Thread: Spellbee's Spooky Competition 2016

night #17 (including 00:00 2016-10-31)

+(f) garage guy
+ trapped, keys, escape from house
+ freeway chase exit New Jersey, downtown store banner
+ bowling
+ balloon / music
+ (DO) demon (?) returns for revenge on her ex, pushes him through a portal to a hellish location, and engages in a competition, wedding rings

WBTB

+ FA AA in corner "let everyone who wants to be here be here"
+ frisky, upstairs, mirrors, window, guy's looking back at me , hide, see DCs, bed, ST ("can I keep my shirt on?"), mouth full of sharp teeth
+(LD)

Spoiler for DILD:

I encounter English speakers and this grabs my attention, I listen to them and look at them as I walk by, the parents are saying something to their male kids about someting they get when they leave the country. I leave the (restaurant? and am walking in an area between shops, I stop and turn around and am feeling frisky but I can't risk anything, since I'm awake. I'm walking up to a group of people, there's a cute short-haired petite girl there, I think Wouldn't it be great, though, if I was dreaming? I'm suspicious. <nose pinch> air escapes, still not sure, it all seems so bright and vivid and clear, so I look at my hand for confirmation and I have two stumpy fingers. OK definitely dreaming. So I start talking to the girl and I'm thinking I really wish I could come up with a good line for these dream girls! I say something about movies or the news to get her attention. The one I'm talking to, her face starts morphing and things perhaps getting unstable, so I move on. I think she says something about not being interested in the news . I find another girl similar to the first (short, dark hair), but she's quite busty, I get her attention and try to give her a line but she brushes me off saying "I'm really busy" [haha]. I grab her anyway and brief ST ensues waking with a kiss.

7 non-lucids: 7
1 fragment: 0.5
DILD: 10
RC: 1
interact with a DC: 2

night total: 20.5

competition total: 160.5 + 20.5 = 181

Busy weekend, here's my catch up post -

night 15
2 frags -1
3nd - 3
wbtb - 2

night total - 6

night 16

1 frag - 0.5
2nd -2
wbtb -2
1st dild - 10

night total - 14.5

night 17

frag - 0.5
3nd - 3
wbtb -2
1st dild - 10
partial tf (clothes) - 5
element manipulation - 10
fly - 5
teleport - 10
2nd dild - 5
interact with dc - 2
advanced summon (motorbike) - 10
control gravity - 5
fully phase - 10
invulnerability - 5

night total - 82.5

Catch up dream journal post

5 NLDs-5 points

Spoiler for DILD:

I was sitting down outside with some people and heard some weird looking birds repeating what the people were saying which made me lucid. I got into the air and tried to transform into a dolphin but couldn't. I flew up and tried to dive into the ground to teleport but decelerated too quickly. The dream started to fade but I said "No! I want to stay in the dream!" which stabilized the dream. I looked around for something to do and stole a can of coca cola from somebody's picnic. I took a drink but it tasted like diluted coconut water with pulp in it. I looked around for something else to do and woke up.

DILD-10 points
flying-5 points
stabilization-1 point
drink something-5 points

night total-26 points
competition total-430 points

Night 16:

WBTB: 2 points
4 non-LDs: 4 points

Night 17:

WBTB: 2 points
3 non-LDs: 3 points

Competition Total: 356 points

Night 17:
NDL:2 points
WBTB:2 points

Night total:4 points
Competition total:168

Pretty uneventful night other than a weird dream I had. I was in my great-uncle's appartment with my family and someone else when I saw a weird figure with a dark face and yellow glowing eyes staring at me. I's body kinda looked like Midna's from the Legend of Zelda and its face was shadowy and creepy. They told it was a robot they got that was serving them. I was creeped out for a bit until I started talking to it and it was actually intelligent. We them shrinked and went inside a sewer, I fought some rats and them we found some bizarre, deformed creatures that consisted of lumps of meat with some limbs. It was pretty freaky, the robot got tangled up inside of one of them and I had to save her. We eventually got back to the appartment and warned everyone to never go to the sewers.

I also tried WILD again but ended up sleeping while counting. I think I'll just use a mantra instead.

Am I the only one who has to continuously check your previous post to know what night you're on?

Also how do people recall up to 9 dreams per night!?

Night 16
1 Dream: 1 Point
2 Fragments: 1 Point
WBTB: 2 Points

Competition Total: 158 + 4 = 162 Points

Night 14 (journal):
4 NLDs: 4 points
2 fragments: 1 point
WBTB: 2 points
Total: 7 points

Night 15 (journal):
I was camping Friday night and didn't record my NLDs until later in the morning; but I guess bad sleeping conditions are good for lucids? Go figure ...
2 NLDs: 2 points
DILD: 10 points
New personal goal: 15 points
Total: 27 points

Night 16: Nothing

Night 17 (journal): Disappointed that the galantamine didn't help last night, but oh well.
4 NLDs: 4 points
WBTB: 2 points
Total: 6 points

Competition total: 247.5

Originally Posted by spellbee2

The new end of the competition is Sunday, November 6, at 8PM your time.

