Thread: Winter Competition 2022

Night 5
1 Fragments: 0.5p
5 Dreams: 5p
WBTB: 2p

This is most dreams I've probably ever recalled so thats nice. I remember waking up alot tonight and having dream memories but not writing them down but somehow alot of it stayed in my brain till the morning.

Night total: 7.5p
comp total: 24.5p

Dream Journal: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/sol...ecalled-95085/

Originally Posted by Saizaphod

[B]
1 Fragment (about Tiktaalik having had a lucid and having gained 14 Points, a sign maybe?) -

Unfortunately, not the case! Maybe dream Tiktaalik can tell me what I’m doing wrong! Ha-ha

Night: 05/12

Summary:
Sleep and recall continues to be poor as expected this month but some longer dreams recalled last night.

Recalled:

2 Fragments (1 point)
3 Dreams (3 points)
WBTB (2 points)

Night Total: 6 points
Comp total: 30

Slept pretty bad last night


Summary night 4:

1 wbtb +2
night total: 2
comp total: 16.5

comp night #5 (morning of 2022-12-06)

A night of very little, weak dreaming. Barely managed to scrape up 3 fragments, took a long time reaching for memories on the final waking.

3 fragments: 1.5

night total: 1.5
comp total: 31.5 + 1.5 = 33

night 5
5 dreams-5 points

night total-5 points
comp total-37 points

I have not been sleeping enough at all. I will get some good dreams tonight. I should journal, but my dreams have been railed and I have been forgetting the first couple dreams of the night by the time I start journaling. I will type out two dreams here later today if I get a chance. I got to catch up to hukif. he hasnt even begun to update. I will probably do some wilds to catch up later on. Whats the earliest amount of time I can wild to count it as a new dream? I can wild pretty much all day long and do goals and the like, but I don't want you to think it is a deild or anything.

Night 5 Proper attempt, but have had too much sleep in the previos days, too awake
1 Dream - 1p
2 Fragments - 1p
WBTB - 2p
Winter Theme (Going into a scary icecave in the Antarctic) - 5p

Night Total - 9p
Comp Total - 40,5p

Originally Posted by AtomicChocolate

it took me like 40 minutes to go back to sleep afterwards.

Lots of time to set in the intention of lucid dreaming During the times I had my most lucids (3-5/wk) I would sometimes lay for 2 hours after WBTB to set in the intention. Worked miracles

Originally Posted by Sensei

Whats the earliest amount of time I can wild to count it as a new dream? I can wild pretty much all day long and do goals and the like, but I don't want you to think it is a deild or anything.

"Return to a lucid dream after a brief awakening mid-LD. A DEILD chain is over once you are awake long enough to write down the dream." Kind of up to you time-wise but that's the official ruling, just keep in mind the honor system

Night 5

WBTB - 2 points
2 NLD's - 2 points
5 fragments - 2.5 points

Night total: 6.5 points

Frustratingly, I'm about 70% sure I was dreaming about hiding in snow at one point, but it doesn't seem fair to claim it as winter theme since I can't exactly remember.

Sleep has been kind of difficult for the past couple of nights. I will score myself a "1". Hopefully I can do better!

Day 3 journal link https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/huk...etition-95089/

Dream 1 - 0 points.
Dream 2 - Teleport, 10. Fly, 5. Total 15.
Dream 3 - Fly, 5. Transform, 5. Total 10.

Total for the day 25.

Day 4 journal link https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/huk...etition-95090/

Dream 1 - Teleport, 10. TK, 5. Total 15.
Dream 2 - Teleport, 10. Advaced Flying, 10. Total 20.
Dream 3 - Teleport, 10. Super strenght, 5. Fly, 5. Advanced transformation of an object, 10. Three step task 15. Total, 45.

Day total - 80.
Competition total 369

Night 6 was another failed WBTB, but I'm just glad I've been able to start doing it naturally. Will make it easier in the long run.

Night total = 2 points, comp total = 10.5 points.

