up, Canis!
Sorry last night's attempt didn't work out, but don't be discouraged! You'll make up for it next time. :)

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Ha! You're friggin unstoppable! I'm all proud of my 3 LDs + 2 NLDs... and now you've doubled that! :panic:

No worries, as long as I can get a lucid every night for the remainder of the challenge (as well as one during a daily afternoon nap), I should catch up in no time. :cheeky:

Here's my fail, BTW. I really should have posted this before you posted your 4-pointer! Empty-Handed - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Soo, so got two lucids last night, one after me spitting my teeth out and me thinking that that should not happen and the other one after seeing me in the mirror with an outrageous, lumberjack beard :D.
Anyways I woke up directly after getting lucid without even the chance to lift my arms, to rub my hands together :whyohwhy: Any advice??

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Originally Posted by lucidmats

Soo, so got two lucids last night, one after me spitting my teeth out and me thinking that that should not happen and the other one after seeing me in the mirror with an outrageous, lumberjack beard :D.
Anyways I woke up directly after getting lucid without even the chance to lift my arms, to rub my hands together :whyohwhy: Any advice??

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When realizing you are in a dream try to stay perfectly calm and just accept the fact that you are dreaming. Use some time to look around at details.
If you feel the dream fading, start spinning and expect yourself to still be in the dream when you stop spinning. This is proven to work over 90% of the time :) But the most important thing is to stay very calm and control your breathing.
Hope it helps :)

Ill try tonight! Thank you :) SSILD worked like a charm for me!

Got lucid and thought about finding NyxCC. Started flying and a death eater hit me in the air. Almost got me too! I used protego on petrificus totalus and he fell quite a bit. :P I think I was in the middle of fighting them when I got lucid.

^^Yeah, I'm not sure I would have wanted to take part in that dream. :lol:

Sleepy days for me but got lots of non-lds with DV members including:

- post conversation btw Xanous and Dthoughts
- post conversation btw OB and Dthoughts
- long post from Mastermind
- the voice of Canislucidus discussing 'the secret life of walter mitty" plus awesome scenes from the movie
- last but not least another Sensei post of his latest dream where he found me (1 point!)

I didn't do anything to incubate these except feeling exceptionally guilty that I am not using my natural wakes to wbtb and induce lucidity :tongue:

This was a weird dream and it felt even weirder to type it up.

Spoiler for weird dream:

Had a successful Wild and immediately went to look for Ophelia. No annoying mazes this time. She was right outside my door. She was even human: a blond, thin woman in a red dress. She possessed a creepy smile that reminded me of Robot chicken and Wallace and Gromit. She waved, said "hi" and, now that my task was complete, I immediately left her.

I think I'm at 6 points and Ophelia's on 4.

And, for those craving more: enjoy three extra paragraphs.

And she's human again! - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Well I have the wrong partner :). Had my first full on non-lucid meeting with a DV member: Sensei. We were meeting on uneasy terms, with him (inappropriately, IMHO) scolding me for my writings on the forum (wonder where that came from?). I explained that he misunderstood me. He waited for me while I gathered my things, I returned to him and saw him fully including face, with a slightly disapproving look on his face (:P :P :P :P), then I walked with him out of the building towards his class (in building "E") down an alternate stairway, and pointed out a place that was very much like one of the dreams that I'd had a little while ago.

:(

Found NyxCC again! Will post it later when I get back. Just WBTBing right now. :P

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Originally Posted by FryingMan

Well I have the wrong partner :). Had my first full on non-lucid meeting with a DV member: Sensei. We were meeting on uneasy terms, with him (inappropriately, IMHO) scolding me for my writings on the forum (wonder where that came from?). I explained that he misunderstood me. He waited for me while I gathered my things, I returned to him and saw him fully including face, with a slightly disapproving look on his face (:P :P :P :P), then I walked with him out of the building towards his class (in building "E") down an alternate stairway, and pointed out a place that was very much like one of the dreams that I'd had a little while ago.

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haha. That is awesome. :P how did I look? Like myself?

Incoming mega-points from Sensei (6 that I know of!)

I'll start a leader board once we've all completed a month, to see who has the most points overall.
What's your total score now Sensei and NyxCC? You guys are on fire!

That's awesome, congrats Sensei! Looking forward to reading this! :D

@ Dreamer - I think we were like 5 points vs 4 points (Sensei leading) before that mega score of his. 6 more points you say? Gotta start wbtbs again. Had a good attempt yesterday though - will post later.

NyxCC in the Challenge #2 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Here is the DJ entry. Two LDs, one about 5 minutes (only like 30 seconds with NyxCC), and one about 20 minutes (10 with NyxCC).

