I didn't spend the night at home, which usually results in no dreams. I got 1 and a fragment though, so I am happy Even got to do a decent WBTB where I went for a pee, closed all curtains and wrote in my DJ. Also had quite some beer, so I am hoping for some REM rebound again
Not many points, but I'm a happy dreamer anyway:
1 Dream: 1 Point
1 Fragment: 0.5 Point
WBTB: 2 Points
Total of the night: 3.5 Points
New competition total: 90 Points
Real people as well? Einstein, Tesla, etc? Or just fictional?
Either way, I will be meeting Leo. I mean, Cobb... not just my hunky celebrity crush...
Beware of the limbo!
We'll come looking for you tho.. Guys were looking for ~Dreamer~ who has been in the limbo for 50 years now, probably old and wrinkly like that Saito dude
I'm gonna have to do a 3-day update tomorrow as well.
Time got away from me and now it's time to dream!
Hopefully I'll have some more impressive points to calculate than the previous 2 days.
Sweet LDs, everyone! Good luck with the new challenge!
McCoys, I havent been up to par lately because I really messed up my sleeping schedule and my recall as well. But now I am back on track once again, and my recall is improving. Looking forward to a good nights sleep tonight, and some Lucid Dreams.
"If we doubted our fears instead of doubting our dreams, imagine how much in life we'd accomplish." ~Joel Brown "Your background and circumstances may have influenced who you are, but you are responsible for who you become." ~Darren Hardy
Goals: -Become Lucid in every dream every night
-Perfect the time dilation watch
-Continue to have a dream plan for most of my lucid dreams
Night 7 points
DILD#1: Remember an LD, WBTB - 7pts
DILD#2: Remember and LD, interact dc, flying, super strength, mass tk, time control - 35pts
+ Step 1, Step 2, DV extra task (first=lucid dare) - 20pts
Dreams: 2, Fragments: 5 - 4.5pts
Night 6: wbtb and 2 fragments - 3pts
Previous total: 53pts + 69.5pts (above) = 122.5pts total
(some DJ comments done but not 5, may count them later if time)
Spoiler for Dreams and details:
I think I will use StephL's method to bold competition points so that it is easier for me to add them up.
8/3/14** pre-bed lazily ask my subconscious to look out for any of my dreams signs and I guess one dream sign was part of my first LD and quite a few dream signs were part of my second LD. Several theories worked on tonight: startle induced, clenched eyes vibrations telling me how close I am to sleep, sex IWL and LDs, more simple dream sign alertness. / touring a home converted from a funeral home (casket showcase area looked odd converted - like two odd wings near the entrance. we hurry through like Halloween maze. I joke that I saw something move...then there was...was security in few spots. Last room had a line to next section or home maybe 15 people not bad. / price of corn syrup at a big discount (political/economic/health statement?) / ~30 minute wbtb.. DILD#1 someone won a lot of money and gave me a stack of money(money/treasure dream sign). I look the gift horse in the mouth and this seems to be a good thing for catching signs that you are dreaming. I flip through it and see not all big bills like top one. $300 total I seem to determine. I see a $30 bill! (no such thing in US currency) Aha! I'm dreaming. I will explore this. One bill changes the color picture scene (no unlike NZ dollars) on it each time I look at it, very cool (could possibly fit the photoshop TOTM - BUT not specifically thinking of that). One was a mountain scene, another a forest scene, and then a futuristic city scene. Then I look at signatures that show on US currency. Wife's maiden name was part of name, first name Robert I think, not far from her father's name. I look again...completely different name and it is harder to read and in cursive and I wonder for a second if it is one of the actual names that shows on US currency. Very cool, but goal time! But I get an FA where I am crawling to foot of my bed where phone is charging to record dream but then wake for real. / shorter wbtb the 2nd time, back to sleep with mantra. Too long, shorten it to "vivid..... lucid"...lots of old houses try to find right one (that is our home). Armless monkey looked to be hanging from a poll thingy but closer examination reveals wood carved arms and hands and the monkey attached some other way. he bites me kind of hard and is now loose on the ground.. Warn the monkey that I will have to hurt it if it does that again. Also around house is a temperature box that maintains hot or cold either way - 2 pizzas inside..feel heat from it (I used to have a tiny mini-fridge that also doubled as a food warmer, so there is such a thing). / 2 section amusement park. Sit and wait for a group of four to leave so we can enter the other section (done when full/busy). Lady/worker says you can go in now...stuck in crowded midway area. Watch (son) so he doesn't get crushed. He's