[QUOTE=Saizaphod;2249503]
Lots of time to set in the intention of lucid dreaming During the times I had my most lucids (3-5/wk) I would sometimes lay for 2 hours after WBTB to set in the intention. Worked miracles

Really? And here I was thinking it was a bad thing. Thanks for the tip, I'll be sure to focus on intention a lot more in this time

Though, I was thinking about how I've been going 6 days doing WBTB without any lucids. I suppose doing this to break a months-long dry streak it makes sense, but I wonder if anyone has any knowledge on, basically, how long can I keep doing WBTB for? The rest of the competition? It might just be me not using the technique to it's fullest (or even just a good amount).

Night 6, 07/12
Fragments: 1 points
WBTB: 2 points

Nightly total: 3 points
Competition total: 21 points

Tried WBTB with alarm clock (a first for me, normally go for natural awakenings) but with no success. Recall not doing great either.

We're creeping up on the halfway mark and still no lucids, let's hope for success tonight!

comp night #6 (morning of 2022-12-07)

Slightly better rest (but short, wife is sick and coughing all night long, couldn't get back to sleep after WBTB), and slightly clearer recall, but just a couple and short ones.

2 dreams: 2
1 fragment: 0.5
WBTB: 2

night total: 4.5
comp total: 33 + 4.5 = 37.5

Night: 06/12

Summary:
A few dreams recalled and had a WILD but entered the dream believing I had failed! Don’t think that counts, so I’ve scored it as a regular NLD.

Failed WILD attempt:

Spoiler for :

Whilst dropping off I become aware of how heavy my body is and know I’m close to transitioning. I breath in and out deeply and allow myself to relax into sleep and suddenly I feel the telltale vibrations which tremble my entire body. I try to remain calm and ease myself into the dream but when nothing appears to be happening I start to get impatient and try to force a dream to appear by visualising a scene. This doesn’t seem to work either and I feel like lingering in this vibrating, in-between state may be harmful for my brain so I give in and move my body to stop the process and wake myself up. I awake in bed thinking I’ve failed but don’t realise I’m laying in my childhood bed and not my current one! It’s a false awakening but I don’t realise even though there’s a black board in front of me with spiders crawling all over it! I wake up later and realise my silly error.

Recalled:

5 Dreams (5 point)
WBTB (2 points)

Night Total: 7 points
Comp total: 37

Night 6
WBTB - 2p
1 LONG dream - 1p

Probably my most insane dream yet it felt like it lasted a day at least.

Night total: 3p
Comp total:27p

Dream Journal: https://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/sol...-insane-95091/

Well, this night has been a bust so far. I don't think I slept very well, and I don't remember even a fragment yet this morning. I will probably go back to sleep in a little bit and see what happens.

Originally Posted by Tiktaalik

Night: 06/12

Summary:
A few dreams recalled and had a WILD but entered the dream believing I had failed! Don’t think that counts, so I’ve scored it as a regular NLD.

Failed WILD attempt:

Spoiler for :

Whilst dropping off I become aware of how heavy my body is and know I’m close to transitioning. I breath in and out deeply and allow myself to relax into sleep and suddenly I feel the telltale vibrations which tremble my entire body. I try to remain calm and ease myself into the dream but when nothing appears to be happening I start to get impatient and try to force a dream to appear by visualising a scene. This doesn’t seem to work either and I feel like lingering in this vibrating, in-between state may be harmful for my brain so I give in and move my body to stop the process and wake myself up. I awake in bed thinking I’ve failed but don’t realise I’m laying in my childhood bed and not my current one! It’s a false awakening but I don’t realise even though there’s a black board in front of me with spiders crawling all over it! I wake up later and realise my silly error.

Recalled:

5 Dreams (5 point)
WBTB (2 points)

Night Total: 7 points
Comp total: 37

Good one! Those FAs can be *sooooo* tricky! This is why most recommend *always* doing a state test upon "waking."

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Good one! Those FAs can be *sooooo* tricky! This is why most recommend *always* doing a state test upon "waking."

