Spellbee's Spooky Competition 2016

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Originally Posted by Saizaphod

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

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

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Lol, saizaphod, PM me if you want some help with recall. ;)
Night 17
Dreams = 9 points
Wbtb = 2 points
Night total = 11 points
Comp total = 743 + 11 = 754

rats no ld last night

2 non lucids- 2 points
WB2B-2 points

total 4 points

Night 18

2 non lucid dreams: 2 points.

1st DILD of the night: 10 points.

Night total: 12 points.

DJ Entry here.

Night 18 (journal):
2 NLDs: 2 points
WBTB: 2 points
Total: 4 points
Competition total: 251.5

Didn't have a dream these 3 days:') Saturday I only had one hour of sleepXD and the other days I can't remember what I dreamed. damn....
But I'll post next time^^ I hope...

2 pts- Interact with a Dream Character
1 pt -stablization
2 pts- wbtb
10 pts- First DILD of the Night
2 pts- chain a dream
5 pts- super speed
2 pts- Interact with a Dream Character
5 pts- Gain Invulnerability
5 pts- DC Changing
10 pts- Fully Phase through Big Solid Object
= 44 pts ***** 44+118.5=162.5 total contest

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 17 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Spoiler for DJ:

D1: I was in this old house with infinite rooms. I know this house immediately because it's a dream sign for me. I've not seen it since I've been on DreamViews which was surprising in some way. I knew for sure I was dreaming & became lucid. This house has so many hidey hole places & rooms that it was like a playground for lucidity. But with that said I also had to try to find the meaning in it as well. There were a lot of people living there & I was milling around & getting familiar w/ the characters asking them things like why they were there. It was sad, most responses were from kids & adults that had been put in the foster care system. Which is where this dream stems from for me & teaches me things. I was standing at the bottom of a staircase when I got woke up by my phone.
WBTB
D2: I didn't get up, I just turned my volume off & fell right back into the same dream, hence "chaining a lucid". I wasn't at the bottom of the stairs though but in a kitchen. RC. I was talking to a man & explaining that I know this house well & he was rather pacifying in his answer. I now know why I'm in the dream. (It's personal, it's something about my father recently). I wall through out the house talking once more w/ others & trying to explain where the hidey places are. I walked right through a wall to get to another room which was kinda cool. It felt like everything went dark briefly & I ended up in the room I wanted to. In the room w/ me is a mouse so I make him big which was rather more startling than expected so I put him back to himself. It felt like it became more dangerous while big. I was really afraid I would run out of time so I walked up to the top floor which was like a big spiral staircase that was like a building top & jumped down to the bottom. I felt like superman cuz I landed in that kneeling pose, lol. I decided to run up the stairs back to the top at super speed but once I got to the top my dream decided to end. All in all a good night I'd say.

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Originally Posted by Nazrax

Night 18 (journal):
2 NLDs: 2 points
WBTB: 2 points
Total: 4 points
Competition total: 251.5

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You are doing well during this challenge, congrats & thx.

Night 18
Dreams = 4 points (I had more, but had a rough morning and didn't feel like DJing them and all)
WBTB = 2 points

WILD = 10 points
interact with DC = 2 points
unspecified dream control (respawning) = 5 points
points = 23
comp total = 23 +754 =777 points

Spoiler for Sniping:

I am dreaming about setting up my PS4 and people are coming in the apartment and talking about "The big game" I don't really watch sports, but I like having events. I am setting it up and then I start thinking about how I haven't played COD in a while. I wake up.
My daughter wakes me up and I talk to her a bit and then go back to sleep.
COD starts. I am on infection and I have a sniper rifle, it is all messed up though, more like a long bar with a hidden trigger. Still has a scope, but is only at a 90 degree angle from the trigger. I look for the safety and turn it off. I am up in the house with only one window and as I look out the window, I hear a sniper shot. I bump down and then back up, seeing the guy, I fire a shot and miss. I go back down and get to the other side of the window, I bump up and BAM! I am at the start of the level. I run back up to sniper tower and this time I pre-aim a lot and wait until I hear a sniper shot. I jump up and sure enough, the other sniper is looking somewhere else, I take the shot and then more people start flooding in, since it isn't a real sniper, I don't have to wait for animations or do the bolt action. I take about 7 people and then wake up.

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Originally Posted by Saizaphod

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

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I do it by waking after every cycle, during this competition it has just come naturally each night I typically sleep thru between cycle 1 and cycle 2 but wake after cycle 2 and every successive cycle

If you look at the times for my dream synopsis lists those are the times rounded back to the nearest 5 minutes that I awoke (or if I lay dazed in bed for a bit the first time I looked at the clock)

very rarely during this competition I will just try to memorize the dream and then go back to sleep (sometimes forgetting many segments of a dream as a result) but most often (because the computer in my sleeping room is broken) I get up and walk to this room and type up the dream as soon as I recall as much as I think I will (of course in the case of one of my lucids where I lost lucidity I didn't even remember the lucid portion until I was typing it up, Note To Self: never go with the flow).

