Spellbee's Splendid Competition 2017

Night 13 - Going to post DJ entry later

WBTB +2pt
ND +1pt

Tot: +3pt

This was the last night that I had to wake up early for school. Hopefully I can do better now.

3 NLDs-3 points

competition total-352 points

Night 13:
Fragment: 0.5
WBTB:2

Night total:2.5

I'm starting to get sick and took Nyquil which as negatively impacted my dreaming.
2 dreams = 2
1 wbtb = 2

night 12 - 2 NLD + WBTB = 4pts

night 12 - wolves - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/azal...ight-13-79865/
WBTB...2
DILD one and two...10,5
Interact with D.C...2
Dream control with car...5
Fly...5
Summoning...5
Object change...5
Dream control, change size...5
3 part task part 3, phase through wall...10,15
69 for this night
155 total

Night 12:
2 NLDs: 2 points
1 Fragment: .5 points
WBTB: 2 points
Night total: 4.5 points

Night 13:
2 NLDs: 2 points
1 Fragment: .5 points
WBTB: 2 points
Night total: 4.5 points

Competition total: 77 points

Night 14

0.5 - fragment
2 - wbtb
10 - DILD
15 - TOTM
2 - interact with a DC
5 - use an electronic device
2 5 - ask for advice
5 - eat/drink
TOTAL: 41.5 44.5 points

Dream entry: 2017-01-26 12:54 -- Bike trip, talking with ai/subconscíous, warping paper and obqc - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Sleep graph: Attachment 9725

This one was cool because I got to talk to my subconscious, with it asking me if I wanted to summon someone back from a non-lucid dream that had just ended. Time didn't let it actually complete, but it was pretty cool nonetheless.

1 NLD = 1 (on a bike trip--watching movie on tablet, riding bus, moving bike)
WBTB = 2
DILD = 10
RC = 1
Interact with DC = 2 (with dc to my left in train station who was pestering me)
Use electronic device = 5 (scrolling through the list of dcs from the non-lucid dream that had just ended--some were real, some probably weren't)
Object changing = 5 (causing the paper to warp and animate increasingly)

Session total: 26
Competition total: 492 + 26 = 518 (!!! -- I didn't think I'd be able to get this much! The comp really seems to help increase motivation/focus.)

personal goal updates
Play my cello in a lucid dream, and make the music affect the scene.(new)

Night 13
2 Non-lucids - 2 points
WBTB - 2 points

Night Total: 4 points
Competition Total: 117.5 points

Night 14
4 dreams = 4 points
wbtb = 2 points
Personal goal (use my necklace) = 15 points

DILD = 10 points
Flying = 5 points
interact with a DC = 2 points
teleport = 10 points

DILD = 5 points
fly = 5 points
teleport = 10 points
adv object changing = 10 points
phase through object = 10 points
interact with DC = 2 points

Total = 90 points
Comp total = 626 + 90 = 716 points

Spoiler for Dream:

I am in a huge clearing flying around, knowing that it is a dream. I keep shifting through different grass fields and different rivers going through them. Changing a little at a time. I see a girl crying in the clearing. I fly over to her and ask her what is wrong.
"The world keeps shifting, I can't find my home anymore."
"I should be able to help you find the place you are thinking of, I noticed when it was shifting that it kept going to parallel universes, using your memory and energy, I can bring you back to a place that is 100% like your home, but it may or may not be your actual home. You won't have any proof that it is actually your home and your real family."
"Really? It won't make any difference to me though?"
"It does and it doesn't, if you never think of it again or forget it, then it will be the exact same, but you may believe that I got it right."
I take her hand and fly upwards. She is wiping the tears away. I hold her close and close my eyes. I open them and the world has "shifted" again.
"My home!" She says, when she sees the river has changed and there is a big cabin there. She smiles and kisses me on the cheek.

