Thread: Sensei's Competition

last night:
2 dreams and a WBTB = 4 points

275 Points

StephL and Dreamer
I had a dream with yall in it last night:

I am walking through my living room (nothing like my living room, reminds me of the house in tron). I see two people doing a puzzle and immediately think that it is StephL and Dreamer. I look to see what they are doing, and it is a 3D puzzle of some form of mecha robot (only like 2 feet high). They are failing miserably and trying to use glue to make up for the parts that they are breaking. Steph says something and Dreamer responds with a strange comment. We all 3 die laughing and I start rolling on the floor. I jump up and fix the puzzle.



Later on when I woke up for a FA, I told like 3 people the joke and they all thought that it was hilarious. Then I woke up in the middle of the night and I remembered the joke. I didn't get it and promptly forgot it. :/ Also, to be clear, I didn't think that they were "in" my living room, I thought that my living room had like a DV room that people could interact in, like the basement in Ready Player One.

Day 14: no sleep at all
I might get a nap, but I'm updating now cuz I might not get a nap.

One more fragment (1/2 point) - total 33.5
Fragment: incompetent newbie spies - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Alas, won't have time to nap today, and ever since August 4th my nighttime dreams had to take a backseat in priorities. However, I had a lucid during this competition - yay! - so for me the competition was a success.

Thank you so much for organizing it, Sensei!

No lucids unfortunately and no amazing nightly score as well
I got a neat score of 101 though!

My night...

Competition night #14

- 1 dream = 1 point
- 2 fragments = 1 point
_____________________

2 points

Competition total: 101 points yayy

Thanks a lot Sensei for the Competition!! I really appreciate the effort you put in it and I will definitely join the next Comp. as well

Great work everybody!

Guys... I got a DILD and then managed to DEILD two times

Going out with a bang. Problem is, my recall is fuzzy because it was a really long dream chain and I remembered bits and pieces based on what tasks I managed to do/failed at. So my DJ entry is going to be really disjointed... is that alright?

LD Chain: Stargate, GLaDOS, Sniper Cats

Night 14:

0.5 - Remember a fragment
5 - Remember an LD (chain)
2 - DEILD
2 - WBTB

Since this is a chain, only counting things once...
1 - RC/Stabilization
2 - Interact with DC
4 - Flying. Lots of flying. (I flew up really fast, not sure if it counts as advanced. So I won't for now)
4 - Gain Invulnerability (Freefaaaall)
4 - Partial Transformation (prob NSFW though I just mention it briefly hehe )
4 - Use an electronic device
8 - Element Manipulation (whee magic. Hopefully this counts)
4 - Basic Summoning (paper and pen)
5 - Find a Stargate and walk through it. Granted, it didn't work the way I expected it to, but good enough for me I still want to meet SG-1 lol. Or visit another planet.

Total: 45.5 pts
Competition total: 89 pts! Nearly doubled my score! Good way to end the competition

Night #14
I remember having a brief lucid but it was so early in the night, now I am not so sure. It was something like changing colors in my dream. I will not be claiming points for it.
Otherwise I continue to have very good recall. It was a very good competition and I enjoyed it a lot. Apart from having a very strong lucid, by the end of the competition my dream recall has improved exponentially. I look forward to the next competition. How about a big round of applause for Sensei

2 Fragments -1
2 Dreams Recall - 2
WBTB fail - 2

Points - 5

Competition Total - 108

I totally forgot to put down last night here so I will do the last 2 nights here now.

Night #13
2 Fragments: 1 Point
1 Dream: 1 Point
WBTB: 2 Points
Nighly total: 4 Points

Night #14:
I went all out on this night. I tried everything. Multiple WBTB's, WILD's, MILD's, Meditation, DEILD.. and I totally failed with all of them.
I even tried to take a nap! Oh well, in the end I am still happy with my score, so here is my final night:
3 Dreams: 3 Points
1 Fragment: 0.5 Point
WBTB: 2 Points
Nightly total: 5.5 Points

Final Competition total: 126.5 Points

Antoia. Dream control is dream control! It doesn't say in the dream control that it has to.be purposefull or what you were planning on doing. So I would count it as a summon.

In the grand scheme, I count them as different, because it is technically a new dream. Dream wake up, asleep, dream. time is irrelephant.




everyone!
Dream journal comments count until I finish Adding them up. Which should be tomorrow some time.

The new competition rules and stuff look really cool. I've been out of order a long time but I'll try to join the next competition

2 dreams=2 points

competition total 149.5 points

Originally Posted by Antoia

Guys... I got a DILD and then managed to DEILD two times

Going out with a bang. Problem is, my recall is fuzzy because it was a really long dream chain and I remembered bits and pieces based on what tasks I managed to do/failed at. So my DJ entry is going to be really disjointed... is that alright?

