Dream entry: 2017-01-15 12:30 -- Dark sky and cloud dream powers, crossing river, fighting courier - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views
Sleep graph: Attachment 9738

Lucid #1
WBTB = 2
DILD = 10
Interact with DC = 2 (using wooden bar and fire-sparking on dc outside building)
Use hands to cause fire = 10 (/5) (not sure whether counts as element manipulation (that's very vague, btw), or just "other dream control")

Lucid #2
1 NLD = 1 (living in a megastructure with everyone else; contains river mentioned below)
Dream theme = 5 (falling in river briefly while crossing over on stones and wooden platforms)
DILD = 5
Interact with DC = 2 (engaging in combat of sorts with dc)
DC manipulation/mind-control [/unspecified dream control] = 5 (mentally nudging dc in direction of peace, while also talking to the dc, since he had a sharp-looking knife in his hand)

Session total: 24? + 18 = 42
Competition total: 579 + 42 = 621

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I did it!

Though the dream this time wasn't that great, I managed to get a lucid every single night (2 full weeks) of the competition! This is something I've dreamt of being able to do for so long, and accomplishing it now makes me much more optimistic, and able to shift now into "phase 2" of my lucid dreaming training -- getting better at stabilizing, staying calm, remembering dream goals every time, etc.

I don't yet know how much of this induction rate increase is from:
1) The investment of time and focus over the last few weeks.
2) The use of an experimental, text-to-speech induction "technique" I've been trying. (see here)
3) The excitement and team nature of this competition.

But I know that the three combined, at least, have done wonders for me! This is someone who averaged about one lucid per week, suddenly getting about 1.4 per night -- this is very new, and I'm still very much adjusting to it.

Hopefully this will continue post-comp!

Anyway, thanks so much for putting this together Spellbee. It's been very enjoyable and beneficial.