Quote Originally Posted by Elaineylane View Post
1 1/2 pts- non-lucid
2 pts- wbtb
= 3 1/2 pts + 102= 105 1/2 (should be 2 pts more but the mods said no but not sure why so I'd like to know the reason for this plz.)
From your DJ last night:

Quote Originally Posted by Elaineylane View Post
10 pts- First WILD of the Night
5 pts- Subsequent WILDs
2 pts- Chain a lucid
2 pts- wbtb
2 pts- interact w/ a dream character
10 pts- teleport

=31 pts & total (31+73=104 Total Contest so far)

D3 ... I then jump forward in time & I'm w/ Gail which is my ex-girlfriend. I'm so excited to see her. I'm telling her that I just came from the past. Then my alarm goes off for my wbtb.
D4: She is still there in my WILD, now I'm chaining a WILD. But we start walking. It's all hard to describe. ...
The key is that you get up for a WBTB, which instantly makes it not a chain. As described (in quite arduous detail, I might add) in this post, a Lucid Chain (for points purposes) is waking up for a few seconds before falling back into a lucid (see "DEILD method"). On the other hand, WBTB by definition means that you get up for several minutes before lying back down and falling back asleep (see "WBTB method"). Thus, you can not do a WBTB and a DEILD (lucid chain) at the same time. So since you had a WILD after the WBTB, that counts as a "subsequent WILD" and not a "lucid chain", giving you a nightly total of 29 points.

The only way you could've DEILDed the way you described it is if you had an auto-shut-off alarm that turns itself off after a few seconds, needing no interaction from you as you quickly slip back into the dream. But like I said in the other post, points for subsequent WILDs and lucid chains are mutually exclusive. Let me reiterate - points for lucids and lucid chains are mutually exclusive. The "lucid chain" category is not a bonus 2 points for having two lucids in a row - it's its own action that has its own category of points. So even if you had DEILDed with an auto-alarm, you would've gotten 2 for the chain, but not the 5 for the 2nd WILD, giving you 26 points instead. So honestly, not counting it as a chain and scoring it as 29 points is giving you the benefit of the doubt.

If anyone has any further questions about the difference between chain and non-chain, PM me. No sense in cluttering up this thread any more when it's already been spelled out in full detail twice.

On a side note, I'm not leading this comp because of my position, I'm leading it as a forum member that wants to give people the extra motivation they need to get serious about lucid dreaming. So please, leave "the mods" out of this.