Thread: The DEILD Project - 90 Day

Day 13: Nothing happened.

-CV

Day 4: no success

alarm: none set

Woke up after a dream at 4.5 hours in, but I was very uncomfortable and had to move around a lot. Tried to get back into the dream but fell asleep. Happened again at 6 hours in, but also no luck.

Week One In Review!
May 30 - June 5, 2010

Successful DEILDs = 1

Notes: Upon reflection, I seem to be decent at chaining in elements of previous dreams into new dreams. I see two underlying problems that I have to manage.

Problem 1: I don't remember waking up very often throughout the night. Usually I wake up once to use the washroom.

Possible solution: Set an alarm for 4.5 hours and make sure I get up and go. Use it as a typical "WBTB"/recall period.

Problem 2: Remembering the lucidity part One might think that's silly! What am I chaining for?! See, the problem is, when I do wake up, my focus turns to falling back to sleep and remembering some aspect of the dream. I forget the DEILD part because I'm hazy and sleepy. Dream chaining is actually quite a natural thing for me. Unless there's some blindingly obvious element from the previous dream (so far being Paul or Sailor Moon), then I forget that it's a dream I was just in as I'm falling back to sleep.

Possible solution: Not sure, to be honest. Perhaps a mantra to remind myself of lucidity when I wake up?

Day 9 – June 9, 2010

Success?
Sort of.
What happened?
I remembered (and was successful) to dream chain, but I forgot about the lucidity part

Day 3
Success?
No.
What happened
I went to bed around 2:30 am.... Magic The Gathering night . So I slept straight to wake up time.

Day 5: no success

alarm: none set

Woke up around the same times again, but lacked concentration and passed out.

Day 14: Chained my dreams successfully, but not lucid.

-CV

Originally Posted by ClearView

Day 14: Chained my dreams successfully, but not lucid.

-CV

Progress!!

Day 10 – June 10, 2010

Success?
Yes…?
What happened?
I not sure what to call this. I guess it was a WILD, since I remembering slipping into a dream that WASN’T one I was dreaming before. However, I was watching it 3rd person. I remember thinking, “Okay, I’m in a dream… only… I’m watching a dream. What do I do with this?” and woke up again, and fell asleep again, without lucidity.

Day 4
Success?
No
What happened?
I was very tired and forgot to DEILD. I moved.

Day 15: Nada.

-CV

Day 11 – June 11, 2010

Success?
No.
What happened?
Not sure... I didn't move, I was thinking about the dream, but I couldn't slip back in. It took about 20-30 minutes to fall back to sleep.

getting behind a little, sorry.

Past days have been finals though so I've been going lightly on the DEILDs

Originally Posted by Burke

getting behind a little, sorry.

Past days have been finals though so I've been going lightly on the DEILDs

Quite the same for me, I can say.

-CV

Day 05
Success?
No.
What happened?
Moved too much and forgot about it.

I went to bed around 2:30 am.... Magic The Gathering night . So I slept straight to wake up time.

Hell yes

I've found that sometimes I wake up more clear in mind, whereas other times I wake up completely confused. It has obviously been easier for me to DEILD when I wake up with a clear mind.

Any ideas for why this is happening?

Day 6: no success

alarm: 5 hours after bed

Alarm woke me from a dream, but the dream was just so boring I couldn't get up any interest in reentering it and I went back unconscious.

Day 7: no success

alarm: none set

Went to bed drunk. Enough said.

Day 12 – June 12, 2010

Success?
No.
What happened?
Again, I woke up with a dream... didn't move, thought about the dream, didn't fall back to sleep. WTH? I'm beginning to wonder if I've been having false awakenings...

Swim meet next day, needed sleep.

-CV

Day 06
Success?
No.
What happened?
Moved too much and forgot about it.

Same post as above for last night.

-CV

Day 07
Success?
No.
What happened?
Moved too much and forgot about it.

June 13, 14, 15, 2010
Attempts halted because of work. I've only gotten 4.5 hours and 6 hours of sleep (on the 13th and today), respectively.

Day 16: Nothing, finals today, needed sleep.

-CV

Day 08-9-10
Success?
No.
What happened?
Early bird wake up, no attempt.

Hmm... I haven't been tracking my progress... same old same old, I guess.

Just today, I woke up from a dream and once again could not fall back to sleep straight away =/ I seem to be hitting those end of REM periods just nicely where I can't extend them.