Spoiler for Dreams that matter:

DEILD back. NyxCC
I get up. I fly outside really fast and calm down. Dream goals... NyxCC I think, and look around the street, I see a figure getting into their car. I fly there quickly before she has a chance to drive off. I grab her hand before she gets out of the car. She is inches shorter than last time, and wider.
"Come with me, got somewhere to explore" I say, since she seems to be losing interest.
"Ok, I know where we are going, I have a way to get there. Just got to grab something fist." She walks around the car and disappears. Dang it. wake up.


DEILD back. NyxCC
I try to make it out of the house, but my dream body isn't working very well. I lay down and teleport out of the house. I see a lot of cars wrecked in the road. I notice that it is probably my fault, since I am standing right in the middle of the road. I realize that there is no one in any of the cars. Touché dream. I slow down... I try to think of a creative way to find her. I see a body in the wreckage and walk to it and see that it is just legs, not what you normally think of when you think "legs in wreckage", but more like a pair of legs that were made to be that way. On to option number 2, I turn to the sky and don't see what I am looking for, but there are plenty of clouds to conceal it. I decide to just head there. I send out a message to NyxCC on my phone to where I am going (I just touch the phone to send it). I think of where I am wanting to go and direct the wind that way. I start floating over there and realize that I need to fly faster and higher. I walk up a few steps and it sends me from about 5 mph (8 kilo/hour) to about 100 (160 kilo/hour) and about 100 meters up. I notice that I am not alone and I turn around to see NyxCC behind me flying along. She is flying like a DBZ character and looks back to her normal self (normal from what I have seen of her in dreams).
http://thedaoofdragonball.com/wp-con...gon-ball-z.jpg

"Try and keep up!" I yell and speed up to double my speed. She flies above me and I turn around and fly upside down. She pushes me down and I start falling. I can see the water coming at me, smell the ocean. I keep going at that speed and pull myself up at the last second before I hit the water. I can feel the water splashing on my back and I lift my head up to the sky. NyxCC is a few inches away from me and smiling. She shoves me down again, but this time I fall into the water. I go down a bit and then float back up. NyxCC is laughing and I start laughing too. I imagine a small island behind me and start swimming towards it. It is a small floating child's playground. I climb on shore and step up to the playground. I try to imagine a ladder to the place I want to go in the sky, but can't seem to find one. I find a small place under a slide and try to imagine that it is a teleportation device. I make some buttons on the bottom of the slide and hit them. Nothing happens. I decide to just apparate and get there. I can see the place in my mind. I grab NyxCC's hand and turn, nothing happens. I imagine it in my head more and more and am in a limbo between both places. NyxCC's hand makes it more real back on the play-island. I try to do this about six times and it wakes me up on the sixth time.

I had a pair of non-lucids this morning that featured Dreamer! Good news for me -- need every point I can get! :goodjob2:

Spoiler for First dream:

I’ve logged onto an online role-playing game and settled in for long play session. Now I’m in the game, wandering around in a Skyrim-like world and completing quests, bashing the occasional orc, etc. I feel like tons of time passes and now I’m standing by the corner of a building in a quiet town. Dreamer’s standing here, too, and we’re talking with some kind of slender, green-skinned elf.

I say that I’ve finished all of the quests in this town and Dreamer says that she knows how to find more. She zooms our view out to a world map that looks like a freely-turning globe and shows me how to select different continents to adventure on. She eventually selects one and the view zooms into it.

I feel like tons more time passes questing but I remember very little of what happens. It feels like I’ve been playing all day. Dreamer asks, “Are you a divorcee? How do you have this much time to play games?” I’m surprised because I almost never have time to play video games. I try to figure out why I’m not working or spending time with my family and conclude that it’s because “it’s a holiday.” :roll: Back to gaming!

Spoiler for Second dream:

I’m starting up a video game where the initial screen asks you to select the musical theme for your game while you look at your badass character. The problem is that all of the music is awesome and I can’t decide which one to use! There are 5 themes to choose from and I keep cycling through each one. This goes on literally for minutes and I just keep trying each one, unable to decide.

Dreamer comes up behind me, reaches over my right shoulder, and presses the space bar. “Here,” she say, “this is the one you want. This option chooses the music based on your current mood. That way it’ll always be perfect.”

I’m speechless with gratitude. How did I miss this option? :content:

Dreamer
vs
CanisLucidus

Start date: June 11th, 2014.

Current score:

Dreamer: 22 (6 LD, 3 NLD, first!)

CanisLucidus: 13 (3 LD, 4 NLD)

I'm glad that I could be so helpful in your gaming endeavours!

Wow, look at you on my tail...
Go team! http://i.imgur.com/M5cWFuh.gif (totally edited that .GIF to match team colours, you like? haha)

Edit: Heyyyyy, you can't cheat your way to victory! :tonguewiggle:
My score should be: 22 (6 LD, 3 NLD, first!)

LOL, sorry about the unintentional (or so I claim) cheating. How embarrassing, copied from an old post! Was in too much of a hurry getting to 4th of July festivities this morning!