LD Chain: Stargate, GLaDOS, Sniper Cats

Night 14:

0.5 - Remember a fragment
5 - Remember an LD (chain)
2 - DEILD
2 - WBTB

Since this is a chain, only counting things once...
1 - RC/Stabilization
2 - Interact with DC
4 - Flying. Lots of flying. (I flew up really fast, not sure if it counts as advanced. So I won't for now)
4 - Gain Invulnerability (Freefaaaall)
4 - Partial Transformation (prob NSFW though I just mention it briefly hehe )
4 - Use an electronic device
8 - Element Manipulation (whee magic. Hopefully this counts)
? - Basic Summoning (does this count if I tried to summon a friend and it sort of worked? Like a girl came over that looked kind of like her... meh, not counting that I guess. EDIT: What if I took out paper and a pencil in mid air? I didn't try to summon on purpose though, I just took them out from somewhere.)
5 - Find a Stargate and walk through it. Granted, it didn't work the way I expected it to, but good enough for me I still want to meet SG-1 lol. Or visit another planet.

Total: 41.5 pts
Competition total: 85 pts! Nearly doubled my score! Good way to end the competition

Question: in the grand scheme of things (not related to competition), do you count an LD chain as one LD or multiple LDs?

Wow, congrats Antoia! What a way to end the comp!

My totals for final night:

3 dreams = 3
2 frags = 1
WBTB = 2

Nightly total = 6
Comp total = 292

I may try to get a nap this afternoon, not sure if I will be able to pull that off or not though! Great competition guys! And thank you Sensei for giving us the opportunity!

Last night I got nothing. It had been a busy, slightly stressful week, and yesterday my kickboxing instructor decided to go hardcore on us in training. I think my brain (and the rest of my body) had had enough and just wanted to crash out.

1 Dream

Total: 45.5 points

personal record for these competitions!

I failed! Arrrrrrrg!


Past 2 nights...
2 WBTBs = 4
6 dreams = 6

234 points (final)

I never kept up with DJ comments but Im sure it didn't add up to much.

Originally Posted by LouaiB

Like a dragonborn I will suck out your soul and gain your LDing abilities!!

Also, Steph, I'm 3 points ahead, and my recall is better than yours, so either go big with a LD tonight or go home! Mwahahahahaaaaaa!!!!
But seriously this is neck in neck to the finish line, and probably the one who passes the other will be the only who gets a spot in the top 3.

All I want to say is good luck, and may the best LDer of us get the 3rd spot!
*makes an insomnia spell*
*lays it on Steph*

Yes, may the best LDer win! *evil laugh*

Tse!! You know how it is - cast a spell on a devellette - she goes stronger!!
Not yet ready with my journalling - but it has a small lucid - a comp-finalizing effort - I so much wanted it to be a WILD, lay there for quite a while, but at least it lead to the DILD, if again not exactly a point-heavy one... I'm not aware how the points stand at the moment - so - we will see, how it comes out - there's also the comment thing coming into it - I wasn't as prolific in commenting as I thought I would be, but anyway!

However this comes out - I have profited so much from this comp with my recall and esp. with finding out that I can actually manage to get lucid four times in one night! I'd happily take last place, considering this happened!

Originally Posted by Sensei

StephL and Dreamer
I had a dream with yall in it last night:

I am walking through my living room (nothing like my living room, reminds me of the house in tron). I see two people doing a puzzle and immediately think that it is StephL and Dreamer. I look to see what they are doing, and it is a 3D puzzle of some form of mecha robot (only like 2 feet high). They are failing miserably and trying to use glue to make up for the parts that they are breaking. Steph says something and Dreamer responds with a strange comment. We all 3 die laughing and I start rolling on the floor. I jump up and fix the puzzle.

Later on when I woke up for a FA, I told like 3 people the joke and they all thought that it was hilarious. Then I woke up in the middle of the night and I remembered the joke. I didn't get it and promptly forgot it. :/ Also, to be clear, I didn't think that they were "in" my living room, I thought that my living room had like a DV room that people could interact in, like the basement in Ready Player One.

Ah! Hahaa! So at very rare times I can be found in dreamland! And putting together 3D puzzles with Dreamer sounds just about like something I would love to do!
Even while it seems, we needed to practise that a bit more!
Shame the joke is gone - much honoured to feature in your dream with her!

This was a great competition - I enjoyed it no end - can't say thank you enough!

Originally Posted by Sensei

Saved for future purposes - love it!


So - my entry follows later - still at it!

Night #12
5 long NL dreams - 5 points
1 fragment - 0,5 points

Night #13
1 Dream - 1 point

Comp Total - 36 Points

Spoils from the last night: Competition Entry # 14 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

WBTB: 2
LD: 5
RC: 1
teleportation*: 7
3 dreams: 3
2 fragments: 1
_____________

Night #14: 19 points

Comp total: 160 + 19 = 179 points


*My very first ever!! But shame I didn't get my alien summoned for the personal task thing...

Night #12
3 fragments - 1.5 points

Night #13
2 dreams - 2 points
4 fragments - 2 points
WBTB - 2 points
Total: 6 points

Spoiler for more info:

A thunderstorm woke me and I used the opportunity for a WBTB. This night also gave me an interesting, semi-lucid fragment:
I'm standing inside a ruin. My eyes are gummy. The dream provides me with a method for DEILD or stabilization: I should walk through a portal (like in Portal). As I do this my vision becomes clearer. I'm faintly aware that I'm dreaming, but not lucid. Thunder wakes me soon after.