Indeed. Something I often forget to do. Sometimes I imagine myself rolling out of bed as well during an attempt and that helps confirm if I’ve entered the dream.

night 6
2 dreams-2 points
wild-10 points
fully phase through solid object-10 points
first of 3 step tasks-5 points
flying-5 points
advanced summoning-10 points
second of 3 step tasks-10 points

Spoiler for wild:

I woke up and kept my eyes closed and imagined my bedroom until I saw my bedroom. I got up from bed and phased through the wall and flew to look around. I was in a small neighborhood surrounded by a void. I landed in a open area and put my hand in front of bed to summon a small ball in my direct view. I summoned several balls of various colors, making sure a ball was summoned in my direct view, until I summoned a green ball in my direct view. I tried to recall the third of my 3 step tasks but couldn't and woke up.

night total-52 points
comp total-89 points

Slept pretty bad last night


Summary night 5:

1 wbtb +2
1 dream + 1
night total: 3
comp total: 19.5

I went back to sleep around 9:00am and slept until after noon (I have a flexible schedule, which is nice for this sort of thing). This time:

2 NLD's - 2pts
2 Fragments - 1pt

Night Total: 3

Last night was fun. I found a new place to play in for the night.

Spoiler for New magic system:

I'm somewhere cartoony. doesn't actually look like a cartoon, but it acts like one. The DCs welcome me and show me a giant castle they want me to infiltrate. I am pretty excited. They are a couple of turtles. Reminding me of koopas. They ask me what cards I have. I don't have any. One of them pulls out his own card and it is a picture of him on it. little koopa like self. Then he pulls out another card that has an item on. I forget the item. it just looked like a metal thing. He keeps the card out, but the item appears in his other hand and the card is put back in his deck. interesting. hard to lose items, but also have to use cards to summon them. I open a menu and equip an easy HUD that will allow me to use cards or keep them almost like hotkeys. It just has three blank spaces and the map that I have discovered so far. I head over to a bridge and as I cross the bridge, a "!" pops up and I open my inventory and see my own card (a card of me) pop up. The koopas are following me at a distance. I equip the card and I move the menu around slightly so that it makes sense with that card in the top left out of the way. I wonder what happens if I equip someone else there?

A fish shoots water at me. I dive in and punch it on my way down. The fish immediately turns into a card. I see the card has instructions on it. I realize I can summon a dead fish with it or I can craft a different card with it. I decide to keep and see if it is useful later. I wake.

Spoiler for wind:

I am in the castle, sad that I missed that part. I open a door and there is a treasure chest. as I get close, enemies pop up. They are slightly monkey like, but not extremely strong like monkeys. I'd say a mix of monkeys and human but that just sounds human or monkey. Hard to explain. Both have glaives. I step in close to them and they don't have very many "attack" patterns it seems, so I am able to take the glaive from one and quickly dispatch them. I am much faster, tho using my normal human speed. When I beat them the chest opens and there is a card in there ofc. the card is just for wind. I try it out and I can shoot wind gusts. I put both glaives in my inventory and one as a hotkey on my hud. I go through a couple more battles like this. Using wind and glaive and acquiring a few things.

Spoiler for water:

I am back. clearing more levels. I start to get loads of items and accessories and I am always followed by the koopas. Inside the castle (think of a very bright Zelda dungeon or more of a Mario level color wise. but also Zelda like with some keys and the like. I have to walk across a little river. As I am there. I use the wind to push the water all back and as soon as a bunch of it is separated from the pack, I touch it and it turns into a power up card. similar to the wind. Nice. I can make my own abilities like this, I just have to get it on its own. I try some wind and water combos but can't get anything good going. I do notice that I can use my fish with the water to increase the water damage, so I do this. I go into the next room and wake up.

Spoiler for dirt:

I spend this dream just gathering everything I can. I found out that gathering foods together could make me have the ability to heal. gathering more wind together could increase my wind ability, but that stalled out at card level 5 and I needed increasing levels of air, which is fine since there is a lot of it (the cards do have levels on them) I tried to do the same with water, but there was a scarcity of water, so I wasn't able to get it past level 3+1, the +1 was from the fish. I make a note to gather things later. As I am experimenting, one of the koopas gets attacked. I run back and see that he has dirt (there is no dirt in this room or the next) and flinging it at a flying mosquito/ant thing. it isn't working well, so the koopas grab hands and both hold out dirt cards. it keeps shooting dirt at the mosquito until it can't fly and they stomp on it. blood card pops out (inventory, not ability). I want that dirt card since there is no dirt here. I can see a giant gate like thing in a room that I go in. Its a huge 50 by 50 by 50 foot room with the gate that I can't lift and a waterfall behind it, tho I can't get to the water even with the wind controlling it. I go to the next room. dirt. Finally, tho I can't get it into pieces to turn into a card. As I am contemplating how to get around this. I get smacked by some mud and am awaken by something in my room

