LbV's Workbook (of slow, slow progress)

[LbV]

As you may have gathered, I am very new to this. And so far am just working on dream recall. Which is getting better already! I've been talking to Matte87 a bit already and decided to join everyone here and start a workbook. At the moment my only goal is to become lucid and not immediately wake up. I've been using MILD so far but haven't managed to have any success yet. I've only been trying a week though. So yeah, I'll update with any dreams I have and hope to talk to you all soon XD

[Matte87]

Welcome to class! If you have any questions other than those you asked me in PM, feel free to post them here or send me yet another PM Looking forward to reading about your progress!

[LbV]

I was having trouble getting to sleep last night but managed to persevere with doing a MILD, fell asleep not long after finishing using a mantra/visualization. I don't remember exactly what happened but as I recall, I must have woken up shortly before my alarm at 10 and gone back to sleep. In that sleep I had the same dream twice, I was in a really grand library talking to a group of young children, like I was teaching them or something. Then I looked over to another teacher who was with me and did a reality check (holding my nose), I held my nose for about 1 second and immediately let go and complained to the teacher that it didn't work. None of this was lucid and I didn't become lucid, instead I just woke up. I then had the exact same dream again. Is that progress? I managed to get an RC into my dream, only to dismiss it immediately as not working. Hmmm.

[Matte87]

Oh yeah that is definitely progress And it also tells us something, that you're not doing your RC's entirely properly. You need to really question your reality when you do figure out you should RC. All 5 senses aswell as your memory should be included. The place you are at and the situation you're in. If you make doing that into a habit, you'll definitely get lucid each time you think of performing an RC. It shows you've got LD'ing on your mind. Keep it up!

[LbV]

I'll keep that in mind, I'm not show how I can do it any differently really. To be honest, I don't do RC's all that much during the day, I tend to add them into visualizations before going to sleep. Maybe I need to put more thought behind them. But hopefully it means I'm getting close to becoming lucid again, I've only been really trying for the past 4 days so I'd say that's pretty good! Fingers crossed for tonight.

[LbV]

Once again trouble getting to sleep generally, trying to get a regular sleeping pattern on the go. My last job was on the night shift and I never really switched back after I quit. So my sleepings very irregular but I am working on it. I try MILDing every night but still have trouble focussing, I imagine that will get easier as I adjust to new sleeping times. I have attempted a WBTB (that's what it's called right) I set my alarm for around 7 hours into my sleep but I find one of two things happens. I either wake up and can't get back to sleep at all or immediately shut off my alarm and fall asleep without giving lucid dreaming a second thought.

[fOrceez]

Have you tried to dim the lights before you go to sleep? It helps put your brain in the mindset of "Oh, it's time to sleep now". Of course, this will take some consistency (a few more days?).

[LbV]

I've started doing that now, I tend to read about an hour before trying to sleep and just have my lamp on. I am noticing the difference already. If I'm consistant as you said, should work out.

[fOrceez]

That and (if you don't already) consider doing your bed sheets up each morning. It helps not going to bed for anything other than sleeping for the same reason as my post above.

[LbV]

That and (if you don't already) consider doing your bed sheets up each morning. It helps not going to bed for anything other than sleeping for the same reason as my post above. Already do that lol, bit of a neat freak when it comes to my bed. No luck last night either. I need to choose my Three Step Tasks. I'm not sure what to choose for mine, my own personal goals are to perfom an RC, stabilise a dream and pick up an object/examine it. But they're all on the basic/standard tasks anyway.

[LbV]

New dream experience in my DJ, getting so close to being lucid now! The idea of lucid dreaming is getting into my dreams. Can't post links yet, think I'll have been a member 7 days sometime tonight actually lol

[fOrceez]

You could just double up the post onto here with a quote

[LbV]

