Thread: Sensei's Super Competition of Absolute Awesomeness!

Originally Posted by StaySharp

There was already a lot of good advice in reply to your question, you might be able to find some more things in my Dream Recall Compendium, the link is in my signature. Talking of which, now that I have more time I guess I should get around to reread it myself, and maybe update it. Once, a long time ago I was at a master state of dream recall in terms of quantity, and remembering every single dream each night was a common thing to happen, the good old times... But I'll get back there in no time.

Also 6 fragments for now since I got lazy with my attempts at getting back to polyphasic. It'll work eventually.

Total: 9 Points

It would be great to see an update

Originally Posted by Ctharlhie

Throw Away Your Dream Journal: Remember Your Dreams The Easy Way

Just a quick response to that article: as others have noted, dreams recorded only with "who/what/where" most likely will become incomprehensible several years down the road. Also, it's not just the writing, sure, but when you write an entry you're reliving the details over and over and over with every sentence and review of what you're written so far.

Sensei: do incubation points counts even on non-lucids? I got close! Food court -> fast food restaurant dream.

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

I also think you're supposed to only get 1 point for either RC or stabilization, but not both. Am I right about that sensei?

Hmm, the way the scoring is written, it's not clear:

• Reality Check / Stabilization - 1 point

edit: merge posts

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Just a quite response to that article: as others have noted, dreams recorded only with "who/what/where" most likely will become incomprehensible several years down the road. Also, it's not just the writing, sure, but when you write an entry you're reliving the details over and over and over with every sentence and review of what you're written so far.

Sensei: do incubation points counts even on non-lucids? I got close! Food court -> fast food restaurant dream.

Full prose journalling is required for archiving, but I think the gist of his method is to build dream memory through rapid fire journalling and re-remembering your dreams throughout the day.

Fryingman
Incubation is a lucid or non lucid thing. I forgot to mention that in the OP. In fact when lucid it is barely an incubation and more of a goal (most of the time)

Originally Posted by AnotherDreamer

I also think you're supposed to only get 1 point for either RC or stabilization, but not both. Am I right about that sensei?

Since each dream control can only be counted once per dream and RC/stabilization are put together, then you can only count one of those per dream.

Night for me:
4 dreams = 4 points
WBTB = 2 points
WILD = 10 points
Teleport = 7 points
RC/stabilize = 1 point
Advanced summoning (make someone appear in direct view) = 10 points
Interact with DC = 2 points
Eat something = 4 points

First of 3 step task (teleport) = 5 points
incubation task (RDC and significant other) = 15 points

Spoiler for Dream:

Characters:
RDC's significant other = A
RDC = RDC
Baby wakes me up. I try to do some quick recall, but am getting nothing, I turn over to get him and my wife comes in the room and helps him. I think about my incubation and roll back over and immediately WILD into a dream. I am in a colorless void and have no body. This won't do at all. I teleport away and now I am in a black void with a body... nope. Teleport again. I am at A's work. Yay! easy. I walk over to the counter and see A. Things start to destabilize when I get close and I cannot see faces. I stabilize and it becomes clear. I ask for some food and I get "no" for an answer. I look over the counter and imagine RDC, RDC pops up out of thin air and hands me a coffee. I thank RDC for it and I talk with both while I drink coffee

Total for night = 60 points
Total for competition = 66 points

New incubation:
My nephew

Betting 5 that I shall LD tonight

For all you pirates



EDIT:
I just saw that one of the dares that I had forgotten about was to drink a large espresso and describe taste and effect. Had I looked at those yesterday I could have done that! I just got a caramel machiatto in my dream. :/

Looking down the Dares though, I would recommend everyone check the everyone dares. Some of them are actually straight up dream control tasks.

Good to know! Since RC is different than stabilization I could 1 point for each, but I updated all now.

I subtracted a total of 3 points (1 from yesterday and 2 from last night)

New incubation:
Fabian.