New

Spoiler for Mud:

I am back. in the corridor where I saw the dirt. I remember I am going to be attacked. I see a small little mud monster and he throws mud at me again. I gather the mud that hits the wall and nothing happens. must still count as part of him. In fact, he keeps throwing more and more, much more than his tiny 2 foot body should be able to handle and it is spreading. I start walking away and trying to decide what to do when I try throwing some water at him. bad idea, he gets bigger. I realize that the thing I am in is a circle. with a bunch of pathways leading to the middle and the mud monster in the middle to start, but he is starting to move. I get back to the entrance and grab the koopa, I ask him if I can use him and he agrees and hands me his card. I shove it in my pocket and start to work on creating mud. The koopa becomes invisible a bit and mud grows around him and me. I can feel both us being one entity to fight. I am trying to become my own mud monster. I start trying to take him over, but he is too strong. I back out of this. I start sharpening my wind and it starts to level up and get stronger, slicing him in half, but it squishes back together. I am no longer just walking in the circle and shooting stuff at him, I am starting to slide around on the mud and picking up speed. I let the koopa go when I get back to the start and set the card on the floor. The mud monster is now throwing waves and he is very acurate. slamming me agains the wall and making me lose everything. I collapse on the ground and keep getting hit by wave after wave.

I missed something I think, as my body won't move anymore The previous room had a secret I didn't find. I reverse time all the way to the point I was about to enter this room.

On the ceiling, I see some fans. I use wind gusts and as they spin, the door opens up. I use water and in the waterfall there is a chest. inside of the chest is a hook shot card. I know what I have to do now. I head back into the mud monster and I wait until he fully powers up. I keep running in circles and am getting faster and faster, I find out that if he throws me back with a big wave, I can use wind to stop myself from hitting the wall and saving me from losing much health. when he stops getting stronger. I pick up speed and start reversing and run down one of the corridors. I shoot a hook shot and he hits me with a wave. I split it with the wind and then he throws another one and it knocks me back. I use the wind to fly up and I stay up in the air. flying for a few seconds while the hook shot is stuck. I blow wind forwards and it pushes me back and pulls out a giant clod of dirt. the second it touches my hand, it becomes a card. and I now have an elemental I can summon.

I may need to be fixed with this scoring. just lmk.
unidentified dream control (creating and using menu and HUD, looking at the map and the like, breathing underwater) 5 points
elemental control 10 points
advanced summon 10 points (cards, right in front of me, as well as their items)
advanced banish 10 points (same as above)
basic object change 5 points (cards to items and back)

These are all the same magic system, but different parts of it. So IMO I'd get a point for a card changing into item as well as points for the cards being banished into my inventory as well as cards being summoned from my inventory. using the menu is also very different than the rest, but it interacts with it. I was going to put "use ordinary object for dream control as well, but I probably shouldn't since I am counting that as summoning. tho I guess maybe since I did it multiple times in each dream once would count as summoning and another would count as using an ordinary object? dunno. I feel like I know the rules, and the rules say it would be fine, but I don't want to seem like I'm scamming points.

interact with DC 2 points

pre total: 42 x 5 dreams = 210

fly 5 points (I think this would count as fly since I did fly using elemental powers, so I wouldn't count that instance as elemental powers, but I used other elemental powers to get that scored during that dream
time control 10 points
3rd three step task (time control) = 15 points

total = 210 + 30 = 240

Night 5
2 NLDs, 1 fragment - 2.5
WBTB - 2
Night total - 4.5

Night 6
1 NLD - 1
WBTB - 2
LD - 10
RC - 1
Interact with DC - 2
Night total - 16

Spoiler for LD:

Fake WILD (of the "I am not really awake" type, after a WILD attempt, or maybe even FA)
Doing SSILD, losing it and remembering again, possibly doing it while already asleep. "Transitioning" through sitting up.

