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I am approaching month eight of my training and I have been sitting out on the back deck watching a few yellow leaves flutter down from the big butternut tree and pondering last night's...
Liked On: 09-03-2019, 06:54 PM
I like that idea about speaking out loud. I am at the point now where I am working more on stability when lucid. I'm going to work that in to my intention setting protocol.
Liked On: 09-03-2019, 06:49 PM
I was reading an article yesterday entitled "The Neuroscience of Behavior Change". The author was speaking about creating new neural pathways in the brain and said that it is estimated that it takes...
Liked On: 08-29-2019, 03:54 PM
Once I got into a groove, I had strong success but I have been slacking the last few years and my averages have gone down (but not away thankfully). The process is very individual/different for...
Liked On: 08-29-2019, 02:02 PM
I'll try, i was running around bacause it was because it was the first time i was able to slightly control my sorroundings, and i will try to stabilize it to make it last longer.
Liked On: 08-20-2019, 04:30 PM
Yesterday i had a LD, the first in a very long time and the first in wich i had at least a very bit of control over it. Well, in that dream i went into my kitchen and grabbed a biscuit, because...
Liked On: 08-19-2019, 06:39 PM
On 24min nap I sad in a sort of an old dormitory like place. I was with my friend Mike moving about in the building while I had a false awakening. I was being grabbed by hands out of nowhere while...
Liked On: 08-16-2019, 08:35 PM
Sometimes it feels as if the harder I seek lucidity the more I fail at it. Ardent effort must inevitably result in many failures and our consciousness tends to highlight failures over successes in...
Liked On: 08-15-2019, 02:51 PM
That's crucial for me as well being a slightly older oneironaut who needs to still get up early every day for work. I really make certain that I fall asleep peacefully and quickly at the beginning of...
Liked On: 08-14-2019, 09:51 PM
There is a chapter in "Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming" called "Goal setting for success", it helped me. I also recently discovered WOOP my life (http://woopmylife.org) which seems to be a good...
Liked On: 08-14-2019, 07:53 PM
100% yes. That's what the entire foundation of MILD is based on You also probably want to improve working memory in general: Dual N-Back Training (http://brainscale.net/dual-n-back/training) As...
Liked On: 08-14-2019, 05:43 PM
Hello, My apologies if this is a stupid question or has already been answered, I'm still getting accustom to searching this site. I am wondering about whether or not it is worth while to train...
Liked On: 08-14-2019, 05:43 PM
Welcome back and good luck Tygar! What helps is to set some goals, at the very least mentally. I picked up the lucid dreaming practice once before, in the past, and without me realizing, my goal was...
Liked On: 08-14-2019, 12:20 PM
I heard it in the podcasts before - RareCola said, it is not a problem - it works as a RC partly because you expect it to work, and in the moment you do a RC - you already know, that you are lucid. ...
Liked On: 04-11-2014, 04:07 PM
Text used to be quite difficult to read when I was younger. But as I've gotten older, text and numbers have become clearer. Not quite sure why that is, maybe I've just gotten better at visualizing...
Liked On: 04-11-2014, 04:07 PM
Well, I had some success over the weekend, but did not achieve lucidity.
(Sunday Sep 1st 2019 - 6:45 AM is when I woke from the dream).
In my dream I am at an American football game. It was either a high school or a college event. There are a lot of people standing around the field and many in the stands. I am aware that they are having a drawing and one lucky person will win one million dollars. I hear them call my name as the winner over the loud speakers. I turn to my wife and ask (with great surprise) "Did they just call my name???" She says yes, and is very excited. I ask where I need to go and she tells me there is a table near the entrance. I start jogging toward the table passing many people (who pay no attention to me). I reach the table and there is a blond woman standing behind the table, but there are 3 people in front of me speaking with her. I am amazed and excited that I have won 1 million dollars, but then (in my head) I ask the critical question "Am I Dreaming???" I glance behind the woman and there are 2 signs attached to a board behind her. One is a blue sign with white lettering that says "ADVANCED TICKETS" the other is a white sign with red letters which says "EXIT -->" I look away from the advanced ticket sign and then look back and it is exactly the same. So I assume I am not dreaming and I am very happy about that... the dream fades and I wake up.
I was very sleep deprived last night and my dream recall was terrible. I know I woke up from a dream at one point before my alarm went off, but I couldn't recall anything. When I woke up to my alarm it killed most of my dream recall. The only thing I could remember was that the actor George Clooney and I were trying to find a way to parachute a baby elephant in to a region of the world were we had American troops fighting a war. I'm pretty sure that was part of the plot to a 1990's movie. Strange.
10-Aug-2019
Dream 1: I'm taking a shower in a public shower, like the one at my Jr. high school back in the 80's. There are 2 other guys with me; 2 I don't know and the 3rd is Sylvester Stallone. As I took off my shirt i was feeling very confident with my physique (as I am in real life, for a 50 year old guy).
