Thread: Contest of the Month for September 2015

I knew I just had to try

2NLDs: 2
1 frag: .5
LD: 5
~22 mins: 10

Total:83
Lucid time: 44 mins

2 NLDs-2 points
2 LDs-10 points
>1 min, >1 min-0 points
night total-12 points

total LD time-19 minutes
contest total-162 points

Got 3 NLDs and 2 frags.

Total: 87
Ld time: 44 mins

Sorry for being away for so long. Had guests over for 1.5 weeks and it really messed with my schedule.


previous total: (night #1, 9/12): 21

9/13, 9/14: no DJ entries

9/15: 1 NLD, 1 frag
9/16: no recall
9/17: 3 NLD, 1 frag
DJ Entry
subtotal: 5

9/18: 3 NLDs
subtotal: 3
DJ Entry

9/19: 1 NLD, 2 frags
subtotal: 2
DJ Entry

9/20: 2 LDs: 10
< 1min, <1min: 0
WBTB: 1
subtotal: 11
DJ Entry

9/21: 3 NLDs, 3 frags
subtotal: 4.5
DJ Entry

9/22: 1 NLD
subtotal: 1
DJ Entry

9/23: 3 NLDs, 1 frag: 3.5
2 LDs: 10
1-2 mins, < 1 min: 2
WBTB: 1
subtotal: 16.5
DJ Entry

9/24: 2 NLDs: 2 (I'd like to see some point benefits perhaps from super long high detail NLDs [epics], recalling long NLDs is also quite a great thing!)
subtotal: 2
DJ Entry

9/25: 4 NLDs, 1 frag
subtotal: 4.5
DJ Entry

9/26: 2 LDs: 10
~4-5 mins, ~1.5 min: 2+2 = 4
WBTB: 1
subtotal: 15
DJ Entry

total of new entries: 5 + 3 + 2 + 11 + 4.5 + 1 + 16.5 + 2 + 4.5 + 15 = 64.5
comp total = 21 + 64.5 = 85.5


How interesting: all LDing nights except for the first in September (just one) have been with a pair of LDs!
Oh, and my 2nd LD of last night, I got lucid by encountering a dolphin standing on its head in a room. After doing a nose pinch I thanked it

1 NLD-1 point
1 LD-5 points
>1 min-0 points
night total-6 points

total LD time-19.5 minutes
contest total-168 points

23rd 20:00 - 24th 20:00

Woke To Alarm after less than 3 hrs sleep
0 non lucid dreams 0 points
0 lucid dream = 0 points
night total ZERO points

total lucid time = 1.5minutes
contest total = 75 points



24th 20:00 - 25th 20:00

2+ wbtb = 2 points
3 non lucid dreams = 3 points (12:30a 1:45a 2:45a)
1 fragment 0.5 points (10:30p)
0 lucid dream = 0 points
night total 5.5 point

total lucid time = 1.5minutes
contest total = 80.5 points


So far half way thru the next day (tis 8am 26th)
so far today/last night I have become lucid 5 times in 4 different lucid dreams (in the one I became lucid 2x I had lost lucidity and then regaining it a minute latter decided I better wake up to remember) in two of the dreams I entered the void and was in there for 1+min and 2+min and in the latest dream I had a false awakening (mid flight) and recorded the dream then was distracted by a cat while recording my lucid in my dream bed, but when I woke up for real I thought did I have a lucid? I then remembered that distracting cat and my lucid came back
so I should rack up at least 30 points on my next post in 12 hours

So far I have matched my most times lucid in a day 5 and set new record for separate lucid dreams now 4 (was 3 from that same previous day)

Originally Posted by dolphin

>1 min-0 points

That's two points if more than a minute…

sorry I haven't updated. I have had 14 dreams for a while. Stupid sickness and allergies (this time of year is always hard for me).
14 dreams = 14 points
I had 3 lucids, 2 of them were just become lucid and wake up, so they are on my phone DJ, not my DJ here.
3 lucids = 15 points
2 at less than a minute = 0 points
1 @ 26-30 minutes = 12 points
total = 41 points
Comp total = 41 + 9 points = 50 points

need to DJ some more dreams and will update then. Just regular dreams though.

edit
I also forgot to add WBTBs. not updating for 11 days. One of no WBTBs and the rest with at least 2 WBTBs a night = 20 points

New total = 70 points

Nice catch, Frying Man, but they haven't been more than a minute, I've just been adding the wrong symbol.

