Winter Competition 2022

Comp 12/13

- 4 non lucids
- 3 fragments
- WBTB

Night total: 7.5
Comp total: 22

night 12
2 dreams-2 points

night total-2 points
comp total-122 points

Night 11

NLDs and fragments - 3.5
WBTB - 2

Night total - 5.5


Night 12

DILD 1 - 10
Stabilization - 1
DILD 2 - 5
Interact with DC (I guess) - 2
NLDs - 0.5
WBTB - 2

Link to DJ

Night total - 20.5

Competition total - 157.5

Night 11:

Fragments (1): 0.5 point
WBTB: 2 points

LD1
First DILD: 10 points
Teleport: 10 points
Advanced Flight (Space): 10 points
Advanced Conjuration (Dream Guide Construct D): 10 points + 5 points
Interact With DC: 2 points

Three-Step Task 2 (Advanced Conjuration): 10 points
Challenge Task (Intermediate: Create a Blizzard): 20 points
Theme Bonus: 5 point

Night 12

WBTB: 2 points

Sub-Total: 86.5 points
Competition Total: 284.5 points

Link to DJ Entry

Night 12
4 Dreams(One about NyxCC with a mysterious black treasure chest and 82 lucid points) - 4p
1 Fragment - 0,5p
WBTB - 2p
Winter Theme (Giant snowflake symbol on a cargoship + Elf hats and christmas decoration at our workplace) - 5p

Night Total - 11,5p
Comp Total - 118p

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Occipitalred

It finally happened! I got a night of lucidity! What’s most impressive to me is I actually remembered the winter competition!

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Great stuff! I'll give the lucid a proper read later but can see it was a really good one from the lenght of the entry :goodjob:

Quote:

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Originally Posted by cedwards105

*Am I right in giving myself a point for the reality check that made me lucid?

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:goodjob2:
Congratz on all the lucids!

Night 12

Rembered a fragment: 0.5

Night total 0.5
Comp Total 30.5

Night 12, another 2 non lucid dreams (2pts) and 2 nights left. Good luck everyone! Break a nerve!

I almost forgot to post! Not a lot last night:

3 fragments - 1.5 points

Night 14, 14/12
Fragments: 1 points
WBTB: 2 points
Winter Theme: 5 points

Nightly total: 8 points
Competition total: 96.5 points

Had a stressful day so the night didn't go too well. Managed to get some Winter theme points though!

comp night #13


9 non-lucids: 9
3 fragments: 1.5
WBTB: 2

night total: 12.5
comp total: 127 + 12.5 = 139.5

https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fry...ight-13-95142/

edit: remembered an additional early night fragment, added it in to score.

Night 13
4 non-lucids: 4p
1 fragment: .5p
WBTB: 2p

I wrote down only one of the 4 into dream views as that was the only one that I felt like writing.

DJ:https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/sol...stic%2A-95144/

Night total: 6.5p
Comp total: 74p

Night 13 *NAP UPDATE*
1 DILD: 10p
1 non-lucid: 1p
interact with DC: 2p
reality check: 1p
Eat or drink something: 5p

Night total: 20p and the other 6.5p from before the nap
Comp total: 94p
BEST LUCID YET!
DJ: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/sol...cid-yet-95145/

Night 13

3 NLD's - 3 points
5 fragments - 2.5 points

Night Total: 5.5 points

Comp 12/14

Nothin much, just a WBTB and a fragment

Night total: 2.5
Comp total: 24.5

Hi guys, Night 6 for me and my first lucid of the comp! (I don't really want to talk about what happened during night 5, but I didn't even really get anything)
https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/jus...etition-95148/
A non-lucid recalled before the LD: 1 point
One DILD for the night, 10 points
WBTB, 2 points
Interacting with a Dream Character for 2 points, and Basic Summoning for 5 points
Advanced Object Changing for 10 points. Turned a bunch of tiny parts into a giant machine gun. (Let me know if I should change this to basic, I wasn't exactly sure about it)
Total for the night: 30 points
Total for the comp, 37 points

https://i.imgur.com/LxukUtD.png

Night 13 Rest Day
1 Fragment - 0,5p
WBTB - 2p

Night Total - 2,5p
Comp Total - 120,5p

Quote:

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Originally Posted by solus1

BEST LUCID YET!
DJ: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/sol...cid-yet-95145/

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by JustPhillip

Hi guys, Night 6 for me and my first lucid of the comp!
https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/jus...etition-95148/

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Haha, gz guys! :D

Decided to take a rest day before the final night, good luck everyone (whatever time-zones you're in!) Gonna post the final deadline for posting entries tomorrow. Likely going to be the 19th.

Night 13:

Fragments (3): 1.5 point
WBTB: 2 points

LD1
First DILD: 10 points
Advanced Flight (Fast Flight): 10 points
Super Strength: 5 points

Sub-Total: 28.5 points
Competition Total: 313 points

Link to DJ Entry

I remembered one more fragment. So 5.5 points for last night.

One more night to go!! I wish I didn't have to get up at a normal hour tomorrow tomorrow morning, but let's see what I can pull off.