Dream 2: I was in a 3 level apartment building, on the 3rd floor. There was a big storm going on outside. I am looking out of window in a door leading out to a deck. I see the water level is almost up to the 3rd floor (20+ feet). I go out the door onto the deck to look around. I slip and fall on the wet boards. The boards turn into a flexible material that looks like window blinds. As the waves below me come up and go down the material moves under me. I was very afraid that the deck was going to collapse. ... [Jump]... I'm back in the apartment building and I am very comfortable here as I know I live here. I have forgotten all about the storm. I'm walking down the hall. On my right is an open door. I look in, as I pass, and see a man in a wheel chair. I know him as a neighbor in my dream but not in real life. I suddenly hear music; it is an instrumental version of the song "Once Upon a Dream" from the Disney movie Cinderella. I begin to dance down the hall, along with the song, until I get to my room. I go into my apartment which is just a bedroom. The man in the wheelchair comes down to the doorway and picks up a small picture frame sitting on a small table near the door. I say, "That is a picture of my mother." He takes the picture with him as he wheels away.
11-Aug-2019
Dream 1: I'm sitting on the toilet in the larger bathroom in my house. I notice my tub is damaged. I know my wife will be upset and it will cost a lot of money to fix. I'm feeling negative emotion and do not do a RC.
Dream 2: I'm in a room and laying on a platform. To my left is a man in a strange, very large, scuba diving suit. it covers his entire body and is very large. It looks like something from a Sci-Fi movie.
Dream 3: I'm standing on the street in a city. Above me is a tall building. I see a man on the edge of the top floor doing a human flag (a very difficult gymnastics hold - just Google it). he is lowering and raising his legs like he is exercising. I worry he will fall.
17-Aug-2019
Dream 1: I'm on a college campus. A young Leonardo DiCaprio is standing along a sidewalk. He is trying to make conversation with women as they pass, but they are ignoring him. He has a horrible, patchy facial hair. It just looks terrible. I walk up to him and start talking to him about better ways to meet women. I tell him to stay in school so he can get a good job in the future. I tell him that good hygiene is very important. I also tell him to shave because it is better to be clean shaven than to have a bad mustache and beard.
Dream 1: (Close to lucidity) At one point in the dream I am in a basement that I know is mine, but looks nothing like my actual basement. I am standing in front of the fuse box, about 6 feet away and I know something is wrong with it. Under the fuse box, leaning against the wall below it, I see a flat, rectangular piece of blue plastic (light blue with a dark blue boarder) which is about 4 feet tall by 6 feet long. I know it is something I need to use to fix the fuse box. I am staring at the plastic thing and I become confused and frustrated because I know I can't fix the fuse box with that plastic thing. I know something isn't right with this situation, but never do a RC. (this is a good sign that I may be getting closer to having a LD).
18-Aug-2019
I'm in a house with other people. I believe it is a dorm and I am back in college. I need to fill out paperwork, but I can't understand the writing. I am very frustrated (but don't think to do a RC)... [Jump]... I'm still in the house. I'm in a room and there is a broken bed frame which I need to set up, but the pieces of wood don't look like parts of a bed frame. I am confused and frustrated because I don't know how to put them together (I don't think to do a RC)... [Jump]... I'm with a young blond woman. She calls me over and tells me to look into a fish tank (which has no water, just some branches and leaves). I look in the open top and see a tiny (the size of a bumble bee) red bird in the tank sitting on a tiny branch. It looks like a red bird from the Angry Birds video game. (On this one again, I'm getting close to have a LD based on the confusion over things in dreams.)
19-Aug-2019: Due to unexpected work issue I had to be online over night, so I set my alarm for 11 pm, 2 am, & 5 am. Each time the alarm went off I know I was dreaming but could not recall anything. This is a problem I have with waking up to an alarm; startling away almost always prevents me from remember dreams. I'm hoping for better dream recall tonight.
Horrible dream recall last night. I remember being with my wife and the assistant pastor from her church. We were standing outside of a school bus (standard yellow color) and we were parked near a highway overpass. That's all I remember.
My wife woke up at around 4 am to use the bathroom, which woke me up. I know I had a dream but didn't bother to think about it or jot down any notes. I will be sure to have my notebook and pen out tonight. I doze back off at some point. I find myself standing at the top of a cliff (a few hundred feet off the ground below). Below me I see the mall which is in my town. I am at the left side of the mall. I see just the outline of the foundation of what was the Sears store. I know they have torn it down and will be rebuilding it. My wife is standing to my right. We turn around and there there is an entrance to a large building (a warehouse) behind me. We walk into the warehouse and into a large room full of old dusty shelving and racks which I know came from the Sears store. We move to the left and down a short flight of stairs to an empty room. It is dimly lit and very dusty. I go down the stairs and lay down on the floor. Suddenly my ex-wife comes over to me. She looks as she did when she was in her early 20's. She reaches down and moves a blanket (that is suddenly there) over me and smiles. To my left I see my ex-wife's sister's current boyfriend. the dream fades and I wake up.