Lack of sleep has been making this quite the challenge...

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Contest Total: 68 points

25th 20:00 - 26th 20:00

It was time to kick azz and chew gum and I was all outta gum

2+ WBTB = 2 points
5 non lucid dreams = 5 points (11:25p 4:00a 5:10a 12:30p 2:00p)
4 lucid dreams 20 points
2.5min, 2.5min, 6.75min, 2min = 2+2+4+2 = 10 points
total night lucid time 13.75min
total night 37 points

total lucid time = 15.25min
contest total = 117.5 points


DILD One 2:30am total lucid time around 2.5 minutes

Spoiler for DILD One:

Rare Early morning lucid, I had gone to an outdoor restaurant, but noticed that I forgot my pants, luckily I noticed I had a long shirt on, I finally found a table that didn't have other peoples things on it and sat down alone, I ordered soon many people showed up and sat at my table, so I went and sat on a couch watching a monitor, then I saw the food being delivered, and went to the table I saw my stuff, then looked up and some stuff was gone, looked around and saw all the chairs tipped sideways at 45 degrees, then all the food was gone, then all the people, I became LUCID, I became convinced that I had actually been lucid for like half an hour and thought gee I must be stable, of course I found myself in the void my eyes began to flash and flash in the darkness but I could still feel my hands rubbing after over 1 minute in the void, I rubbed until it began to hurt, I tried to get up and walk and to violently break out by moving every part of my dream body, but only briefly regained sight for like a second then I decided to open my eyes but the flashing didn't stop then I opened my eyes and closed them again the flashing was still there very weird then I opened my eyes again (or If I dream the first opening for the first time) and was awake

DILD Two 5:50am total lucid time around 2.5 minutes

Spoiler for DILD Two:

I was in some half outdoor sort of place and looking thru a drawer and suddenly knew I was dreaming, I decided to keep looking in the drawer and see what stuff I could find. I looked and found a small bottle of turtle bikini wax and a razor (I pocketed these dream items, oh the possibilities) then I noticed some people going by and decided to try to mind control one of them to come over my way but they didn't (no free shave for her) next I attempted to summon and do a partial transform as I was trying to do these things I began to see patterns in my eyes indicating I was waking so I tried to DEILD I lay perfectly still and vaguely held the idea I would reenter a dream (of course maybe I was only dreaming I was waking up and the eye pattern) I found myself in a dream driving a car down the road I was no longer lucid, but seemed to notice I was driving past the place where I had been lucid and wanted to get back to it so I made a U-turn and then there was like an army of female cops who stopped me and told me they were filming an action shoot on this place, I asked If I could park and walk to the other side, they asked why, I was half thinking 'because that is the place I was lucid' but never exceeded semi-lucidity then I woke up

DILD Three 6:25am total lucid time around 6.75 minutes

Spoiler for DILD Three:

I was in the house and a relative was nagging at me, then I noticed they were quite tall, so tall their head was almost to the ceiling, then it touched the ceiling and they seemed crouched, I BECAME LUCID I told them we were in a dream and they began to shrink, I let them shrink a bit below their normal height and they were missing some hair too (punishment for nagging ) then I walked over to the bird cage, there were many birds but one flew and landed on my hand, it was a nice bird with many bright colors and patterns, I began to cause him to transform his/her color, it changed colors again and again blue and yellow, orange and red, pink and purple, all sorts over a period of around two minutes, then I decided to go into the dining room where I heard a voice, but no one was there so I continued around to the living room but no one, I decided to imagine someone sitting in a chair around a corner I couldn't yet see, but no one there, then there was a TV in the middle of the room causing the voice. I decided to go outside but as I approached the door I lost sight, no problem I'll just use the open the door void trick, I opened the door and stepped thru into more darkness, I felt for another door but then thought to turn around and go back thru the same one imagining it was now the outside direction I did this several times and also found another door as if there was an entry room between doors. Sometimes I would get a bit of sight (this is how I made out the other door) sometimes I would gain sight in some weird color like reddish but only for a second, this battle of door opening went on for at least 1.5 minutes then I decided I would close my dream eyes and open them as I went thru the door I briefly saw a truck, then I tried this trick again, and I could see several young people in strange clothing as I walked towards them I noticed strange weird grayish alien like creatures and then some girl said 'Oh no all dressed up' and they were covered on their stomachs and such with a grey putty like material and were being transformed into these creatures and the clay like stuff covered over them from front and back and engulfed them. I realized I was also being engulfed in the clay like stuff and being transformed I LOST LUCIDITY soon afterwards like less than a minute I BECAME LUCID again and realized I better wake myself up to remember and journal.