Thanks for extending the competition - I've had more lucids in the last two weeks than I do in an average year.

Originally Posted by Saizaphod

Am I the only one who has to continuously check your previous post to know what night you're on? Also how do people recall up to 9 dreams per night!?

No, you're not the only one ...

Before bed, I run a notepad-style app on my phone and "pin" it so that the lock screen doesn't come up, flip the phone upside-down so I'm not affected by the screen's light, and put my Bluetooth keyboard within reach. When I wake up, I keep my eyes closed, grab my keyboard, put it on my lap, and type out everything I can think of (I don't have to touch the phone at all, because typing on the keyboard wakes up the phone). In the morning, I transfer my notes to my computer, tidy them up, and post them.

YMMV, but my recall went way up once I stopped messing around with a paper journal. I can journal much faster, with much more detail, without hurting my wrist, without moving, and without messing with lights.

Originally Posted by Saizaphod

Am I the only one who has to continuously check your previous post to know what night you're on?

Also how do people recall up to 9 dreams per night!?

Night 16
1 Dream: 1 Point
2 Fragments: 1 Point
WBTB: 2 Points

Competition Total: 158 + 4 = 162 Points

Years of practice and (potentially) lots of wakings .

I personally use a theatrical definition of dream, not a sleep-phase-waking one. So I count scenes as being different dreams even if they were in the same sleep phase if they share nothing of: actors, or scene, or plot, or transition. Sometimes, even if they share nothing, I just "know" they're part of the same dream, in which case the count is lower. If I don't have that feeling, and they have nothing in common, I count them as different dreams.

I personally get a lot of short dreams in the late morning. When I'm really noticing every waking I'll get sometimes up to 4+ dreams per waking, and over 4 wakings that's a boatload of dreams. But it's pretty tiring, too. I spend a *lot* of time during the night on recall, sometimes 20-30 minutes at a major waking, which risks insomnia for me but that's sort of the pattern I evolved to over the years.

A similar question was asked in an earlier competition, my answer became FryingMan's dream recall tips

Pay attention, reflect, recall. Spend time practicing your recall every day and every night, have it be important to you, and it will improve over time. Reach for dream recall every time you find yourself awake, period, no exceptions, no vacations.

Sorry guys that I did not post since some days after start of this competition.
I was not well a few days and then travelling. I kept journaling my nights, but there were no big successess, I will post that later for completeness.
That Luciding device is still unusable by the way, so I did not use it like I wrote in my last post, yet. They promised to release a new firmware soon. Well...

Nothing recalled for night 17.

Competition Night 17
Nothing

Night Total: 0 points
Competition Total: 169 points

Had a surprisingly long lucid during a 10-minute snooze. Not too shabby.

Night 17
1 NLD - 1
WBTB - 2
DILD - 10
RC - 1
Fully phase through big solid object - 10
Fly - 5
Interact with a DC - 2
Basic summoning (hidden blade) - 5
2nd step (basic summoning) - 10
Super speed - 5

Night 17 Total - 51 pts
Competition Total - 208 pts

DJ Entry

First, my last post had a mistake (I said day 9 instead of day 10, day 10 instead of day 11 and so on).

Now, for the 17th day:Here
5 NLDs (5pts)
1 DILD (10pts)
Interact with a Dream Character (2 pts)
Eat/Drink Something (2 5 pts)
Fully Phase through Big Solid Object (10 pts) + 1st Step Task (5 pts)

Night Total: 34 37
Competition total: 146 149

(edited, thanks Cooleymd! Also, I love your signature, it makes me laugh and there's never a good time to say it, here it is! )

(Maybe I can reach 200 pts before the end...)

@Occipitalred
• Eat/Drink Something - 5 points

1 pt non lucid (I had to get up at 4:30 to get my clown make up done for school so yep 1 pt is all I got.)