My dream: I've been recalling more and more dream fragments since starting lucid dreaming and I do write them all down on paper but as most of them are just stuttered sentences of what I remember I don't feel like writing them all up on here too. But I had quite an interesting dream last night. I was sat in a large grassy field late at night, soft rain falling constantly. Although I knew it was a field, I couldn't really see it because it was full, to the brim, with people sat on the ground. We were all waiting for busses to leave, I think the notion was that I was leaving a festival. Me and a few friends were sat together on the wet ground trying to talk over the ambient sounds of a thousand other conversations. Somebody tapped me on the shoulder, I turned to face the person and they offered me some sweets but as I turned back there was now a small building amongst the crowd in front of me, it's door was open, shedding a yellow light across the crowd. A voice called for me from inside. I got up off the ground and made my way through all the seated people and entered the building. Once I was inside I realised the building was bigger than I had first though, the ceiling was low and the whole room was at a slight angle. The room I entered was a part of a surgery, complete with operating table but I could also see past that was a sort of living room type area with grand leather sofas and bookshelves. A few patients were sat around quietly, reading magazines/books, watching TV etc. I turned my attention to the person who had called me in, she was obviously a surgeon judging by her clothing. Then I realised it was a character from Being Human called Nina, who is a doctor on the show. She told me I had to have an operation as something was wrong with my breathing, I laid back onto the operating table and they put an oxygen mask over my face. My vision started going grey, everything around me was fading away until my vision was completely grey. As that was happening, I was thinking about how I could try and do a lucid dream while under the knife. The dream continued after that but I don't remember the rest as well. I woke up from the operation and went over to the leather sofas in the other room but that's about all I can recall. Thought that was interesting enough to share. It's very clear to me that the dream was inspired by the book I was reading before I fell asleep last night, Never Let Me Go. If you've read it, you'll know what I mean. You're so clever f0rceez. XD But now I CAN post links, so I'll do both.. because the power has just gone straight to my head. *evil laugh* Operation - Dream Journals - Lucid Dreaming - Dream Views

[Matte87]

Hey Please post in the http://www.dreamviews.com/f136/compe...thread-125222/ how many dreams each night you have, and how many points you deserve. You've got 0 points atm, but I figured you had dreamt something and it turned out you had

[LbV]

None of these have been lucid though, thought you had to be lucid to get points?

[LbV]

I became lucid last night! I'll quote the entry from my DJ here for you to read. I finally did it! Immediately wrote it down when I awoke, althought I didn't get lucid until near the end of the dream. I was visiting a large shopping centre, in a bookshop. On my way out I was accused of stealing by the shopkeeper and she tried to grab me, I resisted because I knew I was innocent. Eventually I pushed her away from me and walked out the shop, at this point it became apparent that I was with some school teachers and I was a student. Obviously the teachers were very angry with my behaviour and started shouting at me as I walked away, ignoring them I carried on through the mall. Still walking away I noticed an old friend had come up beside me and told me that she skips school a lot with her friends. She then told me that they like to go and lucid dream when they skip school. We carried on walking until we left the shopping centre, outside it was a dark very cloudy night. Me and my friend sat on a ledge overlooking a back road down below, she told me that she wanted to jump down but she was scared of hurting herself. I looked at her and told her that it was a dream and it didn't matter, so she jumped and disappeared from my vision. It was then that an old style london taxi cab came reversing down the road below me, I read the last 3 numbers of the rear license plate, it carried on reversing until I could see the front license plate. I read the front plate, noticing it was different from the rear, I read it again and it had changed. This was how I became lucid. Lucid Realizing I was in a dream now, I read the license plate a couple more times noticing the changes. Telling myself I was dreaming over and over again helped me calm down a little. So I thought the next thing I should do is some more RC's, still sat on the ledge, I looked at my hands and tried counting my fingers and then pinched my nose while trying to breath. I remembered the next thing to do would be to stabilize the dream, so I started rubbing my hands together while taking my surroundings in. The sky was dark and cloudy but bright stars were still shining through casting light onto the scene. The shopping centre was still behind me and the road was below me, the taxi had stopped now. I stood up and looked back to the sky, I wanted it to be day. So I focused on where I thought the sun should be and snapped my fingers to try and change the time of day. Instead what happened was a flash of lightning. But as I watched I realised that the same area kept flashing with light, it looked like the sun was blinking on and off like a light bulb trying to turn on. Giving up I went into the shopping centre, where I noticed a door that wasn't there before. I was reaching for the handle when my sister opened the door and asked if I would like to come in, I said yes and squeezed past her. It was a very posh looking hotel room. She and her friends were sat on a bed counting down to midnight like it was new years. I'm not sure what happened really after that, I think I began to lose control of the dream and woke up not long after.

[Kaenthem]

I became lucid last night! I'll quote the entry from my DJ here for you to read. am a bit jelous from LbV,anyway congragilation on your LD,my LD didnt last 3sec .