Night 15, 15/12
Fragments: 1 points
WBTB: 2 points

Nightly total: 3 points
Competition total: 99.5 points

Last night of the competition, great work everyone! I really had a blast, hats off to Saizaphod for hosting this :D

Seems I won't be able to achieve 100 points this time be a slight margin, but I'm reasonably happy with my performance. Even though it took a while, I managed to have a great lucid which I probably wouldn't otherwise have done. A bit unfortunate life got in the way just as I was starting to pick up speed, but that's how it goes sometimes.

GGs everyone! Looking forward to hearing more from your lucid adventures in the future!

comp night #14

Well I decided to go big, gambled, and more or less lost. 3-4 hours of fighting to return to sleep after 8mg of galantamine (normally I take 4mg) resulted in
two weak, hazy LDs with no goal memory, a woozy, sleepy head in the dream like it was stuffed with cotton (in the non-lucid before the first LD I remarked to myself how
tired I felt, it was at a family party, and wondered how in the world I was going to drive home), and a pretty severe galantamine hangover. Still, the LDs were welcome despite
the tortuous wake time :).

All in all, a great competition, that saw a pretty good return of recall (despite several very "light" nights) and a nice concentration of LDs, the biggest cluster I've had this
year and the most LDs in a month this year by far. Thanks so Saizaphod for organizing it!

4 non-lucids: 4
1 fragment: 0.5
WBTB: 2

DILD1: 10
interact with DC: 2

DILD2: 5
interact with DC: 2

night total: 25.5
comp total: 139.5 + 25.5 = 165

https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fry...279-280-95154/

Saizaphod: unsure if "once per task per night" means, e.g., "interact with a DC" can only be scored once per night. Please clarify, and I'll remove the points from the 2nd dream if not allowed.

Thanks for the well wishes, Saizaphod!

Glad to see my dream self has been venturing into other people’s dreams despite my lack of recall too :content:.

As for the remaining nights should be an easy update

Day 5: 1 dream, 1 frag = 1.5 points
Day 6, 7: no recall
Day 8: 1 frag = 0.5 points
Day 9: nada
Day 10: 2 frags = 1 point
Day 11, 12, 13, 14: no recall

Comp Total: 9 points :facepalm:

Besides the abysmal timing for me, I am still happy to see so many old faces here and hope you guys had fun.

Thanks Sai for organizing!

Night 13 - 5 non lucids and a failed WBTB attempts (7pts)
Night 14 - 3 non lucids and a failed WBTB attempt (5pts)
Comp total: 103 pts

Oh well, my night ended like my performance in this competition: a car crash, haha. No lucidity though I had some memory of the previous dream and self-awareness + winter theme :P

I was driving with very little sensory information. This was explained away with snow covering the car or something else. I was trying real hard to see. A car bumped into me and now I could no longer reach the break pedal. Instead of noticing my dreaming state, I try to refocus on what I can do to survive. Taking every second that I don't crash to dig my way back to the break pedal while guessing for obstacles. Until I do crash. I wake up in the back seat. I can see my bare feet and wonder about my self-awareness. I note that this is consciousness and I only have a few minutes left of it in my situation. I put my feet in shoes for warmth (it's winter) and find food for survival and then leave the car to assess the damages. It seems to just be... parked. Other parks are parked weird but there doesn't seem to have been a crash. I try to stay away from two wolverines. Someone passes by one and so it sprays me like a skunk. I run away.

Well good job everyone! There were lots of interesting dreams to read. I'll continue reading them over the week :)

3 more non lucids to wrap things up.

Night total: 3
Comp total:27

‘Preciate the comp and the late signup admission, sai

Out with a bang! Literally :D

2 NLD's - 2 points
First DILD of the night - 10 points
Second DILD - 5 points
Reality check - 1 point
Ask for advice - 5 points
1 fragment - 0.5 points

Night total: 23.5 points

Spoiler for First lucid:

I am walking around a dormitory in a shark suit. At first I just have the suit kind of draped over me, not really wearing it, but then I see some other people dressed in fish and/or shark suits. I think this is kind of funny, so I try to put on my shark suit more properly. It appears that there is some kind of Halloween party going on. There are different areas set up with different activities. In one area, it looks like there are a bunch of things for sale, like a junk store. One room has been arranged into a fake pagan temple, and someone comes along mentioning that they were “kissing” someone in there. As I look at the junk store items, I suspect that I’m dreaming. I do a nose pinch, and after some patience I eventually find that I can breathe and become lucid. Things are fairly stable, though a bit difficult to remember now. My cousin comes along, and I try to get him to help me. We walk together, and I pick up something and carry it. It’s as though I’m helping him do something, to keep myself oriented. As we walk and talk, I explain some of my difficulty to him, and as I do so things stabilize. We go down to an elevator, and walk inside. Since elevators are a dream sign, I think to myself that I should do a reality check. But I already know I’m dreaming, so I wonder to myself if there is much point in doing a reality check when I encounter a dream sign in a lucid dream. As the door opens up, I remember that I should be trying to score some points. I try to summon Sensei as the door opens. It doesn’t work. Instead, we are entering a really nice looking hotel-like place. Or maybe a spaceship. It has a kind of Jules Verne/Nautilus vibe. Wooden walls, and such. But then I think that I should try to find the dream base library, and in trying to change things I lose the dream. Things fade to the point where I can just see a bit of the hotel/ship thing. I maintain focus on this, but don’t remember what happened after that. I remember at some point either thinking to myself or dreaming that I was telling someone that I should have just explored the dream as it was because it looked pretty nice.