DILD Four 7:55am total lucid time around 2 min

Spoiler for DILD Four:

I was in a dream with a coworker who was an old man, then latter the coworker was a baby and had to be carried we had walked past a canyon with a bizarre contest between men and women (a grabbing contest) I was latter carrying the baby then seemed to have ditched it as I walked along a trail I was sure I had dreamed of before (who knows if I really dreamed of it before) I BECAME LUCID I walked back to the canyon and when I looked into it there was like a river with a bunch of people in bathing suits, I decided to jump and fly, I jumped but began to fall slowly then I began to fly and was zooming towards them, and suddenly false awakened, I was in my dream room and began to journal this dream, but was distracted by a cat. When I woke up I thought did I have a lucid? then I remembered the cat and then the journaling and thus the lucid dream

previous comp total: 85.5

9/27: 4 NLDs, 1 frag: 4.5
1 LD: 5
< 1 min: 0 [interrupted by external noise/movement]
WBTB: 1
subtotal: 10.5
DJ Entry

new competition total: 85.5 + 10.5 = 96

Interesting that this is one of my more lucid months in recent history, and also one where I've been doing less intense day work. Maybe saving the intention/energy for the night is really important…? Or maybe the intense day work from the previous months is finally kicking in? ARgh this hobby is so frustrating ! And so awesome!

5 NLDs-5 points

total lucid time=19.5 minutes
contest total=173 points

26th 20:00 - 27th 20:00

2+ WBTB = 2 points
5 non lucid dreams = 5 points (11:00p 2:30a 4:00a 5:30a 6:30a)
0 lucid dream = 0 points
night total = 7 points

total lucid time = 15.25minutes
contest total = 124.5 points

I'll try to post new total early tomorrow as I get up at 5? on Mondays and don't get home till after 20:00

given yesterdays peak I am a bit hopeful for another lucid
luckily I managed to go buy a bottle of a certain hormone as I had run out of it

UPDATE:

27th 20:00 - 28th 05:00 (no sleep till after 20:00)

2+ WBTB = 2 points
2 non lucid dreams = 2 points (2:00a 4:10a)
1 fragment 0.5 points
0 lucid dream = 0 points
night total = 4.5 points

total lucid time = 15.25minutes
contest total = 129 points

2 NLDs=2 points
1 LD=5 points
<1 minute=0 points
night total=7 points

total LD time=20 minutes
contest total=178 points

9/28 3 frags: 1.5

contest total: 96 + 1.5 = 97.5
DJ Entry

9/29: 6 NLDs, 2 frags
subtotal: 7

competition total: 97.5 + 7 = 104.5

DJ Entry

28th 20:00 to 29th ? : ??

Zero hours sleep and I get up soon, I might make it back home by 6:30p and fall dead asleep and dream before 20:00 but I doubt it, Also have some lab tests on Friday and so no chemical help, I predict my best day (Saturday) is behind me and I'll be lucky to get a few more points.

Looks like only Dolphin is ahead of me, how can it be? Unless of course Ginsan is going to post a few weeks worth of unreported dreams, or Sinsei recovers from sickness

wish I had gotten to sleep 3 hrs ago when I got home Monday's suck

Getting <6.5 hours of sleep has been killing me...

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Contest Total: 82.5 pts

3 NLDs=3 points
1 LD=5 points
<1 minute=0 points
night total=8 points

total LD time=20.5 minutes
contest total=186 points

104.5

9/30: 4 NLDs, 3 frags
subtotal: 5.5
DJ Entry

competition total: 104.5 + 5.5 = 110

29th 20:00 - 30th (no more sleep till after)20:00

2+ wbtb = 2 points
2 non lucid dreams = 2 points (12:30a 2:20a)
2 fragment 1 point
0 lucid dream = 0 points
night total 5 point

total lucid time = 15.25 minutes
contest total = 134 points

3 NLDs- 3 points

total LD time-20.5 minutes
contest total-189 points

10/1 (before 11am) 1 LD: 5
< 1 min: 0
WBTB: 1
subtotal: 6
DJ Entry

competition final total: 110 + 6 = 116