Thread: Spellbee2's Summer Lucid Competition 2016

Got a little something in my nap.

1 NLD - 1
WBTB - 2
WILD - 10
RC/Stabilize - 1
Flying - 5

Spoiler for Lucid Part:

I was falling asleep for my nap, until I suddenly felt myself start floating above my bed. I touch down and try to stabilize, as everything's pretty dark and blurry and I can only see about 5 feet in front of me. I reach my staircase and float down them. It kinda looks weird, since my feet start flying higher than the rest of my body, causing me to spin upside-down into an awkward flying position.

The next few minutes are fairly foggy, but I do remember that I was stuck in a Groundhog Day-like loop, where I kept having the same scene over and over, though there were slight changes each time. I'm outside on my driveway when I finally manage to break the loop. I'm about to take off and fly away, when I remember my three-step tasks. I had planned out the first two so I could grow wings for Partial Transformation, and then fly with them. So I first try to make wings grow from my back. I think about how exactly I'm going to do this, but just opt for pure will-power for sake of time. Despite my best efforts, however, I can't get anything more than just a weird tingling on my back. I try to convince my subconscious to fill in the gaps by trying to "flap" my "wings". After a few tries, I definitely notice a "whoosh" of air with each flap*, but there's still no wings on my back. I end up waking up before I can make it happen.

*I imagine this could probably count for element manipulation, but considering it wasn't intentional and was instead just a side effect of my transformation attempt, I didn't count it for points.

Final Score - 207 points

I can't say I'm not disappointed with my score compared to previous competitions, but considering I probably only had about 50 points-worth of lucids in the two months before this started, I'd call this quite the success.

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Remember, the points end at 8PM Sunday (if that hasn't already passed for your time zone). All points must be submitted here by Wednesday, August 17th, at 11:59PM Eastern. This also includes DJ comments, so those must be made and reported here before the deadline. Also be sure to check that the spreadsheet is accurate, as any changes must be brought to my attention by that deadline as well.

Also, there was an error on the spreadsheet where it wasn't properly including the scores of members that just started last week into the full team scores. So if you notice a significant score jump, that's why. Thanks to TheNinjaStrike for pointing that out.

Rest of Competition Results:
Day 12:
-3 NLDs 3 points

Day 13:
-3 NLDs 3 points

Day 14:
-2 NLDs 2 points

Day 15:
-1 fragment 0.5 points

Day 16:
-1 fragment 0.5 points

Not a great end to competition, lost focus and got distracted by work and the International. Ah well.

Final Competition Total: 62 points

Originally Posted by Elaineylane

I know we get 1 point for every 3 comments but I still don't understand how the points for our comments work. Or to be more exact who tallies that. So I'd hope someone would explain this. I was told that they would be tallied at the end of the contest so I'm guessing that means after 8pm tonight.

Optimally, you should've been counting them up each day and adding them to your point totals for each night. But never fear, the helpfulness* of the DV Advanced Search feature is here to save the day.

First, access the Advanced Search from any page through the link near the upper right corner.

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Then, select each of the following options (note: the page will change as you click each option, so don't worry if you don't see one of the lower boxes at first, it'll show up at the right time).
1. Select "Search Single Content Type".
2. Click the dropdown box and select "DJ Comments".
3. Type your username into the box. Make sure "Comments By" is in the dropdown to the right, and "Exact Name" is checked.
4. Click "Search Now".

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Once the search runs, you'll see all the DJ entries you've commented on. Just count up how many you've done during the competition (one per DJ entry, though).

Which reminds me, in addition to points posts, all DJ comments must be made and posted here before the same deadline of Wednesday, August 17th, at 11:59PM Eastern. Forgot to put that in my previous post, I'll edit it now.

*Any day I can prove that the DV Search feature is actually helpful for something is a good day.

Dream Journal Points

Points will be awarded at the end of the competition for posting comments in other contestants' Dream Journals. Only DJ entries containing dreams from the competition are included.
Only one comment per DJ entry will earn points (a conversation on the same entry will still count as one.)
Add these to your posts as you go. Include how many DJ comments you made each day in your scoring posts, and I will add them to the scoresheet.

• 1 point will be awarded for every 3 DJ comments.

Apparently I didn't look at the scoring close enough at the scoring about comments. I'm not sure if it's worth it to try & go back to find my comments on others journals. Sigh.

This is just a little kick to get people posting in Dream Journals. I feel a lot better about writing in a DJ knowing that people are going to read and comment on it; I am sure others feel like I do. It isn't worth many points because this is a dreaming competition, but it could add a few bonus points to your final score.
When posting comments in a DJ, it is helpful to "like" the entry so that the member will get a notification on DV. You should also "like" any comments on your DJ when you read/respond to them, so that people know you have seen it.
Make sure you read the dreams so you can make a comment with some substance (more than a quick one-word comment.)

Originally Posted by Elaineylane

Apparently I didn't look at the scoring close enough at the scoring about comments. I'm not sure if it's worth it to try & go back to find my comments on others journals. Sigh.