Night #14
I managed to scrape a lucid together for the grand finale: An icy river
2 fragments - 1 point
4 dreams - 4 points
1 lucid - 5 points
Total: 10 points


Competition Total: 112.5 + 1.5 + 6 + 10 = 130 points

Competition night #13:
WBTB: 2 points
2 fragments: 1 point
1 dream: 1 point
Night total: 4 points

Competition night #14:
WBTB: 2 points
2 dreams: 2 points
Night total: 4 points

DJ entries:
Competition night #13 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Competition night #14 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Sunday afternoon last ditch attempt (competition night #14.9?)
1 fragment (an odd conversation on a very cramped train talking about the SEC and struggling to get out of the train without stepping on people): 1/2 pont.

Final competition total: 90.5 points

Damnit, so close to the century, one more lucid would have early done it!

Also, I've now sleep enough this weekend that I'll probably struggle to get to sleep tonight, doh!

SammyTheSnake

1 NLD: 1 point
3 fragments: 1.5 points
WBTB: 2 points

Total: 4.5 points + 114(previous nights)= 118.5 points

Hey guys, gotta say I didn't get alot of sleep last night, and I had to get up really early to do stuff so my recall was crap today. My fellow McCoys I did my best, sorry I didn't do better, but if Sensei does hold another competition down the road, I will prevail!

For the final night of the competition, I turned off my phone and was extremely diligent with recording everything I recalled. I've been a bit disappointed with my lack of awareness and dream control for the entire comp, but at least I got a few low level LDs for some last minute points.

Well done everyone, this has been fun!

Night #14:
DJ: Sensing Sensei

Members who featured: Sensei, Jenkees, Hyu, Mzzkc (+ Original Poster, melanieb, LouaiB, Sageous, CanisLucidus = not in DJ)

Induction and Recall:
17 x Fragments = 8.5 points
4 x Full dreams = 4 points
3 x Lucid dreams = 15 points
1 x WBTB = 2 points
Sub-total: 29.5 points

Dream Control Tasks:
2 x RC/Stabilize = 2 points
2 x Interact with a DC = 4 points
1 x Use an Electronic Device = 4 points
Sub-total: 10 points

Enemy Tasks:
2 x Meet an Enemy = 10 points
Sub-total: 10 points

NIGHTLY TOTAL: 49.5 points
COMPETITION: 283.5 points

I haven't included points for DJ comments, and I still have a few DJs I'd like to read if I get time.

Days 13 and 14: 13 was nonlucid galantamine (I got back to sleep!) vivid adventure featuring StephL and fogelbise

Day 14 was a new top 5 sleep cycle of all time, the spoils of a victory earned via a hard, hard-fought return to sleep lasting at least an hour and perhaps more. The content, quality, and experience was fantastic! I was as close to lucid as you can be without being quite lucid....so close. It would have been a point-fest, I basically did the three task, flew, fought, summoned a force-field, shot purple lasers out of my wrists simultaneously tracking two DC targets, and went caveman on some poor uncooperative DC, thinking all the while that it's interesting that I hadn't woken up yet! And there was much more.

My first comp without any lucids, there's a first I never care to repeat. Very disappointing. But I've had some excellent dreams, including last night's epic. Feeling so close to a complete breakthrough, soon I'm sure.

Thanks, Sensei for running this!

This is a 5-night mega-update! How do I get so far behind!

August 6th

4 x Full dreams = 4
1 x WBTB = 2

Nightly Total: 6
Competition Total: 117 + 6 = 123

August 7th

3 x Full dreams = 3
2 x Fragments = 1
1 x WBTB = 2

Nightly Total: 7
Competition Total: 123 + 7 = 130

August 8th

2 x Full dreams = 2
1 x WBTB = 2

Lucid #1
1 x Lucid = 5
1 x Interact with a DC = 2

Spoiler for Full Dream:

As I’m drifting off to sleep, I become aware that a dream has begun. I rub my hands together for a moment until I get the vague outline of a figure. A woman snuggles up beside me in the darkness. We interact.

Lucid #2
1 x Lucid = 5
1 x Hand through solid object = 4
1 x Fly = 4
1 x Eat something = 4

Full dream: The Note - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Nightly Total: 28
Competition Total: 130 + 28 = 158

August 9th

6 x Full dreams = 6
1 x WBTB = 2

Lucid #1
1 x Lucid = 5
1 x Phase through solid object = 8
1 x reality check = 1
1 x first step of three-step (phasing) = 5

Full dream: Bold Talk (Plus NLD Series) - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Nightly Total: 27
Competition Total: 158 + 27 = 185

August 10th

3 x Full dreams = 3
1 x WBTB = 2

Nightly Total: 5
Final Competition Total: 185 + 5 = 190

Great competition, everyone! Wonderful job all around, even you Sith. You DVers impress the hell out of me!

Night #14

2 fragments - 1 point

One of these I cut a guys hand at work with a knife, the other Danny Brown died and I was pretty upset. Enjoyed the competition even with a lack of lucid dreams. Thanks for this!

Competition Total - 33