Spoiler for Dream:

I am in a big place that people are all going through separate quests, I follow two girls as they go into a cave and have tiny little knives to fight a huge worm. I just leave the cave (I don't really have a form when watching them in there, I return back to my body here) and am walking with a couple of my friends from waking. I realize that it is a dream and start changing the caves around me to being castles because that sounds like fun. Some soldiers come and put us in chains. I am intrigued, so I let them put chains on us. The clap it around my finger, but I can easily slide it off. I follow the line of people until we get out of the mountain pass and it is a clearing, reminds me of what I think of the place I have been trying to get to. It isn't quite right though. I pull off the chains and pull out my necklace, I put it next to my forehead and do the beam. I teleport to the actual place. I look around at my surroundings. A beautiful glade and a tree in the middle. I then feel for the person I am looking for. Really close. I fly over to a tree outside the clearing and there is a window. It is foggy, I phase through it and end up in a garage. I then turn around and see that I phased through a little entry room and the person I was looking for. I then wave and look around the garage, I phase through into the car and see the car is filled with cat paraphernalia. Some music is playing, but I forget it. I then phase out and there are cat posters everywhere. I fly over to the person that I was trying to meet and talk a little. I try to phase back into the clearing, but after phasing through, my entire body tastes a weird taste as I phase through and come back to the garage instead of the clearing, then I wake up.

Well I managed to adjust my Schedule so I can sleep in a few hours in the morning, gonna start my sleep disruption at 7 and 8 (if I'm asleep) then every hour until 3am then sleep in and hope for massively disrupted light awareness filled final cycles until 7am :)
I'll also discontinue suplement deprivation along the way :)

Hope it works if not I should at least get some effect into Fri/Sat Sat/Sun, here's hoping for the tripple crown tho, I know I have at least one more lucid left in me :)

Day 13

DJ Entry - Mint-Green OC

1 NLD - 1 point

Dream entry: 2017-01-26 17:58 -- Skating, colored line matching buzzing, false awakenings - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Sleep graph: Attachment 9726

Was a fairly short lucid as far as normal/active dream content, but had a long period in a false awakening where I just laid still and paid close attention to various things, like a series of colored lines that matches with fluctuations in a buzzing sensation in my body. It was pretty neat actually, as a change of pace.

DILD = 5
1 chaining = 2
Stabilization = 1 (at starts of fa 1)
Interact with DC = 2 (multiple instances)
Basic summoning = 5+5 (character from a tv-show/anime)

Session total: 20
Competition total: 518 + 20 = 538

Night 13
1 Fragment - 0.5
2 NLDs - 2
WBTB - 2

Night 13 Total - 4.5 pts
Competition Total - 164 pts
DJ Comments (total) - 6

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ANNOUNCEMENT!!
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So as we discussed in the last competition, in order to prevent teams from being penalized for teammates going inactive, I'll be providing a "handicap" of sorts to make up for the missing teammates. Each night of a missing person's score will be calculated as 50% of the average (arithmetic mean) of their teammates in the same league. For example, if a beginner on Team Moon went inactive after night 4, nights 5-16 would be calculated as 50% of the average of the other beginners on Team Moon. As previously discussed, the definition of "inactive" is 7+ days without an update to the thread. The calculation will only be applied to nights after the last active night, so gaps before that night will not be handicapped.

I'll be adding these "handicaps" to the scoresheet over the final few days of the comp, indicated by a red box around them.
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Originally Posted by spellbee2

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ANNOUNCEMENT!!
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So as we discussed in the last competition, in order to prevent teams from being penalized for teammates going inactive, I'll be providing a "handicap" of sorts to make up for the missing teammates. Each night of a missing person's score will be calculated as the average (arithmetic mean) of their teammates in the same league. For example, if a beginner on Team Moon went inactive after night 4, nights 5-16 would be calculated as the average of the other beginners on Team Moon. As previously discussed, the definition of "inactive" is 7+ days without an update to the thread. The calculation will only be applied to nights after the last active night, so gaps before that night will not be handicapped.
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Hmmm. One concern with this is that it can actually discourage low-scoring people from entering their scores. If they know that by entering their already disappointing results, they drag their team down by 50 points or something, it can add to that discouragement.

Also, it might make it less fun for low-scorers to see that they become the *very* lowest, with the people who didn't post at all getting compensation points and passing them up.

It's not a huge deal, but imo it's better not to add compensation points. Or if they are added, have them be half of the average or something, so that the point-loss of entering bad results is at least not as extreme.

