Thread: Contest of the Month for May 2015

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Contest Total: 37

I moved into a new house 2-3 weeks ago and my recall has really been suffering... Previously I would have low recall on nights with very little sleep or when I had been drinking/smoking. Now it seems like 2/3 nights I can't remember a thing, even with natural WBTBs... Still need to figure out what's going on here. Maybe the extra light/noise...

Last night I had a dream that started to get a little freaky. An old man invited me to his house to turn in my homework assignment, then have a meal together..... >.<

I've been spending a lot of time lately reading an amusing book, and then I got interested in fountain pens and have been staying up late watching videos about them.... How dorky~
Someone slap me! I need to focus!

11 May

1 wbtb = 1
1 fragment = 0.5
2 dreams = 2

night total = 3.5
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Today

1 dream = 1

night total = 1

contest total = 32.5 points

1 dream = 1 point
8 frags = 4 points

night total = 5 points
contest total = 99 points

2 fragments=1 point
7 dreams=7 points
1 lucid=5 points
lucid time=1 minute=1 point
night total=14 points

competition total=95 points
total lucid time=18 minutes

8 dreams = 8 points
2 WBTBs = 2 points
no lucids. Sickness made my awareness drop like crazy in spite of all the in dream time. :/ I didn't even tag in the night because I was so tired. 8 was all I could drag up from after waking.

Total = 10 points
Total Total = 93 points

I had a dream last night that I was in Jurassic World. After fighting a few of the small dinosaurs I ran into this crazy dinosaur:

Spoiler for Creepy Dinosaur:

He wasn't plush though, but still purple, just purple scaly skin. I used a lot of super strength fighting this stuff, but I still didn't get lucid! Even head butted Ol' Barney there.

Originally Posted by Noell

I've been spending a lot of time lately reading an amusing book, and then I got interested in fountain pens and have been staying up late watching videos about them.... How dorky~
Someone slap me! I need to focus!

Hilarious! I love dorky folks!

I had a beautiful vivd dream yesterday morning that was like a very colorful Willy Wonka-inspired banana split assembly line with all kinds of little people and I was on a quest like a scavenger hunt. Very unusual for me, but only 2 dreams recalled. Another vivid one this morning but also over all lower recall than I should be having. I need to put some more focus on recall.

May 11
2 wbtb = 2 points
2 dreams = 2 points

May 12
2 wbtb = 2 points
1 dream = 1 point
2 frags = 1 point

contest total = 71 points
lucid time = ~40 minutes

Best night so far in terms of recall. Got to write 5 full-fledged dreams down.
There was also more variety in them in terms of locations, characters and settings, which is nice.

Day 12/31

2 wbtb = 2 points
0 fragments = 0.0 points
5 dreams = 5 points
0 lucid dreams = 0 points
lucid time 0 minutes = 0 points
night total = 7.0 points

Contest total:

10 wbtb = 10 points
17 fragments = 8.5 points
29 dreams = 29 points
0 lucid dreams = 0 points
0 lucid time = 0 points
contest total = 47.5 points

10-13 May:
7 frags=3.5 p
6 non-LD=6 p
4 WBTB=4 p
TOTAL= 13.5 p

Contest total: 45.5 p

2 fragments=1 point
3 dreams=3 points
1 lucid=5 points
lucid time=2 minutes=1 point
night total=10 points

competition total=105 points
total lucid time=20 minutes

3 frags = 1.5 points
2 dreams = 2 points
1 ld = 5 points (low awareness again )
ld time 2 mins = 1 point

night total = 9.5
contest total = 108.5
total lds = 7
total ld time = 30 mins

May 13

2 wbtb = 2 points
2 dreams = 2 points
2 frags = 1 point

contest total = 76 points

Highlights: exchanging an uneaten pistachio from the grips of a sexy woman's teeth to mine. Also wonderful HI of a very out of this world colorful neighborhood block.