younger? / D back already? hmm.. crayfish / dild 2: dreams signs: taking wrong turn/driving, vehicle out of control, parking lot, boldness, security or police, on trip. Although I only got two steps of my longer plan done I was able to mix in some other points. I had planned to also get to step 3 and an attempt at a task of the year and my personal goal (those last two are planned to transition smoothly and quickly between) if I had an epic long LD. But pretty darn good and my best night of the competition so far. Hopefully not too late to get going here. Driving with son in a truck. We take a wrong turn and the truck is going fast and a little bit out of control and my son is concerned. I am NOT concerned and I feel as if I'm already semi lucid at this point, possibly due to a couple of dream signs showing up already. The road becomes a parking lot without driving the truck into the parking lot. The road leads incredulously to some stairs into the mall and I am bold and drive right on down the stairs realizing completely that I'm dreaming now. We get to the bottom of the stairs and get out of the truck and there is a security guard or mall cop and I use my trusty pocket watch to freeze time (&step 1 and Lucid challenge) on him. (I have only used it once before to freeze time specifically but I say I "trusty" because I try to use it to stabilize my dream from the beginning and almost always use it at the beginning of my extended RCs in waking life practice.) I examine the guard a little bit and his uniform looks a little cartoonish and unrealistic. My son says what if you get arrested? I say no worries this is my dream I can make sure I do not get caught but then I start thinking that I guess it is possible to get caught in a lucid dream. It could cause some challenges and I would just have to escape. Sure enough handcuffs appeared on my wrists. My hands are out in front of me. I blast my wrists apart from each other in a feat of super strength and I feel exhilarated! I fly up in this mall and decide to do step 2&mass telekinesis. My first attempt moved a few things rolling forward like a good gust of wind pushing them but not impressive. So I reached back and pushed my hands out in a big shoving motion down towards floor and many things(trash can, stroller, unidentified items) and the entire floor were slammed forward revealing dirt below. The scene goes dark and I remain patient like I have been doing lately. I feel myself laying back in bed but it still feels quite dreamlike and I remain still and patient and I hear couple of knocks to the left of my bed. I decide to do the glottal motionless RC. It is not conclusive it sounds kind of like what it would sound like in waking life if I am not doing it properly. I do the one where I clench my eyes, normally to nudge on the vibrations, and the vibrations are strong which I take to indicate that I'm still quite firmly in dreamland. And my wife starts to move but I assume that it is part of my common false awakenings. I roll over and I can feel that I'm still dreaming and fool around with my wife a little bit . I then start to wake up for real at least partially I think. Perhaps mostly awake this time but I do the clenched eyes again and the vibrations are much lighter but still noticeable like I have found many times when I'm starting to wake up or at the early stages of going to sleep. I find this fascinating and feel as if I discovered an important factor within my transition in and out of dreamland. I will have to experiment some more but basically after a while trying to go back into a dream my bladder got the best of me and I had to get up to urinate and when I came back and lay down I couldn't get any light vibrations at all from clenching my eyes softly or mentally, seeming to confirm that this is a way to indicate closeness to sleep along with heavy vibrations indicating fully asleep or at least at the doorstep of REM sleep. I think that I read someone else mentioning something very similar here on DV.
This is without a doubt my worst showing yet on a DV competition, I did better when I was FOB last October. Maybe I should take up tiddlywinks or something.
Night #6: DJ: Mind State Experiment
Very brief LD recall again (lost to a false awakening, gah!) but it'll get me a few points at least...
Members who featured: CanisLucidus, Alysendra, (Xanous, Mzzkc, The Cusp, Original Poster, Jenkees = non-LDs, not in DJ)
POINTS:
Induction and Recall:
9 x Fragments = 4.5 points
2 x Full dreams = 2 points
1 x Lucid dream = 5 points
1 x WBTB = 2 points Sub-total: 13.5 points
Dream Control Tasks:
1 x Interact with a DC = 2 points Sub-total: 2 points
Team Tasks:
1 x Meet a Teammate = 7 points (CanisLucidus) Sub-total: 7 points
NIGHTLY TOTAL: 22.5 points
Night #7:
Big night out... one single fragment recalled.
I was extremely proud of myself for ripping myself out of bed for a WBTB as well, that was a struggle!