Using my method above, I ran through fairly quick, but I counted 26 comp-related comments for you.

Night 16

WBTB: 2
3 frags: 1.5 points

Night total 3.5 Points

Final Total: 456 Points!

It has been a lot of fun everyone!

Final Three Days

+2 WBTB
+3 Non-Lucid Dreams 3
12:00a Oreo Cookie Tensile Strength / Celebrity Smack Down
1:45a Schwarzenegger & Mag-light / Death Match Cage / Card Validation
4:30a Parking Lot Ducks / Dog Park / Free Food

Night Total +5
Sub Total = 158.5

+2 WBTB
+5 Non-Lucid Dreams 5
1:10a Initiation
2:30a Success
4:00a Celebration
11:00a Old Friend / Trial / Siding
12:40p Reconnaissance Train / Predicting Wall Explosions / grenade / hand mine / gold river sugar / princess cousin

Night Total + 7
Sub Total = 165.5

+2 WBTB
+4 Non-Lucid Dreams 4
2:20a Keying / Mountain Climb / Snow Path / Spider Bite
2:50a Exploded Man / Shrunken World / Barking Dog / Museum
4:00a Trial / Late / Finger Prints / Water Harder to Burn
4:40a Boxes / Check Power / Unusual Brother / Missing Shoe / Recyclables

Night Total +6

Competition Grand Total 171.5


Too much not falling asleep, followed by too much staying asleep Oh well Total 3 Lucids Considering my stress levels, even Average Number is good

I must apologise to my team because this past week has been truly appalling, I haven't remembered a single dream in the last few days


Well played though everyone!

It was my first lucid competition, not the best one but it can only get better. I should train before next time.

Competition total: 301/2 points

Originally Posted by spellbee2

Using my method above, I ran through fairly quick, but I counted 26 comp-related comments for you.

Thanks spellbee2! This was my first contest like this one where we kept track of points like this. Quite a challenge in & of itself, lol. But very fun. I appreciate that you took the time to do this for me.

Spellbee2:
Now that the contest is over I wanted to publicly acknowledge how much fun I had and how much I benefitted from participating. Although a novice, the desire and intention to help my team formed the basis for a VERY noticeable improvement in my dream recall, and on average I had more instances (although shorter) of lucidity than over any other two week interval that I've been a DV member.

So...a huge thank you for that and for all the effort you put forth to make it successful. If you ever do it again, SIGN ME UP!!!

Warmest regards and thanks,

DH

Spellbee 2 always likes to award titles like
the one I'll have missed out on by actually
waking to final alarm the 'WBTB everyday'
(oh well all but one for me)

I would propose the following awards:

MadMonkey & Sivason deserve CAT awards,
pretty much megapoints every other day
(even Daniel Love would be proud)

Elaineylane deserves the ONE CHAIN WONDER award
for scoring nearly every contol task possible
in one chain

TheNinjaStrike deserves the HAT TRICK award
for scoring over 200 points in a mere three
consecutive nights
(technically Sivason should qualify for it too
but his 3 days look more like a 7--10 bowling
pin split)

RelaxAndDream deserves the DUALISM award
for scoring TWO-hundred points
in TWO consecutive days (TWICE)

FireFlyMan deserves a CONSISTANCY award
for double-digit scores 5 days in a row


RelaxAndDream, FireFlyMan, MadMonkey & DreamCafe11
all deserve the MUTINEERS award for out scoring
their captains

Noting Sensei's post below this edited one he avoided the
Black Hole Award, by not entirely falling into one
(with 25 additional points he may have retaken the ship from DreamCafe11 tho)

ExothermReaction should get the EndothermicImplosion award
for attaining Zero Net Entropy

I am really sorry that I was slacking on the comp! I would like to let everyone know that I just didn't have time to post and didn't feel the need to too much since I didn't have a single LD until last night. :/ I really am sorry that I let you down Blue Team. I should have stayed away from the comp since I am prepping for Japan so much and I have been running on very little sleep. I had 15 dreams and 5 WBTBs for 25 points. I am sorry for the late reply.

Thank you for running this competition Spellbee, you are the best.

Hi everyone,
it's been a really fun competition. Unfortunately I don't have any more points to give to my team. I'm still recovering from walking 100km. My dream recall skills are returning, but unfortunately a bit too late.
Thx everyone for competing in this amazing Spellbee2's Summer LD competition.
And a special thanks to Saizaphod and SwordArtOnline who convinced me to join.

Thank you Spell-Bee for hosting this! I know you put a lot of work into it. The spread sheet was a great addition. This got me back into regular daily routines and I had an awesome LD last night plus lots of little ones and my dreams have been vivid. Thanks again.

That was a lot of fun. Sorry I couldn't reply more regularly - life's been very very busy.
Best of luck to all of you now that it's over - I wish you all the best!

Thank you all for this lovely event!
Congratulations to the winners (we are all winners )!