And that smiley is so awesome, ha ha! :happy: Love it!!

You guys (and girls ;-)) sure have a lot of lucids! May I ask what techniques you prefer? And how do you prepare (if you do) to dream about a specific person?

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Originally Posted by Fris

You guys (and girls ;-)) sure have a lot of lucids! May I ask what techniques you prefer? And how do you prepare (if you do) to dream about a specific person?

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Sensei and I were just talking about how our strengths differ.
He is able to have multiple LDs every night, while I might have one every few days if I'm lucky.
But I am very good at remembering goals and complicated tasks, where he sometimes struggles.

MILD is my preferred induction method, but I'm not doing meditation and mantras during the day at the moment like I have in the past (I would highly recommend doing that, though! I can send you a tutorial I wrote if you like.)
My main daily incubation right now is talking to my teammate a lot - we get each other excited about meeting up, and share positive thoughts throughout the day.
We check in every morning to boast about our dreams, and usually say goodnight and brag in advance about all the points we're about to get for the challenge. So I guess we're doing auto-suggestion every night, telling ourselves that we are going to dream of our teammate. :)
We've also been voice recording our DJ entries for each other, which adds to our mind's concept of the other person (we have never met in waking life) and helps add more memories of the person to our day residue.
Canis had a non-lucid the other night where my voice appeared as narration, so it's obviously sinking in on a deeper level than his conscious mind!

I personally have the most success when I have a more complex goal than just meeting my teammate. I plan ahead and decide what activity we're going to do, or what story we're going to play out. I've combined our meetings with a few tasks of the month/year, as well as some personal jokes especially for Canis. Planning these scenarios helps to boost my motivation, because there will be an extra special reward - either wings for the tasks, or getting to witness Canis' excitement when I tell him about my awesome dream plot featuring him.
The way I strengthen my memory of my dream goals is to make connections between different steps while I'm awake. I'll often have a very specific scene I want to play out, so I have to remember the steps in order. I spend as much time as I can during the day playing out the scene in my head, being sure to pay attention to the connecting points between goals, to strengthen those pathways every time I think about it.
I also combine the goals with feelings of positivity and excitement, by thinking about how happy I will be to tell my teammate when I succeed. Planning the goals has to be a positive experience, because if it becomes a chore, it doesn't have the same effect, and the negative feelings surrounding it will probably leech into my dream.

So, in summary, the important things for me personally are: Positivity and excitement surrounding the reward (working for whatever motivates you), forming a personal connection with my teammate (some friendly competition can be a good motivator), and planning my goals ahead of time (strengthening neural pathways so the tasks come to you naturally.)

Hope this helps, good luck! :D

Oh, and by the way, it's totally my fault that my housemate isn't here yet. He wants me to read through his old DJ first before he gets active on DV, and I haven't got around to it yet. If you wanted to round someone else up in the meantime, feel free! I'm not 100% sure he'll jump straight into tasks, anyway.

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Originally Posted by Fris

You guys (and girls ;-)) sure have a lot of lucids! May I ask what techniques you prefer? And how do you prepare (if you do) to dream about a specific person?

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I'm personally a WILD user, though I get a DEILD whenever possible, as well. A nice, repetitive mantra to "anchor" my awareness, and, assuming my uncle isn't crashing into everything two rooms away, I'm pretty consistent with my lucids.

As for meeting others, I've had a pretty good degree of dream control since my first lucid, so, summoning people comes fairly naturally. As you may have seen, though, the people aren't always actually people.

I suppose the big qualities for me are determination and willpower.

@ CL - didn't quite get the part with cheating but you've got some really cool non-lds. :D

@ Sensei - I love those dreams! :)

Here is the entry from yesterday. I think of changing my approach next time.

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I also recall I wanted to look for Sensei. My idea was to teleport to him, but don't want to push my luck too far with that.

There are lots of DCs walking around and I scan them trying to see if Sensei might be among them. Nope. Ok, any of you guys good with teleportation? No reply. Ok, I guess I'll summon him then. *Thinking* There is a tall DC just round the corner. There!

A tall guy walks from round the corner and I begin to question him "Are you BrandonBoss?" He: "Huh? Brandonboss - you?" Points at me. Then points at himself. Me? No. He's got blue eyes and dark blonde hair. I decide to probe him again. He denies being BB and says something else I can't recall. Oh well. I leave him and continue down the carriages which is now more like I'm exiting a disco or bar.

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Candy - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

@ Fris

My core technique is WBTB + mantra and occasionally caffeine :P The daily practices vary depending on mood.

About incubation I try to include the name with the mantra. Or may think guiltily that I should be seeking the teammate in between natural wakes which generates non-ld contents.

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Originally Posted by Sensei

Found NyxCC again! Will post it later when I get back. Just WBTBing right now. :P



haha. That is awesome. :P how did I look? Like myself?

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Yeah pretty much I think!