Induction and Recall:
1 x Fragments = .5 points
1 x WBTB = 2 points Sub-total: 2.5 points
NIGHTLY TOTAL: 2.5 points
Night #8:
Another low scoring night. I'm not posting a DJ today, but I'll still give a shout out to the members who featured in my non-LDs. EDIT: I decided to post the member dreams in my DJ after all: Dream Journal: I Love You?
I hope I will get better at recognising my DV dream sign soon!
Members who featured: Xanous, fogelbise, Sensei, Hyu, CanisLucidus
Induction and Recall:
2 x Fragments = 1 point
3 x Full dreams = 3 points
1 x WBTB = 2 points Sub-total: 5 points
NIGHTLY TOTAL: 6 points
COMPETITION: 179.5 points
I haven't had a single LD with high dream control during this comp... I thought my dream control would carry me, since my LD frequency is lower than others in my tier, but no such luck yet. Hopefully tonight!
Last night I got nothing. Can't remember a thing = 0 points.
Dream recall seems to drop off during the weekend, but gets better when I'm at work for some reason - probably because my sleep routine is better during the working week. During the weekend I start to let go a bit.
Night #8 No lucids, though I seem to still have good dream recall. I get lucid once around 10 days, I feel confident to get another one before the competition ends.
Lucid at last
Finally catched a FA. Believe it's the 3rd FA in 4 or 5 days.
Pretty lame but I'm still happy.
Spoiler for DJ entry:
I'm on a big amphitheater having some kind of advanced math class.
I solved one of the problems earlier than most, but I'm not really sure if I cheated or something like that.
I run down the stairs to the door and glance at a table on my left where's at least two or three guys that work with me.
I reach outside and I'm on a beautiful fishing port. Without stop running I dive into the water and swim back up to the port and enter the room again.
There's a friend of mine (R) sitting in my spot and we discuss the previous problem. He's really good and we spend some time there.
My alarm rings. It's 04:30am and WBTB time.
I went to sleep at 23:30 and scheduled my WBTB after 5 hours of sleep.
I got up in the dark. Noticed one of my cats around me. I should go to the bathroom but I'm too lazy.
I turn my office's light switch on (that's were most of my WBTBs are) but it's still dark.
I'm confused. That's not normal.
I realize I'm dreaming. (This is the 3rd FA in 4 or 5 days).
It's all dark. I go to my kitchen and start screaming lights, clarity, clarityyyyyyy!!!!
Things are clearer, but there's a round blurry and circular thing in the center of my vision. I go to the window and I don't know what to do.
Things are unstable and I'm pissed.
I'm about to fly or jump trough the window but I suddenly remember that I promised my girlfriend that would always start flying from the ground and not from a window
I start to feel my real body and sure enough I'm awake.
Damn I'm a noob.
Ahrgh - I have this typical problem again - I do get lucid, but that's more or less it then - again just that and a RC and looking about - and woke up. This frustrates me no end upon waking and would maybe even lead to me dropping all activity again, if it wasn't for the comp. It's worse than doing nothing and not getting lucid, these disappointments...
What shall I do?!
Going to journal and count out later, but this is THE PROBLEM for me...
Wow! I'm three days behind as well!
Not very good recall lately
Total at Aug 1st: 17,5 pts
Aug 2nd: 1 DF, wbtb : 2,5 pts
Aug 3rd: 1 ND, wbtb: 3 pts
Aug 4th: 1 DF, wbtb: 2,5 pts Competition Total: 25,5 pts
Ahrgh - I have this typical problem again - I do get lucid, but that's more or less it then - again just that and a RC and looking about - and woke up. This frustrates me no end upon waking and would maybe even lead to me dropping all activity again, if it wasn't for the comp. It's worse than doing nothing and not getting lucid, these disappointments...
What shall I do?!
Going to journal and count out later, but this is THE PROBLEM for me...
I feel your pain
About half of my (few) lucids have been like that. It really sucks.
Don't know what to do either..
BTW McCoys, I saw this today. You guys need to chill just a little bit. I'm sorry I interrupted OneUpBoy71's shower!
Oh, Xanous, I will be searching for you tonight . . . . I hope you are not in a compromised position when I find you!
Here are last night's adventures:
1 dream: 1
1 LD: 5
5 fragments: 2.5
WBTB: 2
WILD: 1
RC: 1
Interact w/ DC: 2
Gain invulnerability: 4
Nightly total: 18.5
Comp total: 167
For my WBTB, I chose to meditate in the dark after DJing. Then did MILD and tried my best to WILD, lol, but couldn't manage it (as usually happens--all of my LDs in this comp have been DILDs).
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