^^ Thanks for considering me Cooley but I rather be awarded for trying than outscoring the captain which I was not trying to do. I was actually hoping Sensei would jump in some more but understood that he was busy. Actually everyone I think had something that probably made them stumble during the competition. Either way I think everyone did great and should be happy with what they did get done and not what they couldn't do.

Yes I have to say a big thank you to SpellBee for all the hardwork,
Also it really helped me focus and go for it!

So...what were the final tallies for each team?

Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

So...what were the final tallies for each team?

check the Link on the LIVE SCORE SHEET link-->Live Scoresheet on the original post
it is in a slightly normalish color but a bit bolded

it is a bit out of date for some of the last posted dates (like my last three days) but has totals of what is entered so far
it has a chart of overall team scores on the first tab and then detailed score of all team members on each team (tho not yet completed)

I have managed to be pseudo lucid the last few days, running around the dream scape doing outrageous stuff, but not really aware i'm dreaming

Thanks, cooleymd. I'm very impressed with the legitimacy of the results. Kudos to the participants! The graphs demonstrate a very even distribution of accumulated points. Kudos also to spellbee2 for the parsing of the participants into teams which were so evenly matched.

Seriously, this was not only fun, but I think some meaningful data may lie hidden in the results. I certainly am not qualified to tease it out, but I think the accumulated experience of the team members must say SOMETHING important about group participation, force of intention, and frequency of lucidity. I know from my own, meager experience that there was a heightened "drive" or intention during the contest period that was responsible for an up-tick in my personal lucidity....although it started from barely existent to merely "low" - that was still an improvement I could get excited about.

So, again, thanks Spellbee2. We need MORE of these kinds of friendly competitions on DV, for sure. Emphasis on FRIENDLY.

Originally Posted by DoubleHelix

So...what were the final tallies for each team?

Yeah i thought there would be an award ceremony or something like that like the last times.
But nevertheless i want to thank spellbee for hosting this awesome competition and thanks to all participants for a good match and a active exchange via posts and DJ entrys.

i hope there will be a next competition again and hopefully i will be able to participate again because it was a hell lot of fun and very benefitical for the lucid dream practice and journey! and next time i will make sure to sign me in in the expert league

Originally Posted by RelaxAndDream

Yeah i thought there would be an award ceremony or something like that like the last times.

Sorry guys, I've been way too busy this week. I was planning on putting it up yesterday, but a side project of mine took a looooooot longer than I had planned.

Final Results

Upper League:
1st - RelaxAndDream +25 pts
2nd - FireFlyMan +15 pts
3rd - MadMonkey +10 pts

Lower League:
1st - TheNinjaStrike +25 pts
2nd - Nebulus +15 pts
3rd - DoubleHelix +10 pts

- - - - - - - - - - - Valor - - - - - - - - - - -
Captain: sivason - 455
Upper League
RelaxAndDream - 725
JadeGreen - 264
Saizaphod - 203
Raipat - 135
FryingMan - 83
Nfri - 53

Lower League
DoubleHelix - 119
Raed3700 - 62
MagicChicken - 26.5
SwordArtOnline - 14.5

Total - 2150

- - - - - - - - - - - Instinct - - - - - - - - - - -
Captain: dolphin - 349
Upper League
FireFlyMan - 537
MadMonkey - 470
Elaineylane - 228.5
cooleymd - 171.5
TwitchLucidity - 3.5

Lower League
TheNinjaStrike - 228.5
Tataglia - 39
Shabby - 28.5
moSh - 10

Total - 2065.5

- - - - - - - - - - - Mystic - - - - - - - - - - -
Captain: Sensei - 348
Upper League
DreamCafe11 - 347.5
spellbee2 - 207
AndresLD - 180
melissajuice - 162
Occipitalred - 77

Lower League
Nebulus - 163.5
BlairBros - 62
Snehk - 30.5
lunagoddess - 21
StaySharp - 10

Total - 1608.5


And now, the moment you've all been waiting for... The final winner of the competition is...

Team Valor!



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Awards
Mass Recall: Most points scored for Non-lucid Dream Recall - cooleymd (64.5)
Induce THIS!: Most lucid dreams during competition - FireFlyMan (19)
Something's Amiss: Most DILDs during competition - dolphin (15)
WILD West: Most WILDs during competition - sivason and FireFlyMan (4)
Django Chained: Most chained lucid dreams (aka DEILDs) - MadMonkey (8)
Terrible Roommate: Performed WBTB every night - spellbee2
Control Freak: Most Basic or Advanced tasks completed - RelaxAndDream (64)
Relatively Unstable: Most RCs/Stabilizations - RelaxAndDream (11)
Employee of the Month/Year: Most TOTMs/TOTYs completed - RelaxAndDream (3)
Team Player: Most teammates summoned in lucids - RelaxAndDream (3)
GOOOOAAAAAAL: Most Personal Goals completed - RelaxAndDream (3)
No Comment: Most DJ Comments posted - RelaxAndDream (27)

And with that, another competition is in the books. Plan for next one is mid-to-late October.