Thread: FryingMan's DILD course workbook

Well I"m on a roll now !! LD #21 last night. And at least one more memorable very near miss later on.

Firsts:

• first outdoor lucid flying (daytime)
• first time watching a DC materialize in front of me during a summon
• first time a RC cemented the lucidity at the beginning

I was on the deck of my childhood house (primary dreamsign), looking out over the water, when I realized that there were islands in the water (or they appeared while I was watching), like it had become a very low tide[*], but that never happens because it's so deep. I thought I must be dreaming, and right away did the nose pinch/breathe, and VOILA, Yes! I'm dreaming. I took off flying immediately! Flew superman style, trying to go faster and faster through will, I also did the "there's an infinitely powerful endless source of energy in my head" propelling me forwards as fast as I want to go. I think I heard the sound of a jet engine at that point.

Landed and was among suburban houses on a sidewalk downtown, tried a DC "around that bush" summon which didn't work (I'm not good at those, my attitude is too much like "I wish" instead of *knowing* the DC will be there. Went for behind the back summon of same DC immediately, and as I brought my hand around there wasn't anyone there, but I kept looking and expecting, and all of a sudden a bright solid red person-shaped form appeared in front of me, and slowly the red subsided (like it was melting away getting sucked into little drains all over the form), leaving the "fully rendered" DC standing in front of me! After interacting with the DC a bit I woke up.

And later on, I was floating down a suburban street, causing the ground/street to warp into a perfect hemispherical shape about 1 meter in diameter a few meters to my left. And I think "It's too bad this isn't enough to get me lucid..." !!!!!! I think I win the prize for that one.

Yay I'm back and recovered and am keeping the daytime practice at high intensity, DREAM ON!
[*] Was in a museum yesterday and saw a memorable painting of a beautiful ocean scene at low tide. Must have been residue from that. I'm making it a point to get out on the weekends and go places with a lot of people and lots of different things to see -- for one thing, to actually enjoy waking life , another, to get practice of ADA/RC with lots of distractions around me, and just to gather lots of day residue, and IT WORKED!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Well I"m on a roll now !! LD #21 last night. And at least one more memorable very near miss later on.

Firsts:

• first outdoor lucid flying (daytime)
• first time watching a DC materialize in front of me during a summon
• first time a RC cemented the lucidity at the beginning

An awesome list of firsts for you!!! You are rollin'!!! Whoohooo!!!

And I like your idea for going out into big crowds, enjoying waking life and finding good challenges for your ADA/RC work!

Well no lucids last night but some OK recall and a good night's sleep, and some sleep intertia taking me into 11.5 hours after initial bedtime with little short dreams during the dozing moments. Most importantly, kept getting back to sleep. I did record in bed the major recall for the night at about 8 hrs.

Fought with snakes, watched a corpse reanimate and start singing, took shelter from a tornado (which I watched, it was tiny about 10 feet tall and 1 foot wide) which entered to our shelter, talked with children about where to find food, "follow the path of the bears" they said.

Well a couple nights of no lucids but pretty good recall.

Getting back to sleep victory this morning! To bed late (01:30, again!!!! argh!!!!!), 6th hour waking, wife did breakfast duty, I couldn't get comfortable, wife got back in bed, decided to think happy warm comfortable thoughts. Daydreaming of "stimulating" subjects kept me awake, I felt very alert, almost gave up and got up, decided I had to really focus, "you have to want it like you want to breathe," gathered my discipline/will, emptied my mind, relaxed, and *poof* I slept again and dreamed some more!

Long, super wild, near-nightmare levels of creepiness adventure dream last night (before 6th hour, not exactly sure when as I did not journal immediately after). My memory of dreams going back to earlier wakings seems to be improving. I'd much rather journal just in the mornings. Maybe that means they were near-lucid levels of awareness and so going in to waking memory banks not just dreaming memory banks?

edit: dj entry for last night:

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...4-02-08-55466/

Originally Posted by FryingMan

gathered my discipline/will, emptied my mind, relaxed, and *poof* I slept again and dreamed some more!

Nice perseverance!

Maybe that means they were near-lucid levels of awareness and so going in to waking memory banks not just dreaming memory banks?

Possibly...that would be a great result! Fingers crossed for you!

Last night: fair amount of dreams, mostly late morning, mostly low awareness, other than I'm kind of shocked that the teacher went postal and was beating the crap out of a couple of other students in class who weren't paying attention! Late bed time.