In other competitions I have used lots of liquids to ensure I will wake up after every cycle, but not really this time.

Also If I find that I'm not waking I will practice a night of sleep disruption, in which I will set alarms for every single hour of the night (it kills the recall quite a bit, but) on subsequent nights I will find myself waking after every cycle (usually). I even start with alarms going off at like 8 and 9 before I go to sleep, then at 10 11 12 1 2 3 4 and a final alarm set at wake time for me 5+, even on the sleep disruption night I will begin to wake before each alarm after the 2nd one while sleeping as my brain is fearing the alarm, this causes me to have many shortened REM cycles that night and since I wake naturally except at 10/11 and 5 or 11/12 and 5, my latter and better recall isn't really affected.

Finally in this contest you may see that I can only sleep so long but since the days go from 8pm to 8pm sometimes I give up on sleeping and then go back to napping many hours latter, you might also notice that during napping and also in the last cycles before giving up, that my cycles are shorter and shorter.

I find my recall is best if I wake naturally but also quickly, so I would recommend that you try drinking a lot. It will cause you to wake after each dream, and to wake quickly. This will avoid what I have referred to as sleep-think, where I wake and then my mind slowly wanders as it comes into focus, often I'm not aware that I fell asleep but when I realize nearly and hour or more has passed I think what was I dreaming about and it is much tougher then If I wake from a dream thinking (but resisting) running to the bathroom.

You may also notice that latter dreams have many more recalled segments. (in my synopsis list)


Note: during this competition I have only woken to alarms like 3 times, the other 100+ times I have awoken sometimes with only fragment or without recall (but mostly with dreams) were all natural awakenings.


Final Note: the maximum number of dreams I have counted upon awakening ONE. The number of times I might have had multiple dreams and still counted it as ONE maybe twice but I doubt it. I have enough experience of recalling many segments to know that transitions (even ridiculous and undetected ones) can be fast and lead to totally seemingly unrelated segments, only if I have been asleep and remember many segments and a bit of crap that just doesn't fit will I suspect it was a previous dream (but in this competition I have rarely except for cycle 1/2 slept thru more than one cycle)

2 Dreams: 2 points
WBTB: 2 points
Competition Total: 360 points

Sorry team, I've been lazy on my journaling and WBTBs lately (not waking myself up enough).
Since this has worked the last 2 times, I promise to get lucid tomorrow :), let's see if it works again tonight!

Competition Night 18
1 non-lucid - 1 point
WBTB - 2 points

Night Total: 3 points
Competition Total: 172 points

Day 18
31st-1st 8:00pm to 8:00pm

+2 WBTB

+2 Non-Lucid Dreams

1:20a aftermath / troops / cyanide water
2:40a false awakening / mother / opera TV / dog sounds / graham crackers / contractor remote workers


Night Total 4 Points

Competition Total 169.5 points


I have taken tomorrow off hopefully I can get lucid or at least dream up a pile of dreams :)

4 non lucid dreams- 4 points
WB2B- 2 points
First Wild of the night- 10 points
Pass through solid object - 10 points
RC-1 point
First DILD of the night-10 points
Interact with DC-2 points
Second Wild of the night-5 points
Elemental summoning-10 points
Pass through solid object-10 points
Teleportation 10 points
RC-1 point

DJ

Total 65 points

night 19
1 point
TOTAL 106 1/2

Competition Night 19
1 non-lucid - 1 point

Night Total: 1 point
Competition Total: 173 points

night 19

3nd - 3
wbtb - 2
night total - 5

Night 19:
1 fragment: .5 points (middle-of-the-night me said "Nah, you can wait until morning to record that" ...)
WBTB: 2 points
Total: 2.5 points
Competition total: 254

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Originally Posted by Elaineylane

You are doing well during this challenge, congrats & thx.

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Thanks :) I went into it expecting that my generally excellent recall would get me more than a few points, but I have to admit that I never expected so many lucids (honestly, I didn't expect any). I guess that's the whole point of these things - to get us thinking more about lucids and push us to have more than we'd usually have. Now we'll have to see if I can keep it up ...