3 Step Goal:
Fly
Element Manipulation
Practice a Waking Life Hobby

Personal New Goals:
Voyage through a crack I make in the earth
Find my dream house
Take a magical train to another country

Week 2 task Intermediate:
Put on a halloween costume and gain the powers/abilities of the costume.
Spellbee's Spooky comp night 16 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for DJ:

Non-luic: Mike & I were walking along a highway when we heard gun shots. We immediately got down in a ditch by a college campus. A guy died right in front of us . The world had become caos so we found refuge in a community of ppl at this college. There were a whole lot of awful things happening & ppl sharing stories. Then Mike & I witnessed a woman get shot & we patiently waited while an organizer person talked to a man who could acquire some medical supplies & other stuff. We were hoping for a gun but no dice. But we did get other items from him. We started walking around the campus that used to be the college pub. My first husbands brother was there. His wife was there too & she was telling us of their hardships about trying to keep a fire going when it was so cold. She also talked about water issues & a whole lot death. It was so sad. And as we went about things all throughout the dream was masses of death everywhere.

night 18 1
1/2 p
TOTAL 105 1/2

night #18

early/mid
+ freeway, avoid highway patrol? take exit, long string of bikers, pull us over, lead biker furious and rips up the right front fender
+ flying around dance troupe rehearsal hall, then flying with one of the female dancers, face in her belly, smell her slightly pungent sweat
+ meet with high school friends, DD want to hug him, give gifts of precious stones, precious stone packets, tall weird rastafarian guy and battle
+ freeway hurry exit before the main rush leaves the event, very special lanes, running over markers, squeezed by barrier columns, going fast, trapped at last?
+ with girls on ground, their legs spread, dirty, take wipes to clean, pull out the snake from her (ahem) , "why did my mom put that in there?" she says
+ surfer's reserve their board spot on the stones with their cars, caverns overflow with oozing goop, quick escape, chat with girl below, enter (K, 1st?) classroom, talk about coding curriculum w/teacher, at the chalkboard but can't find good piece of chalk, knock some to floor, teacher doesn't want me using her chalk stubs

later
+ [ultra vivid & present ("V&P"), location aware, medium length] CH neighbor sold to Wells Fargo, built huge addition blocking light, "helped" us by installing privacy gates on our garage, talk to former owner and WF guy saying how this sucks, people will be stopping for cash at the 24 hour ATM all the time, well at least my kids won't have far to go to get cash
+ [V&P location aware, long] PTL home sold to G's, walk through, room w/tables, excellent acoustics, caulk on floor, she plays oboe (knife? reed work?) guy got job teaching calculus (how? He doesn't speak [FL]? Will he teach in English? Discussion seated around, wife smacks our daughter [FALSE], then smacks friend ("she can't do that!?") I'm sitting with a girl draped all over me, wife won't like that, hurry to school
+ cow prank explanation on square hillside plot, I'm concerned the new people will get in trouble , woman uses me for the example cow, she chases me around square kicking me saying to hit the fat part of the cow belly
+ clothing store with kids [boy & girl, FALSE] they're sick from the cold so not at school, I select an all-natural "Yak" (but really Llama from the picture) blanket from a famous Yak troupe, Yak socks, we go to checkout and I pass a rack of odd ties, man is buying something at the counter

10 non-lucids: 10

night total: 10

competition total: 181 + 10 = 191

update competition total: didn't count WBTB from night #17: 191 + 2 = 193

Nothing recalled again, points only for failed WBTB attempt.

Night 18

WBTB attempt: 2 points

Competition total: 107.5 points

Day 17
30th-31st 8:00pm to 8:00pm

+2 WBTB

+2 Non-Lucid Dreams

1:30 woman on phone / bad parking / potato chips / icecream store
3:15 family mashed potatoes / father / running / water obstacle / climbing down girders / vehicle / mall / addictive candy

Night Total 4 Points

Competition Total 165.5 points

where the F' the November Tasks tis like the 2nd in some parts of the world

additional personal goal:
*NEW* 'Smell at least 3 DC's Hair'

night 18

5 frag - 2.5
wbtb - 2
1st dild - 10
unspecified dream control (super leap) - 5
invulnerability (fell from cliff, took no damage) - 5
interact with a dc - 2
2nd dild - 5
object changing (flowerpot into phone) - 5
use electronic device - 5

night total - 40.5
sub total - 714.5

Bicycle Thief / Flowerpot Phone

Night 18:
NLD:1 point
WBTB:2 points

Total: 3 points

Ughh still not lucid... I tried WILD but I think I got distracted and forgot to repeat my mantra which I was going to use as an anchor. Woke up sometime later and tried wild but random toughts started racing in my mind and I got distracted, eventually I was too awake to go back to sleep.

Night 18
2 NLDs - 2
WBTB - 2

Night 18 Total - 4 pts
Competition Total - 212 pts

Apparently my strategy of "Watch scary movies for Halloween, have a nightmare, and become lucid" didn't pan out, even though I had a not-that-scary dream related to one of the movies.

Also, updating my 3-step:
1. Fly
2. Super Speed
3. Advanced Telekinesis

2 NLDs-2 points

competition total-432 points

Night 17
6 Fragménts: 3 Points

Competition Total: 162 + 3 = 165 Points