I did a WBTB and woke up after every sleep cycle later in the night, as my wake up times indicate. I even had a pseudo-lucid fragment - there is a lucid on its way!

WBTB - 2 pts
3 dreams - 3 pts
10 fragments - 5 pts
Total Night 2: 10 pts

Previous total: 1 pt
Running total: 11 pts

Dang, I hate being sick, it's throwing all of my dreaming off. At least I still got a couple...

2 Dreams: 2 pts
WBTB: 2 pts

Night Total: 4 pts
Competition Total: 19.5 pts

DJ Entry

Well easy to score and no need to journal online but I feel the LD's are right around the corner with good general dream awareness last night. FryingMan man was in a dream and I even walked over to him and said this is one of those "must RC" moments with all of this crowd bursting into song much like a flash mob but my mind came up with a different explanation. I only did one RC and it showed I was awake! Doh! I think this is one of the few - maybe only times - I have done an RC in a dream without already thinking or knowing that I am dreaming! I was assuming I was awake and only thinking it was just a good moment to practice an RC!

One non-lucid (maybe semi-lucid) was so vivid, beautiful and adventurous that I wouldn't trade it for just an average LD...but oh would it have been awesome to be lucid in that one!

Night 2:
3 dreams, 2 fragments, wbtb, 5 DJ comments: 7pts + 5 previously=12pts competition total.
I again woke too early for wbtb (3 hours) so I followed through with my plan to set an alarm for 1.5 hours more.

I can feel it in the air tonight!

Soooo... got a 15 minute nap in and got another lucid. The betting doesn't count for this since this is still yesterday night.

DILD = 10 points
DEILD = 2 points
RC = 1 point
Telekinesis = 4 points
Interact with DC = 2 points

Anyone dares:

• Use telekinesis. (PercyLucid)

First of these is 10 points = 10 points

total for nap = 29
Total for competition = 66 + 29 = 95 points

Spoiler for Nap:

I am laying down and I keep feeling my legs moving. I really want to fix them, but in the past this has woken me. It is just the first of my dream feelings. I use dream thoughts to try and get them down (it feels like my legs are up in my face) and then I don't remember what happened next. I am at my work getting into my car and leaving for home. One of the guys is talking about his girlfriend and then I stop (now that I think about it, I was going through a doorway which is a time to check my pockets and RC in waking, usually in dreams the more of these I walk through the more aware I get each time until I finally think about dreamin). I look at my hands to make sure and rub them together. I go inside my work and see 5 fruits (orange, apples, grapefruits) and think that juggling is a task for some reason, I toss the balls in the air and start trying to juggle (I can juggle 3 in waking, but I was planning on cheating and using some TK etc to make 5 work. I throw one too high and as I look up to catch it, I slip and fall on my back.

I wake up and DEILD back

I look for the fruits again, but now there are exercise balls and bowling balls instead. I try to pick them all up with TK but fail (yeah... not too happy about that, but no big deal really). I remember that there was an "anyone dare" for telekinesis, I feel bad doing it the easy way, but the person I need to catch in the competition is the one that posted that dare anyways . I kick the exercise ball against the wall and hold it there with telekinesis. I pull it towards my outstretched hand and then throw it around the whole of my work flying and knocking things over. It almost hits my wife and I stop it. She walks over to me and I... interact with dream character.
I wake up when my alarm goes off.

A WHOLE LOT OF NOTHING.
Date: 1/26/2015
Method: MILD, Mantra
Total Sleep time: 8 hours
WBTB Time: 15-20 minutes

I remember three fragments:

1. I was writing a letter to GOD and asking him when I will see him and/or what will it take to see him
2. I was riding in the car with with Beyonce and Solange (this should have been a dream sign for me...never ever will happen in my lifetime)
3. False awakening: I was writing in my dream journal about riding in the car with Beyonce and Solange...sigh
4.I was making coffee in my walk in closet and someone was trying to turn on the stereo (also in my closet) and we couldn't figure out how to turn it on.