Were you shocked by it during the dream or only in hindsight after waking up? That would be an awareness indicator. Even in non-lucid dreams I think there is a gradient of awareness, and most of my non-lucid dreams alas are no awareness whatsoever, and in such I only feel shocked after the fact.

Another thought, maybe your teacher beating students up for lack of attention is your subconscious trying to get your attention in an effort to get you to be lucid.

I was pretty shocked in the dream, it was a surprising and way over-the-top reaction from the teacher -- I recall half-rising from my seat to put a stop to it but the teacher stopped. It sure made me "pay attention" to "class," however!

I don't really go in for interpretation, but yes perhaps, the teacher was definitely trying to get the class to pay attention to the subject, and it sort of worked (I followed along the text that was being read out loud...and the teacher was also criticizing students in their lack of feeling in their reading).

Wild and wacky and pretty detailed recall again but not lucid. To bed late (after 2am, sigh), recall mostly came in around 6 hrs, lots on my mind big meeting today so got up at around 8am. Took nap at 12:30pm until 2pm, no recall, got close to WILD noise after about 30 mins but gave up and just slept.

Strong location awareness in one dream: standing observing a beautiful scene, wondering where exactly I was, asked a DC if the location was near (some landmark I knew in waking life), good sign for my ADA/RC-location I think!

DJ:

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...4-02-20-55543/

Congrats on the location awareness! It is great to hear that your recall is back and strong as well! I think you are knocking on the doorstep of some more lucids.

Late to bed and up early for breakfast duty meant only 1 recalled dream at morning waking. Well not only that but I was pretty wakeful due to eating a lot of chocolates late in the day (I'm very caffeine sensitive since I'm not a coffee/tea drinker), and a big meal immediately before bedtime. Bad, bad, bad! Will get out for exercise today and good solid ADA/RC sessions. Another museum trip planned this weekend .

But I did make it back to sleep for approx 2 sleep cycles, woke with some more recall but very low awareness as per usual with this scenario, even though I spent about 30 minutes on mantras & visualisations before getting down to sleeping.

Usual battle to sleep at the back-to-bed moment: thoughts, daydreams, visualizations, I had to force myself to stop it all and empty my head and hold it empty and just relax (but not "try to sleep" ), and another success, yay. I appreciate every time I'm able to get back to sleep from wakefulness as a big victory.

Good attitude Celebrate the successes, while keeping an eye toward improving the rest.

LD #22!

Today is the 6-month anniversary, exactly, of my start down the path of lucid dreaming practice! What better way to celebrate than a night full of interesting dream recall, a near lucid, and an actual late morning lucid that completes a TOTM!

Awesome firsts:

+ first actual conversation with a DC (I spoke to her nicely! I got 2 responses out of her! Her name was Susannah! Her soulmate was her husband...heh)
+ first TOTM
+ (maybe?) first lucid at the end of really late morning sleep inertia dreams

Again I recorded only twice, at about the 6-7 hour mark where I seem to usually have the bulk of my recall, and then when I got up after the LD. I was dozing on and off with recall after the 6-7 hour waking. Again it took discipline to empty my mind and get back to sleep. I was uncomfortable on both sides so I "brought out the nukes" and turned on to my stomach, I slept and dreamed some more but lucid was later back on the right side.

I spent a LOT of effort last night on recall. I woke at first around 6-7 hours thinking I had no recall. But slowly it came in, and the more I played the dreams over and over, again and again, to make sure I remembered them without physical journaling, the more the recall came in. I even remembered dream scenes from long ago (years?). I think all our thoughts and dreams are stored up in our heads just waiting for the trigger to remember them. Thus the "life review" people experience -- it's probably just one big sudden burst of "dream/life" recall.

I was probably going over the dreams for at least for 30 minutes. And that really thoroughly woke me up. Probably counter-productive for getting back to sleep but I was remembering so much I wanted to get it all if I could.

edit: here's the full DJ entry. It turns out to have been a rather epic night of recall!

http://www.dreamviews.com/blogs/fryi...4-02-22-55619/

Woohoo FM!!! Excellent job!!! Your hard work is paying off! That is really interesting that you kept recalling dream new and past during that super recall session!

Originally Posted by FryingMan

Thanks! ^^ Love the new sig!