Night #19 (including 00:00 2016-11-02)

+[f] at the board with girl make joke she's mad
+ Star Wars laser cannons hose hold girl kiss music say I love you
+ [vivid] destroyed elevators heavy refrigerators elevator shaft, detailed exam and design of electronic circuits
+[f] wedding party girl man did not come standing to side cart pulled by (ducks?) goes by

WBTB
+ pet food, lion, gate, stairs
+ laptop, passport folders, late for plane, doctor's appt
+ stray cats kittens mrs. Ben closet
+ sexy time

6 nlds: 6
2 frags: 1
WBTB 2

Night total: 9

Competition total: 193 + 9 = 202

31.10.

1 fragment: 0.5
3 dreams: 3

Total today: 3.5

1.11.

2 dreams: 2

Total today: 2

2.11.

4 dreams: 4

Total today: 4

Total competition: 137.5

Night 19:
DILD:10 points
DC interaction:2 points
RC/Stabilizatoin:1 point
New personal goal (ask dream to take me somewhere interesting, enter a mirror):15 points
Fly:5 points
NLD:2 points
WBTB:2 points

By the way, wasn't sure if I should count both my dream goal and phasing through a solid object for points, I counted just the goal because it involved entering a mirror.

Night total:37 points

Competition total:209

DJ link.

FINALLY lucid again. Was beginning to get worried there! I woke up and was thinking of getting up but decided to try sleeping more, I think that's when I had this dream. Also, I completed a personal goal which is nice, even if it didn't go as intended... I had in mind some cool, mysteryous area to explore. I guess my dream was just feeling lazy and gave me some generic urban area. Next time I enter a mirror I'll try using expectation and visualization and see where that takes me. Also, it was weird how I couldn't even float at the start, but at least I suddenly regained that ability midway through.

Night 19

WBTB attempt: 2 points
Non lucid dream: 1 point

Competition total: 110.5

[02-11-2016: Alien] - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

Night 18
1 Dream: 1 Point
3 Fragments: 1,5 Points

Competition Total: 165 + 2,5 = 167,5 Points

I really don't feel like DJing today, so I am just giving synopsis for all of these. :P

Night 18
dreams = 5 points
WBTB = 2 points

First DILD = 10 points
interact with DC = 2 points
teleport = 10 points
unspecified dream control (breathe underwater)= 5 points

Spoiler for Computer games:

I realize that I am dreaming I am in the same room I was in last dream, with a friend. I grab him and take him into the computer. There is a big boat. We are going through a huge lake in a cave. We go down that for a long time, and then the water starts getting higher. I swim through and get my friend, bring him to the top. Then I sign out of the game. I realize that I didn't bring my friend. I tried to jump back in and a DC started telling me that "It is impossible to get into a game, if he is still in here, he is actually part of the game."

I wake up, DJ, then wake up, decide not to DJ and go back to sleep.


second DILD = 5 points
interact with DC = 2 points
teleport = 10 points
unspecified dream control (breathe underwater) = 5 points

Spoiler for Computer games 2:

I wake up in the bed from the last dream. Then I start DJing and stop. become lucid. I teleport back into the game and swim under the water. My friend is actually on the bottom of the lake. I take him back to the top and then sign us both out. He is still not breathing and covered in water. I heal him up and then he comes back up and starts laughing. I wake up. :/

Had a bunch of dreams before the next DILD

third DILD = 5 points
interact with DC = 2 points
Flying = 5 points

Spoiler for Disembodied:

I am lucid. I walk around and see that I am in an amusement park, there are a few people there from previous dreams, I realize that this is where my book DJ room was at, haha. Also the computer games dream were in the hotel. I look around and talk to one person that looks in charge, he tells me that he has some cool things to show me. I follow him up a ton of stairs and he is telling me about ther theme park, apparently they aren't going to have humans work here, just robots. I notice that there are escalators that would take about 20 minutes just to get up there. I think this looks awesome, I ignore the old man (reminds me of Jurassic Park old man and Park) and fly up into the air. The place looks beautiful, I don't feel like describing, too many words, I got things to do today. haha. I end up flying down to see a show at the top of the mountain.

WILD = 10 points
interact with DC = 2 points

Spoiler for WILD:

I was emptying my mind for a WILD and the previous dream seeps in and I WILD into sex... That is all that happened. haha.

night total = 80
comp total = 80 + 754 = 834 points

Good job Sensei and DreamSwimmer! Sorry it seems like you're both dragging our team by yourselves lately. No lucids for me last night.

WBTB + 2 dreams : 4 points

Competition Total: 364 points

I sleep in tomorrow, I will try a long WBTB!

2 NLDs-2 points

Spellbee comp night 19 - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

DILD-10 points
dc interaction-2 points
totm-15 points
totm-15 points
fully phase through big solid object-10 points

DILD-5 points
totm-15 points
dc interaction-2 points

night total-76 points
competition total-508 points