I LUCID DREAM TONIGHT!!!

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/bemi...agments-63795/

DAY TWO
WBTB: 2 points
Fragments (4): 2 points
Total: 4 points

Total points for both days is 6 ½ points.

I have no idea if I am adding all of this up right, please someone double check my points...I need all the points I can get right now

Originally Posted by Sensei

I remember that there was an "anyone dare" for telekinesis, I feel bad doing it the easy way, but the person I need to catch in the competition is the one that posted that dare anyways .

Is that so??? We are in the same team!!! Okay, okay then

Well, I will switch a part of my daily meditations into WILDs and nap instead!!!

And since you like to play hard:

I bet 5 points I will lucid dream tonight

My goodness! Some of you are on FIRE!!!
I recalled 3 nonlucid dreams and did 2 WBTB (only going to count 1 of course)

~DJ~

My new total is: 54

I bet 5 that I'll LD tonight!

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Is that so??? We are in the same team!!! Okay, okay then

Well, I will switch a part of my daily meditations into WILDs and nap instead!!!

haha. I want to win as a team and the individual! I prolly should have said "one of the people I want to catch" because I gotta contend with all you higher league people.

I like competition. No matter what happens here I need to beat anotherdreamer. He has beaten me too many times.

All LDs count! You might notice that taking time away from meditation makes you lose night lucidity though. I always want to nap and I am like "I need more awareness for my LDs!"

Indeed, I love it too You boosted my motivation even more During some of my meditations I Astral Project, which is basically a WILD and then, instead of following the "lucid path" I raise the vibrations, etc to pull myself out. Well, I will then set the intents to LD and not AP

Originally Posted by PercyLucid

Indeed, I love it too You boosted my motivation even more During some of my meditations I Astral Project, which is basically a WILD and then, instead of following the "lucid path" I raise the vibrations, etc to pull myself out. Well, I will then set the intents to LD and not AP

I don't wanna contend with anyone not going all out like I am! Victory means nothing without everyone trying. Let's do this. I don't want to see any dry spells in higher league. I want us all to do our best! So then when I win... haha.

Originally Posted by Sensei

I don't wanna contend with anyone not going all out like I am! Victory means nothing without everyone trying. Let's do this. I don't want to see any dry spells in higher league. I want us all to do our best! So then when I win... haha.

We think very much alike. Can't agree more!!! Ditto, ditto, ditto

Night 2:

I remembered 1 fragment = 0.5 points.

It can only get better from here.

Will be posting late for the first few days because I have several comp sci projects due the next day and I'm probably going to stay up really late debugging things...

Anyway. Points:

Night 1
Stayed up late. Woke up late. Remembered dream but it flew away .-.
Induction and Recall
1 fragment - 0.5 pt

Total: 0.5 pt
What a great start to the competition! /s

Night 2
Slept late. Woke up early because of alarm. Alarm kept ringing (didn't turn it off even though I had no school today) and I kept pressing my volume keys on my phone which snoozed it, instead of actually sliding the bar to stop it so it kept ringing every 10 mins. Was really annoying, but then I had an unexpected LD. Maybe I should keep doing this, heh.
Induction and Recall
1 fragment - 0.5 pt
1 dream - 1 pt (okay so actually I remember 90% of the dream, does that round up or down? Because I count fragments as like sentence-long sort of entries, while for this one I have several paragraphs. I know I'm missing a few parts of the dream though...)
First DILD - 10 pts (I think it was a DILD. Not sure.)