Thanks. I think the sig/image actually influenced my dreams the last 2 nights in a round-a-bout way and may have nudged me toward lucidity before my old reliable dream sign kicked in. I am leaving it for now and I will continue to see it when I preview my posts but will probably mostly uncheck the option "show signature" when I finalize my posts.(leaving it for this post though). Keep up the good work! I fully expect you to surpass me before long! I am too much on a recreational LD path to stay ahead of your progress I think.

Thanks! ^^ Love the new sig!

Hey FryingMan! Congratulations on your #22 LD and also of your first TOTM! Our first TOTM is always memorable ^^

I have to say that you're making great efforts on recalling! And they are indeed giving results! Have you thought on trying some kind of meditation? A basic one maybe. That may help you even more on your recall!

StingPT,
Thanks! You know, I really have not done much of mediation. How specifically would one go about that specifically for lucidity and lucid dreaming, since there are many ways of doing meditation as I understand it?

I am working on ADA/RC (continuous RC) where I try to be continually mindful of my state all throughout the day. Some days I can hold it for a long time, and some days I lose it a lot, but I'm getting better at it and I think it is helping with with LDing more.

I have tried one or two exercises from sivason's dream yoga but only did it a few times, but that's also on my list of things to work on!

I stumbled upon this thread and thought you might like to check it out as it might (or might not) help with your location based all day reality check
http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...rtography.html
Sorry to "stalk" you, I'm just very curious (and optimistic) on how your approach to LDing will work out.

Originally Posted by dreambh

I stumbled upon this thread and thought you might like to check it out as it might (or might not) help with your location based all day reality check
http://www.dreamviews.com/general-lu...rtography.html
Sorry to "stalk" you, I'm just very curious (and optimistic) on how your approach to LDing will work out.

It's a public forum so "stalking" is not possible .

I'm honored to have anyone interested in my approach and progress, doesn't bother me a bit! I'm writing both for myself and for those who come later. I think it would be an interesting read some day from my beginnings up to lucid all night every night (heh heh....YES I'll get there! I will! Positive thoughts!)

Interesting about dream cartography -- I frequently have a very good sense of dream orientation -- my path through the dream world, which is why I focus on location and transitions in my ADA/RC. I've drawn a few dream paths but my illustration skills are pretty much stuck at the stick figure level, so don't do it much. I do note however orientation and relative positioning of DCs and objects and directions I take in my DJ.

Yeah, I was going to recommend sivason's dream yoga exercises. I'm doing them too (ADA and sivason's exercises) !

By meditating, you clean your mind of thoughts and so you can perceive the world around you better (hearing, for example). That helps on awareness!

By doing it before going to sleep, helps you clean your mind of thoughts, so that you can focus better on your mantra (if you have any), having better chances of working. That's because you fall asleep with much less thoughts, so that makes the mantra/idea more "noticeable" to you!

I hope that answers your question =)

PS: Yeah, sometimes it is hard to stay aware most of the day, but hopefully it gets easier with practice ^^

Excellent about the dreams. Ah, now, don't sell yourself short, you've been on quite the accelerated path and you made 100 by your 1-year anniversary. It will take quite a bit of effort to match that seeing as I'm only at 22 at mid-year. If I can start getting multiple per night that would be great, but my biggest challenge (regular sleep schedule), and one almost entirely up to me, still eludes me. I was on a semi-regular schedule up to about 1/2 a week ago and I was getting excellent recall and some LDs, so there should be motivation to continue that....must...do...it!

^Thanks. I do think that your rate will accelerate in the near future given your excellent work ethic! I remember my slower climb up to the 20's or so LD mark. I also agree on the sleep schedule, that will help as well.

I reinstalled my "I wake up after every dream" intention last night to try to get more lucidity opportunities, and it worked.....too well, at 4 hrs I had some light recall but then couldn't get back to sleep. Every time I got close to sinking in to relaxation some noise started, either traffic or (wife's) snoring, which even through ear plugs was enough to keep me awake.

Finally got to sleep in the late late morning, but then my wife came barreling in to the room waking me up because the internet was down. I was in the middle of a dream, too, argh.

At least I put my foot down with myself over sleep schedule and got to bed before midnight. Shooting for 11pm if I can but before midnight is good. Took 1mg melatonin about 40 mins before bed to help with readjusting the schedule and got to sleep very quickly.

Good luck with the new sleep schedule. What a way to be awoken when you finally did get to sleep.