[LbV]

am a bit jelous from LbV,anyway congragilation on your LD,my LD didnt last 3sec . Thanks areyoume! I'm a beginner so I wouldn't be too jealous haha, none of mine have lasted too long either. We'll get there in the end! Maybe we can help eachother out if we need it, feel free to message me Had a short lucid dream just now: This just happened to me as I was having a short recovery nap, I may have gotten pretty drunk last night lol. I decided to take a go at MILDing again seeing as I hadn't tried in a few days due to family visiting and stuff. This is what happened. I live on a big housing estate in a small town in rural england, the high street is about a 20 minutes walk from my house, a walk I make regularly. In the dream, I was at the bottom of the hill approaching the estate, it was a warm day with the sun shining bright in the sky. As I continued walking my usual path up the hill I suddenly came to realise that I couldn't remember how I had gotten there, why had I gone into town? Why was I going home? I think it was around then I became lucid as I toyed with the possibility that this could be a dream. My next thought was to do an RC, I really wasn't expecting it to work for some reason. The surroundings were so familiar, something I see so common that I just couldn't imagine why it would be a dream. So I pinched my nose, tried to breath... and I could. At this point the excited feeling came all at once over my body, I didn't wake up just yet. I turned around and the sun had filled the horizon, vague blurry outlines of rooftops and the churches steeple waved back and forth in front of me like a heatwave on hot tarmac. It felt like the earth was crashing into the sun. On my right a dark silhoutte of a man wearing a long trench coat came walking leisurely towards me, as if nothing was out of the ordinary. And I woke up. Pretty intense right? I think it could easily have been inspired by one of my favourite films: Sunshine. Although I haven't watched it in a while, I've always been blown away by everything in that movie.

[fOrceez]

I see you're really making progress, LbV! Nice!

[Kaenthem]

Thanks areyoume! I'm a beginner so I wouldn't be too jealous haha, none of mine have lasted too long either. We'll get there in the end! Maybe we can help eachother out if we need it, feel free to message me Had a short lucid dream just now: here is my workbook give it a look and give some tip if needed:)

[LbV]

Been a week since I had a lucid now, starting to get impatient..

[Matte87]

Don't be! Pressure doesn't always work. For me it does, but if you tell yourself you HAVE to have a LD, most likely you won't have one. Tell yourself you WILL have one instead Also, perhaps it's time to rename your workbook?

[LbV]

I was starting to get a bit worried after I went two days without any dream recall at all after a few solid weeks of great recall. Luckily I managed two fragments last night so that's boosted my morale a bit. Had a little trouble while MILDing recently, haven't been able to keep on track as much as I'd like. I'll consider changing the name...

[LbV]

Last nights interesting dream: I got back home late last night from the pub so I didn't think to attempt a MILD or anything. Immediately crashed into my bed and fell asleep. I did have an interesting dream though. This was the tail end of a longer dream, the parts before I only remember fragments of. I was sat in a car on a long motorway with walls either side, I had the impression this road was really high in the sky. There were 4 other people in the car with, none of which I can remember recognising. The road was desolate and abandoned, not a single other person in sight, there were empty cars littered about the place. Our car wasn't moving, we had stopped just before going into this dark tunnel when our engine had stopped. The tunnel was on a bit of a downhill slant so me and another man got out and gave the car a push until we started rolling, avoiding the empty cars on the way down. Emerging from the tunnel it was clear that the road had collapsed and if we couldn't stop the car we were heading straight off. The car stopped before the drop and everyone got out to peer over the edge. It was a small enclosed area of rubble and dark green water, everyone took an aversion to the water as if it was dangerous. Gradually we climbed down the drop and started making our way over the water, jumping on debris and wooden poles. The man leading the group across reached the end of the path of debris to find it lead nowhere. He turned to me as I reached the end and told me this was just a dream, that we could simply fly out of here. So we did, we flew through the wall enclosing the pool of water to find nothing, a vast grey empty space. As if you noclipped through a map in a videogame. He turned to me again and sounded concerned about the lack of anything out here, I think his words were 'There's no world.' I told him not to worry as I remembered that you can summon things in dreams and told him that I'd created a big grassy field. It appeared as I finished the sentence. We flew around exploring the infinite field. And that's all I remember, I wasn't actually lucid but had dreamt about being lucid. A strange experience. I kicked myself in the morning for not noticing it as a sign to become lucid.

[LucasPotter]

Hey, man! You haven't updated your workbook in two days, how is it going!? Having any luck?