I feel like risking sitting up, I do a nose plug RC and sure, I am dreaming. I walk away from the house, stabilizing (touching the wall) because I start to lose vision and the dream goes mostly tactile.
Outside of the house, my vision is back. The street isn't really out street. I say hi to a woman who is supposed to be my neighbor but not really. She looks surprised. I say "how are you" (in Czech). She implies that I shouldn't talk to her like that. I say "just trying to be neighborly" (in English this time) and sigh.
I continue walking, I am on a small town square, not familiar. There is a flower shop but I have no idea what to do with it. I pick one of the side streets and there is a vegetable shop, the shopkeeper is putting out a huge (60cm long, 30cm thick) piece of vegetable that looks like a cross of tomato and sweet pepper. I give him a compliment on that.
I expect this to be a long dream, so I want to move on the 3-step tasks. But after making this decision, I wake up.

Afterwards, I recalled a short fragment that happened before this dream. I am not sure if I actually woke up between them (making the LD a DEILD) or if I just got conscious in my sleep (making it a FA/DILD). But it doesn't matter, the points are the same either way.

Competition total - 70.5

Night 6
3 Dreams - 3p
2 Fragments - 1p
WBTB - 2p

Night Total - 6p
Comp Total - 46,5p

Originally Posted by AtomicChocolate

I would sometimes lay for 2 hours after WBTB to set in the intention. Worked miracles

Really? And here I was thinking it was a bad thing. Thanks for the tip, I'll be sure to focus on intention a lot more in this time

Though, I was thinking about how I've been going 6 days doing WBTB without any lucids. I suppose doing this to break a months-long dry streak it makes sense, but I wonder if anyone has any knowledge on, basically, how long can I keep doing WBTB for? The rest of the competition? It might just be me not using the technique to it's fullest (or even just a good amount).

Though the 2 hours were because of waiting to fall asleep, not for the sake of it. But repeating "I am in a dream soon and I will realize it" like 500 times sure did help lol.

You can do it indefinitely, every night. It will work eventually, maybe tonight!

Originally Posted by LeaoLouro

We're creeping up on the halfway mark and still no lucids, let's hope for success tonight!

Ayo almost same here and with many other intermediates, we gotta shake things up! Tonight is the night!

Originally Posted by Tiktaalik

Spoiler for :

It’s a false awakening but I don’t realise I wake up later and realise my silly error.

Crap so close!

Originally Posted by solus1

Probably my most insane dream yet it felt like it lasted a day at least.

A day feeling lucid next night

Originally Posted by dolphin

night total-52 points

ALARM! ALARM! ENEMY HAS ACTIVATED DOLPHIN! MAN THE LUCID STATIONS!

Congratz on first good night!

Originally Posted by IndigoRose

Spoiler for LD:

Fake WILD (of the "I am not really awake" type, after a WILD attempt, or maybe even FA)
Doing SSILD, losing it and remembering again, possibly doing it while already asleep. "Transitioning" through sitting up.

I feel like risking sitting up, I do a nose plug RC and sure, I am dreaming. I walk away from the house, stabilizing (touching the wall) because I start to lose vision and the dream goes mostly tactile.
Outside of the house, my vision is back. The street isn't really out street. I say hi to a woman who is supposed to be my neighbor but not really. She looks surprised. I say "how are you" (in Czech). She implies that I shouldn't talk to her like that. I say "just trying to be neighborly" (in English this time) and sigh.
I continue walking, I am on a small town square, not familiar. There is a flower shop but I have no idea what to do with it. I pick one of the side streets and there is a vegetable shop, the shopkeeper is putting out a huge (60cm long, 30cm thick) piece of vegetable that looks like a cross of tomato and sweet pepper. I give him a compliment on that.
I expect this to be a long dream, so I want to move on the 3-step tasks. But after making this decision, I wake up.

Afterwards, I recalled a short fragment that happened before this dream. I am not sure if I actually woke up between them (making the LD a DEILD) or if I just got conscious in my sleep (making it a FA/DILD). But it doesn't matter, the points are the same either way.

Nice! You got another one, gratz.

People are starting to have more lucids approaching the second week!

I'm going to switch my Three-Step-Task order to: Fly->Basic Summon->Teleport

We have three new people joining for the second week! Their comp begins 8th 8PM their time (wherever they are.) I'll place them on teams once Sensei scores his last lucid to see the point balance situation.