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    The Great Wall

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    LukeSid
    , 09-10-2013 at 11:01 AM (563 Views)
    Post-lucid I've hit two walls...One I'll get over, the other is insurmountable. The first is difficulty going back to sleep. At the moment the half-hour either side of 9.00 AM is maybe my door to Lucidity at this stage. The dreams are different, they're awash with dream signs and I'm clearly puzzled by certain events in the dreams. I'm starting to question...

    Because I know this time-period is the golden ticket, this puts pressure on. Ideally, I could set my alarm to wake at 7.30 AM, get up for an hour, reading LD-related material (I can now see the potential of that...it strengthens the attempt) Back to bed at 8.20, do ten minutes of mental preparation and off to sleep (hopefully) within ten more minutes

    Nope. The World is waking up (including the wife) and i lay there and I can feel that time-window shrinking by the minute. So, last night I set the alarm for 6.30 to build-in an extra hour's leeway...and i needed it.

    9.00 AM I'm in a large open office (DS). I moved further up the section (to do some photocopying I think) and I realise I'm bare-chested. I'm very embarrassed and puzzled "Why did I take my shirt off?" I wonder. I'm questioning and that's good...but it didn't trigger "I must be dreaming" this time. I attempt to put on a T shirt Why am I wearing a T shirt? (I'm questioning but not reacting this time)

    I struggle to put it on and it seems to have multiple layers (at the top anyway) I'm puzzled (but still don't react) Someone touches my leg and it's my boss and he starts photocopying alongside me...and I wake up (maybe in case he starts to make a move on me)

    I can see that, on another night, I might have said that magic word "dreaming" (I know I'm there but it can still just as easily go either way and I need to beef-up the conditioning) But I was embarrassed and that was a distraction in itself. I was afraid to look up, fearing that everyone would be staring at me.

    Of course that time in the morning is normally wake-up time and I've had eight hours of sleep If I can get another couple of LD's I'll try dropping back to a 05.00 AM wakeup and WBTB at 06.00 AM That's where my DJ shows a solid three hours of good dream time. But, I must work at getting off to sleep again quickly.

    The second wall is the wife. My first reaction in the LD I had was to tell the wife...we always discuss things (rather we did always discuss things) I get, from her, the same reaction most of you get ...uncomprehending ...uncomfortable...the shutters go down. So we move apart on this one...I can't talk to her about LD so deal with it...

    On here, we're almost a secret society and we have other like-minded people to talk to. I have a mental picture of a crowd of (mainly young) LD'ers moving across a golden beach, some swooping and diving, others in an assortment of wondrous machines, with an old man dragging along behind, desperately trying to will-up some form of transportation

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    1. NyxCC's Avatar
      Hey LukeSid, it's good to hear you are working on a way around the first wall.

      It really takes forever to find out the optimal time to wake for a wbtb as well as the wbtb length itself. I have noticed that these things are not always constant as well once you supposedly find them. Sometimes you feel very sleepy so it is better to spend longer time doing lucid related tasks/induction methods and at other times you may be too wakeful so a shorter wbtb may be better.

      I personally allow for 7-8 hrs of sleep and aim to do the wbtb after 4.5-6 hrs of sleep depending on circumstances.

      One other thing that you also practice and you can extend doing perhaps is putting even more emphasis on your DS. Write down 5-10 sentences like "when I see DS1, I recognize I am dreaming, when I see DS2, I recognize that I am dreaming". You can even make it into a poem or a song if you like and recite this during the day. (I like to do this quietly in the bathroom so that people don't think I'm strange). If no one is around then you can do this at home.

      Also be sure to do a few of these auto-suggestive repetitions before bed and during your wbtb. It may take a while, but they will eventually sink in your subcon and help you out.

      Hope that helps. Keep the spirits high, you are doing great! Do you know how many people including young people just give up on lding?
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      Updated 09-10-2013 at 03:40 PM by NyxCC
    2. LukeSid's Avatar
      Thanks for the great advice NyxCC. My SST is midnight so a 5.00 am wakeup for 6.00 am WBTB is perfect for me I'll write down the sentences. I'm doing lots of repetitions but your mention of the bathroom reinforces the point that I must keep this up even when people are around...it's so easy to get distracted then suddenly realise that I haven't done the repetitions for 2-3 hours. The mini-LD has massively boosted my determination.

      I've been greatly helped by the fact that I love discovering things about the brain and how it works and food and tablet aids to memory and concentration...and a growing awareness of how much there is still to discover. Spirits are high. I've been bending my daughter-in-law's ear today. She's more spiritual than the rest and she makes the mistake of listening, with apparent interest, while I ramble on. The typical response from others to "I've become lucid" was "Well, you should cut out the fruit and the nuts",

      As I said before, I sense something profound about LD, above and beyond its entertainment value and I look forward to seeing if I'm right. thanks and regards
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    3. NyxCC's Avatar
      You're welcome. Yeah there are lots of interesting things about how the brain works, foods, supplements and lifestyle in general. We are learning so much as we go along, it is very exciting. (By the way fruit and nuts are of great help too. )

      I also agree about there being something more profound about lding. The world is full of mysteries, it is our duty to at least try to unravel them.

      Sweet dreams!
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