Dream Control
RC/Stabilize - 1 pt
Interact with a DC - 2 pts
Super Strength - 4 pts (I assume pulling open a brick wall with my bare hands counts, heh)

Night 2 Total: 16.5 pts
Competition Total: 17 pts
Now that's better

DJ Entry: 01.26.15 Second Market

Night #2
So last night my sleep was cut down about 4 hours, so I didn't get that good of a sleep. School sucks bruh.
Anyways:
1 full NLD: 1 point
1 frag: .5 points
Total for the night: 1.5 points
Total for the competition: 18 points
http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/oneup/cops-63807/

Originally Posted by OneUp

Night #2
So last night my sleep was cut down about 4 hours, so I didn't get that good of a sleep. School sucks bruh.
Anyways:
1 full NLD: 1 point
1 frag: .5 points
Total for the night: 1.5 points
Total for the competition: 18 points
http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/oneup/cops-63807/

You gonna bet on tonight? You gotta believe man! I believe in ya if that helps.

Ugh, horrible night last night and no time to nap today... D: Probably also won't get to sleep at a reasonable time because homework sucks lol


I know I don't have to journal non-lucids but I will anyways:
Day 2:
~Teh Journal~




Points:
3 Full Dreams: 3 pts
Mega-Fail WBTB: 2 pts


Total for Day 2: a whopping 5 pts
(Adding 10 pts for semi-incubation task completed last night)
Competition Subtotal: 61 pts



Progress on Personal Tasks
Three-Step Task:
(X) Advanced Summoning
( ) Object/DC Changing
( ) Advanced Flying

Lucid Task:
( ) Pet a Platypus

Incubation Task:
(X) TARDIS
( ) Family Cabin "Up North"


DJ Comments So Far (not added to total yet): 3




Sensei, I am slightly confused about the incubation task thingy. Since I made a TARDIS on Day 1, but it wasn't completely accurate, would it count for the incubation task? I read that it could be lucid OR non-lucid but was better as a non-lucid thing, right? In that case, I might change my incubation task for tonight to be something easier to dream of while not lucid.

Day Two
- Two Fragments: 1
- WBTB: 2

Previous Total: 11/2
New Total: 41/2

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/indi...ay-2%5D-63802/

New matress arrived today after being delayed. No more couch for me
I'm really confident I'm going to have a lucid tonight but I don't have the 5 points to bet.

Originally Posted by KestrelKat

Ugh, horrible night last night and no time to nap today... D: Probably also won't get to sleep at a reasonable time because homework sucks lol


I know I don't have to journal non-lucids but I will anyways:
Day 2:
~Teh Journal~




Points:
3 Full Dreams: 3 pts
Mega-Fail WBTB: 2 pts


Total for Day 2: a whopping 5 pts
Competition Subtotal: 51 pts



Progress on Personal Tasks
Three-Step Task:
(X) Advanced Summoning
( ) Object/DC Changing
( ) Advanced Flying

Lucid Task:
( ) Pet a Platypus

Incubation Task:
( in progress? ) TARDIS

DJ Comments So Far (not added to total yet): 2




Sensei, I am slightly confused about the incubation task thingy. Since I made a TARDIS on Day 1, but it wasn't completely accurate, would it count for the incubation task? I read that it could be lucid OR non-lucid but was better as a non-lucid thing, right? In that case, I might change my incubation task for tonight to be something easier to dream of while not lucid.

It is up to you! I read the dream and you said that it didn't seem like the TARDIS. I also forgot to say yesterday that summoning the TARDIS the way you did would be advanced DC summoning like you said. I would probably count that as your incubation, but as I said, it is up to you. You can choose another one if you want a different one or if you agree that you finished it then you choose another one as well.

Originally Posted by Sensei

It is up to you! I read the dream and you said that it didn't seem like the TARDIS. I also forgot to say yesterday that summoning the TARDIS the way you did would be advanced DC summoning like you said. I would probably count that as your incubation, but as I said, it is up to you. You can choose another one if you want a different one or if you agree that you finished it then you choose another one as well.

Hmmmm I think I will count it but only for 10 of the 15 points since it wasn't perfect. (And mostly to make up for how unproductive last night and likely tonight will be ; u ; Also if you said you would count it, I won't feel like I'm cheating)

New Incubation task will be the cabin my family goes to every mother's day!