Thread: DV Academy needs help from someone with technical know-how!

The information will just be used to match up applicants to professors and courses. It doesn't necessarily need to be confidential, though there are a few questions that I know people can be uncomfortable answering from the adoption program. I agree just posting the info will serve the purpose, but it's an epic bummer if I spent all that time on the PDF/html form for it to end up like this:

Spoiler for App:

APPLICANT INFORMATION
Preferred Name
Age
Country/Timezone
Languages Spoken
Education
How often do you use mind-altering drugs(including alcohol/prescription drugs), and which?
Are you willing to reduce use for the duration of your adoption?
At which times are you able to be online and active?

ACADEMY PREFERENCES
Would you prefer to chat with an adopter for extended (daily, over an hour, etc.) or shorter periods of time (1/week, less than an hour, etc)?
Do you prefer a specific adopter? If so, who and why?
# Hours per night you are willing and able to devote to sleeping / LDing?
# Hours per day you are willing and able to be available to your adopter?
Max length of time it would be ok to be out of contact w/ an adopter?
You view adoption as an opportunity to:
Learn to Lucid Dream [ ] Make Friends [ ] Both [ ]
You would be willing to communicate with an adopter via:
Email [ ] Phone DV PM DV Chat Instant Messenger (Private) Thread
Please mark any ‘lucid aids’ you would consider/be willing to try:
Vitamins Foods Over-the-Counter Drugs Prescription/Illegal Drugs Audio Tracks
Some discussion of Astral Projection, Dream Sharing, Precog Dreams, etc. would be:
Unacceptable Not Desired Acceptable Encouraged Highly Desired
Do you prefer answers to be long and detailed, or short & to the point?

SLEEP HABITS AND DREAM HISTORY
Do you share a bed/room? Will this change in the next 3 mo?
# Hours of sleep you get per night (week)
# Hours of sleep you get per night (weekend)
Do you keep a dream journal?
Yes No
If yes, how often do you write in it?
Less Than 1/week 1-3x/week 4-6x/week 1x/night 2+x/night
Have you ever had a lucid dream?
Yes No Not Sure
If yes, how many were:
WILD: DILD: Not Sure
If applicable, please list the dates of your lucid dreams:
Have you ever had sleep paralysis?
Yes No Not Sure
If yes, how often?
Less Than 10/year Less Than 3/month 1-5/week 1/day 2+/day
How many dreams do you remember per night during the week?
0 1-2 3-4 5+
How many dreams do you remember per night during the weekend?
0 1-2 3-4 5+

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

1. Why would you like an adopter? What benefits do you think having an adopter would provide you versus learning to lucid dream on your own? Why
should you be selected over other applicants?

2. What exactly are you interested in learning from your adopter? Use as much detail as you feel necessary:

3. Please list any lucid dreaming techniques that you are familiar with and mention other sleep/dreaming concepts that you are familiar with. Don’t feel
pressured if you are not sure- this is an adoption application, after all!

4. Please list any dream goals you wish to accomplish.

(I got too lazy with the brackets).

Someone also mentioned how clean and 'official' or serious it looked in PDF format and I agree. If at all possible I want it to be clean and presentable and serious. If there is any way that I can put in some more effort to improve the quality a little bit, I'd be happy. Unfortunately I don't have the knowledge, but if someone can even just direct me I'd be willing to work harder to pull it off. It will also be way easier to just open a bunch of PDFs and compare answers than it will be to look at all those responses in the sloppy thread format So yes, as a last resort I guess this wouldn't be so bad, but I'd really like to see it in a more presentable format.

Not to mention, I think if I ask for another subforum they'll murder me And I've no interest in being PMed applications

According to Adobe,

Fill and Submit Forms via E-mail: This type of PDF form contains data fields and provides a Submit button. This moves the data off the user’s desktop and places it as an attachment in an e-mail message with the recipient’s e-mail address already in place. When the recipient receives the attachment, the form data can be collected and managed further.