So....I joined DV earlier today and wanted to get cracking with this! This is my, Tlalocs, workbook. I've been thinking about joining DV's since I came across the site 6 months ago it seems like such a good forum and community offering support and advice - I'm really looking forward to being part of it!

Anyway...to the chase!

REALITY CHECKS
-I started wearing a watch again 1 month ago so this is my main RC at the moment.
-text based checks would be my second one
-followed by looking at my hands - I used to have this higher up the list till I blew a LD when I looked at my hands and the fact they looked totally abnormal shocked me into waking up almost immediately after becoming lucid!

DREAM SIGNS
-the key DS I am working on at the moment is external vibration as a cue to myself to RC
-other common DS's include memory loss, odd architectural forms or settings, people I know behaving oddly, being overly anxious, maps being incorrect, odd or tasteless food, malfunctioning equipment and incorrect things associated with my workplace - basically anything weird
-whilst theres quite alot of these types of dreamsigns - none of them occurred really frequently enough over the others for me to really concentrate on, and they don't occur very regularily in real life for me to practice - hence my interest in an external cue - vibration.

SHORT TERM GOALS
-stabilize my dream immediately upon becoming lucid. This is the NUMBER ONE frustration for me!!!! In the 20+ times I have become lucid in the last 6 months only 2 of my LD's lasted more than a minute or 2, most end within seconds of becoming lucid.
-I am also really excited to meet, discuss and hopefully make friends regarding lucid dreaming

LONG TERM GOALS
-continue my experimentation inducing LD's in a way that easily fits with my day to day living
-once I've got the hang of stabilization I guess the skies the limit...but to be fair I'm just focused on trying to sort out the stabilization thing first

LUCID DREAM RECALL HISTORY
-I first heard about LDing in the late 1990's through an Aussie programme called 'beyond 2000' (remember this was the 1990's and 2000 seemed the distant future!) and as a teenager saved up and bought myself a novadreamer (this was before the days of the internet so had to have a catalogue posted out to me in NZ from the US!). I never had much success with LDing so got busy and just stopped trying, then last year I read a fictional book that got me kinda interested again and I googled Lucid Dreaming - hoping someone might have cracked the induction process in the intervening 10 or so years and went from there
-over the last 6 months I have had 20+ Lucid events - so about 1 every 10 days though in practice they don't even out like that, some weeks several, some weeks none, alot to do with whats going on in my life I think in terms of concentration or illness. I call them lucid events 'cause alot are so short I wouldn't really term them dreams - I become lucid, gape, and then often wake up! Nuts!!! I guess in terms of normal dreams I remember bits everynight, and if I'm on a 'vibration' night I'll remember quite a few more

CURRENT TECHNIQUE
-use of external vibration to prompt myself to do a RC which results in lucidity. This kindof includes conditioning to the cue during the day (IWL), WBTB at night, a kind of special MILD to remind myself to be aware of the vibration then the external cue.
-I also use a bit of prompting before I go to bed that I will have a LD

There we go!!!! I'm not sure what I do from here? Back to the tutorial manual.....