1 lucid. No other dreams. Lol. = 5 points
About 15 minutes or more = 3 points

I watched a video about saved by the Bell right before sleep last night. I thought for one second "wouldn't it be cool to watch a TV show that you have heard a lot about but never watched in a dream?" Apparently the only goal I could think of when I became lucid. I grabbed a bunch of DCs, Popcorn, drinks and we all gathered around a laptop to watch it. It was a strange assortment because I was in a nice neighborhood in the middle of the night, so I had to knock on some doors and act like it was the plan. Glad that they agreed. I did all that and when we hit start I watched the theme song (which I have seen before) and woke up. :/

This sickness is giving me weird dreams and goals. :/ at least I still got some lucids out of it! Practice pays off!

Total = 8 points
Comp total = 93 + 8 =101 points

I thought that if we had a lucid dream we would get 5 points for lucidity and 1 point for recalling a full dream. If we do, Sensei should have 6 extra points. If we don't, I should have 9 less points.

Originally Posted by dolphin

I thought that if we had a lucid dream we would get 5 points for lucidity and 1 point for recalling a full dream. If we do, Sensei should have 6 extra points. If we don't, I should have 9 less points.

I try to make it clear in the description that non lucid dream recalled = 1 point and lucid dream recalled = 5 points

Okay, thanks!

2 fragments=1 point
4 dreams=4 points
scoring adjustment= -9 points

competition total-101 points
total lucid time=20 minutes

4 dreams = 4 points
2 WBTBs = 2 points

Total = 6 points

Total total = 107 points

I actually spent the whole time in the mall I usually am in. :/ I medicined up last night.

^^ You slept in the mall?

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Not much sleep here.

1 frag = 0.5 points
1 dream = 1 point
1 wbtb = 1 point

Night total = 2.5 points
Contest total = 111 points

Originally Posted by NyxCC

^^ You slept in the mall?

haha, nah, an in dream mall. I have been there non lucid about 10 times and lucid about 40 or so. It is quite nice to have a place to enjoy dream like merch. They don't accept my money though, so I haven't been able to buy anything. The worth of the money is gone unless I work for it somehow. haha

13 May

1 dream = 1

night total = 1
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Today

2 dreams = 2

night total = 2

contest total = 35.5 points

May 14

2 wbtb = 2
6 frags = 3

contest total = 81 points

In the late morning I have been able to lay for 30 minutes or so experimenting with HI but I realized it is very similar to mediation the way that I am doing it. One realization brought home to me this morning was that the act of thinking "avoid waking life stress thoughts" quickly brings the thoughts to the surface. Recognizing that process then quickly subdues those thoughts.

I'm trying too hard! I've got to take a few steps back and make LDing easy again.

1 fragment=0.5 point
1 dream=1 point
night total=1.5 points

competition total=102.5 points
total lucid time=20 minutes

6 dreams = 6 points
2 wbtbs = 2 points
2 lucids = 10 points
lucid 1 (6 min)(5-9 minutes) = 2 points
lucid 2 (17 min)(15-19 minutes) = 4 points

total = 24 points
total comp is = 131 points

Fogelbise, in one of my dreams (non lucid) I was checking out one of your Djs, and it was a storyboard with about 100 different pictures, all of it was pretty interesting until it got reallllllly inappropriate. lol.

I also had a really really cool dream where I was riding in a car going through an area with "new development" and each house I passed was in the middle of being built, but they were being built all in dreamlike fashions. Some of the time there would be nothing of the house, but the rest of the house was on a crane dropping it down, sometimes half the house was already built and a crane was dropping it down, sometimes people were just throwing it all together. It was very interesting! lol.

In my other lucid dream I realized it was a lucid dream because I watched my sister die and I kind of freaked out and started thinking that it had to be a dream, because there is no way she would do something that stupid. I RCed and realized I was dreaming.

In my long lucid I spent a long time talking with my brother in laws about what game I should teleport into. They chose different games than me (I think golf and Mortal Combat X) I chose Zelda and spent some time working with my inventory.

I had some other cool dreams too. Long night, finally back on schedule and not sick, now it is time for me to work late and stay up late. Hopefully it is a good weekend and I can get some sleep.

Another lucid! Great way to bounce back after a couple days of no recall. Contest total: 49.5

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1 fragment=0.5 point
1 dream =1 point
night total=1.5 points

competition total=104 points
total lucid time=20 minutes