Spoiler for Second lucid:

There is a portal into another universe. It is quite small, and involved opening a little door behind which is the portal. We look in, but don’t see anything beyond a kind of haze or screen. I stick something into it to feel around. It feels semi-solid in there, like a big mass of gritty gelatin. It seems unsafe to go in there, since we don’t even know if we could breathe. We close the (small) door and open it again, and this time we can see inside. There is a black and white tile floor, and a sign on the back of the wall that says “Speakeasy”. This time we go inside. Even though the door is tiny, we find that we can just “enter” through it by trying to do so. When we get inside, we find that we are now very small ourselves. The furniture nearby is big compared to us. Someone (the proprietor?) comes to greet us. He seems large too, or maybe small, but somehow is close in size to the furniture (or maybe he’s close to our size? I don’t remember exactly what was happening here). We ask him how we get out, and he says “back the way you came”, opening the door to show us. But when he opens the door, it just leads out into a hallway, as though the portal were in a different dimension and the coordinates of the room are part of a different system. Are we trapped? But the man kind of laughs, this apparently being kind of a joke. You can get back to our universe from here, he explains. If we go out the door we came in and go to the left, it is a quicker way but “there are guns”. If we go out the door and go to the right, it is a longer but a safer route.

Somewhere along the way I become lucid again. I look around, and see rows of junk store stuff for sale. Some of it is red, like it’s Valentine’s Day themed. Looking back to the bar, a door opens in hallway behind the bar, and a guy steps out. He looks like Sorrell Booke (the guy who played Boss Hogg on the Dukes of Hazzard), but wearing a dress and a wig. I think this is pretty funny, so I point him out to someone with me and turn away laughing. There also seems to be another person, possibly a woman, who is now bald. I think Booke’s wig came from her, which is why she’s now missing her hair.

I see a guy with a bunch of straws in his mouth. Remembering the competition again, I ask him for advice.

“Can you give me some advice?”

His reply started something like this: “Don’t rob a bank when you feel like you want to be connected to the world,” but continued on for some time. It’s one of those things where at first it felt like I was making him say words, but after the first bit he seemed to be talking on his own. I follow him out a door, and then I think about asking him to tell me a short story. I don’t remember if this happened though. I might have decided that that would take too much time. At some point we’re being ushered out of the room by someone, who is helping us escape unnoticed. People are supposed to wear brown fedoras to blend in, which I am already doing.
We go down some stairs. These are leading into a large, open area, kind of like a mall. I remember that my third task of the three tasks was to put my hand through something solid. Even though I realize that these had to be done in order and I hadn’t done #2 yet (advanced flying) I see if I could easily put my hand through the wall anyway. I try pushing against it, but my hand doesn’t go through. I feel tile though – the wall is covered with those small mosaic-like tiles (greenish in color, I think). Then I go down the steps.

I’m in the bigger, mall-like area now. I think that I should try the advanced flying – my plan has been to fly to the moon. I climb a low wall to give myself a boost. As I look up, I see that I’m in a place with a fairly high roof, and possibly a couple of stories. I might be in an open part, which goes straight up to the roof, but I think there are several pieces of architecture in my way. Anyway, I try to fly but am not having great success.

As I continue along, there are some people off to my left taking about having a choice of wearing a clown suit or pastor suit. The general idea is that neither would be fun, since the pastor has to do things like get made fun of. There is a weird thing going on with the back of people’s scalps being clipped to things. Looks painful. I keep going upstairs, and come across a small room. Here I find an interesting control. It looks like it has something to do with missiles, or space, or something. Like someone had been working on an advance school project? To my right is a strange lever. Since it’s a dream I decide to play with it, even though I don’t know what it will do. There is a roaring noise, like it has launched something. I think it’s a missile at first, aimed down at the ground just outside. However, it turns out that it is a rocket ship. I have just started the engines, I think. “This is my ticket to the moon!” I think, remembering something in the tasks about using an object to fly (although I’m not sure that a rocket ship would count, now that I’m awake). The control I’m working with is a kind of remote control. I launch the rocket into the air, hoping that the dream mechanics will make me associate myself with the rocket enough that I will follow it. My viewpoint does seem to follow the rocket as it goes, while I still maintain control of the lever. I have to work a lot to keep it angled up into the air and going straight. I also seem to be having trouble making a lot of progress. Eventually it crashes, and I try to fly on my own.

Night 14
1 non-lucid - 1p

I'm gonna miss this competition. it has helped me obtain my first good lucid and has given me so much motivation. Thank you to Saizaphod for organizing this.
Night total - 1p
Comp total - 95p