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Originally Posted by Venryx

Hmmm. One concern with this is that it can actually discourage low-scoring people from entering their scores. If they know that by entering their already disappointing results, they drag their team down by 50 points or something, it can add to that discouragement.

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50 points is a little extreme. The averages are within their own league, so theoretically they should be scoring about the same amount of points anyway. Plus, not getting banned from next comp is probably a good motivation to make them post their scores.

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Originally Posted by Venryx

Also, it might make it less fun for low-scorers to see that they become the *very* lowest, with the people who didn't post at all getting compensation points and passing them up.

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That's kind of how averages work - typically half will be above, and half will be below. But I don't think that'll really discourage people - they obviously aren't "losing" to someone else that isn't there. On the contrary, it helps their team out to have this extra boost, which would probably encourage them since they now have a fighting chance.

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Originally Posted by Venryx

It's not a huge deal, but imo it's better not to add compensation points. Or if they are added, have them be half of the average or something, so that the point-loss of entering bad results is at least not as extreme.

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I actually just looked back on the discussion we had after last comp (when basically an entire team went missing for the last week), and I forgot that I had determined the "50%" method was the fairest. So I'm willing to do that, and make it 50% of the average. But I'd say we definitely need some kind of compensation, especially since it's looking like we're gonna have a repeat of an entire team going AWOL...

Maybe it wasn't such a great idea joining in the middle of a break/dryspell.

Night 11
WBTB: 2 points
2 Non-LDs: 2 points

Night 12
WBTB: 2 points
2 Non-LDs: 2 points
Weekly Theme: 5 points (swimming from island to island, staying in a cottage on an oceanfront, renting a surfboard and going surfing at midnight)

Night 13
WBTB: 2 points
1 Non-LD: 1 point

Competition Total: 111

Really disappointed in myself as the competition nears the end :(. I will try to get back to where I was at for the next one!

Brief one - a small bump.

Night 14:tropicalboxer:
3 Dreams: 3 Points
4 Fragments: 2 Points
WBTB(success): 2 Points
DILD: 10 Points
Basic summoning: 5 Points
Telekinesis: 5 Points

Spoiler for Brief lucid dream:

Non-Lucid Lucid

~ Being inside the mecha-robot I become fully aware now. I summon a yellow door behind me and bring it to myself from 15 meters away with telekinesis. I lose lucidity.

Grand Total: 226,5 + 27 = 253,5 Points

Last night...
2 dream fragments: 1 point
1 full non-lucid dream: 1 point

Total: 2 points

link! ^^

Had to stay up late the last several nights, so recall has been sketchy unfortunately. Recall, vividness, etc are starting to get back up (when not staying up too late) to where they're usually at when I'm actively working on dreams & LDs. On track to have first lucid dream in a while soon.

Night 9:

1 Non-lucid, WBTB, 2 Fragments: 4 points

Night 10:

1 Non-lucid, 1 Fragment, Dream involved boogie boarding at the beach week 2 Dream Theme!: 6.5 points

Night 11:

2 Fragments, WBTB: 3 points

Total: 13.5 + 8 = 21.5

Umm, apparently I missed the new Dream-theme thing. I didn't know that it can count for non-lucids too and even once a night as well. I went through my journal about the alien-theme ( before 21st ) and found a one dream about aliens.

Grand Total: 253,5 + 5 = 258,5 Points

2 dreams-2 points

Night 13
Remember a Non-Lucid Fragment - ½ point
WBTB - 2 points

Night 14
Remember 2 Full Non-Lucid Dream - 2 points
WBTB - 2 points

First DILD of the Night - 10 points
Interact with a Dream Character - 2 points
Stabilization - 1 point

Spoiler for short low awareness caveman:

dont want to go into detail. i see a bunch of women without any shoes. this triggers my lucidity. i pick one and we start doing stuff. its going on some time and i feel the arousal but i wonder about stability and notice it gets worse. i rub my hands and continue the play. i wake up before the grand finale. i even had a faint thought of maybe do something with more sense but nope seems legit in the moment...

later on i had another caveman where i unconsciously worried about stability and monitored it but i wont count it as lucid ..

Competition Total - 366,5 points